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Iron Man Review


You know, I said it when I first heard about the casting in this movie, and I will say it again: RBJ played an over the top asshole with substance abuse issues who somehow gets his shit together. IT'S AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SUPHERHERO MOVIE. There is no universe in which that is not badass.

Seriously, I spent all day trying to think of some way to actually meta about this movie, because I am all a-filled with love and with love there naturally comes thinkiness in my world, but I really can't. I just wave my hands around and make vague squealy sounds. It was an incredibly smart movie, is what it was, and everything else that was good about it flowed from that. There was depth and theme with Tony's growing the fuck up in terms of his thoughts on heroism and responsibility, and, yea, it was good, and there was hysterical humor on multiple levels, and, lo, that was also good. It didn't always have to be witty one-liners, even though the movie delivered those by the truckload and RBJ delivered every one of them with style. The first flight test, when Tony flipped face-first into a wall? It took the entire theater nearly five minutes to calm down. Sometimes, it really is just as simple as hitting someone in the face in an entertaining manner.

I'll sing RDJ's praises all night if I let myself, so I'll keep it to one little thing: dude worked out hard for this role, and holy shit, we do approve. Yowzas.

I was a little dubious about Gwyneth Paltrow when I heard about her, because...well. Gwyneth is patrician to the point of seeming a little overbred at times, and this is not the kind of thing that Gal Fridays are easily made out of, to my mind. I was wrong. She pulled it off. The slightly nervy, Greyhoundish air about her actually worked.

....Samuel Motherfucking L. Motherfucking Jackson is Nick Fury. Whatever, I don't even need to say anything beyond that.



There will be fic for this movie, right? Tony's mouth needs to be used somewhere.

Did you see what I did there, hur-hur-hur?