Day 88: Iron Man Review

[itasianinvasion]

As always, my reviews are very spoilery, so don’t read past the jump if you haven’t seen it yet and like surprises.

I don’t know how everyone judges comic book movies, but I tend to judge them as an adaptation of source material in a specific medium, and then as what genre they fall into, which is generally action that has a brief, shallow affair

Comments

[anonymous]

Agreed. I'm sick of the necessary origin story, and I'm sick of de-powered superhero fights (for fuck's sake will we ever see Superman actually punch something for serious again? Zod? Sun-powered dude from Superman IV, anybody?) and I think that really affected me in this film. Parts of the necessary set-up seemed to drag along a little bit (expertly handled by Bridges, usually), but I think that's actually important for a movie like this. There's a lot going on in between Tony blowing shit up, and some of it is really intriguing to me is intriguing to me, and some not so much because, let's face it, we've seen it all before already. Take Bridges, for example. He only really had to be in 3 scenes in this movie, really, and I think it would have made sense to everyone involved and not been that big of a surprise when he shows up in the suit at the end. Were his parts done well? Absolutely. Would the movie have suffered if more of his scenes were removed? Most certainly. But did a lot of his scenes just naturally have my

[anonymous]

Buz constantly forgets to sign his comments.

[itasianinvasion]

I think it was Alan Moore who said something along the lines of there only being five or six stories in the whole world and it all depends on what you do between the beginning and the end.

I honestly don't even think about stuff like them telegraphing Bridges being the bad guy, probably because I knew ever since they annouced the cast list and I saw his name next to Stane's. I would have preferred he betrayed Tony after he came back, and not before, but eh, I had way too much fun.