Call it the human condition or whatever you like. Everyone handles death differently and everyone copes with it differently in very distinctive and personal ways. In any case, because of those strong personal differences, it is very tough to make a populist, wide-reaching movie about it that everyone can snuggle up together and identify with. If anyone has the chops to try, it's the great Clint Eastwood with Hereafter. His newest film follows three parallel stories, each in different countries, of three people affected by death in dramatically different ways.
Read MoreIron Man 2 is exactly what's it's supposed to be. It's a glossy big-budget sequel that delivers a continuing post-origin story. While it's not chapter-and-verse based on any comic story and takes a lot of liberties, Iron Man 2 is an undeniably fun piece of comic and summer entertainment.
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