April 13th, 2009
“Geeks are people who get turned on by ideas” whether that’s about spider powers or quantum mechanics. —Jim Kakalios
By day he studies nanotechnology. By night he, well I’ve no idea what his night time activities are. I do know he wrote The Physics of Superheroes and apparently does lectures on the content of that book.
“I don’t go to these movies with a pad of paper and a calculator.” But he delights in finding snippets of accuracy in films, which to him, “is like finding an inside joke.” In Iron Man, for instance, he noticed that star Robert Downey, Jr.’s character, Tony Stark, constructed the superhuman Iron Man suit using the same type of soldering iron Kakalios has in his lab—and correctly!
I never would have guessed that. Not in one million years. Kakalios talks more on the scientific accuracy of WATCHMEN here.
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May 27th, 2008
That was the funnest, most awesome “comic book” movie I’ve seen to date. Robert Downey Jr *was* Tony Stark. He made you want to *be* Tony Stark. I’ve never been a fan of Platrow, but somehow she just glowed in this role. I don’t know what pagan goddess she prayed to, but she needs to keep that up.
I had seen the one-sheets of Obadiah Stane and found him unrecognizable. I never bothered to look up who was playing him. I did not realize til Stane opened his mouth on screen that it was The Fucking Dude, man! I about shit myself. He *owned* that role. he didn’t have much to say but Jeff Bridges ate up the scenery whenever he was on.
The inside comic geek references were perfect. The 10 rings. The mouthful of a government agency which I should have caught on to but the sheer brilliance of the movie distracted me from nitpicking it to death. Those little nods were there for those who knew Iron Man yet those who didn’t were not left out of the joke. The bit with Rhodes looking at the silver armor and promising, “next time” made me pop a little geek boner.
It was embarrassing.
I had to stay til after the credits before it went away. Which is where I saw a certain one-eyed super-spy make his appearance. He left the snakes on the plane this time.
That’s it. IRON MAN was subtle when it needed to be and action-y when it had to be. It was faithful to(what I know of) the story. It was the Spirit of Awesome in the House of Win.
And I’m gonna see it again.
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