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Article: 'Iron Man' a blockbuster with a brain
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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"Iron Man"
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Much of the allure of "Iron Man" comes from the fact that we are
indeed talking about a man - a real man who has lived a life and
made mistakes and experienced regret - not some scrawny, teenage boy
who received his superhero powers through a bite from a radioactive
spider.
No offense to Spidey, the other Marvel Comics hero who's already
provided billion-dollar summer blockbuster fodder. But there's just
something more relatable about Tony Stark, even though he's a
playboy industrialist of staggering wealth and arrogance.
And in the hands of Robert Downey Jr., he's absolutely riveting.
Downey may have seemed an unlikely casting choice at first, but it's ...