Just saw an ad for the new Oliver Stone film, “W.”  It said, under the title, “Based on a true story”.  Really?  A biopic about the current US president is based on a true story?  I wouldn’t have thought that.  Good thing they put that in there.

As to whether or not I’m going to see it?  Well, let’s just say that Mr. Stone still owes me $8 for “Nixon”.  God that movie sucked.

OK, I know Estragon will yell at me, and I’ll lose some geek cred, but something’s been bugging me about Iron Man.

Tony Stark gets a bunch of shrapnel in his chest and he has heart surgery in the Afghan prison by some random dude.  Now, rather than go in and remove the shrapnel (which would seem complicated), the surgeon puts an electro-magnet in his chest hooked up to a car battery (which would seem even more complicated).  I don’t get it.  How is that an easier operation?  Wouldn’t it go septic?  Wouldn’t it be a little odd that you’ve had to move part of your internal organs in order to dump a magnet in there that would then prevent shrapnel from going into your heart?  And he just happened to have an electro-magnet laying around that he could wire together lickity-split and slap into Tony’s chest?  And isn’t that where your ribcage is?  Wouldn’t you have to get rid of the top part of your ribcage in order to dump a magnet there?

Yes, I know it’s a movie.

Also, did not like the use of AC/DC in the movie.  But that’s mostly because I don’t like AC/DC.