[quote]Otep wrote:
I actually had a really strong personal reaction after watching the movie. Not sure where else to talk about this. Watching the movie really made me want to be more like Tony Stark.
This happens after I see/read stories about heroes developed through blood sweat and books. Same reaction after reading Millar’s Red Son. Same after Batman: Year One. It’s like I want to lock myself in my garage (Well, first get a garage, and then lock myself in it) and then reverse engineer guns, engines, and mainframes until I become a Stark, Wayne, or Luthor.
The way it manifests itself is a new motivation to manage my time better (which is fortunate with finals coming up). Which is good, but it also makes me dream of thoroughly understanding and developing upcoming technology in this modern world.
Maybe I drank the koolaid. Maybe I should have been/be a scientist.[/quote]
Technology is too advanced these days to figure everything out in your garage. You’d have to start by getting an engineering degree. And then learn the subspecialties and THEN lock yourself in your garage with a bunch of high tech computer software that does all the math that we couldn’t do to come up with these high tech designs.
[quote]HardcoreHorn wrote:
Otep wrote:
I actually had a really strong personal reaction after watching the movie. Not sure where else to talk about this. Watching the movie really made me want to be more like Tony Stark.
This happens after I see/read stories about heroes developed through blood sweat and books. Same reaction after reading Millar’s Red Son. Same after Batman: Year One. It’s like I want to lock myself in my garage (Well, first get a garage, and then lock myself in it) and then reverse engineer guns, engines, and mainframes until I become a Stark, Wayne, or Luthor.
The way it manifests itself is a new motivation to manage my time better (which is fortunate with finals coming up). Which is good, but it also makes me dream of thoroughly understanding and developing upcoming technology in this modern world.
Maybe I drank the koolaid. Maybe I should have been/be a scientist.
Technology is too advanced these days to figure everything out in your garage. You’d have to start by getting an engineering degree. And then learn the subspecialties and THEN lock yourself in your garage with a bunch of high tech computer software that does all the math that we couldn’t do to come up with these high tech designs.[/quote]
Samuel L…Dear Lord, no one else fits better.[/quote]
Spoiler Alert
If you stay after the credits, Samuel L appears and talks to Tony Stark. And if you wait another minute, a huge shark comes out of NOWHERE and eats Samuel L.
Just posted this, but it seems to be taking forever to get up on the board. Anyways, this is from Yahoo finance:
“Marvel plans to launch its 2010 film slate with the release of the sequel, Iron Man 2, on April 30, 2010, followed by the launch of Thor on June 4, 2010. Additionally, Marvel is planting its feature film stakes for summer 2011 with an Avengers-themed summer �?? a two-picture project which will debut on May 6, 2011 with The First Avenger: Captain America (working title), followed by The Avengers in July 2011.”
I think I’d have to put this one ahead of Batman Begins simply because Batman Begins seriously lacked in decent action scenes.
I do have two minor complaints though. I wish there would have been more of a fight between Iron Man and Iron Monger instead of a gimped Iron Man just getting his ass kicked. They really could have done some cool shit. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow’s acting during the final confrontation was painful.
Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. absolutely dominated, and FUCK did the suit ever look incredible!
[quote]Ronsauce wrote:
I think I’d have to put this one ahead of Batman Begins simply because Batman Begins seriously lacked in decent action scenes.
I do have two minor complaints though. I wish there would have been more of a fight between Iron Man and Iron Monger instead of a gimped Iron Man just getting his ass kicked. They really could have done some cool shit. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow’s acting during the final confrontation was painful.
Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. absolutely dominated, and FUCK did the suit ever look incredible![/quote]
I thought Paltrow did well. She has to remain JUST his secretary. Therefore, she has to remain awkward, cute, and slightly distanced from Stark even if they flirt all of the time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Ronsauce wrote:
I think I’d have to put this one ahead of Batman Begins simply because Batman Begins seriously lacked in decent action scenes.
I do have two minor complaints though. I wish there would have been more of a fight between Iron Man and Iron Monger instead of a gimped Iron Man just getting his ass kicked. They really could have done some cool shit. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow’s acting during the final confrontation was painful.
Luckily, Robert Downey Jr. absolutely dominated, and FUCK did the suit ever look incredible!
I thought Paltrow did well. She has to remain JUST his secretary. Therefore, she has to remain awkward, cute, and slightly distanced from Stark even if they flirt all of the time.
Have they ever even slept together in the comics?[/quote]
I’m pretty sure she ends up marrying his chauffeur in the comics.
I’m amazed a lot of people didn’t catch the Ten Rings references. I figured it would be a lead in to a battle against Mandarin. For those that doubted RDJ as Tony Stark, I have to say: COME ON!!! Who could have done it better? With RDJ’s checkered past, and Tony’s unstable life, it was the perfect fit.
Gwyneth actually kept my attention in this movie too…especially in the heels! It’ll be interesting to see how they develop Nick Fury as well. He’s got his own movie in the works.
[quote]zarrs wrote:
I did not like it, the first 30 min were good the last 10min were good but the rest of the movie was rather slow. I want my $14 back[/quote]
LOL!!!
I was waiting for ONE person to write this, I am amazed it took this long…which is really saying something.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
zarrs wrote:
I did not like it, the first 30 min were good the last 10min were good but the rest of the movie was rather slow. I want my $14 back
LOL!!!
I was waiting for ONE person to write this, I am amazed it took this long…which is really saying something.[/quote]
I was so anxious for the first 30 minutes, I wanted iron man to go bust some ass! Seriously though, I think the movie would have been a lot better like this:
Open up with iron man arming his suit, going into battle against some minor enemy, maybe even borrow someone relatively weak in iron man terms from another story (Lizard from spiderman or something?) 10 minute flashback about how he got there, then he goes and kicks some ass. From there, you can develop any internal conflict in Stark Enterprises, develop a villain, and do a cool battle.
It was really cool, but I was totally let down by the battle at the end. 1. Come on, they can’t even build the damn power source! Are you serious that Tony wasn’t mopping the floor with his ass? He uses his suit to go fight galactus! Crap like that “other” suit could have been easily defeated by spider man (without his enhanced powers from the last couple years)
I am happy that both men only had their helmets removed once during battle. In spider man I was so puzzled why they kept showing everyones faces. It was like they thought the audience was going to forget who everyone was!
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
zarrs wrote:
I did not like it, the first 30 min were good the last 10min were good but the rest of the movie was rather slow. I want my $14 back
LOL!!!
I was waiting for ONE person to write this, I am amazed it took this long…which is really saying something.
I was so anxious for the first 30 minutes, I wanted iron man to go bust some ass! Seriously though, I think the movie would have been a lot better like this:
Open up with iron man arming his suit, going into battle against some minor enemy, maybe even borrow someone relatively weak in iron man terms from another story (Lizard from spiderman or something?) 10 minute flashback about how he got there, then he goes and kicks some ass. From there, you can develop any internal conflict in Stark Enterprises, develop a villain, and do a cool battle.
It was really cool, but I was totally let down by the battle at the end. 1. Come on, they can’t even build the damn power source! Are you serious that Tony wasn’t mopping the floor with his ass? He uses his suit to go fight galactus! Crap like that “other” suit could have been easily defeated by spider man (without his enhanced powers from the last couple years)
I am happy that both men only had their helmets removed once during battle. In spider man I was so puzzled why they kept showing everyones faces. It was like they thought the audience was going to forget who everyone was![/quote]
I think too many today want nothing but explosions and CGI effects in a movie.
We have seen many times that this does NOT work and sucks in terms of a movie. Terminator 3 is a prime example. Solid story lines are a good thing, not a negative.
Massive explosions and special effects with little to no story suck ass.
I had been looking forward to this for months and was not disappointed.
I think the reason comic book movies have improved greatly is Marvel is their own studio now. They are not licensing their characters out just to let someone else fuck it up anymore.