So is everyone excited for Iron Man?

[Steve Jordan]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Heh i hate credit thing, everyone at the premiere left at the same time.

If anything, I would have run that Nick Fury footage just after the early closing credits running over the Iron Man suit schematics. But the look of that (as well as Tony Stark's last sentence in the movie proper, I thought) had the look of 13th hour additions, so it's no wonder that it was stuck on at the very end of the credits.

[Hilarious Joke]

I loved Stark's last sentence in the movie proper, but it seems no-one else did.

[HoopyFrood]

I liked it, HJ -- I was expecting it, but it was still awesome when it was said, especially as the last line in the film. Made it all that more dramatic.

[digs]

This movie exceeded my expectations - in fact I'd have to say that it's my favourite superhero movie, which surprised me, because I've never really followed Iron Man at all before.

[Lady of Winterfell]

Well, as I said before I wasn't really looking forward to this movie (getting tired of all the comic book/superhero movies) but my husband really wanted to see it. We are going tonight, so hopefully it will be as good as you all say it is.

[Steve Jordan]

Originally Posted by digs

This movie exceeded my expectations - in fact I'd have to say that it's my favourite superhero movie, which surprised me, because I've never really followed Iron Man at all before.

I have, on and off... the appeal of Iron Man to me was, like Batman, that this was an ordinary man who used his natural strengths (in his case, his engineering intellect) to rise above the crowd. He was pseudo-believable... at least, a lot more than humanoid beings from the planet Krypton, etc.

I thought the movie stayed grounded in just that way, too... rooted in real humans' real problems, not in elaborate plots and villians with freak accident-based superpowers.

[Lioness]

I went and saw it today, and I really liked it. It's not my normal genre of movie, but I'm glad my boyfriend talked me in to seeing it.

Also, never mind the teenybopper crowds (besides the fact that we were part of it), there were really really little kids there - kids that were 4+, the majority of the people there were about 8 though.
Either their parents don't read the classification, or just don't care that their child is exposed to lots of violence at a young age.

What was the last line? I forgot. I usually live in the moment of the movie and can't remember anything from it after unless it was extremely funny.

[Delvo]

The last line was "I am Iron Man". It's also a prominent line, maybe the first line, in a Black Sabbath song, the signature guitar chords of which were played right after he said it. But the song by Black Sabbath is about a completely separate character, someone whose body was "turned to steel" by a "great magnetic field" during an attempt to time travel, and who engages in a vengeful massacre at the end of the song because he's angry about society rejecting him.

It also creates problems for sequels after that secret's out...

[Connavar]

Nah it isnt a problem.

In current Iron Man comic stories. Stark is a powerful leader of the shield and everyone knows he is Iron Man after he denied it for decades.

It will interesting problems since the villains will target Stark directly cause of his superhero identity.

[Lady of Winterfell]

Well, we saw it and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought Robert Downey Jr was really good. And I thought it was loads better than Spiderman. Though I am still a huge fan of Batman Begins.

But all in all, not too bad.

[Hilarious Joke]

Spiderman is the best!

[Lady of Winterfell]

For whatever reason I just wasn't that impressed with Spider man. Didn't think it was that great, and Toby Maguire kinda annoyed me.

[murphy]

Originally Posted by Hilarious Joke

Spiderman is the best!

Eh.

Originally Posted by Lady of Winterfell

For whatever reason I just wasn't that impressed with Spider man. Didn't think it was that great, and Toby Maguire kinda annoyed me.

It didn't impress me at all.

[Culhwch]

Spiderman was alright but in live-action there is just something incredibly twee about him. And all those wall clinging shots that were so obviously camera tricks - I know, it's hard to get around, but still...

Iron Man, on the other hand, was great, I thought. Someone mentioned the Batman correlation earlier - normal man using his natural gifts, oh, and inheritance, to fight evil. There's the appeal for me, too. And they got the look just right - I never once thought, 'Wow, that looks so fake/unlikely...' Seemless. And Robert Downey Jr rocks.

Had the teeny-bopper audience in with me, too, unfortunately. Really need to start seeing movies during school hours. One behind me insisted on providing a helpful commentary, such as, 'It's a tank!', when a tank appeared. I really should have thanked him, I'd have thought it was a pony otherwise.

[Dark Gemini]

Samuel L. Jackson isn't exactly a small time actor. He was in the movie (after the credits) for like a whole five minutes. Robert Downey Jr. will be briefly reprising his role as Tony Stark in the new Hulk movie. Captain America and Thor movies are already in the works. So obviously they mean to make an Avengers movie. Does anyone have, or know where I can find, info on it?