Iron Man

All in all, a pretty good movie. People don’t remember, but the comic book was laughably bad: Tony Stark was a card-carrying capitalist and member of the military-industrial complex. Iron Man actually destroyed Stark’s business competitors, but this was morally justified by them being either Communists or psychos. Lazy employees that were fired actually went on to become supervillians. I kid you not, one plot line involved the “Mandarin”, who tried to destroy Stark Enterprises by unionizing its employees. It was the Weekly Standard of comic cooks.

The movie’s Tony Stark has some shades of that character, but Robert Downey Jr. makes everything funny. The climactic fight scene is a little, uhm, anti-climactic, but the ending was superb.