Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Real Steel and Ides of March
You might've realized it by now, but Real Steel is a ridiculous premise for a movie. So ridiculous it worked, in fact. Twitter blew up this weekend with comments about Hugh Jackman's and the sweet science of robo-jousting, and Ryan Gosling's effectiveness in The Ides of March. We tally the best five tweets after the jump.
5. Ryan Seacrest has a very strong, near-flirtatious plug for his friend Hugh's new movie. I'm sure Mr. Jackman appreciates the endorsement from an actual robot.
@RyanSeacrest
Ryan Seacrest Go see my buddy @RealHughJackman and his boxing robots in real steel tonight! Just a note, the robots are the smaller, less muscular ones 😉
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4. Office star Mindy Kaling ignored the towering presence of Real Steel, saw The Ides of March, and turned into a movie critic afterward.
@mindykaling
Mindy Kaling Seriously, I saw and loved Ides of March. It was "taut"! (to use a word that reviewers use sometimes that ordinarily makes me feel weird).
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3. Last week's Twit Wit champion Ken Jennings clocks in at #3 today, this time rhapsodizing the pugilistic strengths of Mr. Hugh Jackman.
@KenJennings
Ken Jennings My favorite boxer is Joe Louis, unless you count robot boxers trained by Hugh Jackman, in which case I think I have a new answer!
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2. Conan O'Brien is also a real human being and a real hero -- which is downright suspicious, he suggests.
@ConanOBrien
Conan O'Brien Have you ever noticed that you never see me and Ryan Gosling in the same room at the same time? #gullibleladiespleaseread
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1. Modern Family writer/producer Danny Zuker rips apart Real Steel in one incisive tweet. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley looks on robotically.
@DannyZuker
Danny Zuker I love stories about fighting robots, Just wish they'd make one that isn't as intellectually challenging as Transformers. What's that?
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Watched the Ides this weekend and was pretty excited. If you want to see a well acted drama about the dem. nomination process with shady back deals, questionable morals and the idealistic young campaign worker... rent Primary Colors. I don't want to spoil it, but they are pretty much the same exact movie and between Clooney and Travolta, give me John as slick willey any day.
Um. None of those are funny, Lou. Least of all Zucker's.
Near-flirtatious? More like very flirtatious. This is why, among some of my old friends, any compliment that verges into earnest flirtatiousness is called "pulling a Seacrest." Especially if it ends with hands on the ass, which happens a lot more than you might imagine.