Iron Man review from a non-marveller

First thing before the review; I call marvel fans Marvellers. It just makes a lot more sense than marvel zombies. Although it also is the name of the space craft Garia came to earth with in the Toei Spider-Man series.


History:

Iron Man being the premiere movie in the MCU reboot series of movies means it was the first one I saw. Back in 2008 my family was renting an appartment. One day on the way to the appartment in the bigger city we, my dad, my brothers and I,  stopped at the budget theater. Apparently I was the only one who didn't know we were going to a movie afterward. I was 8 years old back then and didn't think much of movies that were coming out except for the trailers I couldn't avoid (like BOLT). I also had no previous encounter with Iron Man as a character. I only saw the movie 1 other time; right after it came out on DVD.

fun fact: On this trip I learned what a blindside was in a car's mirror, because some guy almost rammed us side ways trying to switch lanes...... that guy couldn't see a HUGE van because of a tiny blind spot.

What 8yo me thought of it: I loved it! There was a reason I was the only girl to accompany them; I enjoyed action as much as any of them. I absolutely adored robert downy jr's goatee and overall he reminded me of my dad.... who in retrospect looked nothing like him. I remember only my favorite scenes and my least favorite scenes from that time. I enjoyed him trying to perfect the suit and Pepper's clever way of getting away from Obadiah after the office scene. I wasn't a fan of the scene in the military car when all of the funny people died and however heroic, I hated when Yansin (I had to look up his name :/) died. I didn't care for the romance between Pepper and Tony but I tolerated it, I can't remember most of those scenes anyway... I just know they happened. Overall to 8yo me it was a 8-9 out of 10.

Be back after I watch it

3-ish hours later

So I got a little side tracked but I finished the movie and I still love it!

Casting:
Casting for Tony was definitely perfect! Pepper still isn't my favorite but I think Gwenyth Paltrow was a good choice for her.... not saying much since I find them both to be very lackluster. JEFF BRIDGES YES!!! Have any of you seen Tron? (SAO abridged reference) I loved watching Tron when I was younger, Jeff Bridges was the only actor I could place at the time and he did his job splendidly. Unfortunately this time around I already knew he was the bad guy.

Story:
It was enjoyable.... a bit cliche. To be honest I predicted the ending when I was eight, it had some nice comedy though. My favorite scene is still his experiment phase and my least favorite scene is still the scene where Pepper doesn't die... I mean Yansin's death!

Rating based on how well it was made: 7/10

Rating for how much I enjoyed it: 8.5/10

I'm a simple person if I get swept up by magic - or in my case super heroes in weird costumes - no matter how much I look at it logically it wont impede my view of the movie/show.

Ian

P.S. due to getting really busy half of this review was written 4 months AFTER I started writing it.

Swinging into the MCU with Spider-Man: homecoming (Backstory, Not a review)

Hi there, I am Ian. I'm seventeen and not much of a comic book buff. If you asked me DC or marvel I would reply 'DC!' in a heart beat. but recently I have come to terms with something; Marvel's movies look more appealing.

I have little knowledge of either franchise, I have never read any of the comic books (Yes I am one of those types of  super hero fans), and tend to fake knowledge of them both based on family osmosis from my brother. I watched justice league when I was younger and Tobey Mcguire's spider-man was my childhood, but I didn't know MOST if not ALL of the other marvel characters. Recently osmosis from my brother hasn't worked because he seems to think that Andrew Garfield made a better spider-man than McGuire...... Doesn't matter cause Tom Holland blows them both out of the water.

Spider-Man is my FAVORITE superhero, so when I found out a new movie for him was coming out, I was less than thrilled. This is due to the fact that I HATED the amazing spider-man movies. So when the news came out that there was going to be a new spider-man reboot, I rolled my eyes and put it to the back of my mind. I thought about it again recently and out of curiosity looked up a trailer. I was shocked that it would be coming out in less than a week, (I had previously thought it came out before wonder woman) and that the trailer looked great. So I watched the next trailer, and the next one, and then a few clips, within a few hours I was completely excited about the movie and started watching interviews with the cast; which is something I am not used to doing.

It was in one of these interviews that I heard Spider-Man made an appearance in Captain America: Civil War; a movie I didn't know existed. After attempting to find the Spider-Man scenes on youtube I gave up and just watched the movie. I went into this movie without first watching incredible hulk, Iron Man 3, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, practically snoozing through Iron Man 2 and Thor: The Dark World, and not knowing that Ant-Man or any of the TV shows even existed. All of the other movies I have seen once or twice due to my family.

I absolutely loved Tom Holland's performance and was even more excited to see homecoming... only problem is I shut the movie off after Spider-Man was told to go home, I had no investment in the rest of the movie, heck I didn't even realize Wanda was supposed to be from another country or that vision was Jarvis! I ended up missing the Spidey scene at the end of the credits until the hour before I left to see the new movie.

So I went to the preview showing of the movie on July 6th and thoroughly enjoyed everything. BUT then I found out spider-man is returning in the 3rd avengers and thought "great now I have to get caught up on the universe." So I might as well write about my first time intentionally swinging into the MCU because of my favorite superhero; Spider-Man.

Ian

P.S. Spider-Man: Homecoming is now my favorite movie!