Iron Man

My Rating:

Iron man is probably one of my favorite superhero movies of all time, with one exception. I don't know if it's Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of him, if it's the script, if it's all the supporting actors, if it's the directing or...all of the above, but it all worked. It's funny when it needs to be funny. It's intense when it needs to be intense etc.

The movie starts with him going to Iraq? Afghanistan? I don't remember. Something very current day. The comics did Vietnam, so it was interesting to see how they made it relevant to today.

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a gazillionaire who makes a lot of fancy high-tech weapons for the military. Well his dad was really the giant of the industry. He inherited it, however he is very clearly just as-or smarter than-his dad. But he has that 'rich boy' attitude. Basically what I'm saying is, he's a douchebag.

Pepper Potts is his assistant played by the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow. I just love her. She does great as Pepper Potts, who is probably one of the ONLY sane woman in a superhero comic/movie.  The best line is near the beginning. Tony has a one night stand with a reporter chick (yeah great idea Tony) and Pepper has to show her out. When she slams Pepper for being that assistant that still picks up his dry cleaning she states that she does anything and everything that Mr. Spark may need, which may occasionally mean "taking out the trash". HA. Love Pepper from that moment.

So Tony and her have a bit of an interesting relationship. They definitely argue a lot, but you can see that he needs her.

So anyway, back to Afghanistan. He does a weapons demo and gets attacked. He's held hostage. He meets a man that saves his  life by hooking him up to a weird circular roter thing and a car battery. It keeps the shrapnel out of his heart. Aww. So the two become friends, and start to hatch a plan to get out of there. They want Tony to build them this huge missile, and as he pretends to build that, he builds a suit instead. He powers it with his newly updated chest piece that doesn't need a car battery, and basically tears that shit up. Unfortunately to buy him more time the man that saved his life, then gave up his own as a distraction. It was so sad! But Tony, in a really impressive scene makes it out, and kills a lot of people, and then ends up in the middle of the dessert...which I think is horribly scary too....but AMAZINGLY, some US armed forces fly overhead and it just happens to be his best friend. Duh. So he's saved.

He's brought back to America, and everyone is thrilled, including Pepper. They go, get cheeseburgers, then go to a press conference, that Tony calls for and then tells everyone that they aren't going to produce weapons anymore. mmmm.

So his partner in the company, Obediah or something, gets pretty annoyed, and secretly tries to push for an adjunction and basically push Tony out of the company.

Tony builds and tests his new iron man suit, which is a lot cooler looking than the one he built in a cave. Obediah secretly tries to build one of his own, and gets pissed that his team of scientists can't even replicate what Tony did in a cave with a box of scraps. Which is awesome. So he does the most logical thing, he steals Tony's chest piece.

Before he does this Tony tries out and perfects his suit. He flies to the village that his friend in the cave was from, that was a village of terrorized refuges. It's so sad. So he flies over there, and kills all of the terrorists and saves all of the good refuges. YAY Ironman!!! He gets in trouble though, as the military finds him in a no fly zone, and they try to kill him. His best friend finds out it's him and saves his ass though.

Pepper learns that Tony's capture in Afghanistan was set up, and who set it up? Obediah. Jackass. He just looks like a jerk. Lol. She gets nervous, and tries to warn Tony, but she's too late. Now Obediah has stolen his chest piece and is putting into a machine that he built.

Tony tries to find his old chest piece that he replaced when he came back to the States. Pepper wrapped it up really cut in a glass case, and it states "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart". Lol. So he can't reach it so his freaking awesome computer robot arm reaches for it and hands it to him.

Side note: LOVE his computer, Jarvis, want one, and want one of those robot arm things.  How cool would that be? Watch the movie, if nothing else, but for that....seriously..

So he gets his old roter thing back, and hops into his suit. He goes and fights the Obediah suit, which is a lot bigger than his, but his old roter is not very strong, and can only last for shorts amounts of time, ...being the reason he changed it to begin with.

But don't fear, dear reader, as Tony Stark cannot die yet. We still have Iron Man II and the Avengers. So we're good. So obviously Obediah dies. He tricks him by getting him to fly too high, and getting his suit to ice up on him, something that he found out that happens to his suit on his practice run. He saves the day, and Pepper Potts. Who at the end, instead of rewarding him with a kiss, gives him sarcasm about how he left her at the rooftop one night, alone...to get her a drink....and then never came back. So yeah. Not a dumb girl. Love her. Tony's a douche, but I love him too. It's weird. The two will get together, but I'm just happy she's not a stupid retarded girl for once!


Soon to come: Iron Man II!

--Lily Jaymes