Seeing Iron Man for the first time since the theaters made me respect the movie all that much more. It is so much fun that you don’t realize how light and how ridiculous it is.
People who accuse Star Trek of relying on coincidence really need to check this movie out.
And how the character of Pepper Potts wasn’t held up by feminists as a target is flabbergasting. Or, maybe it was. Like I said, the zippy nature of the film is too overwhelming to ignore.
Example: why does simply landing on the roof cause Tony Stark to crash through a roof, a piano and another floor? It doesn’t matter, because the timing and effects and editing is perfect – and it gets a great laugh. Favreau, while we weren’t looking, became an absolute master of idiotic popcorn cinema.
