Must. See. Iron Man
Posted by Kelly Adams on February 29th, 2008 
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I vaguely recall hearing that an Iron Man movie was in the works, but more or less ignored it. I like superhero movies when they are done well: Batman Begins was done well, the first Spiderman was done well, but many (most?) such movies end up being more or less… bad. And I didn’t have a lot of hope for Iron Man.
I saw a trailer today that changes all of that. Check it out, then tell me that Iron Man doesn’t look cool.
May 2, 2008: will the movie be as good as the trailer? One can hope…
February 29th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I’ve been trying not to pay much attention to it… but I do want to see it. For some strange reason, Iron Man was my favourite comic book as a kid. Not that I read a lot of any comic books, and I don’t remember a hell of lot about it (I do remember multiple guys wearing the suit though.)
But for some reason a rich guy with a heart condition that has no special powers of his own, but develops a super powered suit, struck a chord.
I guess Batman was too Dark … or silly at that time of it’s existence. And all the super people with innate super powers just didn’t seem real enough fro me to identify with.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
*drool* Too cool! Now all I’m waiting for is the release of Astro Boy and my summer will be complete.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:39 am
I like the “new” Batman, and the very “old” Batman, but when I was a kid Batman was so campy it turned me off entirely. Other than Eartha Kitt playing Catwoman, that is…
Iron Man and Spiderman are also on my ‘favorite superhero’ list. I guess I like the guys that have some obvious character flaws, who at least start as more or less “normal”, and who aren’t totally invincible. I wouldn’t say, however, that I was ever a particularly dedicated comic superhero fan until later in life.
One thing I noticed with Iron Man was that the Tony Stark character immediately reminded me of the main character in Lord of War (which by the way I liked a lot). The arrogance, the “is it better to be feared… or respected? Is it too much to ask for both?” comment… take that and put it through a wringer, and you have an interesting “anti-hero”, one I’d like to find out more about.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:10 am
From what I remember of the comics Tony Stark was a bit like that. In that Bruce Wayne was this deep sombre character that pretended to be a flighty playboy, Stark was a self indulgent mega rich arms manufacturer that liked his girls, his toys and his parties and found the “hero” inside of him the hard way … and was never really comfortable with it.
Bruce Wayne / Batman was quite happy to be called away from a party. Tony Stark wanted to take care of the bad guys as quick as possible so he could get back to the cocktails