From the Philadelphia Inquirer

As great as Downey is and as entertaining as the other performances are, what makes the film is Tony's joy of making. Whether Tony is in an Afghan cave, his ailing heart hooked up to an electromagnet and a car battery while improvising his first armored suit, or in his basement, designing and test-driving Iron Man's gold-and-titanium upgrade, the film delights in the mechanics of invention, which is infectious. It's a machine dream, and a happy relief from the typical blockbuster's reliance on digital effects.

Until a final conflict that more resembles a monster-truck jam than a superhero showdown, Iron Man is solid gold.

Carrie Rickey gave the movie 3 1/2 stars and it is a good review
but how do you complain about a special effects showdown at the end of a Super Hero movie.
It's like watching Eddie Murphy's Raw and saying
oh he is so funny, i just wish he wouldn't curse so much
people go to see a movie like Iron Man for the special effects and the fights
that is one of the reason people like comic books
it's cool if you don't like it
but don't downgrade a movie because it does something right
i have not seen the movie yet BTW
probably won't get a chance till next week unfortunately

currently 81% at metacritic..

93% a rotten t (and it has a 92% with the rt cream/top critics thing)

i think the numbers at metacritc may raise when it opens....


usually getting a higher number is harder at metacritic....(especially for a 'big' film) and i do consider metacritic more prestigious..and i like it/trust it alot more than rotten t..


but 81% for a superhero movie at metacritic is very good...

batman begins only got a 70% at metacritc...so ironman has a great start...

I'm looking forward to it.

I'm going tonight w/ the hubby & my little one and two of her friends. I'll let you all know how it is.

I would go just for the sake of seeing Robert Downy Jr...

may go watch this tonight. if not tonight, tomorrow.
i'll be back with my own judgement... :)

i think this might be the best movie this summer, if not the year.

and im seeing it tonight too, oh yeah..

I wish that had been me who had rescued Downy in his bsf boy drug days....lol....

he really has cleaned up.

Just picked up the little one and we're waiting for her friends to show up....and then we'll be on our merry way.

O_O




GO.

SEE.


IT.



<strong>NOW!!!!!!!</strong>

$32 million on friday

Watched it last night... can't disagree with anything written here so far.
i'd give it 9 out of 10 personally. they didn't mess it up in anyway. if you still haven't seen it yet, go watch it!

ok cmon now....94%? 9 of 10?

the movie was pretty cool, but its not THAT GOOD.

heres my issues with the movie....

Paltrow, her part couldve been better cast, and Jeff Bridges as the villian, well, i found him REALLY WEAK...

one of the previews, and maybe everyone can agree, but, was the Hulk.
Tim Roth is the villian in that and it looks like its him and his army VS Hulk.....he survives and walked up to ghulk saying...

"is that all you got?"

and the Hulk kicks him in teh chest, and the next scene in the trailer is like Tim Roth sitting up ion a hospital bed saying....

"if your going after huim again, coun me in"

now THATS a villian.

Jeff Bridges' villian wasnt honestly very good.

BUT, in the end, Robert Downy Jr, rightly so carried the movie and made the movie IMHO....i mean, is there one part where his style of acting in this is not funny or entertaining? id say no. EVERYPART hes in is great....be it when he's trying to get Paltrow to shove her hand in his chest or like when he 1st tries out the flying thing and he all flips over onto tyhe ceiling.

but, 9 out of 1o or 94% is quite a bit high considering like i said, 2 of the 3 main parts were REALLY Miscast IMHO.

not to say i WONT but it on DVD.....Downey Jr was awesome in the movie, what i was expecting from the trailers from him is what i got and i wasnt dissapointed.....

Ok, Phil...


*spoiler alert*



Stane is more of a villian in the Lex Luthor corporate sense. Abomination is an archvillian. Big difference.


*end spoilers*

btd... i read it came down to paltrow or racheal mcadams...


and btd metacritic has iron man at 78%. i know i'm the only one that like metacritic.which i like the alot more than rotten t.


iron man has 10th best opening all time and more stuff mentioned at bop

i dunno McCracken. i think the fact that they had a lesser villian is what made the movie so great. they didn't spend too much time having to fit the origins of ironman and a villain into one movie, which gave them the chance to spend more time on ironman himself. which gave Downey Jr the chance to shine and inturn... make the movie what it was. i dunno... i would still give it a 9. and it was kick ass seeing iron man looking so good. he is an underrated hero in my book... he won't be anymore. not after this movie...

oh... and that scene where is was trying to fly was hilarious... the little robot guy with the extinguiser... too funny.

loki..so you feel dc is behind in the super hero movie 'war' ???


i saw somewhere in netland some kid said dc pushes backthe release date/halts production on their movies with the expection of batman....hmm.....

"the little robot guy with the extinguiser... too funny."

LMFAO yeah i second that, shit was funny...

no problem kb. this massive number..and even more impressive for a non sequel.

the first spider-man did $118 million it's first weekend.

and everyone know who spider-man is. so $100 million for iron-man is beyond beyond impressive... :)

and more loki...

i think dc wanted to use superman as an anchor/name to help draw people to the justice league movie..so yep push a superman movie back...



the ultra success of iron man means not only another another movie. but very likely we'll get an avengers movie too..since iron manis now a name...


hell i but marvel even does this too...please make this movie... ;)

Bridges played the character as cold and calculating. That was good.

Ant-Man could be good.

Marvel have so many strong characters that they have it made if the continue with the high production and casting values.

DC have a Captain Marvel film on their schedule, that one could go either way.

glimmer
dc should just do superman and batman movies, and leave it at that. is wonderwoman still relivent, really? maybe a green lantern would be nice but besides that, their roaster sucks. marvel are murdering dc now 'cause, only now has the computer technology caught up with marvel ideas. marvel don't just have characters that fly... no. the have characters that move in unique ways. like spider-man and venom (for a small example). characters that would be a waste of time trying to recreate in tsuperman's movie hey days.
oh and batman are just recycling the same villains. we all know the joker and the penguin. why not give someone like clayface a shot on the big screen (i'm sure they can pull him off with todays cgi).
anyways enough of my distaste for dc characters.
Ant-man would be cool, but i think marvel should do a Thor movie. you wouldn't be able to get me in the theater quick enough.
ofcourse it would be even better if Loki was the villain in it too...

the guy kicks ass...

king
example 2. shazzam!/captain marvel is so out dated and irrelivent. dc should just forget that one. who cares about shazam! in this day and age? nobody... it would be better if they did green lantern (sorry to repeat myself). and look at the character design on that guy. hideous... looks like a pedophile dressed to impress...

On another note... an Avengers Movie would rule! :)

hoo-ray!!

i know what you mean. Spider-man shoots web from his wrist, eh? WTF!!!

but in marvels defence. dc characters don't have enough depth for corners to need cutting.

Loved, loved the movie - and yes the robot was hilarious...

I even got a glow in the dark iron man t-shirt... its very cool...

My favorite super hero - Loki the Sky Walker... *wink, wink*

One mans super villian is another girls super hero...

But for arguments sake - My favorite Super Villian of all time is - Loki the Sky Walker...

Robin to Batman, "Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark........It looks good on you though......" *pounds hands on knees* "Why don't you love me anymore!!!!!"

loki...whomever else.

so loki you like iron man/batman.... (yes this question is borrowed) so you prefer characters that are still mortal that make a decisions to train+whatever to become a superhero...

verus let's say a 'freak accident' giving powers ala the fantastic four/spider-man.... or bring born with powers..ala x-men ????

bop talks alot about the massive success iron man had this weekend.if you're gonna talk about iron man for the next 14 days.you may as well read this...

glimmer
how the character got their abilities doesn't make a difference. i think both x-men and spider-man are better comic books than batman and iron man (x-men and spider-man are my fav american comic books). when i said-

Spider-man shoots web from his wrist, eh? WTF!!!

i was refering to the fact that spider-man can't shoot webs from his wrist. because even though he gained all spider abilities when he got bit. he can't shoot web from his body (for anatomical reasons). he has web shooters which he makes himself. this was just one of many marvel movie inacuracies. x-men: the last stand, is chuck full of them. almost made me not enjoy the movie.
hulk is my 3rd favorite hero (or whatever he is). if anyone has gone into the hulk stories, they will know why.

and there is a small display of my geekdom.

I hate Spider-Man movies.

First one was okay.

Second one was crap. "Go get them tiger" or whatever the fuck that girl says in the end, and then Spider-Man jumps out of the window to kick ass. The cheese made my eyes bleed. Never watched the third because I heard it was even worse.

I'm not a big fan of comic book stuff really. I liked Sin City and Batman Begins though because they didn't have the same cheese factor. 300 had a little too many crappy one liners for my tastes. Iron Man doesn't look too bad though and the reviews seem to support this.

BUT The Dark Knight looks tailor made for me. Dark, gritty and psychotic. Just the way I like it.

<blockquote>but overall. i think marvel has the greater comic books. checkout the "Onslaught Saga" for one of the greatest hero story lines ever made! marvel rule</blockquote>


Oh....you've got to be kidding me....


The Onslaught Saga was lamer than FDR's legs.


Marvel hasn't done a decent expansive storyline since The Secret Wars....meanwhile....DC has done <em>Crisis On Infinite Earths</em>, The Impiriex Saga and <em>Identity Crisis</em>. I'm a DC girl. They have more history to their company. Marvel is good, they've done their share of awesome books (I loved the original run of Excalibur)....but DC's got it going on now.

And if you're into moody & atmospheric, check out <strong>Hellblazer</strong>. John Constantine is one of the most complex characters in the DC/Vertigo universe. And yes, I'm refering to THAT John Constantine. Fuck the shitty movie with Keanu in it. The comics are fucking off the chain awesome. I have just about every single one. It's my other form of retail crack, aside from shoes.

Planet Hulk...? no...?
come on. credit wher it's due.

I couldn't get into either one. And I'm not a big Hulk fan to begin with.

*shrugs*

Lol!!!
i take it our tastes differ too much to come to an agreement. ;)

"Oh for crying in the mud"

It's my new phrase of the month....

thought the comic fans might get a kick out of this
help i guess if you know The Goon
but it is still a nice little dig at hollywood making comic book movies

"tla... i'm gonna let your glow in the dark tee shirt comment thing slide.../without ah gettting the comments it deserves. now how many other guys would do that ???"

hey now, i wouldnt eithe.....and ill say that i believe that the shirt actually DOES glow in the dark, and TLA looks Fabulous in it!!!

Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark has a Cameo in the hulk thats coming out

it would be sweet if ironman made a brief appearance. a scene kinda like this...


...would be nice.

<blockquote>i heard on the radio there was some huge important scene after the credits ended...</blockquote>

I did and I creamed my little She-Hulk panties at that scene.

fuck me, i think we left, like half way through since the credits kinda sucked visulally compared to the rest of the movie.

sweet!!!!!!!!!! no, no, no....! thats sweet right there!!!!

AVENGERS!!!!!
that means Captain America and Thor in one movie. too sweet... one question though. why the fuck is Nick Fury black? it's Kingpin all over again. who next...
anyway...
lets see which movies makes it out first. justice league or avengers.

it's getting kinda ridiculous. image you read the harrypotter books went to watch the movie and all of sudden he's black.
thats how ridiculous it is to me. i find it that stupid.

thats a serious statement. i hope marvel don't buy their weed from the same people supplying dc. because if they make an avengers movie. Downy Jr. better be Stark.

and i can understand them overlooking Tom Welling, but why not make Brandon Routh play the justice league superman? the guy is RIGHT THERE! it's seriously going to bring down the feel of the movie.

I like Tom Welling.

That is all.

Nick Fury is black in the Ultimate universe
the new Marvel stuff, cartoons ect seem to be following those story lines
not the traditional Marvel Universe stuff

elsa, is tony stark on that site ??? ;)

that was awesome btd !

this 'spam' thing is funny especially since we're getting hit with all these you've got to have alot money dating sites.

and moe/jackson always say /the site isn't getting enough ad clicks.

now if the ad clicks aren't happeneing does whomever really think. were gonna type/paste those dating sites into the addy bar ???

anwya i did like the herpesloves 'spam' thing. at least that was different. i mean people with herpes should still get to have sex too. well you know what i mean..

and the douche label hit elsa fast. she wasn't even here a day.


moe/jackson maybe you put some sidebar thing on the front page with the 30 or sites simliar to 'loving rich' and charge'em. :)