Pretty cool. A lot of stuff flies and blows up. Good dialogue and excellent performances. Pretty cool.
Robert Downey Jr never disappoints.
Except when he’s ordered back to rehab.
That’s my kind of review. Concise and light on pretension. 
We saw it Wed… good stuff. Money well spent at a theater, for a change.
Robert
Great then. I’ll take the 16 year old. We’ll both like it.
I want to see that. I’d forgotten about it.
Do they play Black Sabbath?
I was going to say the same thing, really. As superhero movies go, this
stands out pretty well. I think even my wife would like it, and she really
hated spider-man (but mostly because she thought Peter Parker is too
whiney). I like Tony Stark’s character a lot. And the plot is surprisingly
plot-like. The humor is fairly well integrated. Also, the soundtrack is
pretty good.
Ozzy’s surprisingly absent, though there was an instrumental version
of the obvious Black Sabbath song during the credits.
Hey…glad to hear it. We were drawn to it, but didn’t want to be duped into paying for yet another movie designed exclusively for 14-year-old boys.
Thanks, for the thumbs up.
Well, this has the required material to make it a superhero movie, including the need to suspend belief. But, I think what make it stand out, besides really seamless CG, is a really smart script and terrific acting.
Derivative of Goddard.
Is it true his girlfriend starred in Ferrous Beulah? 
djm
I took my 17-year-old son to see it yesterday.
It was a good entertaining “popcorn flick”.
My son was incredulous when I told him that the bald business partner guy was the same actor who played “the Dude”. (It is, isn’t it?)
About “Smoke on the Water”, I didn’t get why they used that tune.
I mean, in Apocalypse Now when they use “The End”, it makes sense on a number of levels, the time period, the theme.
But Iron Man is set in the present, not the 60’s, and I didn’t see any connexion whatsoever. Am I missing something?
I didn’t stay all the way through the credits (so I missed the surprise coda) but I don’t think they used Smoke on the Water. I wonder if you’re confusing that with “Iron Man” by Black Sabbath, which they did use.
I thought there was already a film like that. Can there be two? 
I mostly enjoyed the flick, too (though I didn’t think the digital effects were seamless – I thought they were kinda clumsy in spots).
The one thing that irked: all the product placement. Long close-ups of Burger King bags, Audi symbols, LG phones with Verizon service, Breguet (or was it Bulgari?) watches, on and on. It was ridiculous; it seemed every frame was plugging something. I wouldn’t have minded so much if I hadn’t also paid $10 to watch the thing; at that level of advertising (and look, it worked; I remember all those products!), I should get in free, get a discount, or be paid to watch the damned thing. Grr.
I know it’s been around a while, product placement in movies, but the level in Iron Man just seemed incredible.
I liked the flying and blowing-stuff-up bits, and thought RD Jr.'s comic timing was great, though. . .
[Edited to add: out of curiosity, I Googled (look, I’m plugging Google!) for "Iron Man product placement, and found that the following all had agreements to receive significant placement in the movie: Apple, Audi, Blüthner, Brown University, Bulgari, Burger King, Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac, Caesars Palace, Chevrolet, Cisco, CNBC, Dell, Dolce & Gabbana, Esquire, Forbes, Ford, Goodyear, LG, M.I.T., Maxim, MySpace, Newsweek, Nissan, Operation, Persol, Ray-Ban, Rolling Stone, Rolls Royce, Saleen, Segway, Shelby, Tesla, Texaco, The Apogee Foundation, U.S. Air Force, University of California, Berkeley, Vanity Fair, Verizon, Wired Magazine.
Geez.]