Let's get the problem of Iron Man out of the way before anything else is
said:
Dale Earnhardt died after coming to an abrupt stop from approximately 180
miles an hour when he hit the wall at Daytona International Speedway in
2001. The primary cause of death was due to massive head injuries. The
human brain is a lump of very soft tissue floating in a boneyu capsule.
It
is free to slosh around and since it is unrestrained, sudden stops can
cause it to impact the interior skull wall resulting in injury or death.
In Reality, Tony Stark's career as Iron Man would have been over with the
first test flight.
But in the Marvel Universe, Tony Stark's cinematic outing was an
outstanding multi-tiered story of adventure, redemption, human failing,
and
conquering adversity.
The story outline is as simple as any action adventure story based on a
comic book character would be. The details of the characters brought out
in the ****trayals by Roberty Downey, Jr., Gwynweth Paltrow, and Jeff
Bridges (and Shaun Taub as "Yinsen"). I liked the liesurely pace of the
early part of the story because it gave the actors time to flesh out their
characters. The evil henchmen were somewhat cartoonish and this seemed to
me to be a weakness of the film. Over all, however, the movie is best in
class and I enjoyed it immensely.
I disagree that the movie is suitable for children. The story is
definitely aimed at an adult audience and many of the scenes of violence
are quite grim. In particular the massacre of villagers towards the end
would be very alarming for western kids who prefer that their homes be
sanctuaries and not slaughterhouses.
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