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So, the lady really wants to see “The Ides of March” this weekend. And why not? It looks like a quality political drama featuring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. Gosling probably plays some idealistic-but-complicated political operative who works for George Clooney, a politician who is not all that he seems. Gosling discovers this in spectacular fashion and soon has to figure out if he wants to take down the system and retain his ideals. Or should he choke down a big, rotting bag of graft, corruption, and cynicism, thus achieving success? 

Or maybe the plot is: Clooney bones Gosling’s girlfriend while out on the campaign trail, and then, in a dramatic scene, shows the idealistic young buck a videotape of the encounter, then saying, “You might be the flavor of the minute kid, but I’ve been at this for years. Know your place,” leaving Gosling devastated, forced to pick up the pieces of not being quite as handsome as he thought.

Either way, it’s got to be good, right?. It won’t be boring and ponderous. Or predictable. Right? Right? It has to be good! Hopefully?

I don’t know, these are high expectations to fulfill. Personally, I think “Real Steel” is actually the safer cinematic pick. At today’s inflated theater prices, what you really want in your cinema in no downside. There is NO DOWNSIDE to seeing “Real Steel.”

If it’s good, great. If it’s not, it’s probably still great. Especially if you’re me, who likes laughing at movies that are nominally not comedies. (Cut to: video of me laughing hysterically at “Black Swan”, followed by more video of me hysterically laughing at the end of “There Will Be Blood.”)

The point is, there’s no way the movie’s boring. The pitch: Wolverine trains boxing robots! It’s either “Rocky” for the digital age or overproduced comedy gold. It’s going to virtually impossible for it to be boring. ”The Ides of March” kind of has a little bit of boring-ass Oscar bait potential. Plus, what’s new that you can bring to the political thriller? Boxing robots, on the other hand…