Comments on: REVIEW: Iron Man: American Can-Do Spirit

By: Ricoh Black Toner Cartridge For Sp-c400 Printer Black

Ricoh Black Toner Cartridge For Sp-c400 Printer Black — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:27:42 +0000

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IRON MAN is a lot of fun and will make a lot of money. It seems to have a bit of “four quadran [...]…

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:40 +0000

I hadn’t been to BK in awhile, so when I coincidentally grabbed a Whopper, Jr. last night (Could the thought have been subplanted and dormant since Friday??), I was thrilled to see the Iron Man stuff all around. Do geek audiences groan at THIS shameless product placement? The door swings both ways; show us a burger, and a wider audience of kids suddenly has li’l Iron Men of their own, and maybe wants to read more about this cool armored hero . . . etc. If someone told me 10 years ago that Iron Man would be this mainstream, I wouldn’t have believed it. And I think it’s great for business.

We definitely won’t see an Iron Man reboot flick, like Hulk or Punisher, anytime soon. “The best superhero movies isn’t the one that’s never made; it’s the one that’s only made — ONCE! That’s how Daddy did it . . .!”

By: Rick Rottman

Rick Rottman — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:35:48 +0000

“Also, FWIW, the Stark Industries logo is an almost exact copy of the old McDonnell Douglas logo, so it’s an example of the movie’s production designers doing a great job in copying the military-industrial feel.”

It’s actually a lot closer to the Lockheed-Martin Logo:

http://bentcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/lockheed.jpg

And as far as the Burger King/In-N-Out Burger comparison is concerned, I was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines when the first BK ever to open at an overseas military base. I remember how emotional I felt sinking my teeth into my first of many Whoopers while stationed over there.

Back home we have a word for people that are fans of In-N-Out Burger. We called them Tourists.

By: brett

brett — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:16:49 +0000

All I can say is this movie was absolutely spectacular.

Of the best superhero films since the first Superman and that’s saying a lot. People can look at it now and criticize all they like but its still a classic because people left the theatres in awe, just ‘wow’… they made you really believe a man can fly.

I had that same feeling, just… ‘Wow!’

My dad took my mom to see it and even she thought it was excellent.

By: Ben Morse

Ben Morse — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:58:56 +0000

From the “New York Times”:

“On or around Independence Day in 2003, [Robert Downey Jr.] stopped at a Burger King on the Pacific Coast Highway and threw all his drugs in the ocean. And while he was sitting there chewing on a burger, he decided he was done. This being America, five years later you can walk into that Burger King, and if you order a Kids Meal you can get your own Robert Downey Jr. action figure, wrapped up in gadget ware. (And what does Tony Stark want when he escapes his kidnappers? A good old American cheeseburger — from Burger King, natch.)”

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:48:32 +0000

Eh, it’s was alright. Not bad, not great. It was no Spidey 2. The problem for me was the lack of any surprise in the story. It just chugs along (very entertainingly, mind you), hitting all the superhero movie marks and ends. I would have liked a climax with a bit more… oomph. Something a bit more clever or complex instead of a simple duke out.

It was fun and entertaining, but certainly doesn’t warrant a 96%! I’d say it was more in the 80 percentile. RDJ is absolute perfection though.

By: Tom S.

Tom S. — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:49:46 +0000

I enjoyed the film. It would be nice to see a She Hulk movie or series sometime before I die.

By: Cary Coatney

Cary Coatney — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:39:19 +0000

My dad got a big kick out of the BK product hype – only because he used to manage one.

Coat

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:07:06 +0000

Product placement…big woop.

I have hated Tony Stark since “Civil Bore$”. :)

By: mrpeepants

mrpeepants — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:29:17 +0000

why people get so pissy over product placement is silly. how many times do people go to fast food, restaurant chains, and big box stores to get ur stuff throughout the week. just mirrors real life.

mmm fast food

By: Russ Maheras

Russ Maheras — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:00:54 +0000

“The BK placement was so blatant that the entire theater groaned.”

Obviously, the theater-goers who groaned had never been out of the U.S. for an extended period.

After years on the island of Okinawa, Japan, the first thing I did when I got back to Chicago while on leave was have a Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich. My second meal was a Chicago-style hot dog.

I had a similar fast-food urge when I got back from a deployment to Haiti in 1994. After weeks of eating MREs, stuff like Popeye’s chicken seemed like haute cusine.

By: Jason Caskey

Jason Caskey — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:08:04 +0000

I’ll admit some movies are pretty heavy-handed with the whole product placement thing, but as a society we are saturated with that sort of thing already. I for one find the practice (for the most part on television) of either partially obscuring the logo, or replacing it with a generic one much more distracting. Besides, on LOST the product placements for name brands that don’t exist is part of the charm for me.

By: Randal Jarrell

Randal Jarrell — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:46:19 +0000

I don’t remember the last time I saw so much blatant product placement. It wasn’t just Burger King. Audi went nuts with their new car and the US Air Force spent a ton of money and resources to get its hardware in the film.

By: Todd VerBeek

Todd VerBeek — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:52:53 +0000

Christopher: No, none of the actors will get an Academy Award for this film. That’s not a criticism of their performances, it’s just that the Best Actor awards aren’t for films of this kind.

By: jimmy palmiotti

jimmy palmiotti — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:41:19 +0000

i hated the bk placementt because everyone knows it should have been an IN N OUT burger he wanted.

thought the movie was fun and since i am not a huge iron man fan at all, it was better than i expected.

the teaser at the end was…well, i could have done without it since nothing else in the movie teased there was another being on the planet with powers.

that said, good job by everyone. maybe this will make people pick up robert downys best film to date ” kiss kiss-bang bang”

jimmy