It. Was. AWESOME.I know pretty much nothing about Ironman from the comics, but this movie had a coherent plot, lots of fun explosions, humor (lots of great funny parts not spoiled by the ads), and most importantly GOOD ACTING.
Robert Downey Jr, for all his substance abuse, is a fantastic actor. Everything I've seen him in, I've enjoyed. Like Johnny Depp. He's good at every roll he plays.
Anyway, I was so thrilled by a good Marvel comic movie that I decided to take a look at other Marvel movies and see how they compared to Ironman:
List of Marvel Comics made into movies
(what did we do before wikipedia?)
Blade (1998) - I saw this and remember thinking it was okay. 'Course, I was a teenager at the time.
X-Men (2000) - What happened in this one again? I enjoyed the first X-Men movie. It was the sequels that ruined it for me.
Blade II (2002) - Didn't see it. Didn't think enough of the first one to bother.
Spider-Man (2002) - I have a deep love for Spider-Man, in all his incarnations, which sometimes borders on obsession. My friends can vouch for this. So, I'm biased when I say that this was (at the time) the best Marvel movie I had ever seen. *LOVE* Spider-Man!
Daredevil (2003) - In spite of Ben Affleck being cute (but he's no Spider-Man), this movie did nothing for me... except promote Evanescence, which is now one of my favourite bands.
X2 (2003) - I loved Nightcrawler. Other than that, meh.
Hulk (2003) - I think Marvel is pretending this never existed, and I don't blame them. I do find it hard to believe they didn't learn from their mistakes, and another Hulk movie is in the works.
The Punisher (2004) - Didn't see it... no wait, I think I did. That's how memorable it was.
Spider-Man II (2004) - It's only my deep devotion to you, Spider-Man, that makes me continue to watch your increasingly bad movies. Doc Ock was amazing. That subway scene nearly made me snort pop out of my nose.Blade Trinity (2004) - I *almost* saw this because Ryan Renolds is in it, but in the end, even that wasn't enough to convince me to see Wesley Snipes as a rogue vampire... for the third time.
Elektra (2005) - Huh? Didn't she die? Why is she back? No, really. This movie was so bad, it would have been better to leave her dead.
Fantastic Four (2005) - Wasn't there a scene with Jessica Alba in either her underoos or nothing, standing on a bridge? I'm pretty sure this whole movie was made *just* for that scene.
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) - This movie was so bad, it made me sputter with outrage while I was watching it. What have you done to my beloved (but not quite as beloved as Spider-Man) X-Men??
Ghost Rider (2007) - Okay, I find Nicholas Cage to be really drippy, but this movie wasn't that bad... especially compared to the previous 7 Marvel releases.
Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Yeah, not even my profound love of Spider-Man could make me see the good parts of this film. Sandman was a good bad guy... I like Topher Grace... bad ass Peter Parker looked like he joined Good Charlotte. It was terrible. I was sad for days.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) - I haven't seen this one. I like the Silver Surfer's story, but I somehow doubt this movie will do it justice, since every other movie seemed to be so terrible. Maybe I was still hurting from the deep betrayal I felt over Spider-Man 3.
Ironman (2008) - HALLELUJAH! MY FAITH IN MARVEL IS RESTORED!
at least until...
*sigh*
2 comments:
I greatly enjoyed your commentary on the Marvel movies. It made me smile which is a big deal since I'm still sick :(
Iron Man was great. Definitely one of the best comic book movies, up there with the first two Spider-Man films. I would point out that Robert Downey Jr.'s substance abuse makes him the perfect person to play carousing, alcoholic Tony Stark.
Iron Man is one of "those" comic book heroes: really cool concept, but all his villains suck. This film's villain was okay, if unoriginal, but the comics are full of lame nemeses.
I liked the Blade movies but they definitely declined in quality. Ryan Reynolds' quipping was the only real reason to watch the third one.
The first X-Men movie was a great example of establishing characterization (except Halle Berry as Storm, who sucked), even though it had maybe 15 minutes of actual plot. The second had some really neat character moments too. The third one just stank.
Daredevil was horribly written, managed to completely subvert the character, and Jennifer Garner was horrible as Elektra. She was even worse in her own film. She is too cute and "girl next door" to play a conflicted assassin anti-hero (yes, Elektra is one of my favourite Marvel characters).
Ghost Rider--surprisingly good whenever Nicholas Cage was onscreen (I don't usually like him). Horrifyingly bad whenever he turned into Ghost Rider. The CGI wasn't even good.
The Fantastic Four movies were pretty sucky, except for Human Torch and occasionally Thing.
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