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jack_ryder) wrote2008-05-06 09:52 pm
jack_ryder) wrote2008-05-06 09:52 pm
Iron Man
was good, but not, you know, great.
Robert Downey Jr certainly walks away with the film, with just the right level of supergenius insouciant swagger, and I didn't mind Gwyneth Paltry for a change (even though her character was underwritten) and the little shoutouts to the Marvel fans (like Rhodey's encounter with the prototype suite) were cool but I would have been a lot happier if Stark had renounced arms dealing because of the effect of his hi-tech weaponry on civilians, rather than being pissed off that they were being sold to the wrong people (I mean, they weren't Taliban, they were mercenaries - the best option would have been to buy them off, surely?) Despite its ever so topical critique of the military-industrial complex (that never goes out of fashion, does it?), it still relies on extreme firepower to wow the audience, which kind of misses the point, as far as I'm concerned. Still, it's Iron Man not Tony Stark, UN Peace Commissioner, so what did I expect?
It's cool from a comics nerd point of view, though, that Marvel are obviously intending to build up the separate character franchises then intertwine them into the same universe. Hope they do as good a job as the DC Animated Universe did.
Robert Downey Jr certainly walks away with the film, with just the right level of supergenius insouciant swagger, and I didn't mind Gwyneth Paltry for a change (even though her character was underwritten) and the little shoutouts to the Marvel fans (like Rhodey's encounter with the prototype suite) were cool but I would have been a lot happier if Stark had renounced arms dealing because of the effect of his hi-tech weaponry on civilians, rather than being pissed off that they were being sold to the wrong people (I mean, they weren't Taliban, they were mercenaries - the best option would have been to buy them off, surely?) Despite its ever so topical critique of the military-industrial complex (that never goes out of fashion, does it?), it still relies on extreme firepower to wow the audience, which kind of misses the point, as far as I'm concerned. Still, it's Iron Man not Tony Stark, UN Peace Commissioner, so what did I expect?
It's cool from a comics nerd point of view, though, that Marvel are obviously intending to build up the separate character franchises then intertwine them into the same universe. Hope they do as good a job as the DC Animated Universe did.
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Just out of curiosity.
Re: Just out of curiosity.
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(Anonymous) 2008-05-06 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)I agree that they seemed extremely faithful to the comic (though I stopped reading Iron Man just before Demon in a Bottle, I think - the Doom/King Arthur crossover was the last one I read.)
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Downey Jnr is cute in close-ups.