SPOILER: Iron Man after-credit hidden scene sucks

Iron Man mini-review: Quite an impressive film, not the best but very much watchable and enjoyable. If there was some other megablockbuster released at the same time, I doubt that it would have performed as well. Nevertheless, Robert Downey Jr. did do a good job at portraying a man who is weaker than the suit he wears.

SPOILERS AHEAD: A comparison between Iron Man with Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. Both are insanely rich — except that one’s just a regular multibillionnaire and the other’s a genius multibillionnaire. Bruce Wayne mask is his true face — he acts the playboy to cover for the hard-ass hero inside. On the other hand, Tony Stark truly is the playboy and IS the playboy at heart but becomes the hero out of necessity (character development?). At the end you know he still is the attention-seeking, charismatic fool by admitting that he is indeed Iron Man.

To get to the point, the hidden scene after the credits sucks. Samuel L. Jackson makes a cameo as Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. . It’s probably the worse scene in the film, Jackson just struts out with his gap teeth smiling like a retard trying to make Stark feel small but rather it just comes off as comedic. That’s a bad portrayal of Nick Fury — or any character that might have been there. It just watches like, “oh hey it’s Samuel L. Jackson with an eyepatch being nick fury”. He just doesn’t occur to me as any incarnation of Nick Fury, just SLJ with an eyepatch.

Dramafest: “What would a world without breasts be like?” Part 2

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Continuing on with the Dramafest Interview, here is the portion of the interview where the producers talk about Laremy’s “Between You And Me”, the first play during Dramafest 2008.

Dramafest is an annual combined inter-hall drama event, where halls of residence at NUS come together to put up six short plays which revolve around a central theme. In this interview, I take a look at the creative thinking processes, the trials and the tribulations that they had to face on the road to Dramafest.

Laremy, introducing his play:

I wrote this play because it’s always something I wanted to do, I wrote to be about feminism and femininity in Singapore. Because, as much as I don’t want to use the label, but I think I am a feminist, in that sense of the word, and I thought I would like to use art to convey that message. So that’s why when Dee asked me to do something like this I was very excited. What I did was to do some surveys, because I’m not a woman, I don’t have breasts and I don’t know what it feels like. So I got surveys from 30 people.

Danielle, on whether its right for a guy to comment on breasts:

I think you can’t really say that his viewpoint was right or not. When we were rehearsing the play, we were also talking about whether there are lines that we agree with, or lines we disagree with. For me, there was one part which was a bit chunky about feminism, which I struggled with — for one thing I don’t have the memory — but it also it was something that didn’t connect with me. When we were doign it there were a lot of issues. The more we rehearsed, the more meaning and links we saw between them [the characters].

Eva, on the Irish drinking song:

If you listen to it, it has a lot of good advice… The support one, and check for lumps.