The Invincible Iron Thread: The Movies, The Comics, The Ephemera
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So I saw it at an 8pm show today and holy balls it was sweet.
Robert Downy was pitch perfect as Tony Stark. A real dick who you'd want to hang out with anyway.
The evolution of the suit was very well done, I thought, and unlike every other "hero discovering his powers" sequence in superhero origin films, it was interesting and funny to watch, with all the screw-ups and laffos.
Stane was a so-so villain made much better by Jeff Bridge's performance and Paltrow as Pepper Potts (against all expectations) did not annoy me literally to death.
Primarily I must say, stay though the credits, beeyotch.
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Robert Downy was pitch perfect as Tony Stark. A real dick who you'd want to hang out with anyway.
The evolution of the suit was very well done, I thought, and unlike every other "hero discovering his powers" sequence in superhero origin films, it was interesting and funny to watch, with all the screw-ups and laffos.
Stane was a so-so villain made much better by Jeff Bridge's performance and Paltrow as Pepper Potts (against all expectations) did not annoy me literally to death.
Primarily I must say, stay though the credits, beeyotch.
Nick Fury? Avengers Initiative? Literally best after-credits bonus scene ever.
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but then, most everybody was
Also,
also, how fucking cool was the closing scene?
love it
The dude who got his face all scarred up was the Mandarin maybe. He sure had a big, huge ring.
Fucking.
Amazing.
God Downy Jr. as Stark was the best idea anyone has ever had. Ever.
and then it cuts right to black sabbath, which I was waiting for the whole movie
also the other heroes
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so here are the tentative release datCaptain America and Thor in 2009, Iron Man 2, Nick Fury and Ant Man in 2010 and the Avengers has no release date but Jon Favreau wants to be the Avengers director.
Also,
Although... would it have been too much to ask for Bridges to be drinking a white russian in those scenes which required him to drink?
Anally.
So pretty much Downy had the best idea ever. At least I think, because I heard he wanted the part but got rejected twice before they let him do it.
Also I'm extremely excited to see this tonight! Especially with what everyone is saying. WOO
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But I missed that end-of-credits scene. BAH.
Finally, the final scene after the credits was a real treat, even for those who knew it was coming.
I have no real complaints beyond the generic rock they used for background music at points and the few moments where Pepper suddenly became a bit of a bumbling idiot.
Also, I liked the presence of SHIELD, but not so much the joke where they don't discover the magic of acronyms until the very end.
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What's that? You're going to cut off the sound half way through the picture, then let it keep running mute until the entire thing is shut down altogether? What's this? You're going to take twenty goddamn minutes to get it started again, only to have the rest of the feature with the most intense scenes played in mono sound?
Ugh.
Most theatres would give you a gift certificate after that, or something.
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They gave me a raincheck, but now that I know everything that's going to happen in the movie, it's just not the same.
You're going to have to give examples there because I didn't see that at all.
The scene where she nearly kills Tony replacing his arc light heart device and the bit where she mistakes a bomb for some sort of lock-picking device.
I know that little flubs like those don't go so far as to characterize her as an idiot, but it's still humor at the expense of her intelligence and that sort of thing bugs me in general because it's really common with female characters in film tday.
Nonetheless, she's still one of the stronger love interests I've seen in any movie with a romantic subplot, so it's all very forgivable.
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Sure, though I think it's a little silly.
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No he shouldn't. It'll be fine.
Anally.
Neither of those are dealbreakers, but both would fall under an "interesting little plot tidbits which aren't seen in preview materials" clause.
The movie is top-notch from beginning to end and never any part where you feel a little bad for watching like other Superhero movies.
And the scene after the credits made me as giddy as a schoolgirl.
Also, she's neither a tech OR a doctor, so this was kind of new for her.
And she's probably never seen SHIELDs tech.
I agree completely about the last part, though. I like how he turns on the Stark charm on her at the end and her response is essentially ":V No, Tony, I will not sleep with you."
the bit at the end where she thought the bomb was a lockpick struck me as odd too, though. it didn't make me think she was meant to be dumb, per se, it just confused me. why would she assume "super high tech lockpick" over "small explosive"? it struck me as one of the few clumsy bits of writing in that it just sort of set up this little joke where he was like "uh, no, just stand back" and it didn't end up playing very well.
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Yeah, it was weird that they only had a tiny door-opening bomb and normal guns, though I suppose they were operating under really short notice.
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