Iron Man

must watch movie

Still the best movie in the Iron Man franchise.

Lo cierto es........el es Iron Man

17 Years ago now, We did not know how good we had it back then, amazing film the one that really kick started the whole MCU, although Blade should get a mention because that was awesome too.

Been doing a watch through of all MCU and its good to remember the good movies we had, shame the wokeness poisoned it in the end though.

IMHO, this is the movie, the character and the actor that kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. Whenever, I find the time to do an MCU movie marathon, I leave the Iron Man movies for last. I watch everything else in timeline order leading up to Avengers: End Game. Once done with Endgame, I start the Iron Man trilogy. I finished one such marathon last night after watching End Game. I'm on extended Easter holidays, and today we start Iron Man .....!

Robert Downey Jr. was born to play Iron Man. I don't know whether he knew back then that this movie will lead to a decade of MCU movies and the associated multi-generational cultural impact. I mean, even the Audi R8 2008 Model he drives in this movie will be forever called "The Iron Man Car".

**T**_heme_- 9.5/10
**R**_ewatchibility_- 9/10
**A**_cting_- 10/10
**K**_inematography_- 10/10
**T**_ime_- 10/10
**Total** - 48.5/5 = ==9.7==

And so it begins. In superhero cinema, there is a distinct line that divides the beginning from the end. That line rests firmly in 2008 with the start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man, for better or worse, changed the way the studios and the audience went about their comic book movies. Putting that to the side for a whole other conversation, the first Iron Man to me is nearly a perfect movie. RDJ handles a deeply nuanced character like Tony Stark with Phil Taylor precision. Jeff Bridges in anything is always a win, and him being the villain who, at one point, is yelling at Ralphie from 'A Christmas Story' tops the cake. The story is fairly simple; no need to overcomplicate it. A flawed man who wears two suits of armor, both mental and physical, and juggles with the balance and weight of all that armor and the difficulty of removing it when he needs to. That's my interpretation of it at least. Superheroes should have some sort of conflict of that nature, given most of them deal with some semblance of duality. The start of the MCU places the bar quite high for all that follows.

Start of it all. "I am Iron man!"

I just love that movie. simple