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Film Review: Iron Man
This is your movie man, P. Ro. Jector here with your movie of the moment review Iron Man.
Great movie and possibly a bigger franchise than Spidey....GASP! What did he say? Yup.
Rober Downey Jr does a career topping turn as Tony Shark a weapons man extrodinaire who finds his heart and become the Iron Man.
Downey seals the part like it was made for him.
Jeff Bridges rocks as the partner turned greed monster and looks super evil with a shaved head.
Gweneth Paltrow is given very littel to do as Pepper Pot the Stark aid/love interest. She comes off as ultra dumb, but somehow manages to run every minute of his life?
The final 20 minutes are not to be missed, full of action and seamless GCI.
Oh, the Iron Man suit? The coolest thing to hit the screen since batman's bat mobile...
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5/9/2008, 9:19 pm
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Appreciate it. I've been wondering about this one.
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5/9/2008, 10:30 pm
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I thought it was really fun. Unlike a lot of superhero/comic movies that get weighed down with lots of morals and conflict, this was was smart enough not to take itself too seriously. Not to say it was a fluff movie, just that the director remembered that movies are supposed to be entertaining, and don't always need to smack you over the head with "the Message". And agreed, the suit was way cool (the only good part of the Star Wars prequels was seeing the Darth Vader suit, and I thought this topped it).
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5/9/2008, 11:40 pm
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I don't go for the more recent theory that a hero must show his dark side to be believable. I enjoy a good "good" movie. I don't mind seeing the hero struggle against dark self-tests but they neededn't all fail at them to be "real". I did like the first Spiderman and didn't mind the message. The X-Men movies did seem to get to where the message agenda became more important than the story. I was just reading a PDF of a comic book series on the train yesterday. Haven't read them in a long time. I suppose we can think we are too old for that but Iwould guess that depends on what the comics themselves have become. I was enjoying it.
Maybe this belongs on the movie review board but I might have missed it there.
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5/10/2008, 6:52 am
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there's a movie review board?
I don;t mind the conflicted messages...it was one of the better parts of Hulk, imho.
We were into the old discussion about super heros...and did Iron Man make the cut.
Two schools I think...Super powers vs Super Gadgets...I said Iron man may be a hero, but it's the suit that makes him super...so he belongs in the batman category...
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5/10/2008, 8:03 am
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I think I was thinking of the Backboard Rejects board. This one just has a fluff board and a music board.
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I don't go for the more recent theory that a hero must show his dark side to be believable. I enjoy a good "good" movie. I don't mind seeing the hero struggle against dark self-tests but they neededn't all fail at them to be "real". I did like the first Spiderman and didn't mind the message. The X-Men movies did seem to get to where the message agenda became more important than the story.
X-Men and Spiderman are Marvel comics and having heroes with human foibles is almost a trademark of theirs.
Batman and Superman are DC and they got into the "dark" side a bit later on, in some cases, way too far. At one point, they seemed to turn Batman into a villain...
Iron Man is also a Marvel product and so introspection should be expected, too.
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Introspection is fine, as long as it doesn't weigh the movie down with angst (like Daredevil).
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5/12/2008, 9:47 am
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Introspection is fine, as long as it doesn't weigh the movie down with angst (like Daredevil).
True. Focusing too much on any one aspect is a killer...
But, my main thing was in the difference between the two big comic corps.
DC has more of a hero type, where Marvel seems to have more of a human type, but thrust into a hero role.
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Film Review: Iron Man
I think the spidey dilemma thing worked really well, mainly because of Toby M...he was able to pull off the "I'm not so sure about this hero stuff"
In the first hulk, I thought they over played the father son thing, but I liked the job they did...other did not and said it weighed the movie down...so to speak...
I like ed norton a lot (American History X is one hell of a movie and then fight club--what do I need to say?) And I think they are going to do the TV show side of the Hulk in his turn at the big green guy...
I think they could look into the dead father side of Iron Man, but it is more of a 'get the bad dudes' movies.....
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