Iron Man 3 (with spoilers) v Mississippi Burning

Last weekend I found myself talking to a girl on a well known website.
I will refer to this girl as DUNNO because I never asked her name and that's the name I have saved her under on my phone.
As the conversation developed it turned out we were both interested in the same things so I got up the guts and asked her out for a steak dinner.
She declined and I took that as just another kind rejection in a long history of kind rejections.

So 3 days passed and I invited my friend Rachel to go see Iron Man 3.

Plot Summary

Robert Downey Jr takes on Mike from Neighbours in a bid for Gwyneth Paltrow's affections. (That's not strictly the plot I know but to be honest who gives a sh*t).  

So en-route to the Multiplex, Dunno sends a text. She asks how I'm doing and I tell her I'm off for some drinks before seeing Iron Man 3 with a girl.
Below is her reply:

U going out for a romantic date with another girl ????   Wat am i supposed to say!!!!   im irrationally annoyed!!!   So if it was flip reversed ..  N u wanted to see me tonight n i told u i was seeing sum1 n going on a romantic date wud u be happy!!!  Really???  N jusss wait n hope nothing came of it...   Why tell me!!  N why u wanna see this girl... Answer is coz ur hoping itl go sumwhere...    Dont u ? Be honest x


I don't reply.
But she continues with:

Jusss dw my mates to see if im unreasonably annoyed and shudnt be.....   Overall feeling is ur behaviour is unacceptable n ud just cheat on me if we got together!!!  I know we wudda hit it off ...   I jusss wish u hadnt told me about cinema...   I cud cope just with the drink ...    Xx

I don't reply. But am now slightly amused that my social engagements are being discussed miles away by two people I have never met. I take my seat with Rachel and go to turn my phone on silent when I see another text by Dunno:

Anyway at the end ironman blows up all his suits!!!   And then no more ironman ...   So enjoy ..   


I was furious.
I think that has to be the lowest thing any woman has ever done to me and I'm including the time my mother gave away all my Transformer comics to the kid across the street.
What a c*nt.

Tomato Meter - 78% (critics)
Tomato Meter - 83% (audience)
Peter Meter - 73%

So last night I sunk a couple of ciders and watched Mississippi Burning on the iPlayer.

Plot Summary

Gene Hackman plays a maverick cop that goes up against Rowdy Burns from Days of Thunder and tries to slip the chick from Fargo one in the process. 

Gene Hackman is retired from films now and that really gets me down. There are plenty of actors that can angry act, but none do it better than Hackman. There is a wonderful chemistry between him and Defoe as they shimmy for the moral high ground on how best to tackle the racist sheriff, and his department of bigoted deputies. Their chemistry reminded me a lot of Mike from Neighbours playing the clean cut detective up against the brooding, merciless bad cop played by Russell Crowe in LA Confidential.

Good cop Bad cop is very much a cliched narrative these days, but when it works well it looks like this. And when it looks like this it's a work of art.

I wonder if there'll ever be a film where there's two good cops.
Both waiting for back up.
Not much jeopardy in that one, scrap it.

Tomato Meter - 89% (critics)
Tomato Meter - 62% (audience)
Peter Meter - 89%

Verdict

I haven't seen anything else due to a busy schedule and a lack of decent films on the iPlayer. I can only recommend that you go back and watch the entire back catalogue of Gene Hackman films because he is just a badass. So WATCH the entire back catalogue of Gene Hackman films and NOT Iron Man 3 OR Mississippi Burning. 

@thepeterbrooker