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Can I go fast now, please?
Jun. 13th, 2008 12:12 amGwynne was wonderful enough to treat me to Iron Man and Diet Pepsi, except the guy I bagged for at the Winn-Dixie (Guillermo) beat her to the Diet Pepsi part. Yes, a complete stranger paid for my soda/caffeine addiction just because I bagged his groceries.
Anyway, that was after the complete rush I got from the movie. This is just as good as my Flist have been saying, WTCKH! This is also some of the most glorious movie tech I have ever, ever seen as I honestly would only be guessing 99% of the time which parts are greenscreen, which are pure CGI, which are stunt doubled.
The relationships are beautifully enacted here, such a light hand on all of them.
It's interesting and so fitting that the credits point out this was filmed entirely in the U.S... especially since I recently found out to my great surprise and certain amazement from some real photos of Afghanistan field ops that the country looks shockingly like the area right around Edwards AFB. They're perfect doubles for each other, right down to light levels, I think.
I am quite in love with Tony's workroom. The interactive hologram projector, the colloquial-response waldo-robots... I feel bad for the cars, though. (I wanna see a Junkyard War between Tony Stark and Ted Kord, now that we have Ted back. GLEE!)
Two words: Jeff. Bridges. 'To smile, and smile, and be a villain.'
Two things I found distractingly unlikeable: Tony's bad fake moustache in some scenes, although I don't know why it would have taken Downey that long to grow the real thing; and Pepper's gawdawfully crippling stilleto strappy things for her to break her ankles with during the whole climax. C'mon, she ain't that short, is she?
Although that looks a lot like Zeljko Ivanek in one of his usual roles, that's actually Jennifer Gray's husband Clark Gregg playing S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson. And IMDb says that Downey's an Iron Man fanboy to start with - gawd, it's like Clooney getting to wear the cape and cowl. I love it when Our Kind get to make it where we all want to be... because then we get to ride with them.
One last thing... no rumours about Downey screwing his life up from this production, right? Can we dare hope we won't have another premature funeral now? Will Iron Man do for Downey what it did for Stark...?
THANK YOU, GWYNNE!
Anyway, that was after the complete rush I got from the movie. This is just as good as my Flist have been saying, WTCKH! This is also some of the most glorious movie tech I have ever, ever seen as I honestly would only be guessing 99% of the time which parts are greenscreen, which are pure CGI, which are stunt doubled.
The relationships are beautifully enacted here, such a light hand on all of them.
It's interesting and so fitting that the credits point out this was filmed entirely in the U.S... especially since I recently found out to my great surprise and certain amazement from some real photos of Afghanistan field ops that the country looks shockingly like the area right around Edwards AFB. They're perfect doubles for each other, right down to light levels, I think.
I am quite in love with Tony's workroom. The interactive hologram projector, the colloquial-response waldo-robots... I feel bad for the cars, though. (I wanna see a Junkyard War between Tony Stark and Ted Kord, now that we have Ted back. GLEE!)
Two words: Jeff. Bridges. 'To smile, and smile, and be a villain.'
Two things I found distractingly unlikeable: Tony's bad fake moustache in some scenes, although I don't know why it would have taken Downey that long to grow the real thing; and Pepper's gawdawfully crippling stilleto strappy things for her to break her ankles with during the whole climax. C'mon, she ain't that short, is she?
Although that looks a lot like Zeljko Ivanek in one of his usual roles, that's actually Jennifer Gray's husband Clark Gregg playing S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson. And IMDb says that Downey's an Iron Man fanboy to start with - gawd, it's like Clooney getting to wear the cape and cowl. I love it when Our Kind get to make it where we all want to be... because then we get to ride with them.
One last thing... no rumours about Downey screwing his life up from this production, right? Can we dare hope we won't have another premature funeral now? Will Iron Man do for Downey what it did for Stark...?
THANK YOU, GWYNNE!
