By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:55:05 +0000

Terrence Howard played Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes in Iron Man. But don’t look for him in Iron Man II, (due out in 2010). It’s being widely reported that Don Cheadle, (Ocean’s 11-13, Hotel Rowanda), is taking over the Rhodey role. No

By: rose

rose — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:21:40 +0000

i love iron man ,it is great but who played the young black man at his side no on seem o know my answer

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:57:07 +0000

Ok, so, I just finished watching Iron Man earlier today and loved it. I loved it, and yet, I couldn’t really put my finger on why it was that I liked it so much. I started thinking back to other recent action movies I’ve seen like Transformers.
Were the effects better in Iron Man? No. Was the story better? No. Was the directing better? No. Nothing was really better, yet I liked it more. Why?
Then it hit me. Not once during the whole movie was I taken out of my engagement with the storyline by the lead character being emasculated by the “strong female character role model” while she did something fantastical while the heroine is left cowering somewhere in awe of her massive stones.
I was never left shaking my head at nauseating cheeseball stunts to pull the males role down just to boost the women’s role up in an attempt to gain a few extra bucks.
Hollywood uses this tactic ad-nauseum to attract female movie goers and I find it to be insulting that such a cheap trick is so often employed. Women are strong and confident enough that they don’t need stunts like this. A strong female role is more effective by having a strong role and character rather than a lame tactic like this.
That is what made Iron Man for me. It’s in no way degrading women, which I would not stand for, but it is completely sans cheesy all too common Hollywood gender role reversals.
All I can say is that I’m glad that Iron man was allowed to keep his masculinity throughout. Never once was he made to watch an androgynous romantic interest drive an 18 wheeler 60 mph in reverse while blasting aliens out of the sky with an m16/grenade launcher while he cried in the corner.
Were there strong female roles? Not exceptionally strong, no. But Pepper had more courage all throughout the film than I could ever muster. The movie revolves around Iron man, because that’s what the movie is about; Iron man. Forcing anything else would be nothing more than a cheap stunt.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:55:18 +0000

The movie was great until the end. It was like watching a Rocky movie and Rocky wins by a forfeit!

By: BlackDeuce

BlackDeuce — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:08:23 +0000

I absolutely agree that this removed the bitter aftertaste from the last Spiderman movie. It has reaffirmed my belief that Marvel is at the top of it’s game in the superhero department.

By: Sgt13Echo

Sgt13Echo — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:46:43 +0000