We do not speak of teen Tony.
He’s a capitalist arms-dealer in the shower. Can you handle that, hippies?
“As you have refused our demands for a sequel to Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, we must take matters into our own hands. We demand that you send us the infidel Val Kilmer, so that we may make our own sequel that, inshallah, will do justice to this hilarious classic of degenerate American cinema.”
We now flashback 36 hours later to an awards ceremony where Tony is being presented with an Apogee award by his friend James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Terrence Howard), the Air Force’s liasion to Stark Industries. Unfortunately, Tony is too busy giving his trust fund a workout at the craps table so his mentor Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) has to accept the award in his place. Stane was a friend of Tony’s father Howard and totally not a HYDRA agent who’s basically looked after Tony as a father figure since his parents died.
He also bears an uncanny resemblance to the Judge from the Ace Attorney series.
Leaving the casino Tony gets doorsopped by a journalist named Christine Everhart (Leslie Bibb) who asks basically asks him how an arms dealer sleeps at night. Tony shuts her down by saying that he makes the weapons that keep the world safe and follows it up by showing her exactly how he sleeps at night.
The next morning, Leslie wakes to find Tony already gone and she meets his PA, Pepper Potts (Gwyeneth Paltrow) whose job is manage his affairs and also manage his…ahem, affairs. Basically, it’s Pepper’s job to sweep Tony’s floozies out of the house every morning with a sturdy broom. Goop is probably the biggest surprise of this movie in that 1) She’s not completely insufferable and 2) the relationship between Tony and Pepper is actually pretty darn sweet. If only I could say the same about Terence Howard as Rhodey. This version of the character is just…not fun to be around. I mean, he’s supposed to be the level-headed one trying to get Tony to take things more seriously, fine. But it’s just bitch, bitch, bitch, moan, moan, moan all the goddamned time. What’s worse, Rhodey comes across as less like someone who genuinely cares about Tony and more like someone who’s just trying to keep that sweet, sweet arms-tech flowing. Rhodey and Tony are supposed to be like brothers. I never once bought that these two men even liked each other. This got better with Iron Man 2 when Don Cheadle was brought in, but wouldn’t really be remedied until Iron Man 3. So Tony takes a fourteen hour flight to Afghanistan with Rhodey who takes the time to lecture a man who runs a billion dollar company and built a circuit board when he was four that he’s wasting his potential. And you wonder why the man drinks.
In Afghanistan, Stark demonstrates the latest in cutting edge terrorist limb dispersal technology, the Jericho missile.
“Gentlemen, I give you the weapon that will finally win the War on Mountains.”
All the army guys go sploosh and Tony gives Obadiah the good news over the phone. Then, convoy, boom, terrorists, YouTube, infidel Val Kilmer and we are all caught up.
So Tony wakes up in a cell with a man named Yinsen (Shaun Toub), and half a microwave oven strapped to his chest. Yinsen explains that it’s an electromagnet that’s keeping pieces of sharpnel from entering his heart. They’re interrupted by the cuddliest terrorist in the world, Abu Bakar (Sayed Badreya), who welcomes Tony Stark “the most famous mass murderer in American history”.
Ha! Suck it, Jackson.
Yinsen translates Abu’s demands for Tony; He’s going to build them a Jericho missle or they’ll kill him. But if he does, they’ll let him go. Tony says “No he won’t” and Yinsen’s all “No shit, Sherlock”.
Yinsen and Stark take stock of the situation. Tony’s got maybe a week before the battery powering the magnet fails and he dies. The terrorists (a group called the Ten Rings) seem to have gotten their hands on a shit ton of his weapons and if he doesn’t make them an even more powerful one they’ll kill both of them.
“You have to think of a way for us to escape.”
“What are our assets?”
“Your brains. Fezzik’s strength. My steel.”
“Impossible. If I had a month to plan, then maybe, but this?”
“I suppose it was too much to ask.”
“I mean if we had a cave and a box of scraps, that would be something.”
“We DO have a cave and a box of scraps.”
“Then why didn’t you list them amongst our assets in the first place?”
So, while pretending to build the missile, Yinsen and Stark start working on some serious cosplay as well as a miniaturised arc reactor to power Tony’s heart. Something about this scene I also find kinda creepy. Tony is able to disassemble the missiles the terrorists provide him with from memory. He isn’t just some CEO who doesn’t understand what his company is making. He designed these weapons. The shrapnel that has made him a dead man walking was in that bomb because he put it there. Yeah. This was not a good man.
In their down time, Yinsen and Stark bond over backgammon and tea brewed in a sock (actually a little detail that Robert Downey Junior was able to provide the producers thanks to his stints in the big house. Although frankly, if you’d do that to tea you deserve to be in jail). Yinsen tells Tony that he’s from a village called Gulmira and that he has a wife and children who he’ll see when he leaves here.
Okay, okay, we get it it. Your family’s dead and you’re going to die too. Don’t milk it, man.
Seriously though, while Yinsen is OBVIOUSLY going to die (I mean, shit, he might as well be talking about how he’s going to marry his special gal and enjoy hotdogs and freedom while strolling through Viet Cong country) I have to credit both the movie and Shaun Toub for fleshing Yinsen out into an actual character rather than simply a plot mechanism. He doesn’t have a lot of screen time but he definitely makes an impression.
Speaing of making an impression, the science bros get a visit from the leader of the Ten Rings, Raza (Faran Tahir, fantastically menacing) who storms into their workshop to show them what time it is.
He threatens to make Yinsen eat a burning coal and then tells them that they have one day to make the Jericho or else they’re both dead men. Tony and Yinsen boot up the Mark 1 Iron Man suit but it takes too to long start (McAfee, piece of shit I tell ya what) so Yinsen decides to buy Tony some time by chasing a load of terrorists blindly down a corridor while firing wildly. You can probably guess what happens.
The suit is just a thing of beauty, a massive, hulking brute of a thing that perfectly captures the essence of Kirby’s original design. It also shows just how important practical effects are. The fact that this is an actual physical thing clanking around and tossing dudes around like confetti is awesome and it just wouldn’t be the same in CGI. Anyway, Tony finds Yinsen dying, and the old man guilt trips him into promising to not be such a douche and then croaks. Furious, Tony tears through the terrorists camp like a dose of the salts, blows up all their shit and then finally blasts away because he built a robot suit that can fly. In a cave. With a box of scraps.
He gets picked up in the desert by Rhodey and returns to the US and calls for a Burger King burger and a press conference, in that order. Blatant product placement? Weirdly, no.
Apparently, Robert Downey Junior’s return to sobriety was thanks to the good people at Burger King. While driving cross-country with enough drugs in the drunk to found a small narco-state, Downey stopped at a Burger King joint and ate a burger so thoroughly, repulsively awful that it caused him to completely reassess where his life was going and ditch the drugs in the Pacific ocean. The scene where Tony gets a whopper is a shout out to that.
Anyway, while Tony gets ready to speak to the assembled press, Pepper is approached by a nice, unassuming man who probably will never be seen or heard of again.
Funny story. Clark Gregg was hired for one scene, to play a character called “Agent”. Eight years later he’s got his own TV series. Weird how these things shake out. Anyway, this is Agent Coulson who introduces himself as an agent of the Supreme Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division which Pepper has never heard of.
“Really? Weve been around since World War 2. We have that massive headquarters in Virginia. We’re the guys with the flying aircraft carriers? Ring any bells?”
Yeah, SHIELD is something that’s always been a little inconsistent in its portrayal in the MCU. Are they a super secret organisation whose very existence is classified? Are they just a small, obscure government bureau? Or are they a massive Deep State with resources and personnel that dwarfs the rest of America’s intelligence apparatus combined and whose existence is common knowledge? The movies never really seem sure. Coulson asks Pepper if he can debrief Tony about his escape and she promises to make an appointment for him.
Tony, meanwhile, sits on the floor and eats his burger and tells all the reporters to sit down too (this was Downey’s idea, as he didn’t want the extras to have to stand during the entire scene because he’s just a lovely, lovely man). Stark tells the reporters that he’s realised something: Those weapons that he’s been making for years hurt like a motherfucker and he’s had a change of heart. Tony says he saw young Americans killed by the weapons he created to protect them, which is of course how you know things have gone bad. When it’s Americans who are being killed. And then he tells them that Stark Industries no longer in the death business. Pepper’s ecstatic, Rhodey and Obadiah look like somebody’s peed in their porridge.
Later, Tony tells Obadiah that he wants to re-orient Stark Industries towards arc-reactor technology which is apparently a source of limitless clean energy that Stark Industries invented.
That works. And that they did nothing with. Obadiah says that it was just a publicity stunt to “shut the hippies up”.
“Remember? When we achieved the Holy Grail of human technology and didn’t do anything with it? Because we’re brilliant business men?”
Stane then asks to see the device that’s keep Tony’s heart going and then covers it back up and tells Tony to lay low. Understandably, by the way. The company’s shares are already tumbling and the last thing the market needs to know is that all that stands between Tony and certain death is a glorified fridge magnet. Later, Tony enlists Pepper to help him install a new and improved arc-reactor in his chest which almost goes horribly wrong when she yanks out something important and then wastes time reassuring him that he’s going to be fine as he goes into cardiac arrest.
“It’s vitally important that I spend your last precious seconds alive making sure you know that you are going to be okay.”
Pepper asks him what he wants done with the old arc-reactor and he tells her to junk it. He then goes and visits Rhodey on an airbase where he’s giving some new pilots a tour and trying desperately to pretend that they’ll still have jobs ten years from now. This scene perfectly sums up why this take on Rhodey just doesn’t work. Look at these two reactions:
Thinks Tony’s going to start making weapons again.
Just found out Tony’s not making weapons and that they’re not stopping for ice-cream.
Oh yeah. When he thinks Tony’s started building weapons again he’s all smiles and sunshine. When Tony tells him he’s out of the game he tells him he needs to “get his mind right” and walks off. That’s not a friend. That’s an emotionally manipulative parasite. Fuck this guy.
Tony starts working with his AI butler J.A.R.V.I.S (Paul Bettany) on designing a new Iron Man armour which leads to the following exchange:
Tony: Jarvis, you up?
J.AR.V.I.S.: For you sir, always.
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan the extra crispy remains of the Ten Rings are searching the desert for Stark and find the remains of the Mark 1 armour.
“Look sir! Droids!”
Obadiah arrives at Stark’s mansion with pizza and some bad news: the board of directors is locking him out because they think he has PTSD and that his new direction is bad for the company. Tony explodes “I’m being responsible! That’s a new direction?!”
I’d go with “fucking revolutionary”.
Tony finally finishes the Mark 2 armour and decides to take it for a test flight over J.A.R.V.I.S’ protestations. Things go great until Tony tries to break the fixed-wing altitude records and the suit freezes up, causing him to plummet to the ground.
“LAZY BASTARD KOOKABURRAS!”
Sidenote. Is Tony just being completely reckless here or is there something more serious going on? What I mean is, is it possible that a combination of guilt and lingering trauma is behind this? That on some level, he didn’t go up there to fly, but to fall?
Anyway, the suit reactivates before he hits the ground and he manages to fly home. Back in the basement he finds a gift from Pepper, his old arc reactor set in a frame with the words “proof that Tony Stark has a heart”. While waiting for J.A.R.V.I.S. to finish painting the armour, Tony heads out to a charity ball being run by Stark Industries at the Walt Disney Concert Hall…huh.
Probably just a coincidence.
Tony sees Pepper in half a dress and asks her to dance and she tells him that that’s kind of awkward since he’s her boss and he offers to fire her if that’d make things easier. She tells him that he wouldn’t last five minutes without him and he has to admit that’s probably true.
“The Peppertron 9000 is still in beta.”
He almost kisses her on the balcony (I prefer lips, but whatever) and Pepper tells him to get her a drink. At the bar he gets doorstopped by Christine.
No, no, not that Christine.
She demands to know how a load of Stark weapons got into the hands of the Ten Rings who used it to level Yinsen’s hometown of Gulmira. Tony confronts Stane who basically admits that Stark Industries illegally sold weapons to the Ten Rings and wow that is stupid on every side. First of all, it’s insanely stupid for Stane to jeopardise SI’s military contracts and risk the company being listed as a terrorist financier simply to sell weapons to a group that will only be able to pay a fraction of what the US government can. And it’s stupid for the Ten Rings to buy them when they could just get them by killing whatever poor “moderate groups” the US has armed and taking their stuff for free like ISIS does. And lastly, it’s stupid of me because it took me like eight tries to correctly spell “jeopardise”.
Back home, Tony fumes in silence while listening to television journalism’s most emotionally manipulative reporter. Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine, not just unique to this movie but plenty others. It’s like, Hollywood screenwriters know that television news exists, but they’ve never actually watched it themselves.
“Maybe a man. Some dashing billionaire. Maybe in a flying iron suit. An iron man, if you will. Oh don’t listen to me, viewers, I’m just rambling in my grief at this hopeless situation.”
“If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends!”
“Also, Michelle Monaghan is a fantastic actress who doesn’t get enough decent parts to show off her comic chops. Did you see that piece of shit Pixels!? And you wonder why we call you the Great Satan.”
“Next time, baby.”
“Ha! No.”
“Look, secret identities are a relic of the Golden Age that really serve no purpose in the modern era so basically yeah, I’m the guy, love me, love me, love me…”
With a global box office take of half a billion and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95%, it’s pretty safe to say that Marvel’s experiment in making their own movies was off to a great start. Looking back at Iron Man eight years on, it’s not exceptional but it is, very, very solid. Great performances, good special effects, witty banter. It’s not exactly ground-breaking, but sometimes you don’t need to re-invent the wheel. Sometimes you just need to build a really good wheel. In a cave. With a box of scraps.
Thanos is sitting on his chair.
unshavedmouse 
All the current Avengers kill. They are soldiers, spies, warriors…naturally they kill when they feel that they have to. That’s all part of how their characters are portrayed. It’s different with heroes like Spider-man or Daredevil. But, yeah, Iron Man is the most casual movie about this fact. Tony never really changes his opinion that the one with the biggest stick creates peace…he just ensures that he is the one holding the stick because he realized that he can’t trust anyone else with it.
Personally, I don’t like Stane that much, mostly because I had a hard time believing that Tony would fall for the lies of a guy as smarmy as him.
I don’t think we see Cap kill anyone after he defrosts, do we?
Just everyone between him and the helicarriers…..I think we can safely say that a few people died in this fight. And he killed Chitauri left and right. Just because they are not humans it doesn’t make them less living and breathing beings.
Ultron even outright says that all Avengers are killers. He is kind of right.
Well the Chitauri were bio-engineered constructs remotely controlled by the mother ship and anyone killed by the helicarrier certainly wasn’t intentional. I meant that he doesn’t intentionally kill his enemies in combat.
Intentionally not, but he does when it is necessary. In the first movie his people throw bombs in tanks and Bucky was acting as a sniper. Yeah, the shield usually doesn’t kill immediately, but I never got the impression that Steve has a no kill rule. Like he said, he doesn’t want to kill anyone, but he doesn’t like bullies.
To be fair, the first movie took place during World War II. It was kill or be killed.
YES! FIEVEL GOES WEST!
I KNEW my choice would win!
I mean, it’s Rock-a-Doodle, but it’s still bad. It’s like a drug trip seen through a fish-eye lens.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
You say that like Matilda described something other than basically Bahia.
I think you mean 36 hours earlier not later.
I think I may.
I still think Iron Man is one of the best solo Marvel movies. Great start to the MCU, but there are some things they messed up on. Like Coulson using the long name for SHIELD and saying “yeah, bitch we’re working on it,” then later movies revealing they’ve existed since the 50s or something. You mean it took them 50 years to figure out that the name they chose conveniently creates an acronym?
I’m pretty sure it’s a backronym. They named it SHIELD for Cap and tried to figure out what it meant later.
Coulson was just messing with Pepper. It is actually a good trick, because nobody manages to remember such an overly long name off the bat.
So… I watched this earlier this week in preparation for this review, and… prepare the tar and feathers if you like, but I’m not exactly filled with hope when people say this is the best movie (or in the top tier) the MCU has to offer.
Maybe I’m just at the Snarky, Cynical stage in life, but the entire movie just felt… manipulative. And that’s something all movies are, at heart, but this one simply felt more blatant about it. “Here’s our douche-with-a-heart-of-gold hero!” “Here’s his nagging but eternally faithful civilian love interest!” “Here’s the “ally” who’s certainly not going to turn out to be the bad guy!” “Here’s the thingy that’s going to be important to the hero’s survival later on *and* affirm his bond to the supporting cast!” “Here’s where you stand up and cheer as our hero wipes the floor with opening act villains who haven’t a hope of touching him!”
There were really only two parts that pleasantly surprised me. One is that, despite Pepper casually calling her “trash” when they first meet, the movie never really villainizes Christine when tradition practically obligates it to do so. The other, naturally, is the Stan Lee cameo.
Buuut all that said, it *was* a really fun movie, with a decently pulpy plot, endlessly quotable lines, and a rather enjoyable protagonist. Not something I’ll rush to rewatch anytime soon, but I can see why it made so much bank.
(Side note: I can’t stop seeing Dan DiDio every time I look at Stane.)
I wouldn’t say it’s in the top tier. Just really really enjoyable.
People who say that are blinded by nostalgia. It belongs somewhere in the middle. The really good movies turn up in Phase 2.
Funny story. My friends went to see this movie when it came out and didn’t know Iron Man was a comic book superhero. They thought the film was a wholly original movie. Personally, I think if a comic book movie can do that for the mainstream audience it’s a pretty impressive thing.
I am oddly reminded of the old “I heard that before Spider-Man was a movie, it was a comic book. Is that possible?” exchange from The Simpsons. One of my Tumblr pals (who worked in a comic shop years ago) says those kinds of exchanges did in fact happen in real life.
Kids these days.
Then again, I had similar thoughts about Over The Hedge. Make of that what you will.
Thanks for the review. I was quite pleased with this movie when I saw it…but I never felt like I needed to see it again. Unlike Captain America. Or Avengers.
I’m glad your reviewing these movies now – it gives me the motivation to actually see the ones I haven’t bothered to yet. Like any of them with a ‘2’ or ‘3’ in the title, potentially. Or that happen in space, without invoking pseudo-Norse gods. Movies like that.
Guardians of the Galaxy is actually one of the best ones. Plays itself for laughs and is great Space Opera.
Been awhile since we had one of those.
Movies that happen in space without invoking pseudo-norse Gods were the subject of my graduate thesis.
Movies with 2 aren’t very good, the 3 I’ll give a pass to, but that other movie. Holy balls dude is that a fun movie.
I agree, Stane selling weapons to the Ten Rings doesn’t make much sense, at least in this movie. Cap 2 however revealed/retconned that Hydra was behind them, as well as Tony’s parents’ death, the killing of Kennedy, 9/11, that time you lost your car keys, and the invention of country music. And since they basically OWN the US government in that movie, I daresay they could afford whatever price Obie asked.
Aaaaaaaaaah that makes sense.
Kittens stuck in trees are still the work of Zurg though, right?
Ah yeah, I love this movie! I was lucky enough to see it in the drive in theater with my cousins while visiting them in Idaho. I was blown away, so funny, so much action-packed amazingness. I actually didn’t stay for the stinger the first time, but that’s probably for the best, because I didn’t know a thing about the Marvel Universe at this time. It wasn’t until after this movie that I started getting into comic lore… and I still don’t really read comics, I just watch the various animated series and Atop the Fourth Wall. (Yeah yeah I know, I’m a fake nerd, whatever)
Also, “In a cave with a box of scraps” is one of my favorite memes and I love all the ways you played with it in this review, well done sir!
Thanks oo. Big fan of Linkara myself.
He is the man (Punch. Wears a purdy hat)
He’s magic gun. Where’d he purchase that?
Honestly, I’ve ended up hating the current superhero trend, only made worse by how unapologetically imperialistic the Marvel Cinematic Universe is. They may be entertaining popcorn flicks, but that’s it, and when popcorn flicks parrot US propaganda, it becomes unbearable.
I’m not sure that’s true. I think this movie and Captain America 2 especially are quite interrogative of US policy.
Huh? The movies actually do the exact opposite. The first attempt is a little bit messy (though they do address how sick it is to send weapons to the middle east which usually end up in the hands of terrorists eventually), but they get better with time. Especially the Captain America movies are very critical about the American government. The first one takes a really hard look at propaganda, the second one addresses the danger of giving up privacy and freedom in the name of a shaky security. And then there is Iron Man 3.
And you’ll note, neither myself or Swanpride are American.
I actually loathed the very concept of Captain America until I saw the movie and understood what the character is actually about. He is now my fav! (Followed by Black Widow, naturally).
I think the character wins people over because he defies their expectations. You expect this jingoistic asshole and get the personification of human decency instead.
I think it is the fact that they managed to disconnect Captain America from the actual America in making him represents ideals we all can get behind rather than a particular country. It naturally helps that he keeps calling out America for not being what it wanted to be.
I cannot wait for you to pan An American Tail 2.
Huh.
My friend insisted me and a couple of others meet up for Marvel movies back in July. I really like them! I watched all but the Hulk film and the Iron Man sequels. I only watched the Thor sequel for Loki. Because Loki. I’m so excited you’re reviewing these!
Good review! Did you see Doug’s review of it for the Disneycember this year?
Didn’t actually. Any good?
I mean, I can’t remember the movie well enough to agree/disagree with him. I just watch it because I always watch the Disneycember videos.
I think ‘Visual Effects’ should have had their own category as the replacement for ‘Animation’.
I dunno, I hear the later movies are especially CGI-heavy, and time is much less kind to CGI than it is to animation.
Excellent review, Mouse. Gonna admit, I actually laughed out loud when Coulson mentioned how unobservant Pepper Potts is.
Thanks!
I’ve always believed that Tony is suicidal. All the self-destructive shit he does speaks to that. He’s stupid, but he knows what’ll kill him, and part of him want that.
Ahh, Iron Man. My favourite series of the Avengers movie lineup. Though then again, it’s the only one I’ve really gotten into, Captain America’s appeal is a bit lost on Canadians (those who find Chris Evans incredibly attractive notwithstanding), and I seem to always miss the Thor movies for reasons that escape me at the moment. And the other 2 avengers don’t have movies for whatever reason. Iron Man though, I’ve always caught his adventures, and Stark’s snarks have their appeal for sure.
I’ve got to say, I can never watch this movie without that part with Everhart feeling weird to me, because I always remember Leslie Bibb playing the 16-year-old cheerleader from Popular. I have no idea if anyone else remembers that show, but it was big enough during my tween years for that to be what my mind goes to when I see her, so watching her one-night-stand Robert Downey Jr. was a tad awkward to say the least. As for Pepper, I like her, I always have liked Potts and Stark’s kind of awkward, semi-dysfunctional relationship. And I’m totally not the only one who wants an Avengers/X-Men crossover where Tony meets Hank McCoy and asks Pepper to be his housemaid for a time period and hilarity ensues, am I? What with Disney owning Marvel now and all, I just can’t not think up bizarre shout outs.
Dunno if owning a company worth a truckload of dough leaves someone off the hook for a life check. Maybe they especially need one if they only inherited that company and didn’t personally make it what it is. Certain current U. S. presidential candidates aren’t making loose-cannon rich company heirs look good right now, is what I’m getting at. Though Tony himself clearly at least knows something about the stuff his company gets at, being able to assemble and disassemble his merchandise himself.
Ahhh, getting into the Star Wars hype, I see? Come to think of it, it’s a wonder no one asked for any Star Wars movies to be reviewed. Maybe that can be a special project whenever Marvel’s done or something? Seems like an appropriate step, being the next victim *cough* subject of Disney’s osmosis, no? Also, yeesh, hope you don’t ever compete on Wheel of Fortune when the show decides to make a shout out to other game shows. Speaking of wheels, liking your closing bit there. Ties up the review well.
I can’t whistle for jack (geese don’t have the teeth for it), but I can hum the Iron Man theme just fine. In any case, I guess this adaptation score makes sense, and I’m liking the new coat of paint the scoring is getting, hope it stays. Also, the first of the survivors of the Deathmatch! …Wait, second, how’d I forget Nimh was in the running? In any case, hope Fievel does good his return, and it turns out to be worth chewing a dark fairy to pieces for it. Or do mice just do that for kicks? Eh, in any case, hope it’s good, and maybe ties any loose ends left for that Bluniverse Horned King made.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time! I was never a big Marvel fan (or hell, even a comic book fan) until my boyfriend introduced them to me through the films and now we’re both huge nerds. I remember thinking the first Iron Man movie was just fine (though RDJ more than deserved this as his big comeback), but the ending really caught me off-guard. Down with secret identities!
Can’t wait to see your take on The Hulk (the only one I have yet to see all the way through since me and my guy only watched it from the halfway point when it was on tv once).
I cannot wait for you to review the Captain Americas (’cause he’s my fave alongside Scarlet Witch and Black Widow) and the Avengers! I only got into Marvel movies over the summer, but I really love them. Who here is excited for civil war?
This movie is pretty good. It’s not one of the best superhero films ever made, but it’s really good. The only thing I don’t like about it is the villain. Like in most Marvel movies, the villain in this movie is just your typical generic villain we’ve seen a million times before.
This, along with Avengers and Guardians is one of my favorite MCU movies. It’s just one of the few that know how to stand on it’s own without being overloaded in setting up for the future. Speaking of which, I heard you might be doing the Spider-Man movies down the line? The Sam Raimi movies would obviously be a part of that, but would you add the Amazing films, and the pilot to that weird live action series in the seventies (not the Japanese one).
Possibly, but it’s still not set in stone
Ah, okay. Thanks for replying.
“…Tony Stark ‘the most famous mass murderer in American history’.”
“Ha! Suck it, Jackson.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_H._Smith
That is all.
Smith sounds like a proto-trump. History is unfortunately littered with malignant narcissists, and even more unfortunately, prolly always will be.
If we’re talking Thor’s antiquarian tongue, whom couldst forgetteth this rare pearl: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHI7RS-84k