Iron Man, Iron Man, does whatever an iron can

[dreamer_easy]

Iron Man brought the lulz. Also squee. You young whippersnappers probably didn't spot a jazzed-up version of the old cartoon theme in the casino, not recognise the awesome guitarage over the end credits.

Took me a while to recognise Jeff Bridges. Never did recognise Gwyneth Paltrow. I just can't tell actresses apart. Didn't pick Paul Bettany, either. Sigh.

Best end credit:
AHMED... Ahmed Ahmed

Comments

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognize Jeff Bridges at all. When I saw his name in the first bit of end credits I thought "He was in it? Who was he???" And was later surprised to find he was Obadiah. And I didn't recognize Stan Lee - but later when I read through IMDB's trivia I found out who he was and just laughed.

[travlr1.livejournal.com]

Heh, I did recognize Bridges when I saw him... I wanted to yell, "Who's the Big Lebowski now" in the movie theatre, somewhere near the end, but I controlled myself...

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stop thinking of "TRON".

[travlr1.livejournal.com]

"End of Line, Stark" :P

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

It's one of the better superhero movies around.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Maybe they overmilked the joke, but the first time that robot let rip with the fire extinguisher, I thought I was gonna die.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Downey's delivery totally made those scenes.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

Ah, but did you spot Captain America's shield on Stark's workbench?

And you stayed for the post-credits bit, right?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

No, and yes. :-)

[fred-god-of.livejournal.com]

As someone who reads the Ultimates version of Avengers (and I can totally explain that if you don't read that version) the end bit absolutely made my week.
Sadly I am a young whippersnapper and did not recognize the theme song at all, I did spot Stan though.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

The end bit was the cool cherry on top of a cool cake with cool icing.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it too. A friend was Special Effects Supervisor, so we had to see it. luckily, I'd been hooked, since Iain showed me the trailer.

Downey makes it work.

And, oh, I love your icon. What does the sound of one raccon clapping sound like?

[jebni.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the representations of race in the film?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Haven't had a chance to digest it fully, but I can say that when the Ten Rings baddies first turned up, ranting in Arabic and making a hostage video, I got a bit nervous that we were in for some bashing of Muslim Terrorists yadda yadda yadda. The film quickly took a different direction, though. I was surprised by its political forthrightness. What'd you think?

[alawston.livejournal.com]

I was relieved when the focus of the film changed to naughty corporate people, because the Afghan fighters were TOTALLY the Terrorists from Team America only without the irony.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

The trouble and misery was being caused, of course, by a synergy between the warlords and the war profiteers. For a superhero movie to manage that level of sophistication was pretty surprising. (It also gave us the striking image of Tony Stark as the angel of death, "wings" of dust flying up behind his outstretched arms.)

[jebni.livejournal.com]

While I enjoyed the movie and loved loved loved RDJ, I thought it was kinda like having your cake and eating it -- I didn't feel that the plot machinations undid the viscerality of the crazy Muslim/Arab Terrorist stereotypes (which, of course, included your classic "good native"). And ironically, I think the reference points were too close to reality to have much clout as a critical allegory. Within the confines of a respectable narrative, it could only do so much -- e.g. the arming of warlords needs to eventually be explained as Obidiah being an evil rogue -- an exception, rather than something that's been systematically pursued by various governments and arms corporations.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

All good points. It does shift the blame from guvmint to naughty companies. And it does bear more than a passing resemblance to numerous episodes of the "The A-Team" - construction sequence defeats fanatical dusky militia. (Your point about the "good native" clarifies why Yensin was changed from Chinese(?), although I think that had already been done in the comics and the film just borrowed it.)

One thing I did appreciate was that the Ten Rings guys were thugs doing business, not religious madmen who Hate Our Freedom.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Good to know I wasn't the only one to think of the "Does whatever an iron can": I was trying to remember the theme song from the old cartoon show on the way to the cinema, and that popped into my head and stuck there. Didn't stop me enjoying the film, fortunately.

(Mind you, while I loved the use of the Spiderman theme in Spidey 2, I was disappointed when they wimped out before getting to the 'radioactive blood' line.)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

The real reason I recognised the "Iron Man" cartoon theme in the casino bit was that th_esaurus posted a link to the toon in YouTube and I haven't been able to get it out of my *&%(&*%^ head ever since.