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Sun, 04 May 2008
Another good comic adaptation - 20:32
Last night I went to see the movie
Iron Man with a
friend. I am somewhat a comics fan and in the past collected some DC titles,
hence I loved the movie
Batman Begins as they
stuck closely to the original material and had characters that mostly worked
extremely well in that context (though I still have to admit
Stardust is
my favourite movie in recent years) (probably closely followed by Amelie,
though I do not know if I can count that as recent any more, 7 years
ago). Enough with the
tangents, I
am attempting to point out I like comics and yet know very little about any
Marvel titles. (which is why I think Batman Begins is the best super hero
movie filmed yet, simply because I discount or ignore Spiderman 1 or X-Men 1
as I know very little about the source material)
I had thought the Iron Man movie was produced as part of the new
independant
Marvel Studios setup, however reading the appropriate wikipedia page and
the Iron Man page linked at the top I learnt this was not the case. Though it
is interesting to see the discussion about script writing and letting the
action flow around a credible story "There was much improvisation in dialogue
scenes, because the script was not done when filming began (the filmmakers had
focused on the story making sense and planning the action)." Which I think
came through well. The movie as a whole was entertaining, appropriate humour,
showed a sense of how horrible war is and was a good action flick. I liked it.
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