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 "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
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May. 13th, 2008 @ 11:23 am 
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Iron Man, the movie, contains 100% of your recommended daily intake of PURE WIN!!! Stuff I found particularly cool: Pepper Potts not being a standard Hollywood Bimbo. Rhody not being the standard Hollywood Big Black Badass. The Swarthy Foreign Terrorists having some ethnic variety, i.e., not all being Swarthy. The Terrorist Spokesman speaking 'Arabiyya Fusha while addressing Stark formally, and using some degenerate Lahja when conversing with the other terrorists. The movie's generally accurate portrayal of military folks, which I will grudgingly concede, just this once, that Zoomies Airmen count as. The idiotic-yet-venerable "Iron Man is my body guard, no, really!" secret identity idea being treated with exactly the respect it deserved.
Stuff I didn't like: the gaping hole in Starks chest not inhibiting his daily activities. Yeah, the scene where his valued assistant rummages around in his innards was funny, but it broke my suspension of disbelief. The suit didn't of course, because it was made of PURE WIN. Not explaining how Stark can possibly survive the acceleration and various impacts he experienced without being pulped, or at least passing out when he routinely faced several Gs while effectively _standing_up_. Yeah, gravity/inertia manipulating "repulser" technology is the obvious answer, but it should have been mentioned, to let the nitpickers in the audience know that the scriptwriters were thinking ahead.
Stuff that was annoying, but perfectly in character: The newly "responsible" Stark taking his suit on a test flight above an inhabited area. Inventing an apparently clean power source that can fit in a pocket and outproduce several nuclear reactors, and not immediately marketing it and saving us all from global warming. Also not marketing the various technologies required for the armor to the cripples of the world. Yeah, these are perfectly in character, but I seriously hope one of the _other_ characters calls him out for them in the next movie. Which had better be just as awesome as this one...
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Not marketing the the various technologies required for the armor to the cripples of the world.
Shirow's Appleseed touches on a downside of this idea. At one point the Powers That Be are trying to limit the potential for conflict in an area and part of this involves making harder to create combat cyborgs. Unfortunately, the tech in civilian prosthetic devices can be retrofitted for military purposes and so one of the protagonists finds himself confiscating people's artificial legs and such.
IRL, Playstations can allegedly be re-purposed as guided missile brains, but we still sell them all over the world, and they don't have the potential to help people walk. On the contrary, they tend to make people less mobile.... A better example would be how radiation therapy machines can be scavenged to make radiological weapons, but the risk is generally outweighed by the benefits for patients. The real issue here is Tony Stark's egomania and jealous possessiveness of his inventions, IMO.
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May 14th, 2008 01:10 am (UTC) |
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i had never heard of iron man before seeing the movie but i thought it was quite good. i'll probably see the sequel.
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