For all who are wondering if you should see this, I personally believe it is probably one of the best superhero movies I have ever seen. This is no doubt, due to the fact that Marvel created Marvel Studios, a film production company, that will now take care of all future marvel movies after hollywood sucked at the most recent ones (Spider man 3, Daredevil, etc.)

The film is amazing, the story is great. Highly recommended.

Thanks for that Robb. I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Cool- I need to check this one out for sure.

Make sure to see it in Theatre 4 at Chinook, its the only digital theatre at chinook and is well worth it! (same price as other theatres).

Thanks for the tip. I've boycotted Empire Studio 10 in Shaughnessy because in almost every theatre, at least one surround is "blown" and the picture isn't properly calibrated. The bass is terrible too.

Robert Downey, Jr. is a hell of an actor, too. I haven't seen the movie yet -- will probably catch it on DVD unless my brother wants to see it with me when I'm in California next month. Crap, gotta buy those plane tix!

Robert Downey Jr. IS Iron Man. He makes this film what it is. I could not have picked a better Tony Stark.

Hmm. Tony Stark: alcoholic, a great but flawed man.

Yup, typecasting works, people!

Since I saw the previews this has been number 1 want to see movie, I'll probably take the boys this weekend.

Hutzal,

Would it be too violent for a 5.5-year old to see?

John

I probably wouldn't take a kid to see it. If I had kids I would be one of those dad's that wouldn't let my kid see alot of movies these days.

There are alot of sexual jokes with Tony hitting on women, and one sex scene with Tony (The woman is pantless), it doesn't last long, just them making out and it fades out.

As for the violence...There are gun shooting, explosives, and such in the middle east. There is no brutal violence that I can recall, mostly cool Iron man weapons fighting taking out the baddies. Come to think of it, its not that bad. I don't even recall any swearing.

NOTE: Make sure to stay past the credits.

As much as I hate to say it, I don't think there is that much left that my kids haven't seen on TV or video games. At least if they are with me when they are exposed to something questionable I can explain it to them.

I can say this for sure, if you take your <10 year old kids to see Iron man, they will want to BE Iron man after the movie. Expect to be barraged with requests for all things Iron Man.

I'm looking forward to watching it.

I thought that the very original trailer for the movie was kind of lame, but that was the VERY first one. Ever since then, I've been liking the idea more and more, and within the last 2 weeks or so, it has moved up there on my "must see" list right next to Indiana Jones and The Dark Knight. There are a lot of other movies I want to see, but will probably wait for DVD since I have to pick and choose what I see due to my busy schedule.

Well, I saw the movie today! I liked it, however Hollywood needs to quit showing SO MANY of the better parts of movies. I knew a lot of what was going to happen just before it happened since I saw SO many different previews for this movie.

If you go see it, be 100% sure to stay until AFTER the credits are done. There is a 20 second clip right at the end. If you check out IMDB you will notice a pretty famous actor listed way at the bottom as "uncredited", yet you don't see him in the movie... You WILL see him in this last 20 second bit...

If you don't want to know who it is or what character he plays, then don't go to IMDB...

I try not to watch ads or previews for movies I'm actually interested in. Even better, I don't read reviews.

I was spoiled on previews after the Men in Black preview. The line in the preview was so much better than the line in the movie (shot with 2 of them with big guns--"What do these things do?" "Haven't a clue.")

Great movie, but I have mixed feelings about the ending.