Regarding your observation of how sometimes Stark’s suit barely cracks the ground and other times crashes through floors, I actually have an answer. It was hard to catch, but the suit that broke the house was the Mark II, and it was made of a different material. After the icing scene, Tony changes the design to the gold/titanium alloy to alleviate the weight issue. The suit after this scene is the Mark III and is the painted Red/Gold that we all know.

As for the leftism of the movie, I do have to say that I think it was meant to be more of a commentary on big-business rather than the military. Though I agree that the soldiers were well respected and honored (thank god). I also think that an emphisis the writers wanted to present was that Tony could ignore all of the frustrating red tape that, as a honorable nation, we must adhere to. And sometimes it really gets infuriating, and Iron Man allowed us a vent to kind of stick it to the protocols.
Also as you mentioned Tony Stark is a complex, and impulsive character. As a result of the enormous eye-opening shock (and growing up) for Tony he did overreact, though did we expect anything else from the genius playboy?
He was overwhelmed with all of the new info, so he shut everything down in order to straighten things out. We all knew he wouldn’t leave his military hanging though.
He eventually calmed, and took better stock of the situation.

But overall, the movie was an amazing and deeply intuitive well written piece. And one that we should concede a bit of creative licensing to as towards the physics, but otherwise was very realistic in nature.

Finally, I have to gush once more about Lockheed and say that I’m pretty sure every single technological engineering genius that has been produced in the last 40 years has all been from Lockheed Martin, keep up the amazing work guys!

it was about ANTI-CORPORATISM… not anti militarism… the soldiers were heroic in trying to protect tony stark… the commanders were simply doing what they had been programmed to by the military congressional industrial complex…following protocol. if you are in the military and DONT do that, you dont become a senior officer… thats the reality of it. again.. it wasnt about the weapons getting into the hands of terrorists.. it was about ONE MAN BEING A BAD MAN and putting them there…..mr. stain. it was about greed and corporate profiteering no matter what the human cost…. those who would finance both sides of a conflict…. to make the money……. anti-consciouslessness in capitalism and corporatism. he wasnt stopping making weapons to help the good guys… he was taking over their job…to make up for the bad he had helped do, through.. mr. stain…..

im surprised you righties missed that…it was anti corporate greed …not anti military..they were just doing what they were told……it was anti greed and corporatism….it was a big huge scary metal monster of doom… that the smaller guy… they smarter guy won over, because of heart…. (tony’s best friend is a fucking airforce colonel!!!) but…. nuance isnt your mental strongsuit…..and being reactionary is what makes you all you…. probably why you voted for a simpleton who spoke in bumperstickers, like bush.

exceptional movies… both one and two….(i got to this review late)
thanks for playing.

I personally can’t wait for the sequel.

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@Javier
A few “look away” parts, indeed… but I agree, it wasn’t too much and made for a great movie.

@Deb
That’s cool about the statue. I didn’t know PW made the engines (I knew you made big engines, though). Who knows… they might have “borrowed” the statue for the scene… or based a replica off of it. That means that PW and Northrup Grumman get a little sprinkling of influence in there with LM.

@Vernard Mercader
Well spoken! One company… one team. Can-do. Mission success! [singing] Oh-oh say can you seeeeeee….

GREAT MOVIE!!

yes you are all right about the physics, he should have been “tony pudding” after he got shut down by a tank…(appears on trailer) but then again you all have to consider is based on a comic where ironman is practically invincible… hes the hero so he CANT get hurt, so on those parts i just “looked away”…

I think what bothered me the most was the goofy way Stark was saying that instead of building weapons that are just used to hurt innocent people, let’s actually do something that “helps people”. I’d really like to see how they play his roel in Stark Industries in the sequel… whether or not they keep making those sweet aircraft and whatever.

@Rachel
I’m glad you like it. I tend to type like I speak… so sometimes people who know me can actually hear the words rollin’ off my tongue.

@Dustin
Oh yes… I imagine you and I weren’t the only LM employees whose eyes opened wide when they saw a strangely familiar logo on those missile boxes at the beginning… and later on that big F-22 statue in front of the company building.

Thank God for our country and it’s heroes.