The words “Michael Bay” and “done well” do not belong in the same sentence.
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.
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:
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? 
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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.
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.
AMEN!! Preach it!
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 
Since when has a billionaire ever eaten at Burger King?
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.
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.
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.
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.
My (usually very quiet) moviegoing companion nearly shrieked: “Not the COBRA!!!”
Clearly, it was a traumatic viewing experience.
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.
Any chance it was a replica?
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.
Buzz on Hancock is poor-to-middlin’, but, man, Thou Shalt Not Diss The Guillermo.
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.
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.
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”.
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.