Movie: Iron Man (2008)

“Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Stane from misusing his research. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}”

• Director: Jon Favreau
• Release Date:
  2 May 2008 (USA)
• Run Time:
  126 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.

Tagline: This Summer: Heroes Aren't Born, They're Built.

Trivia: When designing Tony Stark’s house, the guideline the designers were given was to make it “grease monkey” (inventor/mechanic) than futuristic, in order to keep the film realistic. J. Michael Riva took inspiration from the photographs of Julius Schulman, who was noted for photographs of 1950s and 1960s Los Angeles homes.

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Yinsen asks Tony Stark about the first arc discharge reactors capacity, Stark gives it in gigajoules per second. From this Yinsen calculates that it could sustain his heart for fifty lifetimes. This deduction is impossible, as total running time of a device requires knowledge of total energy produced and not just instantaneous power which Joules per second describes. However, this is not a goof, as Yinsen may have seen some calculations of Stark’s and with this new information, reached his conclusion.