Ironman (2008)

[Rothgar]

Re: So is everyone excited for Iron Man?

I saw it yesterday with an old friend. We loved it. They did a very good job on the movie. I think that a good part of the success was that they kept to a rather simple story and they kept it centered on Tony Stark. Hopefully the next Hulk movie, and The Dark Knight are of the same caliber.

 

[sanityassassin]

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I'm just back from watching it, I was a little aprehensive about it as Iron Man was one of my favorite superheroes and I thought they would not do it justice, but thankfully I was proved wrong a good film well made, I wasn't sure about Robert Downey Jr either but he played the part well, a good balance of humour and series moments and enjoyed Stan Lee's spot in the film. One of the best hero films made so far, I hope the enevitable sequels are to the same high standard.

 

[socialcrawl]

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I saw it this weekend and It was soo good! I highly recommend it to everyone.

 

[zoran]

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I've seen the movie.

If you are able to ignore all stupid things (walking in first armor suit in the middle of fire without catching heat, falling from sky without being injured, smashing the wall without protection of the armour during the experiments - and having no consequences and so on, and so on...) the film might be fun.

Taking in consideration how rest of marvel hero based movies horribly suck, this is an improvement.

I think this is an ok movie for kids up to 15 years.

And music is cool.

 

[biodroid]

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This is not an "improvement" this is probably one of the best comic book movies made next to the X-men trilogy and the new Batman (Superman could be a bit more action packed)! This is what comic book movies should be like not those soppy Ang Lee Hulk efforts. This movie is for all ages not only for teenagers, it was funny and witty without being cheesy and the humour fitted in spot on. The action was brilliant and the SFX was top notch, at some point I really thought that there was a guy walking in that suit for real. The story was generic to a point but everything else in the movie distracted you form it.

I do highly recommend this movie, you will not be dissappointed, (I heard its already broken the $200mil mark and its what, week 2 only?)

 

[The Procrastinator]

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Just saw it too, I want me one of them suits!

Excellent effects, excellent casting/acting. Storyline - best not to think hard about any of it - but Old Shell Head was soooooooooo damn cool I could forgive a multitude of plot holes.

A very entertaining film for grownups as well as teenagers. Big heap fun.

 

[Richard Kylea]

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I saw this movie this past weekend and i gotta admit that it surpassed all expectations - its engaging from start to finish, has a great cast, fair enough the storyline could be improved but you wouldnt really notice with effects and thrills this exciting.

Did anyone catch the Nick Fury cameo by Samuel L Jackson at the end of the credits?

 

[Steve Jordan]

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Did anyone catch the Nick Fury cameo by Samuel L Jackson at the end of the credits?

I did (and only about 8 others who waited out the credits for it)... pretty cool. Marvel has already announced that they intend to do an Avengers movie in, I think, 2012 (after doing Captain America and Thor, apparently).

I also found the only thing too incredible to believe (even for a superhero movie!) was some of the impacts/landings, controlled and uncontrolled... no one could have survived those! Other than that, great stuff! I really liked this movie, and I thought they did a great job capturing the character of Tony Stark (from the original origins). The very ending surprised me, but I can see how it could still work, especially in light of future movies. Highly recommend this one.

 

[Connavar]

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Heh i hate credit thing, everyone at the premiere left at the same time.

Stupid marvel movies with after the credits gimmick....


About the movie we enjoyed it so much that me and several of my siblings that we cant wait for the sequal already.

That doesnt happen often with how rarely any of us go the cinema these days.

We rent euro,asian movies instead of Asthon Kutcher crap cinema..

 

[GoodyGoody]

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I caught the credits, was only literally 30 seconds bonus footage though. Could be a set up to who participates in the sequel.

What are peoples thoughts of Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury?

 

[Connavar]

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Nothing new if you have read marvel comics in the last 8,9 years

 

[Steve Jordan]

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If you're referring to the Ultimates series... yes, the Jackson version of Fury has been around for awhile. Certainly different from the original character's World War II roots, but then, I always had a hard time accepting the WWII Sarge as head of SHIELD anyway. Besides, if he was still that character, he'd probably be in a wheelchair now... or he could use his own movie to explain why he's still so strong and vital after all these years!

Myself, I'm okay with it.

 

[Connavar]

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If you're referring to the Ultimates series... yes, the Jackson version of Fury has been around for awhile. Certainly different from the original character's World War II roots, but then, I always had a hard time accepting the WWII Sarge as head of SHIELD anyway. Besides, if he was still that character, he'd probably be in a wheelchair now... or he could use his own movie to explain why he's still so strong and vital after all these years!

Myself, I'm okay with it.

I dont really care about any of the mainstream Fury's, my favorit Fury is the old gritty cold warrior from Max Punisher.

It there was a series about old,gritty Fury like that one by Ennis i would love it

 

[Steve Jordan]

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Heh i hate credit thing, everyone at the premiere left at the same time.

If anything, I would have run that Nick Fury footage just after the early closing credits running over the Iron Man suit schematics. But the look of that (as well as Tony Stark's last sentence in the movie proper, I thought) had the look of 13th hour additions, so it's no wonder that it was stuck on at the very end of the credits.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

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I loved Stark's last sentence in the movie proper, but it seems no-one else did.

 

[HoopyFrood]

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I liked it, HJ -- I was expecting it, but it was still awesome when it was said, especially as the last line in the film. Made it all that more dramatic.

 

[digs]

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This movie exceeded my expectations - in fact I'd have to say that it's my favourite superhero movie, which surprised me, because I've never really followed Iron Man at all before.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

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Well, as I said before I wasn't really looking forward to this movie (getting tired of all the comic book/superhero movies) but my husband really wanted to see it. We are going tonight, so hopefully it will be as good as you all say it is.

 

[Steve Jordan]

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This movie exceeded my expectations - in fact I'd have to say that it's my favourite superhero movie, which surprised me, because I've never really followed Iron Man at all before.

I have, on and off... the appeal of Iron Man to me was, like Batman, that this was an ordinary man who used his natural strengths (in his case, his engineering intellect) to rise above the crowd. He was pseudo-believable... at least, a lot more than humanoid beings from the planet Krypton, etc.

I thought the movie stayed grounded in just that way, too... rooted in real humans' real problems, not in elaborate plots and villians with freak accident-based superpowers.

 

[Lioness]

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I went and saw it today, and I really liked it. It's not my normal genre of movie, but I'm glad my boyfriend talked me in to seeing it.

Also, never mind the teenybopper crowds (besides the fact that we were part of it), there were really really little kids there - kids that were 4+, the majority of the people there were about 8 though.
Either their parents don't read the classification, or just don't care that their child is exposed to lots of violence at a young age.

What was the last line? I forgot. I usually live in the moment of the movie and can't remember anything from it after unless it was extremely funny.