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Rating: 8 stars

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All movies seen on 04/20/2018

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Iron Man (2008)

Directed by Jon Favreau

Science Fiction | Action | War

Most recently watched by sensoria, CaptainBigTime, themarc, DaNiedabaya, lordofthemovies, seanCduregger, noahphex, schofizzy, loganpm, suspectk

Overview

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

Rated PG-13 | Length 126 minutes

Actors

Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard | Jeff Bridges | Gwyneth Paltrow | Leslie Bibb | Bill Smitrovich | Paul Bettany | Jon Favreau | Shaun Toub | Faran Tahir | Clark Gregg | Peter Billingsley | Sayed Badreya | Tim Guinee | Will Lyman | Tom Morello | Marco Khan | Daston Kalili | Ido Ezra | Kevin Foster | Garret Noël | Eileen Weisinger | Ahmed Ahmed | Fahim Fazli | Gerard Sanders | Tim Rigby | Russell Richardson | Nazanin Boniadi | Thomas Craig Plumer | Robert Berkman | Stacy Stas | Lauren Scyphers | Frank Nyi | Marvin Jordan | Jim Cramer | Donna Evans | Reid Harper | Summer Kylie Remington | Ava Rose Williams | Vladimir Kubr | Callie Croughwell | Javan Tahir | Sahar Bibiyan | Patrick O'Connell | Adam Harrington | Meera Simhan | Ben Newmark | Ricki Lander | Jeannine Kaspar | Sarah Cahill | Stan Lee | Justin Rex | Zorianna Kit | Lana Kinnear | Nicole Lindeblad | Masha Lund | Gabrielle Tuite | Tim Griffin | Joshua Harto | Micah A. Hauptman | James Bethea | Mike Cochrane | Flavia Manes Rossi | Samuel L. Jackson | Kristin J. Hooper

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

Can’t believe it’s been 10 years already. Crazy that this is the movie that kicked off the MCU. It holds up rather well but I wonder what would’ve happened if this had not performed well… and also to make the HULK the follow-up is also pretty crazy.

What’s neat in this is to see how Tony Stark once was before his capture and invention. I’m a little surprised that I haven’t viewed this since release (not once on home video) given how much I enjoyed this. The Obadiah Stane stuff is still clunky and ham-fisted. Everything up until that finale is pretty great but that battle is questionable. Stane gets in the Iron Monger suit for the first time and is a total expert in using it (this, after they show Stark repeatedly trying to use his suit and failing). It’s a very rushed ending to wrap things up neatly.

I always liked Terrence Howard but it’s weird seeing him now. Like he’s very out of place. The POW portion is still quite excellent as Stark builds his first suit. Overall very enjoyable flick to lay the foundation for the MCU. Wasn’t a huge fan of IM2 so that will be an interesting revisit.

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