fajrdrako | Iron Man... (Reply)

I went to see Iron Man today.

Loved it: they seem to have finally got the right touch for transforming a comic to a movie without making it silly. And who'd have guessed it would be Iron Man they'd succeed with?

Loved Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane. Other points:

Robert Downey, Jr., seemed like perfect casting. Not too young, just the right combination of clever and seedy.
The war in Afghanistan fit neatly into the war story I remember from the 1960s.
Gwyneth Paltrow was wonderful as Pepper Pots: I even thought she looked like the old Don Heck drawings. Including the fashion.
Loved the moment when Pepper was getting the information about Obadiah Stane from the computer and he came in. Wonderful suspense.
I missed Happy Hogan - realized only in retrospect that he was there. And Jarvis as an AI - that was inspired. (I see the acronym stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. I'm not sure about the grammar there, but it's cute.
Gorgeous armour.
S.H.I.E.L.D.! I didn't catch on that that's what it was until they said - and then I quietly hooted. Loved it. Totally loved it. And Samuel R. Jackson as Nick Fury at the end - ! I knew he was playing Nick Fury in something because I saw a picture of him as Fury in Entertainment Weekly. I had no idea it was this movie. Wonderful.
There's a moment in the movie in which Obadiah Stane is berating his tame scientist for not being able to replicate Stark's work. He says, "Tony Stark was able to do this in a cave!" maaseru murmured, "In a comic book," cracking me up.
Loved Stan Lee's moment. Especially since he originally was thinking of Hugh Hefner when he designed the 'rich playboy' Tony Stark.
I love the way the point of the story is really "with great power comes great responsibility" though they never spell it out. The old Stan Lee message!
Will there be a sequel?