He… Is… Irooooon Maaaaaan

As part of my terminal descent into unhipness (or just my being spoiled by the Singapore movie theater system) it’s only as of today that I finally got around to watching Iron Man.  I liked it.  Robert Downey Jr. was amazing in the role and I’m not sure whether this is a good or bad thing, but I tended to be MORE interested in the film when he was just doing Tony Stark stuff as opposed to donning the iconic red and yellow suit.  It was a very entertaining movie, I laughed in all the right places and all that, but I felt that the last 3/4 kind went a little flat.  Or perhaps I should say that they simply played it safe and went for all the usual slam-bang action that you expect in a comic book movie, and I was a teensy bit let down by the descent into “standard” comic book fare (at least as far as complexity of plot) with the typical bad guy turn and the resultant smash up that occurred.  The best comics these days no longer fall into this trap, but I guess since comics-as-films is still an “emerging” genre, you can’t necessarily expect them to be up to the same par as a Gaiman/Vaughn/Moore/Insert-Godly-Writer-Here comic book.

In the end I did enjoy it, and felt entertained, but I still think that when I watch The Dark Knight in December (Nope, haven’t watched that yet either) I’ll probably be a little more satisfied overall.