Posted on 05/04/2008 10:33:44 AM PDT by maquiladora
It’s Samuel L. Jackson.
I thought it was Hurt (William) but it was Jeff Bridges. That really surprised me. The theme of the double dealing could have been worse. I was waiting for it to be revealed that our government was the one arming the bad guys. Overall I enjoyed it.
My bad. Senility is a terrible thing 8-)
I was out after the credits started. I figured I could come home and find the extra scene posted online. At least you didn’t have to play the extra scene backwards like at the end of Cloverfield..lol.
well, I owned Ironman # 1, bought it for 12 cents back in the early ‘60’s, so this will have to go some to impress me; you make it sound as though it will.
My friends and I LOVED the scene at the end (though isn’t that Samuel L. Jackson?) because it set up a sequel/spin-off Avengers movie =D
Actually, I really like the entire movie. It reminded me a lot of Transformers, but with a little more of some important things like plot and writing and character development instead of just being a couple hours of special effects. Plus, Pepper has to be one of my favorite female characters in a superhero movie ever.
The founding members of the Avengers were Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, and Ant-man and the Wasp. The Hulk is coming in June, Thor is in the works, so figure it will all tie in with the Avengers
When I outgrew Superman (I remember George Reeves) and Batman (Adam West?), and Sgt. Rock and Sgt. Fury and his Howling commandoes disappeared or lost my interest, I found my way to the Marvel superheroes and gravitated toward both Thor and Iron Man. I remember Tony’s battle with alcoholism.
It’s great to hear that Downey has gotten his life together. It wasn’t as bad, but I went through a similar experience.
With Superman and DC Comics in general, you had powerful heros constantly being befuddled by so-so villians. Superman especially. Here's a character that is almost a god and he's getting the run-around from Luthor, the Prankster, and Toyman.
Then there was Marvel. The Fantastic Four battling Galactus. Superheros battling villians as powerful or more so then they are. My favorite all-time story-line - FF issues 25 and 26 - the Hulk takes on both the FF and the Avengers. And beats them! Marvel was the first ones that brought up racism - first with the XMen - and then with other story lines such as the Hate Monger and the Avengers fighting the Serpent Society. And not only did the heroes have secret identities but so did the villians.
It's sad in a way that over the years, comics have been nearly preverted from their original storylines. Lee and Kirby may have been liberals, but when they did Captain America, there was no doubt what Cap stood for.
Lucas also ripped off Kurosawa’s films and the old Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s with Buster Crabbe.
Is the title track Black Sabbath’s original “Iron Man?”
It plays over the end credits.
Stark said that since they weren't seeming to control the weapons from going to bad people that it was better for him to retire the company from making weapons.
He had no problem with weapons, he had a problem with weapons getting into the hands of the enemy.
Later in the movie they explain that as well.
The way i look at Superman is that he is really not that super. After all, here is this 'god' (even when DC had weakened him during the Byrne era, he was still basically more powerful than your average X-men team over at Marvel ....and at his current levels of power, or for that matter his 'pre-crisis' levels of power where he was juggling planets, the guy was a veritable god). Anyways, here is this 'god' who has villains like Lex Luthor! A person who is written (more recently) as ALWAYS holding back because of his strength (in a recent arc it appeared that Supergirl was stronger and faster and more powerful than he was, but was explained to be because Superman is constantly holding back). He is in many ways liberal (think of it ....having ultimate strength, but hiding it behind the facade of a mild-mannered reporter)
Batman on the other hand is the true Super man (as in, the overman/ubermensch concept). Lex Luthor could also be seen as one (I believe there was a graphic novel by DC that showed Lex as the real super man since he had made himself). Bruce Wayne is a super man (not superman, but super man). All his attributes were built piece by piece over long years of hard labor. His fighting skills were put together over years of study. His keen mind and detective skills, escapalogy, chemistry, all of that ....due to hard work. He has no special powers, no cosmic ring, no gift from the gods. Simply a dedication that will not yield.
In many ways the above is the same for Lex.
Those are the true super men. Superman just got lucky to escape an exploding planet and land on another one that was near a yellow sun.
Although i like the new dark batman. The newer portrayals (new as in over the last 10 years) have gone a long way to showing why criminals would be afraid of a man who dresses up as a large bat! Very well done.
I read the interview with Downey in a recent Parade, and he really seems to have his head screwed on straight (finally). He takes full blame for his past failed relationships, speaks candidly about his demons, and really sounds like he knows where he’s been and where he wants to go. I was pretty impressed.
The movie was really good, and I agree that there was no anti-weapon message. I was worried about that going in, but the issue was the weapons being sold on the sly to the bad guys, and Stark even said he would get back to selling weapons when he could insure that they wouldn’t fall into the wrong hands. The military guys were all shown in a positive light, and especially Stark’s friend Jim Rhodes.
Sorry for replying to an oldish post. :)
he does — and he eliminates them...
how did you manage to reply without having a “To: ...” option either at the top or bottom of your post???
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