Iron Man

[pktechgirlbackup]

Iron Man is an awesome movie. It's so awesome that I timed my desperately needed bathroom break to coincide with an action sequence so I wouldn't miss any plot. It was also the most plausible superhero origin story ever- the only problem being that, if the movie is set now the technology in his lab would make far more money than his weapons. It had a touch of run-through-every-major-personality-point-in-10-minutes disease, along with this-unimportant-moment-will-obviously-come-back-later, but handled both problems far more gracefully than most (even Batman, who has the benefit of having villains who might conceivably make themselves conspicuous with spandex costumes). It also successfully danced around the eggshells inherent in making a movie about a weapons dealer and the invasion of Afghanistan.