What you have been hearing is true; it’s really really good and Robert Downing Jr. is the best part. Usually with these superhero movies there’s some cheesy character moments that you put up with in order to get to the good action-y stuff. With this movie there was some action and it was all right but I found myself impatient to get to the next character moment.
If you stay ’till the end, after the very last credits (and this is technically a spoiler but I can’t imagine anyone reading this who would care) you get to see Tony Stark come back home and a shadowy figure reveals himself as Nick Fury (played by Samuel Jackson), who’s here to tell him about something called the Avenger Initiative. When this happened in the theater I was in on Friday night, there was a wave of geek joy that spread from the front row (where one guy was literally jumping up and down with excitement) all the way to the back, presumably because it implies that there will be more Iron Man movies and more importantly a possible Avengers movie which, if it’s as good as this Iron Man movie, I think we can all agree would totally rock.
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May 4, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Iron Man § Unqualified Offerings
[...] the movie perfect? No. I think the climactic battle between Stane and Stark lacks a little oomph. (Nate writes, "Usually with these superhero movies there’s some cheesy character moments that you put [...]
May 5, 2008 at 11:41 am
Bob
I definitely put Iron Man in the upper, upper tier of super hero movies (along with Batman Begins, Spider Man 2, X-men 1). Good, snappy dialogue. Gritty realism. Only one bad guy. I really liked the evolution of the suit from the McGuyver-esque Afghanistan version to the sleek final product.
May 6, 2008 at 9:13 pm
patrick
Iron Man was practically flawless as a super hero flick; it drops pretty obvious hints that would indicate a sequel as well… i’m thinking the next one should be equally great
May 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm
cdj
Can’t wait to see this when I get home, on DVD at least! Thanks for the spoiler tip!
Regarding Avengers, see http://mediacopia.tumblr.com/post/33933729
May 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm
cdj
Wow, I can see from my photo to the right of my last comment that WordPress thinks I’m some kind of bitmap character from an old Atari console game. Excellent!
May 10, 2008 at 6:19 pm
polytropos
Indeed, Chris — wasn’t your graphic one of the monsters in Adventure?
I think there’s a Thor script floating around Hollywood too, so clearly The Plan is to do some solo films and follow them up with an Avengers movie. Nifty.
May 14, 2008 at 10:44 am
Adam
I was so excited to see “Iron Man” that I made it the focal point of my bachelor party weekend, and if that doesn’t give me some geek cred, I don’t know what would. It did not disappoint, and in fact cracked my top 5 list of all-time greatest superhero movies, which is, in order:
1. Batman Begins
2. Superman II
3. Unbreakable
4. Iron Man
5. X-Men
No, I didn’t forget Spider-Man. Keep your Spider-Man.
May 14, 2008 at 10:53 am
polytropos
Ah-dam:
The only Spider-Man I’d want to keep, at least with respect to Top 5 lists, is the second one. And you have forgotten The Incredibles, which I’m sure was just an oversight on your part. Right?
May 15, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Adam
I saw The Incredibles and liked it a lot, but I put animated movies in their own category. As a non-parent, I see one about every fifteen years. I think the last one I saw before The Incredibles might have been the animated Hobbit. Incidentally, there’s a distant rumor they’ve made some live action films based on the Tolkien books.