Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:08:33 PM
Maybe this is what the filmmakers had in mind when they were making Iron Man:
"I'm smiling on the inside, beating down [Captain] America."
It should not surprise anyone, but it seems that, at least the 2nd half of, Iron Man: The Movie takes a Left turn as far as its political theme is concerned. Clearly Jon Favreau, Marvel Pictures and everyone else responsible for the film know their target audience. The Lefty Lemmings that follow comic books are just eating up the movies politics.
Over at
Newsarama.com we get this:
"We see Stark's subtle transformation from war profiteer-to-superhero as
he comes to grip with the real life tragedies caused by the products of
his fertile imagination; he realizes that Stark Industries is just
another Halliburton, profiting from others' misery."
Of course, this reviewer goes a bit off track with the next sentence:
"He decides to stop producing weapons, which of course, puts him in
conflict with his partner Obadiah Stane (played by Bridges) the
personification of the industrial-military complex."
Except for the weapons he wears in his armor, he "decides to stop producing weapons". Oh, well.
And then at
ComicBookResources.com there's this lead ballon (to conservatives, that is):
"Stark's statement that his company has “become
comfortable with a system of zero accountability” echoes real-world
headlines about Blackwater and Haliburton ..."
I will give CBR credit for minimizing whatever political themes jump out, but it is interesting that we've go two comic book website reviews and two references to Haliburton. Hmmm ...
UPDATE: Added the question mark to the post title. I saw the movie on 5/3 and do not agree with these reviews take on the film's politics. The CBR and Newsarama reviews are cases of a couple of Lefties wanting to see something that just is not there.