I remember seeing this when I was sixteen and it was so OBVIOUSLY amazing that when it ended I looked at my friend and said "It was fine" and we both knew I was kidding because it was so apparent that it was the best movie we'd ever seen.

Well... here we are eight years later. Substantially less entertaining than I remembered-- obviously-- as it is the Iron Man movie most plagued by dreaded genericism. That said-- it's also, I…

This certainly holds up a lot better than Iron Man 2! It remains a very entertaining movie. When I first saw it I was not as familiar with Shane Black-- now that I am it really is abundant how much of this is just him cramming his classic go-tos (Christmas, wise-cracking kid) into an Iron Man movie, but boy does it make for a fun Iron Man movie, and it's cool to see Tony taken out of his elements-- AKA…