Iron Man

THE START OF A UNIVERSE. Stop 1 on my MCU rewatch and what a fantastic start Iron Man is. Somewhat a product of its time but the film and RDJ's performance has aged well and the CGI is still very impressive! Seeing Tony go from a self-absorbed war monger for all intents and purposes to a slightly less self-aborbed superhero realising the blood he was inadvertently staining his hands with creates a very unique origin in a sea of heroes avenging dead parents trope and its one thats paced, written and presented very well. Obediah was a decent enough villain to begin with and narratively Tony very well could have become him if it wasn't for that cave. This is really a film that shouldn't have worked. To my knowledge it was made on a bank loan, it had an ex-drug addict as its lead and the script wasn't even finished when it started shooting. But here we are now...eighteen years later and this cracked the code for what Marvel movies had to be...it's a shame not all of them get it though. Overall this is a film thats aged very well and was a fun, humorous and surprisingly interesting character study of Mr. Stark. I can do more then just make things that blow up. I am Iron Man.