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Post by sariz on Mar 10, 2017 4:41:54 GMT
Like three days ago i watched the first Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law and it left me in such a great mood that i decided to Robert's other famous role Iron Man.
and woow i never expected to enjoy a Super hero film that much, i never thought Stark had such a great origins story and big part of my enjoyment is exactly how different his origins are from everyone else.
he became a hero because of a creation of concience which is really cool and he didn't exactly learn to fight he just created a great technology and learned to use it. That's pretty cool and original. Its not like he learned really anything new about combact or defense. He was all about being smart and getting the best equipment.
Downey Jr is also perfect to play that part he has the charisma, witt and that arrogance to make stark believable, Gwyneth was also pretty good as his loyal assistant who was secretly in love with him.
this film is just perfectly enjoyable for the whole family but not cheesy or stupid. I liked the batman Nolan trilogy but i adored Iron Man. Probably the only downside is the villain a little too cartoonish and too much targeted to kids very unthreatening and not scary at all but outside of it its a very good film even if you don't like super heroe movies and you are tired Marvel and Dc invading all theaters.
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Post by louise on Mar 10, 2017 5:14:38 GMT
I took my sons to see the Iron man films and enjoyed them more than i expected. There's a lot of humour and he is a Much more interesting person than i expected a superhero to be. My favourite scene is the bit in Iron Man 3 where he rescues all those people from the exploded plane. Brilliant.
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Post by sariz on Mar 10, 2017 6:54:58 GMT
I took my sons to see the Iron man films and enjoyed them more than i expected. There's a lot of humour and he is a Much more interesting person than i expected a superhero to be. My favourite scene is the bit in Iron Man 3 where he rescues all those people from the exploded plane. Brilliant. I haven't seen the third film but just finished the second and its as good as the first one, while it does have action and good fights. It has a pretty good story well planned and i love Stark as a character heis becoming one of my favorite fictional characters along with House and James Bond. actually the more i see of Stark the more he reminds me to Tony Stark, i wonder if Robert Downey Jr got some inspiration from the show to play Stark. im gonna see the third film. This trilogy seems better than Nolan's Batman and in this second film the villains improved. I really liked much more Vanko and Hammer than the last guy much more memorable and threatening still quite kids friendly but a step on right direction.
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 10, 2017 7:03:32 GMT
It's watchable enough but in the end it's not a super hero movie with any re-watch value for me and movies are ultimately made or broke on re-watch value. Man of Steel (2013) (6-6.5/10) is currently my favorite super hero movie as it's the only super hero movie i scored a 6-6.5/10 or higher. there is still others i like and re-watch though, but not many. sarizto me... James Bond is far ahead.
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Post by sariz on Mar 10, 2017 7:21:18 GMT
It's watchable enough but in the end it's not a super hero movie with any re-watch value for me and movies are ultimately made or broke on re-watch value. Man of Steel (2013) (6-6.5/10) is currently my favorite super hero movie as it's the only super hero movie i scored a 6-6.5/10 or higher. there is still others i like and re-watch though, but not many. sariz to me... James Bond is far ahead. I think it has a re watch value, i loved how they took their time with the story and didn't make it all action and smoke and mirrors and very little plot. i need to check man of steel since it had really mixed reviews and want to see Henry Cavil as Superman. From what i see you are not a super heroes fan either, the super hero film you liked the most barley got a 6.5 while for me Iron Man is getting the 10 i could probably take it off a few points for the villains being too kids friendly.
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Post by bonerxmas on Mar 10, 2017 7:26:16 GMT
how did he keep from injuring his ballsack in that armor? if you look at medieval knights, they left a gap down below to prevent sensitive injury
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 10, 2017 11:58:09 GMT
sarizYeah, i would hope so given you scored it a 10 as for me my scoring system breaks down like this in very simple terms... -5/10 or less = Thumbs Down (won't re-watch(with rare exception)) -6/10 or higher = Thumbs Up (will re-watch) so if i am re-watching a movie and it eventually drops off to the point i will no longer re-watch it, then it's score will be adjusted accordingly. but with that said... i am curious, do you hand out high scores fairly often or not? ; i ask this because i think for some people they tend to score too many movies too highly and you can't really tell what they truly like a lot vs what's just above average to average to below average and so on. with this said... i don't limit my scores of movies just to limit them, it's simply that there is not many movies out there that are enjoyable enough to merit a 10/10 score (only ten movies currently(used to be more than twice that years ago)) as that's a score i only give to movies that are basically as enjoyable as a movie can get and then the further it gets away from that my score is lowered accordingly. Yeah, it's hard to say whether you will like it or not since taste in movies vary from person to person. but given the volume of super hero movies out there chances are it won't be your favorite like it is for me. but then again it could still be solid for you especially if there is some super hero movies you personally scored fairly high. also, if i recall correctly i think you liked Henry Cavill in general as i thought you suggested he should be James Bond a little while ago in these forums and i said while he might not be bad it's not going to happen simply because he's already affiliated with a major character which is Superman and i cannot see the Bond producers going with someone this well known tied to a well known character in a super hero movie. another thing... i think Cavill is the best to play Superman even though i used to think it was Christopher Reeve but on a attempted re-watch of Superman (1978) on May 8th 2015 i could not even finish it due to boredom (but i don't really blame Reeve for that). it's a shame as that used to be a solid super hero movie for me quite a few years ago. so once that happened, it kinda threw my generally positive image of him as Superman out the window because the movie itself is simply boring for me now and now i default to Cavill as the best Superman and movie. i have seen Man of Steel (2013) twice so far (Oct 16th 2013/July 11th 2016) and it improved a bit on a re-watch for me as it was initially a 6/10 and on a re-watch i boosted it to a 6-6.5/10. Yeah, i used to score some super hero movies higher years ago but lately (say the last 4-5 years or so) that genre simply just don't seem to be able to interest me to any higher degree anymore even though it can still entertain me enough to re-watch some of them. still, a 6-6.5/10 makes it within my Top 243 movies. my favorite movies are my Top 199 which is my 7's and higher so Man of Steel is a bit outside of my favorite movies basically. but yeah, i basically agree with you that the villain was one of the weaker things about Iron Man (2008) but Downey Jr is pretty much running the show in that movie. but i will say this... if i had to re-watch a super hero movie i give a Thumbs Down (because i don't feel it's good enough to re-watch in general) i would probably roll the dice with Iron Man (2008). i say this because it's probably the closest one to getting a Thumbs Up amongst those i gave a Thumbs Down off the top of my head.
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Post by Marv on Mar 10, 2017 16:15:15 GMT
I loved the first Iron Man.
Think the sequels are pretty crap tho.
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 10, 2017 18:19:41 GMT
Like three days ago i watched the first Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law and it left me in such a great mood that i decided to Robert's other famous role Iron Man. and woow i never expected to enjoy a Super hero film that much, i never thought Stark had such a great origins story and big part of my enjoyment is exactly how different his origins are from everyone else. he became a hero because of a creation of concience which is really cool and he didn't exactly learn to fight he just created a great technology and learned to use it. That's pretty cool and original. Its not like he learned really anything new about combact or defense. He was all about being smart and getting the best equipment. Downey Jr is also perfect to play that part he has the charisma, witt and that arrogance to make stark believable, Gwyneth was also pretty good as his loyal assistant who was secretly in love with him. this film is just perfectly enjoyable for the whole family but not cheesy or stupid. I liked the batman Nolan trilogy but i adored Iron Man. Probably the only downside is the villain a little too cartoonish and too much targeted to kids very unthreatening and not scary at all but outside of it its a very good film even if you don't like super heroe movies and you are tired Marvel and Dc invading all theaters. Agree Iron Man was good but Iron Man II wasn't, and Iron Man III was only fair
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