# The Iron Man Movie (no spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640 "2008-05-01T17:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/181 "2008-05-08T18:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] This could have been done just as well by Michael Bay. [/QUOTE] The words “Michael Bay” and “done well” do not belong in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/182 "2008-05-08T19:50:23Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Action sequences were definitely below average in this, not as good as Transformer’s action. [/QUOTE] Huh? I liked the action sequences in Iron Man because, unlike in a Bay movie, I was able to see what the fuck was going on. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/183 "2008-05-08T22:50:03Z")
[QUOTE=Jophiel] You forgot Dell! [/QUOTE] What, and nobody noticed that the whole movie was a USAF recruiting commercial? 😃 “Join the Air Force! Fly sexy fighter jets, party with billioinaire industrialists, and work with superheros!” As usual, you do better to get an officer/aircrew slot than to get stuck with a ground job in the Air Force, of course. Honestly, I hardly ever notice “product placement” in movies for the most part, although the Dells jumped out at me (then again, based on my limited experience in the military, complaining that all the military guys are using Dells is like complaining that all the soldiers are driving in Humvees instead of, say, Volkswagons) I noticed the Audi adverts, but it didn’t really bug me. Similarly, the only product placement in I, Robot that pulled me out for half a second was US Robotics (yes, I know :D). Why WOULDN’T FedEx still be making deliveries in the not-terribly-distant future? I never understood why people complain when movies taking place on Earth in the present or near-future show brand-named things that are often sold or used on Earth in the present or near-future. :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > I said exactly that to my wife in the theater. “He wanted a real hamburger so he went to _Burger King??_” Why the hate for one of the best burger chains around? I got out of Basic Training and was craving McDonalds. I don’t even really _like_ McDonalds, but I was ready to kill for a Quarter Pounder With Cheese by the time they let me off base after six weeks of chowhall food. It’s all about not being able to get it, so you have to get it when you get a chance. Plus, as far as really good burgers go, do they even _have_ Whataburger in Cali? 😛 _d&r_ ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/184 "2008-05-08T23:28:19Z")
I’ll bring the hate- BK is about the worst fast food burger there is. If you have to go chain, try Fatburger or In-N-Out or Knollwood or Tommy’s. Even Jack in the Box and Wendy’s are better than BK. But McDonald’s is crave food, you just can’t help it. It’s the heroin. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/185 "2008-05-08T23:40:54Z")
I liked it a lot for a super hero movie, in that I’m not a fanboy and don’t do comic books. Paltrow, hmmmmm Interestingly, I find even serious asian movies that involve implausible martial arts skills quite tedious while superhero stuff gets a believablility pass, make of that what you will. Major gripe: whose idea was it to have him crash through his roof onto a Shelby Cobra? They should have let him total a Magnun PI era Ferrari or some such thing, that was a painful scene. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/186 "2008-05-09T02:01:12Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] Major gripe: whose idea was it to have him crash through his roof onto a Shelby Cobra? They should have let him total a Magnun PI era Ferrari or some such thing, that was a painful scene. [/QUOTE] AMEN!! Preach it! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/187 "2008-05-09T02:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Why the hate for one of the best burger chains around? [/QUOTE] I’d have felt the same if it was any chain. If I was going to have my first burger in months, I can think of a dozen places that’ll serve me a drippy, greasy slab of delicious wrapped in wax paper before I’d go to Burger King. Then again, Tony Stark probably thinks BK burgers _are_ “real American burgers”, being born all wealthy and stuff and thus missing out on the pleasure of running to the local Dogs, Burgers & Gyros joint for lunch 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/188 "2008-05-09T02:45:24Z")
Since when has a billionaire ever eaten at Burger King? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/189 "2008-05-09T03:04:27Z")
Clearly somebody likes Burger King, otherwise it would go out of business. Perhaps one of those people is Tony Stark. Or Robert Downey Jr. Or Jon Favreau. He did spend three months imprisoned in a cave, after all. Any burger would taste good after that. ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/190 "2008-05-09T03:09:03Z")
I don’t care about product placement in a movie. But the Burger King thing just irked me. It was totally unrealistic. He shoulda been eating In and Out. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/191 "2008-05-09T03:13:56Z")
[QUOTE=Jophiel] You forgot Dell! [/QUOTE] At least one of the monitors in Tony’s home lab had an Apple logo on it, too, though he was clearly running some sort of custom, proprietary operating system. The laptop in Tony’s prison cave lab appeared to be running some flavor of UNIX, though I found the window with the progress bar popping up while the command-line stuff scrolled in the background in full-screen mode a bit awkward (though I haven’t used pure UNIX, so I suppose that scenario might be possible and I just don’t know about it.) The machine in his office appeared to be running some prettied-up Linux variant. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised by the way the various computer screens were depicted. The interfaces looked pretty realistic overall, compared to what we usually see in movies. > [@Raguleader](#): > > Why the hate for one of the best burger chains around? I got out of Basic Training and was craving McDonalds. I don’t even really like McDonalds, but I was ready to kill for a Quarter Pounder With Cheese by the time they let me off base after six weeks of chowhall food. It’s all about not being able to get it, so you have to get it when you get a chance. I just figured that hey, he wanted a cheeseburger _right now_, and Burger King was probably the first burger joint they spotted as they drove from the airport to the press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/192 "2008-05-09T03:16:17Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] Major gripe: whose idea was it to have him crash through his roof onto a Shelby Cobra? [/QUOTE] My (usually very quiet) moviegoing companion nearly shrieked: “Not the _COBRA_!!!” Clearly, it was a traumatic viewing experience. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/193 "2008-05-09T16:10:31Z")
Well, there are a lot of great cars that are easily replaced if you have 100K$ that’s not working too hard, but an irreplacable piece of automotive history? One of the holy grails of car geeks, and not even in some character defining moment? it’s just wrong, it shouldn’t happen in a Hollywood popcorn movie. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/194 "2008-05-09T16:17:49Z")
Any chance it was a replica? ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/195 "2008-05-09T16:53:23Z")
There’s not a doubt in my mind that the actual car used for the movie was a kit, but Tony Stark wouldn’t be caught dead driving an imitation, when he could just go out and buy a real one. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/196 "2008-05-09T23:00:42Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Hopefully **Hancock** and **Hellboy 2** will make people realize that this whole thing is getting played out. [/QUOTE] Buzz on _Hancock_ is poor-to-middlin’, but, man, Thou Shalt Not Diss The Guillermo. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/197 "2008-05-13T00:14:05Z")
Funny how, in all his business troubles, it never seems to occur to Stark that his miniaturized arc reactor could make him more money than all the weapons he’s ever sold. If it can power a suit of flying battle armor, there’s no reason it can’t run a car, and then the world’s petroleum problems are solved. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/198 "2008-05-13T00:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Funny how, in all his business troubles, it never seems to occur to Stark that his miniaturized arc reactor could make him more money than all the weapons he’s ever sold. If it can power a suit of flying battle armor, there’s no reason it can’t run a car, and then the world’s petroleum problems are solved. [/QUOTE] Presumably his concern is that the present people running the company would simply use his miniaturized arc reactor to more effective and lethal weapons systems. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/199 "2008-05-13T01:06:48Z")
Actually, he specifically mentioned looking at ways to market the arc reactor technology during his impromptu “conference” with Obadiah next to the big reactor immediately after the press conference. Obadiah shot it down as being a “dead end”. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640/200 "2008-05-13T01:54:01Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Funny how, in all his business troubles, it never seems to occur to Stark that his miniaturized arc reactor could make him more money than all the weapons he’s ever sold. If it can power a suit of flying battle armor, there’s no reason it can’t run a car, and then the world’s petroleum problems are solved. [/QUOTE] I thought along the same lines of Spidey 2. Even if he couldn’t make a go of the mini-sun, he could still make a fortune with the octopus arms technology. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-iron-man-movie-no-spoilers/447640.md?page=11)