Iron Man / Iron Man 2
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Since I haven't updated this blog since Monday, I've decided to write a brief review (and nonspoilerific) of the Iron Man movie franchise as a whole, just to see if this blog is still alive.
So what word would I use to describe the Iron Man movies as a whole?
Awesome. Completely, totally awesome.
The fight scenes and specifal effects are really awesome, the story and characters are generally well-written, and the movies are just fun to watch. I liked most of the actors chosen to play their roles (especially Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man) and thought that the humor was pretty good.
But what interests me the most about the movies is the fact that, unlike other Marval comic book movie adaptions, I watched the IM movies because I genuinely cared about the characters and eagerly wanted to see what happened next. I mean, it's not like with Spider-Man or X-Men, which I mostly watched just because they were Spider-Man or X-Men. Not that those are bad movie series, but they simply never interested me enough to say that I watched them because I thought they were worth watching as respectable movies in their own right.
However, I can safely say that that is not the case with Iron Man. When I watched the first and second movies, I really did want to see what happened next. I wanted to see the plot advance and see what happens in the end, what happens to the characters, and so forth. At first I watched only because it was Iron Man, but when I actually began watching them I decided I liked them as good movies in their own right.
The only other comic book adaption that has ever caught my interest in the same way is Batman Begins (haven't seen The Dark Knight yet, sorry). And that, my friend, was a very, very good movie. For IM to even come close to catching my attention like BB did is . . . well, that means I liked it a lot, to say the least. True, the Batman and Iron Man movies are very different, but I am genuinely interested in both, which means I think that they're both pretty good.
Overall, I'd say that the Iron Man movie franchise on the whole is great. Great acting, great characters, great writing, awesome special effects and fighting scenes . . . I'd even go as far as to say that it is my favorite Marval comic book movie adaptation ever. It really avoided most of the cliches and pitfalls of comic book adaptated movies, IMO, and made Iron Man even more awesome than he already was.
So I'll leave you with one last quote from the first movie (which is definitely going in my sig, BTW):
"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!"
"Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark."
- Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger) and a scientist.
Because yes, Tony is that awesome.
-TNTOS-
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