My take on the Iron Man movie

Totally agree, the animated series (at least the first run in early 90s) was so much better than the movie.

I saw burton's movie a couple months ago, and it feeled both cheesy and out of fashion. The late 80s beats were downright embarrassing to hear.

 

Damn Shadowlayer, you are harsh...

I'll probably see it this weekend, but I'm not expecting much. Honestly when I see Robert Downy Jr, I instantly think of that scene in Wierd Science where he has the bra on his head and screams "I'M SHITTING IN MY PANTS!!"

But anyway, you're comparing it to Transformers, which I think is not fair. Becasue Micheal Bay is like, retarted, so pretty much anything is gonna top his bullshit excuse for a movie.

 

I was supposed to watch it, but meh looks like its not worth it

 

If you want to watch a new movie I'll say go, is not like theres anything better on the theathers.

About Iron Man or Batman?

And well Transformers was the nearest example I had, since SM3 sucked even more.

Seriously, emo bangs? is that the new alter-ego cue?

We should call Roddenberry and tell him to change spock's goatee for some serious dark bangs.

 

Read the comics, scrap the film! Robert Downey Jr is a great actor, but wtf! He was interviewed on why he chose to take part in such an unusual project for him and his answer was 'I decided it would be nice to take part in a film people might see'. Fair dues. Take the money sir and run!

They are rattling through the various comic characters they can turn into bankable film projects. Ho hum, it's getting a tad tedious and ultimately cliched. World in peril, some nerd saves the day, the girl, the planet, the children, the cat whilst wearing some kind of protective suit.

At some stage the hero is compromised and has to make a decision on love / family / ethics (pick one at random or all three), yet his intergrity is restored and the World loves him again.

Utlimately however, he never really gets the love of his life / someone in his family dies / gets maimed / scratched by cat or whatever.

Ends philosophically with us safe in the knowledge that he may return when required again. The bad guy is either completely vanquished or sent to prison where we (assume) he will remain for the rest of his days, but in the back of your mind we all know the sequel requires that either he or an off-spring of the villian shall return.

That is the pitch to the producers and at the moment, despite hearing the same thing 1million times over in various guises, they are saying 'WOW, bankable!'

 

This just sounds too good for kicking it to the big brother goal, so ill just shut up

 

I just wonder why, why cant movie producers respect the original material like animation producers do...

After this I dont want to imagine how the Akira movie is going to be.

 

I think the Iron Man movie looks truer to the original concept than that god awful looking Speed Racer live action movie.

 

After seeing the trailer for Speed Racer I'm just wondering how many people are going to end up having seizures while watching it.

 

Or epilepsy

 

i liked the movie. Thought it was decent at least its better the dare devil

 

Anything is better than dare devil movie.

 

Slamming your fingers in a car door and dropping your keys down a drain cover both constitute as more fun than Dare Devil.

 

I saw it last night and I can say it's actually pretty damn good!*

*compared to the shit we get most of the times these years in comic>movie films.

 

Just heard Speed Racer bombed, made only 6 millions compared to Iron Man's 100 millions.

I havent seen it yet (and maybe wont) but it doesnt surprises me: SR was a very childish anime. What I cant believe is that WB was so stupid as to spend 200 millions on that movie.

And now tobey "I'm 2 feet tall" maguire is going to produce and star in a Robotech-based movie.

The horror, THE HORROR!

 

lol, i didn't even know speed racer came out yesterday.

 

My friends saw it and said it was fun to watch and had cool effects. I guess thats reason to see it, but whatever. I wanna see Harold and Kumar. I don't go to theaters much.

 

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was awesome, I hope the sequel involves similar stoner premises

 

I know, I love that movie, and I don't watch many movies. I wanna see the new one, just have to get some time.

 

I watched it yesterday. I thought it was good, to be honest. Agree on the part about there not being enough action, nor did they play Iron Man enough.:icon_bigg

I'd like to see a sequel with War Machine in it as well, because he's got lasers and lots of other cool stuff. Remember the giant laser in Marvel vs. Capcom 2? Its foreshadowed in the movie, too.

As for Government propaganda, I didn't see it that way. Ok, so he fights some terrorists in the middle East. It used to be Vietnam in the comics, but you know how retcons go. This wasn't the movies idea. Anyways, I remember some guy in the audience yelled out "GO KILL THEM RAGHEADS WITH YOUR ROBO SUIT HA HA HA" and that was probably the worst part of the film for me, and it wasn't really the films fault. As for product placement, the only stuff I noticed was the Burger King bag. I'm not too big on cars.