Unfettered Blather

Look, I took off work early on Friday to catch an early showing with my boys on opening day. Does that make me sound like the kind of person who is going to be objective about the movie?

If you’re one of those anal retentive geeks who thinks they have to somehow fit 40 years of comic book history into a 2 hour movie and be completely faithful to everything the character has done during those decades, you will hate this movie. Then again, you’ll hate every comic book movie made ever so really it’s no change, right?

If you enjoy superheroes and popcorn entertainment then you can’t really go wrong.

Let me get one thing out of the way though, the cast was stellar. Not that I ever had any doubts, but I felt like all the major characters went into overtime. No one phoned it in, no one tried too hard. Due to the changes in the Obadiah Stane character from the original comic book, he really wasn’t the kind of villian that could be your scenery chewing type and Jeff Bridges did a great job bouncing back and forth from surprisingly warm and caring to outright maniacal villiany. They say a hero is only as good as his villians, and I got the impression that they believed just that while making this movie.

Anyway, I could write so much more, but I’m not going to blog this movie. If you like superheroes, action movies, Iron Man in particular, popcorn entertainment, or just enjoy big explosions then you should go see this. It’s not a bad little redemption story either.

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