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Old 03-14-2008   #81 (permalink)
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The designers are probably more artistically articulate in Europe and Japan.
Perhaps the designers in the USA that design the international covers have more freedom and can experiment a bit more?
Hmm...I guess. Europe does get delayed releases and stuff...enough time to make better covers. Or maybe the better covers are a peace offering?
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It's Proton Canon His Right
I hope he uses this weapon ...
Proton Canon can surely blast you till you turn into ash...
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that could be very dangerous then., It sounds like nuclear weapon.,
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Old 05-08-2008   #84 (permalink)
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Old 05-08-2008   #85 (permalink)
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Thumbs down IRON MAN MOVIE = 6.5 / 10 NOT TOO BAD !!

I saw it last night at 17H35, that was an OK MOVIE, had a good time watching it which I would put it way above the crappy X-MEN-ELEKTRA-DAREDEVIL-GHOSTRIDER-FANTASTIC 4... reunited (Blade was cool)

Laughed at every punchline RDJ delivered and was thrilled to see IRON MAN fly into the air.
The action and dark mood in the cave was the most interesting bit in the film where he gets to build the MARK I armor and blast the TELLY Buns !!

The rest of it we only get to see TONY STARK, TONY STARK, TONY STARK and TONY STARK.
Not enough of IRON MAN and when we see him it's only a test flight.
I had the impression that there was more action in the beginning then at the end?

RDJ was so good cracking jokes that I forgot the movie was about IRON MAN. In fact it covered some of the flaws the movie had. His character was too goofy compared to the comic book.
Even while wearing the suit he cracks up jokes, this is something only SPIDERMAN does during action, love the bit where he is silent and we only get to see the machine in action.

JB was pretty good as STANE, brilliant.
I wonder how he can master the controls of the IRON MONGER in a matter of seconds? And why he let Pepper get away so easily with the info on his hard drive? IRON MONGER died in a very cheap way and the ending isn't spectacular at all. Stane seemed to be more interesting then his robotic Counterpart.

PEPPER was a bit cardboard, lucky she gets to save IRON MAN?
Uh? IRON MAN should be the one saving Pepper and smash IRON MONGER into a pulp with a spectacular finale but instead Pepper is the one saving IM ?


RHODEY's favorite moment is where he looks at the other armor, teasing the crowd as we know he will be WAR MACHINE. His character looked more like an army bureaucrat wearing fake medals then a real soldier, the writers should have included a scene where he pilots the plane or a chopper or gun down a few terrorist while Tony got injured.

HAPPY was OK, just a cameo.



NICK FURY, geez , why can't we get a proper Jim Steranko's version instead of SHAFT ?
Samuel L Jackson to me, should be playing DEATHLOCK on screen. He looks the part.

IRON MAN's armor is cool, Adi Granov's design and STAN WINSTON's magic makes the IRON MAN scenes exciting.
But his postures with the hands, makes him look like a ballet Dancer in armor, I hope he'll fly like Superman in the sequel with the knuckles at the front?

The village scene was too fast? Only one tank. Not enough bad guys in the film. Should have 10 times the amount of bad guys then a CHUCK NORRIS, STALLONE, BRUCE WILLIS or SHWARZENEGER film from the 80's.

He is made of titanium alloy but his helmet was crushed easily by IRON MONGER, a bit too easy.
The MARK I armor was really impressive, seeing it in action. I'd like to know how Tony can survive such a fall in both armor? The mini airbags in the suit must be really impressive.

I was also very influenced by the hype surrounding the show and the videogame footage where IM grabs the missiles in the air.
Was expecting much much more action actually.

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Compared to cheaper and robot genre movies like

• Hardware
• Robocop 1
• Robocop 2 (25 Million $ and 5 times more action then IRON MAN)
• Robot Jox
• Moontrap
• Gunhed


and other SCI-FI Flicks:

• STARGATE
• INDEPENDENCE DAY
• STAR WARS
• MATRIX REVOLUTIONS


Also based on the budget for IRON MAN: 186 Millions + 50 Millions $ Promotion.

I'd give IRON MAN a 6.5 / 10.
Jon Favreau still delivered the goods and did a good job adapting IRON MAN for the general public.
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i'm still as yet to see this, though from what i've heard its pretty damn good.
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I thought all the characters were pretty well done. Yeah, Pepper seemed kinda generic and Rhodey should've been portrayed more as the soldier that he is. But Downey was pure gold. Sure, Iron Man wasn't in every scene. But this movie made you give a dman about the man as well as the hero.

And Samuel L. Jackson as Fury is perfect considering the "Ultimate Marvel" version of Fury was based on him. David Hasslehoff must've been busy.
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i like the Hi-tech suit
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I thought all the characters were pretty well done. Yeah, Pepper seemed kinda generic and Rhodey should've been portrayed more as the soldier that he is. But Downey was pure gold. Sure, Iron Man wasn't in every scene. But this movie made you give a dman about the man as well as the hero.

Many Marvel comics seem to do that well and translate very well onto the screen for that reason I think.

And Samuel L. Jackson as Fury is perfect considering the "Ultimate Marvel" version of Fury was based on him. David Hasslehoff must've been busy.

Problem is that the Nick Fury I know from my time reading the books was a white man with an eye patch that was a real GIJOE.
I'll have the same problem accepting him as I did Kingpin in 'Daredevil'.
I don't know why they use the revamped versions and reinvented plots instead of the original concepts for these films. Plus - I don't even remember seeing Jackson in the film whatsoever at all.

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I was sceptical about this film as the 'Spider-man' and 'Xmen' Trilogies were so far the strongest of the Marvel Movies.
I was unimpressed with 'F4', 'Blade' Trilogy, 'Punisher' and 'HULK' and feared more of the same with 'Iron Man'.
I was pleasantly disappointed as it turned out very well and like 'Spider-man' was taken very seriously at a mature level.
It was paced well, had great action and a great cast. I'm not a Paltrow fan, but found her good in this.
Its a great comic book movie and offered something new yet again in both style, hero mentality and originality.

My only concern is that in the beginning he was portrayed as maybe too much of an a**hole - especially with his pole dancing stewardesses on his private jet - but I guess it was the point and he was redeemed.
I also couldn't stand the endless banter he had with his robots when building the suit.

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My only concern is that in the beginning he was portrayed as maybe too much of an a**hole - especially with his pole dancing stewardesses on his private jet - but I guess it was the point and he was redeemed.
Yeah he was supposed to be some intelligent rich selfish playboy that got a conscience about his work and took it upon himself to risk his own life for good.

I enjoyed it.

I didn't think he talked that much with his robots though to become annoying.
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