BWAAAAWWWW I am Iron Man BWAAAAWWW

[mrmontie]

I know not many of us are theater goers anymore. and some have never been.

But Iron Man? so worth it. Saw it on saturday in a DLP theater... whatever that means. Paid full price for two of us and i dont regret a cent of it.

I doubted downy jr for the longest time. I retract anything negative I may have said about him in the role and offer myself up for caning if that is necessary.

and aside to Berin---- let me know when you've seen the movie and who Obediah Stane (jeff bridges) reminds you of. the resemblance was uncanny with certain expressions during the movie. i had to laugh.

[Andrew Modro]

Best comic book movie ever. I have absolutely no complaints, except that the big bad confrontation (every one knows there's going to be at least one big fight, that isn't a spoiler) was too short for me.

Bridges? Reminded me of Richard Moll.

[mrmontie]

hah. Bull. He looks like a coworker Berin and I once shared at times.

And yeah the big bad confrontation was a bit brief. Often too short is better than too long.

Also, stay after the credits if you see it. I did not, but there is always Youtube.

I bet someone is going to try and sue over that video.

[Andrew Modro]

I had advance warning of the post-credits scene, so we all stayed. It was definitely worth the ohmygodIgottapee didn't-get-up-during-the-movie Wrath-Of-The-32-Ounce-Drink wait.

[Vulcan Stev]

Best comic book movie ever.

Seriously? Better than X-Men or Spider-Man? Better than Batman Begins? Granted each of those had problems but as far as comic book adaptations those three are currently at the top of my list.

[Andrew Modro]

I do not like the X-Men or Spider-Man movies. At all. Especially Spider-Man -- Tobey Maguire's portrayal of Peter Parker is just painful, and Dunst is no MJ. (Only things I liked about X-Men were Stewart, McKellen and Jackman's character work.) Better than Batman Begins because, as much as I love that movie and everyone in it (except Holmes), it has some pacing issues which Iron Man did not. Now, we'll see if The Dark Knight can top it. I didn't see Bana's Hulk, and I was never much of a Hulk fan anyway, but I'll give Norton's Hulk a chance too; I just don't think it'll come close to topping Iron Man, even if I do like it.

[Vulcan Stev]

Movies based on comic books suffer overall because of the shift in media. One of the big plusses in the Spider-Man books is our ability to read the character's thoughts. Spider-Man did this by having VOs. Once you adjust your criticism to match the media, Very few comic book movies hold up as worth-while cinema (Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Superman III, Superman IV, beign some of the worst offenders).

I'm not going to argue about actor's portrayals because one man's *shudder* is another man's "Oscar caliber preformance"

The recent spate of Marvel movies are much better than the cheesy ones from the 80's (anyone remember Dolf Lundgren as the Punisher?).

Bana's Hulk suffered not from acting, story, or over-powering CGI. It suffered from the director's trying to actually put a comic book up on the screen.

I just hope that my exepectations for Iron Man aren't set too high at this point.

And I won't highjack this thread by telling why I was very dissapointed with X3, FF:TRotSS,

[Lon Sarver]

anyone remember Dolf Lundgren as the Punisher?

Ow. I had managed to forget. Thanks, Stev...

[Berin Kinsman]

It might be, because it holds together as a film on its own, with no prior knowledge of Iron Man comics required, yet it remains very faithful to the source material and has little easter eggs for the fanboys. The cast was solid, and the CGI FX did not overshadow the story.

[Andrew Modro]

I was the only one in the theater to catch one of those easter eggs, judging by the complete silence in the crowd aside from my quickly-smothered outburst of delighted laughter (I tend to quork a bit like an amused corvid when I am amusedly surprised, so I tend to clap my hands over my mouth to save myself embarrassment). Anybody who'd like to know which one, drop me a line and I'll tell ya.

[Berin Kinsman]

Did the cartoon music get you, too?

[Andrew Modro]

Yeah, that was the one.

[Hank Harwell]

The ring tone?