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A- |
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B |
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B+ |
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B+ |
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A+ |
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Not For Those With A Short Attention Span
by Wouldinya (movies profile)
Jul 14, 2008
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You can often tell a lot about a movie by reading the negative reviews. I looked through the bad reviews of "Iron Man" and noticed one consistent complaint: The word "boring" was used to dismiss what us old-timers who have somehow retained our attention spans would call "plot" and "character development."
"Iron Man" takes a noble risk in letting the story and characters get comfortable before launching into CGI effects and explosions and all the things the post-MTV generation expects to see from the beginning to the end of a movie with no time to breathe in between set-pieces.
Robert Downey Jr. is great as Tony Stark, a drinking playboy who changes his view on life when he is almost killed by one of his own weapons in the middle east. There is enough time spent in the film to show a gradual change in his personality. While I get sick of this device in Hollywood films, I'm glad to see director Jon Favreau (s.p.) willing to execute this with patience.
As an adaptation of a Marvel comic, I was pleased. That's saying a lot. Like all good American boys growing up in the 70s and 80s, I delivered newspapers and used the money I made to read and collect comics. Most of the adaptations of Marvel comics have been terrible. Iron Man is one of my all-time favorites and I'm happy some competent filmmakers were involved.
I can only recommend this movie to people who have an attention span. For those of you who don't, feel free to rent "Transformers" and watch it for the upteenth time. |
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