Iron Man (2008)



Iron Man (2008)
This Summer: Heroes Aren't Born, They're Built.

Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Stane from misusing his research.

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Runtime: 126 minutes
Rating: 8.0/10 (145,720 votes)
Release Date: 14 April 2008
Country: USA
Languages: English, Persian, Urdu, Hindi
Company: Paramount Pictures
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.

Director(s): Jon Favreau



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Producer(s):
Victoria Alonso - co-producer
Ari Arad - executive producer
Avi Arad - producer
Peter Billingsley - executive producer
Louis D'Esposito - executive producer
Jon Favreau - executive producer
Kevin Feige - producer
Eric Heffron - associate producer (as Eric N. Heffron)
Jeremy Latcham - associate producer
Stan Lee - executive producer
David Maisel - executive producer

Writer(s):
Mark Fergus - (screenplay) &
Hawk Ostby - (screenplay) and
Art Marcum - (screenplay) &
Matt Holloway - (screenplay)
Stan Lee - (characters) &
Don Heck - (characters) &
Larry Lieber - (characters) &
Jack Kirby - (characters)

Cast:
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Terrence Howard - Rhodey
Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane
Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts
Leslie Bibb - Christine Everhart
Shaun Toub - Yinsen
Faran Tahir - Raza
Clark Gregg - Agent Coulson
Bill Smitrovich - General Gabriel
Sayed Badreya - Abu Bakaar

Music: Ramin Djawadi


7 Responses to “Iron Man (2008)”

  1. keithmwarwick Says:
    June 12th, 2009

    This is a movie of three parts. The first is actually good, the secondnot so good and the third, totally abysmal. It's as if a 1970'sblockbuster has undergone a superimposed makeover, complete withdigital effects, super-imposed actors and dated production values. Thatit mimics so many movies and lacks a cohesive script and dispenses withany kind of respect for the credibility factor, it shows this movie upas a total turkey. With miscast and all-at-sea acting talent thrashingaround amongst the mayhem of congealed stunts, over-the-topcontraptions and poor scripting, this movie is the Titanic of actionmovies. A lot of talent was wasted, misused and thrown away on thisleviathan of bad movie making. And that is a crying shame and afinancial meltdown!

  2. UncleLongHair2 Says:
    June 17th, 2009

    I must be out of touch with modern pop culture because I have no ideahow people can spend 2 hours watching movies like this, and the floodof top ratings and positive reviews on this site make this all the moremysterious. I was even more surprised that several friends andneighbors highly recommended the movie. So, my curiosity piqued, Iwatched it. Perhaps this negative bias overly influenced my reaction.

    Maybe it would have helped if I had been an avid fan of the comic book– that seems to be necessary to accept the absurd back story. But Ifound the plot, story, characters, and cinematography to be unbearablypredictable and far-fetched. I realize the movie is supposed to providesome indulgent escapism. But setting it in Afghanistan ruined this forme, which forced me to think about the terrible realities there.Setting it in a fictitious city like Gotham would have helped.

    Iron Man has a lot in common with Spiderman (not to mention the longlist of formula superhero adaptations before it), but I enjoyed thatmovie much more, as it had a much more plausible human side, and ahumble super hero main character is much more palatable to me than thesmarmy Robert Downey Jr. who acted like he needed a good paddling.

    Despite a lot of dozing off and eye-rolling, the highlight in the moviefor me was Gwyneth Paltrow, who is not only cute but did a marvelousjob of acting the conflicted role of Stark's better half, and somehowdidn't look ridiculous walking over piles of broken glass in 4 inchheels.

    Perhaps it is a comment on our culture that enormous sums of money arespent making and watching movies like this? Do we truly have nothingbetter to do with our collective time?

  3. Derek Carpet Says:
    June 17th, 2009

    Iron Man is a remake of the bizarre and pointless Australian filmTesti: Iron Man. That film was black and white and messed up. Americadoesn't like that sort of thing (neither do me) so they decided to turnit into an excitement film instead. Interestingly though, neither filmfeatures any appearances from any Black Sabbath member. There couldhave been a fight between Iron Man and Tony Iommi, or Ozzy could havebeen supplying Robin Downy Jr with drugs and liquor, but maybe thenthis wouldn't have received the U rating.

    The film is a rip off of Batman- a billionaire playboy who is worthmillions, I can't remember his name, likes to build robots and sellthem to bad guys in places like Egypt. He is bored with his life andfancies a change so he turns himself into a half man half machine halfbird creature, and calls himself Iron Man. After his parents aremurdered he realises his purpose is revenge. He covers his body in thelatest weaponry- guns, lasers, big knifes, and learns to fly. After abrief training montage (running up hills, lifting cars, shootingtargets showing his skill and fitness progress) he flies to a terroristcountry and kills the bad guys. That's about it really. Quite shallow,but some good actions and graphics. I don't think anyone else famouswas in the movie though I was pretty drunk on whiskey while watchingit. I think it was an attempt to start a new franchise so maybe morethings will happen in the next film. The Man Of Steel will return to acinema near you next year or two! Best Scene: When Iron Man is learningto fly and he keeps zooming into the ceiling of his barn and whackinghis head. What a chump!

  4. siderite Says:
    July 8th, 2009

    OK, it's a comic book movie. I got that. Also, they are Marvel comics,so Ari Arad has something to do with it and the main goal is not acinematic masterpiece. I am also unfamiliar with the comics themselves.So I didn't watch this movie with high expectations, not at all.

    And still, it bored the hell out of me. Terrorists kidnap the mostbrilliant weapon manufacturer in the world? He escapes by building arobotic suit instead of the missile the terrorists wanted him to build?And the suit is powered by a battery that he just happened to createwhile in captivity? Was that the plot of the comic? Because usuallyeven the worst comics have a plot!

    And then the casting. I like Robert Downey, even if he hasn't acted inanything decent lately. Jeff Bridges? A favourite of mine. GwynethPaltrow, yummy! I even like Terrence Howard. And what did they achieve?Absolutely nothing! NOTHING! Not that they played badly, but they justcouldn't do anything within the script!

    What else is there to talk about? The special effects? Some flashylights and then lots of explosions. Oh, and a flying robotic suit.

    Bottom line: lousy story to begin with, but scripted even worse. Avoid!

  5. Igor Boiar (iboiar@hotmail.com) Says:
    August 1st, 2009

    The curtain rises on Marvel Comics' first in-house production torousing results as their metal man of iron introduces himself toenthralled moviegoers everywhere. Just as billionaire playboy TonyStark utilizes his technological know-how to fight evildoers, so doesdirector Jon Favreau use his bag of cinematic tricks to lay thegroundwork for yet another top-caliber franchise starring one of thebiggest icons of the printed page. Delivering laughs as well as leapsof wonder, this comic-book fantasy gets it right across the board, withits buoyant tone never diluting the grounded dramatics of the story.For the flick to work, though, one needs an exceptional cast –something this production has in spades. Sure, it's an origin story,but to the cast's credit, none of it ever seems tedious. Even if theybasically follow the same superhero mold of yesteryear, the tightensemble of Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, andJeff Bridges sells the action romp every step of the way — so much sothat one can't help but want more. It's quite evident that the best isyet to come, not only with this series, but also with big-screen Marveloutings as a whole. With clever shout-outs to the imprint's expansiveuniverse (including a post-credit cameo that'll send the geek Richterscale off the charts), Iron Man sets the stage for as yet unrealizedcrossover possibilities, a dream barely hinted at in previousbook-to-screen adaptations. If future productions can deliver on thestory while juggling both the technology and the talent as well as thisone did, then it is possible that this is the true start of comicdom'scinematic rebirth, built by the best that Hollywood has to offer. Allin all, a fine introduction to a hero that finally dares to tackleweight-of-the-world issues. It's about time.

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