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May. 20th, 2008 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misachanI actually saw Iron Man at the midnight showing (because my boyfriend and I are those kinds of nerds) and meant to comment on it then, but I wanted to wait until I had the chance to write a really good review. So yeah, two weeks later....:)
There's not a whole lot I can add to what everyone else in the world has already said except that I love this movie like cake. Delicious, delicious cake. And I'm still astonished at how charmed I was by Tony Stark. When I got home I felt like going back through Civil War and rereading all of Tony's dialogue in RDJ's voice to see if any of the charisma carried over. Watching the movie was a bit "A ha!" moment, where I finally got what the Marvel U saw in the guy and had never really come through before. Movie!Tony is someone I can picture being friends with Captain America (look for a "How I Would Write the Avengers Move" post in the near future).
I really can't think of a bad thing to say about the movie. Some of my flist was quibbling about Pepper but I thought she was adorable and tough without being brassy, which is an easy trap for comic book Gal Fridays to fall into. It was easy to see how she keeps Tony's life going in a reasonably straight line. And for every quibble there seemed to be a cute piece of Pepper/Tony fluff, so it more than evened out.
I do wish Rhodey was getting the same amount of love; I really really liked him. He was smart and got good lines and seemed to have a good head on his shoulders (I liked the quick War Machine foreshadowing), yet at the same time it was clear he would throw himself in front of a bus for Tony. That look on his face when he found Tony! The movie clearly set up that while Tony doesn't have a lot of people in his life the ones he has absolutely love him to death.
The second movie I saw was Speed Racer. Now I didn't love it as deeply as I did Iron Man, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Speed's not as deep a character as Tony but he's not supposed to be; Speed Racer is like injecting candy directly into your veins. The high point for me was the very beginning, where Speed is literally racing his brother's ghost. The way they shot that sequence was very moving without needing a lot of words; I didn't think the rest of the movie quite lived up to that level of emotion, but it was still a fun movie.
One of the most interesting things about it was that with the way it was shot (and especially the color palette it uses) by the end it had blended live action and animation to the point that distinction between the two really ceased to matter. Not in a too-much-CGI, more machine than man way; the Wachowskis managed to blur the line between live and animation in a way that I don't think anyone else has managed to accomplish. It's not an adaptation of an anime world, it is an anime world, right down to the colors and blocking and outsize reaction shots. Watching it you feel what it would be like to live in Speed Racer land, cartoon physics and all.
Opening sequence aside, my favorite part of Racer X putting the fear of God into that ninja (oh those poor, poor ninjas) and the incredibly random weapons in the final race (Beeeeeeeeessss!). Paying the viking team in pelts? Gold. If I have a criticism, it would be that the movie could have done without some of the kid-and-monkey hijinks, but to be fair the anime had kid-and-monkey hijinks galore.
In short, Speed Racer deserves to be doing better at the box office. It certainly deserves to be doing better than When in Vegas. Ugh.
There's not a whole lot I can add to what everyone else in the world has already said except that I love this movie like cake. Delicious, delicious cake. And I'm still astonished at how charmed I was by Tony Stark. When I got home I felt like going back through Civil War and rereading all of Tony's dialogue in RDJ's voice to see if any of the charisma carried over. Watching the movie was a bit "A ha!" moment, where I finally got what the Marvel U saw in the guy and had never really come through before. Movie!Tony is someone I can picture being friends with Captain America (look for a "How I Would Write the Avengers Move" post in the near future).
I really can't think of a bad thing to say about the movie. Some of my flist was quibbling about Pepper but I thought she was adorable and tough without being brassy, which is an easy trap for comic book Gal Fridays to fall into. It was easy to see how she keeps Tony's life going in a reasonably straight line. And for every quibble there seemed to be a cute piece of Pepper/Tony fluff, so it more than evened out.
I do wish Rhodey was getting the same amount of love; I really really liked him. He was smart and got good lines and seemed to have a good head on his shoulders (I liked the quick War Machine foreshadowing), yet at the same time it was clear he would throw himself in front of a bus for Tony. That look on his face when he found Tony! The movie clearly set up that while Tony doesn't have a lot of people in his life the ones he has absolutely love him to death.
The second movie I saw was Speed Racer. Now I didn't love it as deeply as I did Iron Man, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Speed's not as deep a character as Tony but he's not supposed to be; Speed Racer is like injecting candy directly into your veins. The high point for me was the very beginning, where Speed is literally racing his brother's ghost. The way they shot that sequence was very moving without needing a lot of words; I didn't think the rest of the movie quite lived up to that level of emotion, but it was still a fun movie.
One of the most interesting things about it was that with the way it was shot (and especially the color palette it uses) by the end it had blended live action and animation to the point that distinction between the two really ceased to matter. Not in a too-much-CGI, more machine than man way; the Wachowskis managed to blur the line between live and animation in a way that I don't think anyone else has managed to accomplish. It's not an adaptation of an anime world, it is an anime world, right down to the colors and blocking and outsize reaction shots. Watching it you feel what it would be like to live in Speed Racer land, cartoon physics and all.
Opening sequence aside, my favorite part of Racer X putting the fear of God into that ninja (oh those poor, poor ninjas) and the incredibly random weapons in the final race (Beeeeeeeeessss!). Paying the viking team in pelts? Gold. If I have a criticism, it would be that the movie could have done without some of the kid-and-monkey hijinks, but to be fair the anime had kid-and-monkey hijinks galore.
In short, Speed Racer deserves to be doing better at the box office. It certainly deserves to be doing better than When in Vegas. Ugh.
