MOVIE REVIEW FOR :"IRON MAN"
MOVIE REVIEW: "IRON MAN"
Review and art by Phil Seahorn
STARRING
Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Leslie Bibb, and Gwyneth Paltrow
We are witnessing something, well,NEW in the comic book movie franchise.
MORE shows are being added for the movie "Iron Man."
MORE SHOWS.
With "Spiderman", the hype was there already, and the appropriate amount of theatres where available.
HOWEVER, the success of "Iron man" is like the early snowball effect of the O'bama campaign.
This movie is GAINING popularity AFTER it's release.
At Ronnie's (best movie house this side of the water), there is a 9:00 show.
IN THE MORNING.
Like, breakfast time morning.
This movie, I predict, will "out "Spiderman" ,"Spiderman".
Why?
BECAUSE IT IS FUCKING OFF THE HOOK.
I have seen it six times already, and plan on seeing it again this weekend.
Two words:
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
Well ,three for all the technical assholes.
Anyway, Robert's been my boy since "Chaplin".
But, cause the man was a stone cold crack head, Hollywood and the press really underrate this man and his work.
Not anymore.
He deserves an Oscar nod for his role as billionaire playboy Tony Stark, and here's why:
A decade and some change ago, this man was buying crack on the street corners of L.A.
Even while doing this, he turned in a performance that did give him a Oscar nod in "Chaplin".
And during this time, this motherfucker would get so high that he would wake up in other people's homes in their fucking beds!
C'mon, now, what kind of motherfucuker has the "intestinal fortitude" as the old folks used to say to pull off shit like this and STILL get nominated for a fucking ACADAMY AWARD????
C'MON!!!!!!!!!
So ,to me, ol' Rob is a bad motherfucker.
AND THE ONLY PERFECT CHOICE FOR THE REAL LIFE PORTRAYAL OF TONY STARK, "IRON MAN".
Street cred AND Hollywood cred prepared him for his ultimate role:
A FUCKING COMIC BOOK CHARACTER.
Talk about "irony".
(Heh heh.....)
This movie is just getting more and more popular, and I have NEVER seen word of mouth propel a movie like this.
The only other movie I can even make a close comparison is the street promotion that propelled the movie "Ghost" to Oscar nominations.
The movie is just shot well,the special effects are a perfect mesh of reality and CGI,Favreau's direction is fast,funny, and poignant, and the shit is just SO FUCKING GOOD!
Downey and Terrance Howard really have a buddy thing going on in the film that makes their scenes very believable, and Gweneth Paltrow is just fucking beautiful, wholesome and beautiful.
But who the fuck would have EVER imagined "make believe stoner" Jeff Bridges could pull off such an evil bastard as the old time villian in the "Iron Man" comics, Obidia Stane?
And the really big star of the movie is the "Iron Man" armor.
When he suits up for the first time in the red and gold armor, the movie audience lost their fucking minds in the theatre.
Well, I did, too, because the shit was SO.
FUCKING.
COOL!!!!!
I mean, it was just fucking COOL!!!!
The whole movie is.
And the ass kicker to this shit?
The critics STILL only gave it a "B+", knowing full well that the fucking movie is putting MORE asses in the theatre seats , and has been steadily doing this for three weeks now, and will probably stay number 1 for the third week in a row.
Well, fuck the critics.
Go see this movie.
Shit, see it, go home, buy some "Iron Man" comics, or dig up your old ones, then go see the fucking movie again.
SEAHORN MOVIEMETER: "A+"
posted by PHILLIP SEAHORN @ 10:14 AM
