I’m guest blogging at Alyssa Rosenberg’s (with some other fantastic bloggers) for the next 10 days or so, while she’s living it up in Cambodia. Inspired by a post from SEK, I put up a piece on Iron Man being a thoroughly mediocre film:
I managed to get through the first 25 minutes on the sheer strength of Downey’s charisma, and I kept waiting for him to deliver a power line or start cracking wise. But when the script didn’t deliver, I found myself going through my RSS reader, watching with one eye. Eventually I abandoned the film to watch Gossip Girl (Chuck Bass’s eyebrows beat lame dialogue and explosions any day).
Iron Man was not good. As I said to a coworker the next day, it was essentially a lot of scenes of Downey building stuff, lots of fire, and way too much Paltrow, strung together with guitar-heavy music. There was no there, there — not even anything to disbelieve enough to warrant suspension.
I fully expect Jamelle to come in and excoriate me at any moment…but you can read the rest here.
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curious: did you enjoy it?
Interesting. I avoided Iron Man on the basis is of the whole “Arab bad guy” (played by an Iranian btw) thing–I get that shit every day, I don’t have to go out my way for it. But I have always been curious about the film itself. The character is a natural for the movies, even if I thought Downey was strange casting. Glad to know it wasn’t the masterpiece so many geeks thought it was.
Surprise.
Finally! I watched it on a bus ride in my time in London and I kept falling asleep. It was a boring movie to me and I can’t find the energy to even attempt to watch it again. I can’t speak on the entire movie because I couldn’t get through it and they showed the movie twice on that bus ride. When I share my thoughts on the parts I did watch, people give me crazy looks. Its good to know that someone agrees with me.