4 Thumbs Up, 2 Thumbs Way Down
Posted by Melvin Bray on June 21st, 2008 filed in Useful Perhaps
I collect live-action comic book flix, so I was especially pleased to see one done with such a well developed storyline and complex characters, as was the case with Iron Man.
It is for the same reason I HATED The Incredible Hulk. Saw it on Wednesday. It was awful! It’s unpardonable sin was that it had no unifying plot. At best, it was a poor collection of character subplots, the most interesting of which belonged to someone other than David Banner. They tried to make Banner’s quest to rid himself of the beast within the central storyline, but that’s the underlying theme of all things Hulk (tritely justaposed with someone else’s quest for power). It’s equivolent to making a movie about how much Superman loves flying or how conflicted Batman is. These are quintessential elements of each character, not storylines!
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