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Iron Man (guest review) Mr. Cranky's rating: 
And what happened to Jeff Bridges? In this film he's fat, bald and has a gray beard, making him a dead ringer for Rob Reiner. Iron Man is a movie about a guy who wears a big, robot-like suit that gives him superhuman strength so he can battle evil - corporate executives. To steal a line from David Spade during his SNL days, "I think I liked this movie better the first time I saw it when it was called 'Robocop.'" Actually, perhaps "Robocop" stole the idea from "Iron Man" since the Iron Man comic book series came well before the age of digital special effects. Whatever the case may be, this movie proves that Hollywood is out of fresh ideas and originality. Also, it's bad enough that movie theaters show something like 10 minutes of commercials before the movie even begins. "Iron Man" is basically a big commercial for Burger King and Ray's famous Pizza, both of which I'm sure already have logos of Iron Man on their cups and pizza boxes. However, those things aren't even the most annoying aspects of this film. It's basically one big bleeding-heart liberal whinefest, much like Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the chief executive of weapons manufacturer Stark Industries, and he makes no apologies for making weapons. He gets kidnapped by a group of Afghan terrorists and discovers that they have a bunch of weapons that his company made. He creates his Iron Man suit and escapes, and once he gets back home, he becomes a compassionate liberal by realizing the error of his ways. He rebuilds the Iron Man suit to rid the world of the weapons that he created. Obediah Stone (Jeff Bridges) is the Stark Industry chairman who wants to continue making weapons to sell to the U.S. military. He's considered the bad guy because he wants to create technology to help the U.S. win the war on terror. Eventually, he creates his own Iron Man suit and he and Tony Stark duke it out. What bothers me most about this film is that its sole message is that weapons manufacturing is bad. Believe me, I'm no Republican, but I say weapons manufacturing is a good thing. I live in New York City and was working six blocks away from the World Trade Center when the terrorists destroyed it and murdered over 3000 people. When terrorists attack our country or our troops overseas, I say we ought to nuke them to kingdom come. War is an unfortunate thing, but we need to blow them up before they're able to do it to us. In order to do that, we need weapons. It's that simple. If our weapons fall into the wrong hands, it's not the fault of the weapons manufacturers, it's the fault of the U.S. government and military.And what happened to Jeff Bridges? In this film he's fat, bald and has a gray beard, making him a dead ringer for Rob Reiner. That fact gives me have a major bias against this film, since I hate Reiner for starting the entire genre of "two-lonely-heart-losers-meet-and-fall-in-love" films when he made "When Harry Met Sally." Also, Gwyneth Paltrow should simply stay retired from acting, and spend the rest of days in a catfight with J-Lo.Perhaps we need to create an Iron Man/Robocop suit to protect us from Hollywood. --Vectorzero
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