Iron Man Movie Excitement
April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
As Spider-Man 3 prepares to hit theaters on Friday night kicking off the summer 2007 movies, I begin to look forward to the Marvel movies of summer 2008. Headlining those charts is the exciting Jon Favreau rendition of Iron Man.
Classically, Iron Man/Tony Stark has not been one of my favorite Marvel characters. However, 2005’s Orson Scott Card written Ultimate Iron Man series piqued my interest. Following this, the deep involvement in Spider-Man continuity. Peter befriends and relies on Tony Stark, moves into Avengers tower with Mary Jane and Aunt May. He then changes to the Iron Spidey costume. Eventually comes out in support of Stark’s Super Hero Registration Act initiative and reveals his identity. His stance changes in the long run as he defies Iron Man, goes underground and joins the resistance as part of the conclusion of Civil War. All this certainly puts Iron Man front and center in all my comic readings.
Of additional note, last winter’s Invincible Iron Man DVD, created by the same animation studio responsible for Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2 DVDs, was the best of the three.
With all this in mind, the star studded casting of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Terrence Howard as good friend and coworker Jim Rhodes/War Machine, Gwyneth Paltrow as the love interest Viginia “Pepper” Potts, and Jeff Bridges as the apparent villain Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger is highly exciting.
I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the first teaser trailer…
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Ultimate Iron Man
February 7, 2006 | 2 Comments
When I found out Orson Scott Card was writing Ultimate Iron Man, I had to check it out.
Card is without compare my favorite author. His portrayal of children as intelligent full characters captured me at a young age. Many other authors leave children as one-dimensional after thoughts. Used to build character of others, but with none of their own. In fact, his character development is fantastic all around.
Anyway, it was no surprise that Card decided to begin his Ultimate Iron Man series with Tony Stark as a child. Stark was always just a rich snob with a fancy suit to me. Card made him a gifted child with unique abilities. This portrayal of Iron Man made him have neural tissue distributed throughout his body, not just in his head, giving him the advantage of great intellect, but this was coupled with suffering. His entire body hurt constantly, like having second degree burns all over.
Card take Stark through to early adulthood when he gets his first taste of alcohol, setting the ground work for his alcoholism. Apparently, the distributed neural tissue greatly enhances the effects and adds some relief to the constant pain. I’m a bit uncomfortable with this justification of his alcoholism…
Anyway I look at it though, this is the first time Iron Man has ever been made interesting to me. This series gets two thumbs up from me.
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