Iron Man What Didn't You Like?

[mikeym5]

yes the suit didn't resemble the comics much...

RDJ's performance left much to be desired for and the film had far too much action

Far too much action?!? This movie didn't have enough action to me.

 

[Figs]

Only thing I didn't like was the way Paltrow acted at the very end.

"Tony! Oh My God! Are you OK?!"

She was perfect throughout the rest of the film but I just have to ask Favreau...what the **** was he thinking to let those takes make it in the film. It's not hard to do that dialogue in a non cheesy manner.

Whenever I see something obviously cheesy like that I assume the Director just let them have fun with it at that point.

Far too much action?!? This movie didn't have enough action to me.

I wouldn't take what he has to say seriously...he lost credibility once I read his first line saying the suit didn't like anything like the comics.

 

[bunk]

The group of *****e bags sitting in front of me. I could barely hear what Fury was saying at the end over one of them screaming "OMG, M-EFFIN SAM JACKSON!!!1"

 

[The IronMan]

the fact that my son liked the mark 2 armor than mark 3.......had to ground him a week for that

 

[Mr. Credible]

1.) The sound mix fell apart in a few places. The dialogue needed to be clear at all times, yet there were points where that just wasn't the case.

2.) Tony jets off into the air in the Mark I, crash lands largely destroying the armour and yet walks away with only minor bumps and bruises. A human body taking an impact like that would have been a bit of a mess in reality. Cerebral contusions as the brain squashes around inside the skull would be a killer.

3.) The climax of the battle became Iron Monger versus the reactor explosion. Ok, I admit that having Tony dream up the solution and having Pepper carry out the action was probably appropriate to the Stark character using his intellect to overcome the weapon, but I might have expected more "becoming the hero" for a better finale. Something like thinking up the reactor overload, then manoeuvring the Iron Monger into harm's way and damaging it. Having a bit more of an epic slugfest and finally finding a chink in the armour by which to separate Stane and the suit, giving Iron Man the opportunity to drag Stane out and bring him to justice.

in response to #3, the "anticlimactic" battle in which tony doesn't really beat iron monger...

in spider-man 1 and 2, spider-man doesn't really beat the villain: green goblin impales himself, and doc ock sacrifices himself.

in batman begins, batman has gordon blow up the rail, then lets ras al ghul fall to his death... gordon was more responsible for killing ras than batman was.

in x2? yeah... no real battles to be won, there. superman the movie, either. in superman II he just de-powers them and that's it.

i'm just saying, it's not that uncommon to not have the goood guy beat the bad guy into submission, and those movies i listed are widely considered to be the best.

and i thought the final battle rocked, anyway.

 

[shuut]

If there are any flaws they are so minescule that they are barely worth mentioning...battle too short? Please...what you need more punches...go watch Van Damm movies, Gwynnie not your cup of tea love? Well, she was far better than Dunst...I always wondered exactly how Gwen was some super hottie and dunst is supposed to be the goooo-geous actress and all the while you've got Betty Brandt behind a desk better looking than both...how is that?!? Peter needs to put those glasses back on IMO. Is there a better actor that has played a superhero before RDJ?, besides the old crapper that plays magneto? What we have here ladies and stablemates...is the best, most well planned, most likeable superhero movie...if you will, ever, IMO.

 

[Tissues]

Well... I didn't like how they just put the word "Studio" to the end of the page flipping Marvel logo. I was hoping it would be a little bit more creative.

 

[shuut]

Fact is we could yap back and forth all day about ills and outhouses within every one of these types of films...xmen, I feel Jackman is overrated which to many I'm aware is pure heresy...FF, don't get me started, Batman begins, great film, slightly drags, suit wasn't great, was not what TDK is likely gonna be, DD, okay...where do I begin....Duncan as Kingpin? nuff said, electra, stand alone film...bad, just bad, superman old school, dated...but still a classic, early batman films...not batman begins, old nicholson joker, cheesy, X2, halle berry, all I need to say, X3, total useless bull*****, spiderman, spiderman 2..., betty brandt should have been standing up...okay, actually these are quite good, 2 better than the first, gobby's costume still sucks, spiderman 3, why waste venom, why cast a grocery clerk as venom, why, why, why jam so much into a film that ended up yielding so little. My favorite superhero film to date? Since he was on these boards...the last bond film, next would be iron man. Just my opinion...means nothing at the end of the day...just like all of yours.

 

[CWP]

i didnt like that tony had gold and titanium in hes house for the M3.
i didnt like that the suit was build in 5 hours.
nothing big. small complaints.

You didn't like that Tony had gold and titanium in hes house for the M3? What do you mean?
And it took a whole five hours just to paint the Mark Two gold and red, it took longer than that to actually construct the suit. First, it took him a week for the Mark One. Then, he spent all that time later on the boots and then the gloves and finally onto the actual Mark Two. I don't remember exactly, but I believe one time he said "Day 11" for one of his tests. Plus, he had to have spent day and night on it off-screen, you can't expect the movie to be weeks long just watching him work.

 

[Apollo]

the fact that it took marvel so long to make their own films...now we have a bunch of crappy marvel films made by money grubbing, untalented movie studios...at least we have the first couple x-men and spider-man films...

I wish they started sooner...

 

[SPider-T0rch]

-No opening. No "main titles". I think if we had that at the beginning of the film, we would have a prominent Iron Man theme

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I didn't like opening with his capture and then going back in time for the next 20 minutes. That technique has become so overused that it has almost become cliche. Favreau should know since Daredevil did the exact same thing and he was in that movie. Earlier this year there was a whole movie about it in Vantage Point. Whatever happened to movies having a normal narrative where the scene that occurs first happens first chronologically. This film should have began with the Tony Stark story and the award ceremony.

It isn't a major complaint by any means, but I found it annoying.

 

[Denny67]

I loved every second of it. If I had any complaint at all is that the suit was not as durable as in the comics. Conventional weapons seemed to give him too many problems. Then again the suit was in its early stages…. So… yup back to no complaints.

Best superhero comic movie adaptation ever, hands down.

 

[bunk]

I appreciated the fact there was no elaborate opening sequence like the X-Men and Spider Man movies. It was more like Begins where they just got right into it.

 

[FaT_tONle]

My problem... what was Obidiah's motivation? Really underutilized there...

 

[dnno1]

Stuff that bugged me:

-Not totally convinced by Tony's epiphany & decision to change his ways after being in captivity. Felt rushed.

-Basically the thing that really cements the decision to become Iron Man in his mind is the news footage of the village destroyed by his bombs. Then he goes there and never really connects with the people he went there to help in any personal way. I would have liked to see more of that to give it some emotional depth.

-The Iron Monger fight at the end, no emotional weight or pay-off to that fight. Not that invested in that duel. It's that famous Shakespeare quote from Macbeth & the same problem I had with last year's 'Transformers' movie: 'Full of sound & fury, signifying nothing.'

-Much of the seemed derivative of other earlier Marvel films: i.e.:
The direct rip-off of the freezing/falling jet scene from Hulk '03.

-Iron Monger battle looks eerily similar to the scene from Hulk '08 teaser trailer--hope they don't repeat themselves again and Hulk gets the blame.

-Took too long to clearly define Stark's motivations and to give an explanation of what exactly he planned on doing with the suit once he built it. Not until he donned the Mark III and Tony watching the newscast about the village did we finally get to see what he was actually going to do with the suit to stop evil in the world.

-The leaps he makes in handling the suit seemed rather easy.

-The generic, dumb as a box-o-rocks, cookie-cutter terrorist villains who didn't know Tony wasn't really building their missile until it was too late, even though they were watching him the whole time on a video camera.

-The chest plate being pulled out making him weak? didn't understand that. Shouldn't removing that have killed him instantly, not made him weaker since the electro-magnet was keeping the schrapnel from entering his heart?

-The flight in the suit scenes sometimes not filmed so well. SR suffered the same fate.

-It wanted to straddle the line between camp and seriousness and I'm not sure it was entirely successful trying to walk that line. It came off as confused and schizophrenic at times to me.

-I think the movie is generally overrated, good but not great, IMO.

Everybody wants to sound like a critic, don't they?

I will tell you this: if I had designed something that somebody turned around and used to kill somebody or someone I knew, I would totally change my attitude and my philosophy in an instant. I know, because it has happened to me before. Secondly, the origin story was basically adapted from the original tale in the comic books. Granted they did add cameras, but if they had changed that part of the story, you would have lost the nature of the character. As far as the pulling of the power source from his electromagnet goes, Stark was slowly dying of a hear attack afterwards. It is uncertain how fast a person could die from that and they more than likely wanted the scene to be dramatic (as to why it took time).

These comments are just an attempt to be standoffish and to look like you are an authority (which you are not). Just look at the box office results and you will see the true reception of the film.

 

[Soulgem]

Heh.. I can agree on the stupid terrorists. But then again, it corresponds with my reason for liking this movie so much: it felt like a comic book. In a comic, it would take Tony only a page to create an armor, and the terrorists were not around for that page...
Also I have no problem with Tony surviving the fall in the desert. It is not real, you know

 

[S.A.A.D.]

It was funny when he said not bad after his suit was undone when he crashed into the sand IMO.

 

[dnno1]

I didn't like opening with his capture and then going back in time for the next 20 minutes. That technique has become so overused that it has almost become cliche. Favreau should know since Daredevil did the exact same thing and he was in that movie. Earlier this year there was a whole movie about it in Vantage Point. Whatever happened to movies having a normal narrative where the scene that occurs first happens first chronologically. This film should have began with the Tony Stark story and the award ceremony.

It isn't a major complaint by any means, but I found it annoying.

That's how you make a good action film - you start it off with an action scene within the first five minutes of the movie just to get the audience's attention and interest. They used the flash back to tie the action scene back into the story. I think that's why they did it that way.

 

[Darthkush]

I was bored during most of Tony's captivity in afghanistan. It was necessary to the plot but i was just...bored. I also agree with some of the comments about Paltrow. She's good enough through most of it but yeah, the "Tony, are you okay? Oh my god!" was pure cheesy bad delivery.

I LOVED the end fight. I don't see why people are so hard on that. I even loved Iron Monger's very supervillain dialogue in it. I was pleasantly surprised by the fight which i thought was gonna end when Iron Monger got frozen in mid-air. Had that happened, i would've been underwhelmed but it didn't. The fight continued thus making it good for me.

The Iron man attacks the terrorist using his missles on that village scene is an tad overated for me. It's okay but it doesnt' pack the punch of the end fight or even some of the armor testing sequences.

Finally, Terrence Howard as Rhodes is underutilized. He doesn't have any really great moments in the film. The only part from his i got an kick out of was everything he did on the jet with Tony early in the film(I loved everything there from the parts where he refused to drink and talked about babying Stark all the way through the comical him being drunk around the stripper stewardesses. All that stuff played well). Also, the brief cutaway to Rhodes talking about an "bad test simulation" or whatever it was Tony told him to say, was funny too. He better get the War Machine armor in part II though. Not sure if that'll happen now if they areally are gonna attempt to introduce Thor in Iron man 2(bad idea if anything more than an cameo, imo).

 

[b1lly]

Everybody wants to sound like a critic, don't they?

I will tell you this: if I had designed something that somebody turned around and used to kill somebody or someone I knew, I would totally change my attitude and my philosophy in an instant. I know, because it has happened to me before. Secondly, the origin story was basically adapted from the original tale in the comic books. Granted they did add cameras, but if they had changed that part of the story, you would have lost the nature of the character. As far as the pulling of the power source from his electromagnet goes, Stark was slowly dying of a hear attack afterwards. It is uncertain how fast a person could die from that and they more than likely wanted the scene to be dramatic (as to why it took time).

These comments are just an attempt to be standoffish and to look like you are an authority (which you are not).

No, actually the title of this thread is "What didn't you like?" I simply responded with my own opinion about what I didn't like about the movie.
I made no attempt to speak for you or anyone else for that matter. Your opinions are your own and your perfectly entitled to them.

 

[crimsonrain650]

the only part that i didnt like was at the end when the guy from shield puts the little explosive on the door and paltrow says whatever she says about it (cant remember it word for word) but she just sounds like a 'tard when she says it...

i liked her throughout the first 2/3rd of movie but towards the end it was almost like she gave up

 

[Immortalfire]

I didn't like the teenaged twits up front than kept opening their cell phones. Here's a clue kids; WE CAN ALL SEE YOUR DAMNED SCREENS! NO MATTER HOW DISCREET YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE! WE SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY LIGHT UP!!!!!

Fortunately they stopped soon.

 

[Mauser9910]

I didn't like RDJ wasn't outside the theater to give away autographed IM blu-ray discs...

 

[Mauser9910]

Ah ok, maybe I didn't like Tony asking Yin Sen his name, like 2 days after regaining consciousness lol.