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Peter G. (247 KP) rated Iron Man (2008) in Movies
Jul 29, 2019
Incredible origin movie meets great storytelling sets the scene for the rise of an arrogant billionaire arms dealers transformation to a billionaire arms dealer with a cause.
Robert Downey Jr was born to play the role and its difficult to imagine anyone else as the titular character.
It delivers an intelligent and heartwarming fun story that sets the bar for future entries into the Marvel Canon!
Robert Downey Jr was born to play the role and its difficult to imagine anyone else as the titular character.
It delivers an intelligent and heartwarming fun story that sets the bar for future entries into the Marvel Canon!
Dean (6921 KP) rated Oppenheimer (2023) in Movies
Aug 7, 2023
Fascinating
Well what a great film about a fascinating story of the development of the atomic bomb. It looks and sounds great as you expect from Christopher Nolan. I'm sure there will be Oscar's a plenty especially for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.
Obviously it is almost 3 hours long but doesn't really drag, as well as the bomb building it also covers political elements after the World War 2. It's very intriguing and definitely worth catching on the big screen.
Obviously it is almost 3 hours long but doesn't really drag, as well as the bomb building it also covers political elements after the World War 2. It's very intriguing and definitely worth catching on the big screen.
Dean (6921 KP) rated Tropic Thunder (2008) in Movies
Jun 30, 2018 (Updated Jun 30, 2018)
A big budget all star cast comedy!? Well it was quite a good idea of having a bunch of actors filming in the jungle, going for realism when actually they are under attack from a local drug cartel! Almost spoofs parts of platoon, Rambo along the way. It does have some very funny scenes and laugh out loud moments. Other times it's just a bit too silly. Robert Downey Jr was a very good surprise addition as was Tom Cruise as a Hollywood studio executive! Well worth checking out.
Barry Newman (204 KP) rated Ant-Man (2015) in Movies
Feb 29, 2020
Contains spoilers, click to show
One of the most easy to watch and all out entertaining of Marvel movies. Plenty of action and humour it’s also very accessible as a solo adventure and you don’t need to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Avengers back stories in order to enjoy it. I think Paul Rudd was also a fantastic bit of casting and he’s as well suited to the role as Robert Downey JR was to Tony Stark/Iron Man. Scott Lang is likeable, funny and charismatic company and fast becoming one of my favourite Avengers.
Veronica Pena (690 KP) rated Sherlock Holmes (2009) in Movies
Apr 20, 2020
I thought this movie was fine. I loved the chemistry between Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. I loved the use of color towards the beginning with Rachel McAdam's dress - it made her stand out in the blandness of everything else.
I just thought that the film was kind of slow and I'm not sure the plot made a whole lot of sense. It feels like this movie was just a stepping stone for the second one, to set up Moriarty and Holmes' rivalry.
It was a fine film. A good way to pass time, just not one I'll probably ever watch again.
I just thought that the film was kind of slow and I'm not sure the plot made a whole lot of sense. It feels like this movie was just a stepping stone for the second one, to set up Moriarty and Holmes' rivalry.
It was a fine film. A good way to pass time, just not one I'll probably ever watch again.
Movie Metropolis (309 KP) rated Iron Man (2008) in Movies
Jun 10, 2019
Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book) helmed Marvel’s first foray into creating a mass-market, shared universe with wonderful results. The casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark was inspired and Gwenyth Paltrow was a great choice to play Pepper Potts.
The film still holds up to this day with great action sequences, cracking special effects and a decent story to boot. Negatives? Well, Jeff Bridges’ villain is a little underdeveloped and quite frankly, a bit dull (something Marvel still struggles with to this day), but Iron Man is the one that started it all and it’s a great film.
https://moviemetropolis.net/2018/04/21/the-entire-marvel-cinematic-universe-ranked/
The film still holds up to this day with great action sequences, cracking special effects and a decent story to boot. Negatives? Well, Jeff Bridges’ villain is a little underdeveloped and quite frankly, a bit dull (something Marvel still struggles with to this day), but Iron Man is the one that started it all and it’s a great film.
https://moviemetropolis.net/2018/04/21/the-entire-marvel-cinematic-universe-ranked/
Ian Parr (9 KP) rated Heart and Souls (1993) in Movies
Nov 19, 2019
"Absolutely wonderful movie that'll hit you in the feels!! I can't remember how I stumbled across this movie years ago, but after watching, it became one of my all time favourites. It almost has a Christmassy feel to it and certainly wouldn't be out of place on Xmas TV! Any later in the 90's and I can imagine this being offered to Jim Carrey, but thankfully Robert Downey Jr stepped up and was superb. Sedgwick, Woodard, Grodin & especially Sizemore are also at their very best. Do yourself a favour and hunt this down if you've never seen it before. The perfect date movie!"
David Betteridge (327 KP) rated Dolittle (2020) in Movies
Feb 28, 2020
CGI (1 more)
RDJ's accent
So much potential!
I have to say I was really looking forward to this film, a great cast and some good look trailers, and social media snippets. However I have to say I was very underwhelmed with the film as a whole, the voice acting was top notch, however the CGI animals at time looked like they did in the late 2000's. My biggest gripe about the whole film was the very bad supposedly Welsh accent from Robert Downey Jr, as he was the main character and in most scenes this really spoilt my enjoyment of what potentially could have been a great film.
Rachel Lambert recommended Wonder Boys (2000) in Movies (curated)
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Avengers: Endgame (2019) in Movies
Jun 5, 2019
Hulk and Thor (1 more)
Little screen time for many favourite characters
Solid end to an epic series.
So back in 2008 (which is 11 years ago at the time of writing - where did the time go!) the film Iron Man came out starring Robert Downey Jr. I loved that film but little did I know at the time that over the course of the next 11 years we’d have such a huge universe created for us by Marvel over a plethora of films culminating in one 3 hour epic film (no consideration for my bladder.) The whole scale of this movie is mind blowing in that context.
This film has plenty of action and lots of homage to the films in the franchise. It does a solid job of tying things off. It's just not going to be one of my favourites (although an improvement on Infinity war.)
Now the Marvel universe has built up a heck of a lot of characters, some I love, some less so but fundamentally we just have too many characters. Trying to cram them into one film is just unwieldy and we lose the sharpness many of the films had. For me, unfortunately this film focuses more of the characters I’m less keen on. The ones I do love, that were front and centre, seemed to have all undergone personality changes to make them terrible. OK I get it seeing half the life in the universe wiped out is going to ruin anyone's mood but the changes we saw in Hulk and Thor were just way off for me. Downey fortunately manages to carry a lot of the film, with some great revisiting of tension between Stark and Cpt. America. Only Rocket seemed vaguely recognisable as a character I love. Many barely get a line in when they do turn up.
The fun that is so evident in most of the best marvel films didn’t feel as present, I just needed more of that Marvel feel before a big huge battle to save the day.
This film has plenty of action and lots of homage to the films in the franchise. It does a solid job of tying things off. It's just not going to be one of my favourites (although an improvement on Infinity war.)
Now the Marvel universe has built up a heck of a lot of characters, some I love, some less so but fundamentally we just have too many characters. Trying to cram them into one film is just unwieldy and we lose the sharpness many of the films had. For me, unfortunately this film focuses more of the characters I’m less keen on. The ones I do love, that were front and centre, seemed to have all undergone personality changes to make them terrible. OK I get it seeing half the life in the universe wiped out is going to ruin anyone's mood but the changes we saw in Hulk and Thor were just way off for me. Downey fortunately manages to carry a lot of the film, with some great revisiting of tension between Stark and Cpt. America. Only Rocket seemed vaguely recognisable as a character I love. Many barely get a line in when they do turn up.
The fun that is so evident in most of the best marvel films didn’t feel as present, I just needed more of that Marvel feel before a big huge battle to save the day.