Iron Man (2008)
Woo. Iron Man is a lot of fun. I am a comic-book geek (not redundant, by the way), but I’m not very familiar with the Iron Man story. I still enjoyed this movie a lot. Robert Downey, Jr. is great as Tony Stark, a playboy weapons tycoon who undergoes a crisis of conscience. Paltrow is a good foil. Terrence Howard is strong as the military friend, and Jeff Bridges is over the top, but appropriately so given his role.
Warning for geek boys: my husband G. Grod was very, very disappointed that Black Sabbath’s song Iron Man was not used in the film as it was in the trailer. Instead, it was sampled throughout.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
We’re going to see it today. Thanks for the warning about the song–The Teen has been hyped about that for days. I’ll set his expectations appropriately.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:29 am
G. Grod says he hated the music overall, as did Wil Wheaton on his blog.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/05/this-is-one-hel.html
Imdb’s trivia has a lot of details on the creation of the music.
And Monty on Movies mentions that there was stuff after the credits. D’oh. I guess I’ll have to see it again. Quel dommage.
http://montyonmovies.blogspot.com/2008/05/iron-man.html
May 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am
The Teen thought the music was fine. Both kids saw the post-credits stuff; DH and I, being older, had to use the restrooms and left. I understand the post-credits stuff was pretty fun. Guess I’ll see it when it comes out on DVD.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Oh, silly me. I’ll just wait to see a new movie in the coming weeks, then accidentally go into the Iron Man theater to catch the last few minutes.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:08 am
just saw it last night - sweeeeeeet!
I also was familiar with Iron Man, but never knew the story too well. I probably read a comic or two with him in it about 20 years ago, but that barely counts. Anyhow, both I and my wife thoroughly enjoyed it - I even enjoyed Paltrow, who is not one of my favorite actors.
And lastly, the post-credits stuff. I remembered just before we left the theater (after reading about it here) and made my wife sit down to see it. But either it was really short (I think - maybe 10-15 seconds) or we still got fooled and left too early. So could some kind reader let me know if I still missed out, or was the one scene I saw the only scene?
Thanks!
May 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I think that was the only scene. I saw the clip on Youtube, though I’m not sure it’ll be up still. It’s not long, and has a famous actor playing a famous Marvel character, and mentioning a famous Marvel group.
Is that vague enough to be non-spoilery?
May 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
See I thought I heard Black Sabbath in the trailer, but my friend was like, no it’s the theme from the old Iron Man cartoon. I’m not sure I believe him since I saw the traier only once, and didn’t even know there was an Iron Man cartoon.