Friday, May 23, 2008 |
22:55 - Where does he get those wonderful toys?
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Oh, and yes, Iron Man was indeed freakin' brilliant.
It did deeply disappoint me in one key moment, though: near the beginning, there is a mock-up Forbes magazine cover that reads: Tony Stark Takes the Reigns at 21.
Rrrgh. The real Forbes would never let such a faux come to pas, would it?
UPDATE: Oh yes—one thing I thought was potentially noteworthy...
There's plenty of product placement in this movie; Audi is all over the place, and Burger King gets a prominent shout-out. But one scene struck me as bizarre: Early in the movie, Obadiah Stane comes into scene on a Segway. But the camera doesn't even show it below the handlebars. It's just assumed that the audience understands what he's riding on. It makes no attempt to do a big golly-gee framing shot to establish what's going on, like in one of GOB's entrances in Arrested Development; the Segway's iconic shape is totally missing. Since the only purpose of putting a Segway into a movie like this, it seems to me, is to make plain the whole "These guys are techno-awesome" milieu, this directorial choice seemed particularly unusual.
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