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Jun 1, 2008 · The good iron man should utilize the racing colors of Tony Stark’s favorite sports cars. It wouldn’t be nearly as much fun to see a fight scene between two refrigerators crossed with the leftovers from a boiler room.
A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead...
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- Jon Favreau
- PG-13
- Robert Downey Jr.
Apr 8, 2024 · Here are the MCU's Iron Man films, ranked worst to best. Though Iron Man is undoubtedly one of the MCU's most popular heroes, there are many unpleasant truths about him that some fans decline to face.
- Anthony Mcglynn
First MCU adventure has violence, Islamophobia. Read Common Sense Media's Iron Man review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Paramount Pictures
- Jon Favreau
- It Relaunched RDJ’s Career
- Marvel’s Self-Made Hero
- It Brought Lesser Known Comic Heroes Into The Mainstream
- It Has A Director with A Vision
- It's Still Super Quotable
- A Balanced Tone
- The CGI Holds Up
- A Hero with Clear Motivations
- No Franchise-Building
- The Best Post-Credits Scene
For a period of the ‘90s and extending into the early part of the next decade, Robert Downey Jr. was shunned by Hollywood circles, cast out as a pariah for his bad boy persona and public struggles with drugs and alcohol. Since 2003, RDJ has maintained his drug-free lifestyle, crediting his wife Susan for helping him with his sobriety, but it was th...
Powered by a gold and titanium alloy suit and an arc reactor with a palladium-based core which keeps him alive, Tony Stark’s meteoric rise from the world’s largest weapons manufacturer to one of the most renowned superheroes of the MCU began when he was forced to own up to the dire realities of his company. Imprisoned by the Ten Rings terrorist org...
Following the near financial collapse of the comics industry after the speculator boom of the ‘90s, Marvel sold the movie rights to many of its more popular IPs to various production companies around Hollywood. While Fox made strides with the X-Menfranchise, Sony banked on the success of Spider-Man to draw big box office numbers. Meanwhile, lesser ...
Although Iron Man may not be as flashy as some other notable entries in the MCU, it’s director had a key role in the early developmental stages. When it comes to the Marvel movie universe, there are more issues than most executives would care to admit, but one of the biggest critiques of Marvel Studios so far has been its unrelentingly tight contro...
In 1963, the United States was still in the throes of the Cold War. If there was anything young comic book readers couldn’t stand, it was news surrounding the conflict. As a way of swimming against the stream, Stan Lee challenged himself to make a character who was inherently unlikable who would represent the quintessential capitalist profiting off...
Since establishing Iron Man as the de facto leader of the Avengers, the MCU has tried to recreate his success in hopes of finding his successor. Robert Downey Jr. has been forthcoming about his plans to leave the moneymaking franchise following the end of his contract with Infinity War. As a result, Marvel has brought in a host of characters that h...
Iron Man can appear much more restrained in the visual effects department compared to the explosive designs seen in The Avengers. Part of the reasoning behind the difference had to do with Favreau’s dislike for CGIheading into the project. Rather than using computer imagery for many of Stark’s high-flying scenes, the cast and crew had RDJ walk arou...
Another complaint heard often about the MCU is the lack of a driving force behind the characters’ stories. Most recently, this became an issue in Civil Warbetween Team Iron Man or Team Cap. Although it was clear that the Sokovia Accords were the reason behind the disagreement, it was never explained why both sides would go through such lengths when...
Separated into three phases spread out across twenty-two movies, nothing like the Marvel Cinematic Universe had ever been attempted in Hollywood before Iron Man. Still, the plan wasn't always so clear cut. Collecting its heroes intoa cohesive worldrequired enough interest from the moviegoing audience to keep the dream alive, so rather than focusing...
Since the beginning, the MCU has perfected the post-credits scene, leaving audiences in anticipation for the studio’s next installment. With Iron Man, the hype was no different. Following the wrap on principal photography, Marvel Studios hired a skeleton crew to shoot the after-credits sequence, bringing Samuel L. Jackson aboard to film a brief cam...
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May 2, 2008 · Iron Man: Directed by Jon Favreau. With Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow. After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Apr 27, 2008 · The entire film, written by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, is devoted to how Tony Stark, the top U.S. weapons manufacturer and all-around playboy, becomes Iron Man.
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