Iron Man First review of Iron Man

I was not going to comment on this but going to leave my 2 cents. I get the feeling from this critic, that yes he is aware of the 1968-1980 character of Tony Stark, not much more beyond that. And to that point, that is okay. Most of the people going to see the film may well never have even heard of Tony Stark, so wont have a clue on his past ( or could care less)

They are going to see a fun movie with action, comedy, and good character development, the same kind of thing that is selling so well on TV. Shows like Battlestar Galactica, as an example, where you are more interested in the characters than what is going on in the show itself.

Anyway, I felt this critic walked into this screening with the attitude
" well ! here we go again more super hero crap" Thus his comparisons to a lot of hero movies that did not do well. I felt from reading his comments that he realy did not want to like this film, and had some preconcieved ideas that it was just going to suck bad, and that RDJ would at best be okay. I think he was suprised and was at a loss to say why he did not dispise it, even though he would have liked to have hated it. So saying things like " predictable ending " are part of that. This would be the same kind of critic who would do a write up on the movie "Titanic" and say " well the ending is predictable " LOL yah we know the ship sinks, thanks.

He came out of seeing this movie wanting to tell the world " well here is !The latest super hero bomb of a movie ! " likly allready had some comments ready to roll before he even saw it. But saw it and changed his mind and made the comments that he did.

I will take bets with good money, that it will hit over $200 million in North America. I also think it will have a huge huge first opening day ( $55-60 million ) and huge first week ( $130-140 million ) . It will spawn off at least 2 sequels. After that I dont know, but it will do as well if not a lot better than the first Spiderman movie.

There will be similar reviews, but overall there will be some real knock out ones as well. It will be a winner, Marvel will be quite pleased, critics asside:im:
 
To be honest if he walked in expecting another sub-par run-of-the-mill superhero origin movie, I wouldn't blame him. God knows we've seen enough of those.

But from the trailers we can see by how the action shots are executed (with some actual style) that this film has elevated itself at least in that regard. The cast is also brilliant.
 
After that I dont know, but it will do as well if not a lot better than the first Spiderman movie.

The first Spider-Man movie made over 400 million dollars domestically and over 800 million dollars in worldwide gross.

You're kidding yourself.
 
If Iron Man makes 200 Million DOMESTIC, Marvel will be overjoyed. That will qualify as a MASSIVE hit. Leaving worldwide, DVD sales, Cable rights, etc. as mostly profit. Paramount's marketing and distributing costs do have to be factored in but product placement and tie-ins have already offset some of those costs.



For what it's worth, they seemed to like it a lot.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4695&Itemid=99


GOOD ACCEPTANCE
As has transcended film among journalists who attended see this first presentation, the film is very well done, it is very entertaining and with a very good story, and it is well supported with excellent special effects.

Well, that good to hear. :yay:

El Hombre De Hierro :im:
 
I agree that it's pretty disappointing that IronMonger isn't in the movie for a long time.
 
Dunno what this guys on, but word on the test screenings is that they've gone very well. Fabs from HSX runs a large theater chain in southern California and had this quote:

"General WOM is going to be great on this one, screenings have gone nearly as strong as TFORM"

TFORM is HSX's say of saying Transformers, which had great word of mouth last summer. I been saying it all along, it's gonna have better than expected legs. If it can crack 60 million opening weekend, which probably the lower end (high would be 70) it'll top at the very least 175.

I'm not worried. Its rotten tomatoes score will be in high 60's to low 70's but the itll be more a crowd pleaser type film.


Well, I never see something being compared to Transformers as a good sign, but I know I´m in the minority that didn´t like that movie.
 
But is it surprising? I knew that was the case ages ago.

Well it is to me,I was expecting more fighting between Monger and Ironman,unlike the amount of fighting Cain and Robocop did from Robocop 2.
 
Transformers was suppose to be a serious/sci fi/action movie that is fun and funny,and it succeeded on all of those levels IMO. Here's hoping Transformers gets more screen time in part 2. I'm shocked that I'm looking very forward to Ironman instead of The Dark Knight since I consider myself a very big Batman fan.
 
Now fanboys will moan that there wasn't enough iron monger. I could care less. Also you should have realized that iron monger won't be in the movie more than 10 minutes because if you look at the trailers and tv spots carefully you can see that most of the iron monger shots are night time which means there is only 1 battle with him and that is the scene.

This is just like Dr. Doom who didn't appear in f4 until the last 10 minutes of the movie. Except the action in iron man will rock.
 
IMO, it's pretty fitting that Iron Monger is only in the last final miutes of the movie. In the comics, the only time Stane was ever Iron Monger was at the end of issue 200 in which he fought Iron Man for the first and last time before committing suicide. Every other time Iron Man went up against Stane he fought his henchmen.

It's not like Titanium Man or Crimson Dynamo where they've had multiple battles with Iron Man.
 
IMO, it's pretty fitting that Iron Monger is only in the last final miutes of the movie. In the comics, the only time Stane was ever Iron Monger was at the end of issue 200 in which he fought Iron Man for the first and last time before committing suicide. Every other time Iron Man went up against Stane he fought his henchmen.

It's not like Titanium Man or Crimson Dynamo where they've had multiple battles with Iron Man.


Thank you!

Yeah, it would be cool if Iron Monger was in it more but hey as Iron_Stark explained, he was never in the comics that much.

No matter how much I love Iron Man I still admit his rogues gallery isn't that great.

Aside from The Mandarin, Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man and Stane the rest of the villains(excluding any cross over villains like Dr. Doom) are pretty lame and weak.

Almost forgot about Fin Fang Foom.:woot:

That's why I can't wait for a sequel already, after having read the novel and seeing all the references to The Mandarin there are.
 
Transformers was suppose to be a serious/sci fi/action movie that is fun and funny,and it succeeded on all of those levels IMO.

Transformers was closer to being a comedy then a serious movie.

Hopefully IM will be more serous and better quality then TF was.

Figman:

IM's rogues gallery has potential. All it requires is they be updated and executed well on screen.

The Ghost, Madam Masque, the Controller and Spymaster could work IMO.

Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo could easily be used in the sequels. Maybe a spy (Spymaster?) steals IM's armor designs and sells them to the Red Mafia or a Russian crime organisation/corporation which use them as super-powered enforcers.
 
Transformers was closer to being a comedy then a serious movie.

Hopefully IM will be more serous and better quality then TF was.

Figman:

IM's rogues gallery has potential. All it requires is they be updated and executed well on screen.

The Ghost, Madam Masque, the Controller and Spymaster could work IMO.

Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo could easily be used in the sequels. Maybe a spy (Spymaster?) steals IM's armor designs and sells them to the Red Mafia or a Russian crime organisation/corporation.


Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo I wouldn't mind but a lot of his other villains were just boring unoriginal crap.

I say bring on The Mandarin for the sequel. The film/novel has a good number of references to him to set him up. If you look at his costumes throughout the decades he can also easily be brought to the screen in a non cheesy way.

He has a few costumes/looks that wouldn't work on film but he also has one or two that could come off great.
 
Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo I wouldn't mind but a lot of his other villains were just boring unoriginal crap.

The other villains have potential IMO. Some would be easier to adapt and update then others but they do have something to work with. It's just up to the film crew to do it correctly.

Their first big bad is Stane! Not exactly the most interesting villain in IM's rogues. If they do a good job with him on screen they'd make Living Laser and any other villains with more personality even better.

I say bring on The Mandarin for the sequel. The film/novel has a good number of references to him to set him up. If you look at his costumes throughout the decades he can also easily be brought to the screen in a non cheesy way.

He has a few costumes/looks that wouldn't work on film but he also has one or two that could come off great.

Isn't Mandarin supposed to show up in the sequel?
 
I try not to be a negative person, but this review sounds bogus. The reviewer doesn't mention much outside of what the trailers have shown already. Normally a reviewer mentions things about certain sequences or scenes. I didn't read him mention anything other than the first sequence being out of order. I know this movie was screened in Mexico, but I don't think this guy was there. The review sounds flat and insincere. It's just rubbing me the wrong way.
 
meh...i don't like reading too much into movie critics reviews. i'm watching it anyways.
 
I try not to be a negative person, but this review sounds bogus. The reviewer doesn't mention much outside of what the trailers have shown already. Normally a reviewer mentions things about certain sequences or scenes. I didn't read him mention anything other than the first sequence being out of order. I know this movie was screened in Mexico, but I don't think this guy was there. The review sounds flat and insincere. It's just rubbing me the wrong way.

Actually, from most reviews I read, I almost never see any plot detail we haven't already figured out by the trailers. Also, it isn't like there's a surprise--as the novelization has been out.
 
The review is pretty legit. Has quite a few spoilers that only someone on these boards would know, and critics usually dont check these boards xD, plus it was already stated that the movie was screened in Latin America (the reviewer has a Latino name). It was pretty much what I expected: it will be a crowd pleaser but only score a 60ish-70ish in rotten tomatoes. The sequel will probably score an 80ish or 90 though.

Iron Man 2 will be to Iron Man 1 what Spidey 2 was to Spidey 1: More character's and character development will be implemented, and therefore the movie will be longer, and there will be a memorable, epic fight (like what the train fight was in SM2) that will add to the better storyline to make the movie better than the first.
 

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