I didn't like itIRON MAN: The Playboy Years
January 5th 2009 06:13
Heard Kevin Smith raving about the Iron Man movie so decided to check it out at the cinemas.
This adaptation is a letdown, mainly because they got the Tony Stark character totally wrong. Did these guys read the comics at all? Have they at least read some recent stuff, like Civil War? Tony Stark is a guy without a sense of humour, someone who takes himself and his view of the world way too seriously. His stubbornness and penchant for a drink comes from this, not, as the movie would have it, from some decadent hedonistic streak.
In the comics, Tony is (or was) a father figure for Peter Parker. In this series, if the mischievous Robert Downey Jnr. were ever to team up with Spidey, what would they do? Have a party?!
The movie has Tony Stark acting all ingenuous about the ways of the world and the role of his weapons business in it. In the comics the opposite is true, Stark is a political animal, so obsessed with his own righteousness and ideologies he's lost in his own fog of war. But in the movie, R Downey Jnr. has been too busy partying on and enjoying his daddy's inheritance like some male Paris Hilton to realize what is going on in the world.
This is not a great movie. This is dumbing down the weaker aspects of the comic series. And believe me, that's pretty dumb.
This adaptation is a letdown, mainly because they got the Tony Stark character totally wrong. Did these guys read the comics at all? Have they at least read some recent stuff, like Civil War? Tony Stark is a guy without a sense of humour, someone who takes himself and his view of the world way too seriously. His stubbornness and penchant for a drink comes from this, not, as the movie would have it, from some decadent hedonistic streak.
In the comics, Tony is (or was) a father figure for Peter Parker. In this series, if the mischievous Robert Downey Jnr. were ever to team up with Spidey, what would they do? Have a party?!
The movie has Tony Stark acting all ingenuous about the ways of the world and the role of his weapons business in it. In the comics the opposite is true, Stark is a political animal, so obsessed with his own righteousness and ideologies he's lost in his own fog of war. But in the movie, R Downey Jnr. has been too busy partying on and enjoying his daddy's inheritance like some male Paris Hilton to realize what is going on in the world.
This is not a great movie. This is dumbing down the weaker aspects of the comic series. And believe me, that's pretty dumb.
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