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Iron Man.
I saw the screening yesterday. Good, watchable, awesome in parts but not awesome in total.
My major nit pick - the opening sequence, where Tony Stark is given enough time and freedom to build the suit. I mean, really, he is clearly not building your damn missile. Shoot him, or, at the very least, take away the parts of the suit he is building.
There was something else about the movie that bothered me, The flow of the movie was different from most superhero movies, but I couldn't put my finger on until last last night.
The difference? This was a comic book movie.
Yes, I know, there have been lots of movies with comic book characters in them, but they weren't comic book movies in the sense that Iron Man was. The X-men movies, for instance, were movies featuring characters and events based on the comic books.
But Iron Man was a comic book movie come to life. It is easy to imagine the entire movie as a comic book that had been turned, page for page into a movie. Inversely, take any scene from the movie and try to convert into a comic book sequence. It works.
Try the same thing with the Xmen movies or the Spiderman movies or the Fantastic Four movies. It just doesn't gel.
Iron Man happens to be the first movie that Marvel Comics has independently funded, and as such, they would presumably have much greater control over the movie. Hence the reason for the different feel for the movie. Assuming Iron Man is a success (and I have no doubt it will be), we can expect to see more comic book movies coming from them.
Is this a good thing? Well, as I said, Iron Man was good but not great. But that's just because I wouldn't have liked that particular comic.
I saw the screening yesterday. Good, watchable, awesome in parts but not awesome in total.
My major nit pick - the opening sequence, where Tony Stark is given enough time and freedom to build the suit. I mean, really, he is clearly not building your damn missile. Shoot him, or, at the very least, take away the parts of the suit he is building.
There was something else about the movie that bothered me, The flow of the movie was different from most superhero movies, but I couldn't put my finger on until last last night.
The difference? This was a comic book movie.
Yes, I know, there have been lots of movies with comic book characters in them, but they weren't comic book movies in the sense that Iron Man was. The X-men movies, for instance, were movies featuring characters and events based on the comic books.
But Iron Man was a comic book movie come to life. It is easy to imagine the entire movie as a comic book that had been turned, page for page into a movie. Inversely, take any scene from the movie and try to convert into a comic book sequence. It works.
Try the same thing with the Xmen movies or the Spiderman movies or the Fantastic Four movies. It just doesn't gel.
Iron Man happens to be the first movie that Marvel Comics has independently funded, and as such, they would presumably have much greater control over the movie. Hence the reason for the different feel for the movie. Assuming Iron Man is a success (and I have no doubt it will be), we can expect to see more comic book movies coming from them.
Is this a good thing? Well, as I said, Iron Man was good but not great. But that's just because I wouldn't have liked that particular comic.