Iron Man
I was saying after the watching Iron Man that it took me a whole school term in CDT to make a spatula, so quite how Robert Downey Jr makes a rocket powered suit out of old yoghurt pots (in a cave) in just a few weeks (whilst recovering from some huge operation), is totally beyond me. Those Afghan rebels must be kicking themselves that they didn’t Sky+ Blue Peter more often.
That’s not the only implausible thing. It would seem that the USA has only 6 blokes monitoring their radar systems for the entire world for instance. And, your average cave dwelling terrorist can’t tell the difference between a Ned Kelly suit and a missile. Not to mention that anyone can seemingly happily survive falling out of the sky from 100,000ft - as long as they’ve got a shiny metal hat on. Genius.
Still, in comic book world, none of that really matters. RDJ is perfect and it’s really him that makes Iron Man such a fun film to watch. It’s extremely enjoyable, despite the stupidness of it all.
Shame about the Transformers style ending though (oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow)…
8/10.
Yay! I’m up to date on the films. Well, for a few hours at least…
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