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Directed By
Jon Favreau
Written By:
Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Matt Holloway, Arthur Marcum, Larry Lieber, Don Heck
Cast:
Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Samuel L. Jackson, Leslie Bibb, Stan Lee, Shaun Toub, Bill Smitrovich, Faran Tahir, Sayed Badreya, Clark Gregg, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Marco Khan, Kevin Foster, Ahmed Ahmed, Tom Morello, Russell Richardson, Jon Favreau, Nazanin Boniadi, Donna Evans, Patrick O'Connell, Adam Harrington, Peter Billingsley, Gabrielle Tuite, Tim Griffin, Joshua Harto, Micah A. Hauptman, Daston Kalili, Ido Ezra, Zorianna Kit, Fahim Fazli, Stacy Stas, Masha Lund, Garrett Noel, Eileen Weisinger, Gerard Sanders, Tim Rigby, Thomas Craig Plumer, Robert Berkman, Lauren Scyphers, Frank Nyi, Marvin Jordan, Jim Cramer, Reid Harper, Summer Kylie Remington, Ava Rose Williams, Vladimir Kubr, Callie Croughwell, Javan Tahir, Sahar Bibiyan, Meera Simhan, Ricki Noel Lander, Jeannine Kaspar, Sarah Cahill, Justin Rex, Lana Kinnear, Nicole Lindeblad, James Bethea, Ben Newmark
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Iron Man (2008)
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Movie Review by Xavier
May 24th, 2008
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The Most Conving Use Of Product Placement
Favorite Movie Quote: "Something about, 'avenger' and 'initative'."
Last year a car was unleashed on the world that captured my imagination, soiled my pants and convinced me to play the lottery more often. Where Ferrari, Lambagini and Bugatti grip the sports car market with an arrogantly nonchalant Italian grip the ever industrious Germans continue to lead the way with engineering and workmanship. Audi however, have finally crafted the two ideals and my new favourite dream car was born.
Sadly my lust and hopes were swiftly blighted by a number of factors. Primarily the £100,000 (approximately $16,000,000 I believe) price tag, which is just above my price range. More disturbingly, the vehicles immediate cleintele are somewhat more of a conumdrum.
In my humble home city there is an odious individual that alledgedly owns most of the assets. This will include all the trendiest clubs, the nicest housing developments, the plush casino and by all accounts, a sizable interest in the oil output. He is a *insert rude word*. A proper *insert another rude word*. This character has the reputation of being repulsive, arrogant and greedy with no thought or feeling to his fellow humans (indeed, if I was to mention a name, I could find myself very much un-alive at the bottom of one of our quasi-notorious rivers). This man owns one of the aforementioned cars. As does Simon Cowell and everybody hates him. My dreams shattered, my yearnings quashed I went back to pineing for a moped.
As for IRON MAN there really isn't anything that lil' ol' me can add to what has already been explained by the other reviews here. It is at first, second and third glance the perfect super-hero adaptation. The story makes sense. It is believable. IRON MAN himself, looks awesome. The cast, notably Downey Jr, are immpecable. As a movie, on the whole, it is complete. The little touches like Stark's facial hair growing to mark the passage of time to Paltrow's idilyic English accent (not sure if that was intended, but wholly convincing. She reminded me of a honey I once dated...). My minor gripes are inconsequential. The Western (American) insistence that an inferior (Middle Eastern) culture have to be the bad guys. (Thankfully it transpires that they actually are not the baddies! Good show.) At one point I noticed a clock that was not ticking. Pssshhh. Whatever. IRON MAN is awesome.
Not only that, profoundly for me, my new fictional hero; Tony Stark, owns, drives and cherishes the very brilliant Audi R8. Now I can finally go back to wanting one. Thank you.
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 | Tim
May 25, 2008 8:19 PM
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| This has just been the biggest shock for me in a long time.... I mean look at the ratings just here on MatchFlick...I never thought people would dig this film so much. |
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