Jim Larson wrote:
> 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, then again, it might. Just don't expect to be able to hurl yourself
against a concrete beam at top speed and live to tell the story.
>
>> 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!
>
(except for crappy sentence fragments - I didn't finish gu****ng about the
actors. They were superior choices for the parts - "Hey Tony, remember
me?" "Sure don't." also: "Lookin' great, Hef")
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