I Can't Believe I Liked This

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2008)

I really enjoyed this movie, and am still surprised. It was funny, action packed, interesting, the acting was solid, the story was reasonable (for a comic book movie) and they stayed relatively true to the source material. I was expecting this to be bad, and ended up feeling excited, sitting on the edge of my seat, and was really impressed. Even the CG was really well done and looked great.
To help you understand why liking this came as such a big shock to me, here is a list of Marvel based movies I really didn't like: X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, X2, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, Elektra, Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
I heard Iron Man is the first movie to come out of Marvel Studios. If this is a sign of what Marvel Studios is going to do for these movies, then I think there's a chance I may not be disappointed in the future. I thought the new Hulk movie looked pretty good from the trailers, but if Iron Man is an indication of what Hulk will be like, I can only imagine it will be fantastic.