How hi-tech really is the Iron Man suit in terms of safety?
Let’s talk three things about movies for this once. Oh, the third thing is that there’s some high -tech issue in Iron Man that I have a bone to pick with.
1. Did you notice the pattern?
Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Favreau in Iron Man.
Sean Penn in Hulk.
Suddenly, it has become vogue-ish for acclaimed drama actors and directors to figure unabashedly in popcorn movies, movies that purvey the original reason why people go to cinema houses in the first place — to have fun.
Cinema is the natural evolution of the stage play and it maintained more or less the latter’s original objective — to provide fun and escapism for the majority of lowly mortals like us. And drama actors recently realized that, kindof.
Through time, however, cinema’s objective has been subverted, deconstructed, and diversified many times over to suit other purposes.
Hence, the emergence of pink movies (homos? hehe), art movies, porn, experimental cinema, propaganda, other so called highbrowed conceptual cinema that caters only to the tastes of narcissists and critics perched on their lofty ivory towers.
2. I just saw Iron Man. How do I rate it?
Two H’s: Iron Man is (1) human (after an epiphany, he was half the man he used to be to become Iron Man); (2) humorous.
Robert Downey Jr. is wonderful. The tomatometer for Iron Man at RottenTomatoes.com is at a staggering 95%+.
FYI, Rotten Tomatoes is popular for canvassing the opinions of known movie crtitcs worldwide and converting them into the convenient tomatometer.
I leave the reviewing to the critics. I’d say Iron Man compares well with the Spider-man trilogy and Batman begins. Good story and character development. Enough said.
One more thing. I feel that the Afghan scene in the middle of the movie where Iron Man revisits his captors is way more spectacular than the supposed climax at the end. That doesn’t distract me from praising Iron Man, though.
Now this is very important. Don’t fail to wait until the end of the credits!!!!!!
3. One small complaint: Funny physics. This is the Tech Don. Might as well discuss this. How hi-tech really is the Iron Man suit in terms of safety?
There are scenes in w/c Iron Man falls or gets shot down from the sky, or is rammed and smacked down by a giant robot (IronMonger), and Iron Man appears to go thru massive acceleration and deceleration (look ma, no parachute), and appears unscathed.
But survival is dubious at best because Mr. Starks, Downey Jr.’s character, is human, after all (e.g., is never mutant and wasn’t injected with some potion). What’s inside the Iron Man suit that helps stop his mortal body from hitting the Iron Man suit from the inside during the enormous positive and negative G’s?
If some hi-tech cushioning device is what is preventing Starks from hitting the Iron Man armor from the inside, his internal organs (they are matter) will still decelerate and accelerate.
This problem evokes the funny physics of Dr. Octopus, Spider-man’s enemy, in Spider-man 2. Note that Doc Oc can survive Spider-man’s mutant punch, although Doc Oc himself is no mutant .
These are geeky complaints, however. And the popcorn movie fan is no doubt unperturbed. See ya around, alligator.
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