Iron Man

[King of Snake]

just saw it too and I loved it.

SPOILERS AHEAD!






I loved the bits where stuff went wrong with his suit, making him fly off into the ceiling, crashing trough the roof onto his expensive sports car (then the robot coming in with the fire extinguisher). The humour was well done and of course Downey was doing a great job making the character fun to watch. It definitely made you want to be Iron Man and just be as cool as this guy which I think is one of the most important things a superhero movie should pull off.
Also Jeff Bridges was very good as the bad guy, and actually better before he gets into his own suit. I lolled when he went "we made this to keep the hippies happy" (or something like that). A nod to him in the Big Lebowsky maybe? (dunno if it was intentional but I thought it was funny). The suit effects all looked great too.

Looking forward to part 2!

[gambit]

Loved it. Definitely one of the best superhero movies ever. Better than the Spider-Man and X-Men trilogies combined. Downey made Tony Stark breathe better than anyone could, and I can't wait for the sequel.

By the way, did anybody catch the scene at the end of the credits with a certain actor who had to deal with motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane? I missed it, but I'll have to go see it again just for the extra scene. I read about it this morning and was geeking out to myself.

[ffolkes]

Originally Posted by gambit

By the way, did anybody catch the scene at the end of the credits with a certain actor who had to deal with motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane? I missed it, but I'll have to go see it again just for the extra scene. I read about it this morning and was geeking out to myself.

[gambit]

Awesome! Thanks! Still need to see it in the theaters though.

[galama]

Carefully dodged spoilers
hollywood shit doesn't arouse my tastes.
i'll only see this because of that crazy guy in the red suit. he was in a mental hospital and rehab for quite some time and mister Downey Jr made a comeback so he deserves some props for that. Otherwise, hollywood has a tendency to DESTROY people.

[Jafs]

Originally Posted by gambit

Loved it. Definitely one of the best superhero movies ever. Better than the Spider-Man and X-Men trilogies combined.

I think X-Men 2 is probably the best superhero movie ever...

[BrotherLovesDub]

this movie doesn't suck even though it's about a comic book. rare.

[gambit]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

this movie doesn't suck even though it's about a comic book. rare.

Well, that's a glowing review!

[King of Snake]

coming from BLD, it definitely is

[dubman]

i was glad the final fight didnt turn into an interminable slug match where 2 machines beat each other senseless beyond all structural sense. if we're playing with that much power then something is going to foul up terrifically for somebody pretty quickly.
but yeah, pretty good movie. 4/5 i'd say. shiny and efficient. retains that comic book, ersatz-reality gloss that i like so much about these adaptations. downey is pretty much a guarantee that the lines will be delivered pitch perfect, and it was pretty funny a lot of the time. potts was interesting in that she's plays a highly efficient character who also has the capacity to panic, get nervous, and generally run counter to the cliche of the general inhumanity of the perfect assistant or idiot savant competence of a comic relief one. i thought bridges' character was flatly evil, but it's jeff bridges, so it was fun to watch anyway.

so yeah, lots of fun.

ps. i'm not keeping up with fandom on this obviously, and i know he's revealed his identity to everyone since i stopped reading comic books, but they couldnt even maintain the secrecy for just a little while? so many stories revolved around billionaire stark being terrified of people finding out his secret, that to just wink it away with the (useless) reporter quipping that "you cant possibly expect us to believe it was a bodyguard" was just brushing that off altogether. ah well, tho