Siskel and Ebert and Roeper Time
May. 11th, 2008 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickSo, we just got back from our little trip to see Iron Man.
The people who said it was a more "adult" superhero movie were right. Tony Stark acted much like a real-world playboy in the beginning, and there wasn't all that much supervillainy involved. Sure, it came up near the end, but most of the film involves terrorists and Tony dealing with them. In fact, most of the conflict involves the Middle East -- Tony doesn't deal with any American crooks.
IF I WANTED TO WATCH THE NEWS, I'D TURN ON THE TELEVISION!!
Seriously, all of you who said it was great -- WHAT MOVIE WERE YOU WATCHING?! That was, at best, a very average superhero origin movie. The acting was fine, for the most part, I'll give them that. Robert Downey Jr. makes a fine playboy, mostly because he has the experience to pull it off. *rimshot* It's just -- I guess I wasn't the target audience. I LIKE the cartoony nature of most comic book movies. I like supervillains and all that. And I don't like having too much real world shit dumped into that. I don't know. I suppose it doesn't help that a lot of the medical stuff in there REALLY hit my squick meter. Eugh. *shudder*
My real major complaint? At the beginning of the movie, Tony tries flying in his prototypical Iron Man suit to get away from the bad guys. He loses control and crashes into the ground.
I don't care how good you are at making a supersuit from scrap metal, I don't care how soft the sand is -- at the velocity he crashed at -- HE SHOULD BE DEAD. ESPECIALLY when you take into account the fact he's got all that shrapnel still in him. It completely pulled me out of the movie.
And I'm sorry, but his assistant's name being "Pepper Potts" just annoyed the hell out of me. I don't know why, usually I like punny names, but it just -- *shrug*
Things I did like:
1. Stan Lee's cameo is wonderful.
2. I liked the reference to yet another Marvel Comics entity at the end, S.H.I.E.L.D. Though I think it would have been better if the agent they were dealing with had gotten injured in the final fight and had to wear an eyepatch. And if his name had been Nicholas. ;)
3. Jervis, the household AI, is wonderfully snarky. I want a house AI like that.
Okay, I'm done ranting. Off to watch a "Fun With Shorts" I somehow missed.
The people who said it was a more "adult" superhero movie were right. Tony Stark acted much like a real-world playboy in the beginning, and there wasn't all that much supervillainy involved. Sure, it came up near the end, but most of the film involves terrorists and Tony dealing with them. In fact, most of the conflict involves the Middle East -- Tony doesn't deal with any American crooks.
IF I WANTED TO WATCH THE NEWS, I'D TURN ON THE TELEVISION!!
Seriously, all of you who said it was great -- WHAT MOVIE WERE YOU WATCHING?! That was, at best, a very average superhero origin movie. The acting was fine, for the most part, I'll give them that. Robert Downey Jr. makes a fine playboy, mostly because he has the experience to pull it off. *rimshot* It's just -- I guess I wasn't the target audience. I LIKE the cartoony nature of most comic book movies. I like supervillains and all that. And I don't like having too much real world shit dumped into that. I don't know. I suppose it doesn't help that a lot of the medical stuff in there REALLY hit my squick meter. Eugh. *shudder*
My real major complaint? At the beginning of the movie, Tony tries flying in his prototypical Iron Man suit to get away from the bad guys. He loses control and crashes into the ground.
I don't care how good you are at making a supersuit from scrap metal, I don't care how soft the sand is -- at the velocity he crashed at -- HE SHOULD BE DEAD. ESPECIALLY when you take into account the fact he's got all that shrapnel still in him. It completely pulled me out of the movie.
And I'm sorry, but his assistant's name being "Pepper Potts" just annoyed the hell out of me. I don't know why, usually I like punny names, but it just -- *shrug*
Things I did like:
1. Stan Lee's cameo is wonderful.
2. I liked the reference to yet another Marvel Comics entity at the end, S.H.I.E.L.D. Though I think it would have been better if the agent they were dealing with had gotten injured in the final fight and had to wear an eyepatch. And if his name had been Nicholas. ;)
3. Jervis, the household AI, is wonderfully snarky. I want a house AI like that.
Okay, I'm done ranting. Off to watch a "Fun With Shorts" I somehow missed.
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Date: 2008-05-11 07:45 pm (UTC)