My personal favorite comic book superhero flick...

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2014)

1000th review!!! Spoilers, though!
The 2008 Iron Man movie is one that I consider to be one of the best of its genre. I mean, you've got the laid-back, smooth direction of Jon Favreau, a GREAT villain played by Jeff 'Lebowski' Bridges, a tight, yet simplistic but hard-hitting plot, and to top it all, the charisma and nuance of Robert Downey Jr. as billionaire Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. Pepper all that with fantastic special effects and CGI.
I've doubted Marvel in the past, I thought Daredevil was pretty bad, and the Fantastic Four and Ghost Rider movies were bad. Also, the third parts of the X-Men and Blade movies sucked. But they nailed it with this one. I can't really explain how I instantly fell in love with it. It's like some of the 80s kids and the '89 Batman movie. It just has that sort of charm!
Speaking of Batman, this movie came out as the same year as The Dark Knight. While TDK is clearly the better film, I still prefer this one over it. Maybe it's because Batman acted like a p*ssy following TDK, and went into 'exile'. Whereas, Stark publicly announces that he's Iron Man in this movie.
Thank you, Marvel, for starting off the stellar Avengers universe with this fantastic film.