[dubman]

i was glad the final fight didnt turn into an interminable slug match where 2 machines beat each other senseless beyond all structural sense. if we're playing with that much power then something is going to foul up terrifically for somebody pretty quickly.
but yeah, pretty good movie. 4/5 i'd say. shiny and efficient. retains that comic book, ersatz-reality gloss that i like so much about these adaptations. downey is pretty much a guarantee that the lines will be delivered pitch perfect, and it was pretty funny a lot of the time. potts was interesting in that she's plays a highly efficient character who also has the capacity to panic, get nervous, and generally run counter to the cliche of the general inhumanity of the perfect assistant or idiot savant competence of a comic relief one. i thought bridges' character was flatly evil, but it's jeff bridges, so it was fun to watch anyway.

so yeah, lots of fun.

ps. i'm not keeping up with fandom on this obviously, and i know he's revealed his identity to everyone since i stopped reading comic books, but they couldnt even maintain the secrecy for just a little while? so many stories revolved around billionaire stark being terrified of people finding out his secret, that to just wink it away with the (useless) reporter quipping that "you cant possibly expect us to believe it was a bodyguard" was just brushing that off altogether. ah well, tho