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"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
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...
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...