How come it still holds up?

It was a different time

bad filters, the movie was made with shitty oversaturation

It was made as a stand alone film since they weren’t sure if the MCU would become a thing. Unlike so many other MCU solo movies that feel like the middle chapter of a book since that’s essentially what they are.

>whole scene teasing project avengers
yeah standalone my ass, especially when thor and cap america were already in pre-prodution and hulk was about to be released soon

Based retard

The acting, directing, writing etc.

Hulk and Ironman are from 2008. Then you have one more movie in 2010 and two more in 2011. How long do you think movie making process takes? For blockbusters it's up to 2-3 years. Preproduction, filming, post-production.
These movies were obviously in work when Iron Man came out. They clearly planned more since the very begining.

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It was made so if it failed it could be the only one. Thor and Hulk would be shelved.
Which Hulk do you mean? There are a couple around that time? Which had ruffalo in it?

Disney.

the movie then show that they were just manipulated by the Evil white guy who's the real source of evil :)

It’s said that the Antman script was being written at the same time Ironman was.

>Tony Stark was fresh and hadn't flanderized yet
>Real, practical effects mixed with CG gave the world weight
>Focus is on dialogue, characters and performances. Not pop culture gags and quips.
>Also means that story gets to breathe and have slow moments.
>Jeff Bridges
Hulk wasn't bad either, but after those two they immediately shat the fucking bed and never recovered.

>mid-2000s ant capekino never ever

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The Ant-Man script was being written as far back as when Raimi was doing the first Spider-Man. That was Edgar Wright's baby for a long time.

well yeah, you knew that from the after credits scenes they all had from the get go

Our terp spoiled the movie for us by translating the opening scene.

It doesn’t it’s just as shitty as the rest of marvel’s braindead bullshit

How does Howard compare to Cheadle?

>wtf I'm the retard ???

They heavy metal theme for Iron Man was still there, had relevance at the time with the middle east terrorist stuff, and was more believable since it was tech based and not aliens or magic. Also it was the only Marvel film to date where RDJ actually felt like he was trying

Marvel was relatively desperate to make a movie that didn't stink on set like Spiderman 3 and Xmen 3 did. You can tell when a movie is going to be a real stinker when it's being made. Somewhere along the line, Marvel heads were happy with the results, since it wasn't a real shitshow like those previous 2. When they were first doing IM1, they probably weren't 100% sure how things were going to go.

Listen man, after SM3, F4:RotSS and Xmen 3, they were fucking desperate for even an average movie.

Because it was a more grounded capeshit movie before they went all-in on the "marvel "

because favreau, or whatever, wanted to make a movie that would make a lot of money
and the people at the studio didnt believe in him, but they had already acquiered the ip some years prior so they let him make it but gave him a shit budget, probably because of the recession and that he was a noname director with Elf being the only success under his name, so in order to make it successful everyone had to give 110%, no pandering or any similar nonsense, which is why the movie comes off as more honest than any other movie in the franchise
something the later movies lack since they had at that point already establishes a fanbase that would watch the films whether or not they liked them just to get to the final piece that would end a century long plot line, so those movies were smooth sailing compared to the iron man movie which was figuratively in the eye of the storm

why they do him like that? wasn't right. the guy hasn't made a bad film afaik