#12- Iron Man (2 of 10)

If we had to make a scatter graph of films, the vertical axis would represent quality of substance with the top being the best and the horizontal axis representing the number of bad, mindless cliches with the least number being at the left we could easily put the 2008 Iron Man movie in the extreme bottom right corner, further even than such movies as The Evil Dead (not to speak poorly of The Evil Dead, it was a great film, just chock-full of cliche and bad filmmaking.) 

In Iron Man we have the super-genius super rich womanizing millionaire who is an American weapons manufacturer up against evil middle eastern 'terrorists' and power hungry villains within his own company(which, may I say, was sooo obvious from third minute of the film on.)

The first scene of the movie spoke volumes of what was to come. Let me just say this, a bunch of marines with big guns in a big vehicle playing AC/DC is not original. I suppose it might appeal to a certain brand rednecked ultra patriots but not to me and not to an intelligent audience.

Secondly, the idea of making the film into a iron man vs. iron man was terrible. It was like The Incredible Hulk, and so many Godzilla films before it, clearly the writers weren't smart enough to think of a villain that wasn't exactly like the protagonist. 

Don't even start on the dialog, it was clear that several of the characters where there for the sole reason of presenting dialog opportunities for Tony Sark to show off how impressive and "witty" he is. A little film making tip, if you have to create characters to supplement other characters you probably have a bad script on your hands.

All in all, one bad movie.