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davidnWe went to see the Iron Man film yesterday, and it was all sorts of fantastic. Iron Man was always my favourite of the Marvel characters, and the film manages to effortlessly fit most of the storyline of which I was aware into a modern-day setting, including the capture in the Middle East (history currently repeating itself helps with that bit), the building of the three stages of Iron Man's armor, even a slight hint that James Rhodes would eventually become Warmachine. And it didn't take itself too seriously, either - Tony Stark, despite his silly Roy Khan-alike beard and the way his dialogue at the start of the film might as well consist entirely of "I AM A TWAT", becomes a superhero not by accident but largely because the idea is rather fantastic, and manages to blow things up without having a midlife crisis about it.
Little references to the earlier Iron Man incarnations, including the one I mentioned above, were present throughout, including a couple of places where the original theme tune was played, and a couple of sequences very much like the titles for the later cartoon series. The revelation of where the name SHIELD came from got a collective "Ohhh!" from the audience I was with. And special public thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stubbleupdate for telling me to stay past the end credits - without spoiling anything, I had forgotten that there was a rumour that he was going to appear until that happened, so I wasn't disappointed by his apparent absence and was even more surprised when he turned up.
I was also impressed that they fit Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" into it. I remember all the way back in about 2001 when I was on the Iron Maiden message boards, someone said they'd heard of a possible Iron Man film and said how great it would be if they had that song in it. And the replies were along the lines that it would, but they were Hollywood and the song didn't actually have anything to do with Marvel's Iron Man, so it was spectacularly unlikely. So it was nice that they did it anyway.
Little references to the earlier Iron Man incarnations, including the one I mentioned above, were present throughout, including a couple of places where the original theme tune was played, and a couple of sequences very much like the titles for the later cartoon series. The revelation of where the name SHIELD came from got a collective "Ohhh!" from the audience I was with. And special public thanks to
stubbleupdate for telling me to stay past the end credits - without spoiling anything, I had forgotten that there was a rumour that he was going to appear until that happened, so I wasn't disappointed by his apparent absence and was even more surprised when he turned up.I was also impressed that they fit Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" into it. I remember all the way back in about 2001 when I was on the Iron Maiden message boards, someone said they'd heard of a possible Iron Man film and said how great it would be if they had that song in it. And the replies were along the lines that it would, but they were Hollywood and the song didn't actually have anything to do with Marvel's Iron Man, so it was spectacularly unlikely. So it was nice that they did it anyway.
