John Iwaniszek wrote:
> 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.
Wait. Are you implying that the miniature Arc Generator I'm building in my
garage following movie specs might NOT work?
> 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.
Yay!
--
Jim
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