im now watching the first Iron Man, as it's been well over a decade since the last viewing and my dad still thinks it's the best movie ever made. he and i regularly checked out each MCU film as a bonding thing (pre-transition if you couldn't guess) with him having fun and me... being glad someone was lmao.
boy this movie's aged like milk. boy was this film uncomfortably informed by a certain contemporary middle-eastern event. holy fuck is it not even slightly subtle with its pro-military angle, nor is the superhero origin effectively separated from it. Iron Man's half-hearted look at tech mogul deweaponization doesn't ring true when the guy's now literally the best weapon alongside the US military, good lord. what a conflict eh? Stark's realization of what his creations have wrought in the opening just leads him to make another, only now it's propped up with shallow personal philosophizing. that's called a satirical swing and a miss, you can't have your cake and eat it too!
eugh. no. not a fan. whatever positives the film has are buried under this distasteful, insidious rubbish. were the other early MCUs like this? no plans to continue but i genuinely don't recall.
