tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post7648203494285409519..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Iron ManJonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-50417682035657525562008-07-04T02:00:00.000-05:002008-07-04T02:00:00.000-05:00Good Site.I have added your site as book marked.ht...Good Site.I have added your site as book marked.<BR/>http://pagerankings.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-14448181368619155772008-06-21T15:11:00.000-05:002008-06-21T15:11:00.000-05:00Agreed on the "Next time" line, but then I don't r...Agreed on the "Next time" line, but then I don't really object to any of the cited wink lines, so maybe I'm not the person to appreciate the criticism. I appreciated the catalogue of IM script virtues, but I found the middle of the movie pretty muddled as far as Tony's plans post-conversion: he returns from Afghanistan touting the ARC reactor to Obadaiah as the company's way forward, but then when Obey asks for a sample of the technology to show the board, he insists this is his private project. He announces that his company is out of the business of making weapons while meantime developing a suit that a dozen of (we're told) could make one ruler of Asia (so his plan is just to intervene on the underdog's side of every conflict he sees on CNN, while also managing to keep this technology out of the hands of bad guys? Might not be so implausible if he were introduced as a limousine liberal). The questions he'd like to ask his father at the press conference struck me as particularly improbable coming from the guy we met in the flashback sequence; maybe he returns from his experience and overhauls Stark Industries' accountability procedures or pioneers codes that allow for nullification of any weapon that falls into hands he disapproves of, but I don't think he does what we see him do in the movie. In that respect, Favreau and co. gave us way more of a comic book than a film; but yes, it was a great comic book, which I'd rate below only Spider-Man 2, Donner's Superman (sentimental favorite, and scriptwise still the best adaptation ever, I'd say), and Batman Begins.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05923160721288694327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-91985998218399585292008-06-20T15:18:00.000-05:002008-06-20T15:18:00.000-05:00You say: And even better, unlike Batman Begins the...You say: <BR/><BR/><I>And even better, unlike Batman Begins there are no "movie moments" where the film stops abruptly to nod to the audience by having a character say something like, "Does it come in black" or "I gotta get me one of those."</I><BR/><BR/>What about the scene where Randy Rhodes looks at the silver suit of armor and says "Next time"? That's just as bad as anything in <I>Begins</I>...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com