Product Description

"Iron Man", starring Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow, will be one of the biggest films of 2008. "Iron Man" is one of Marvel's most popular comic book characters ever, and the long-awaited blockbuster film version is garnering huge buzz!When billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his hi-tech suit of armor to become...Iron Man!This official novelisation, full of extra scenes and details, is essential reading for fans who want the full story of this action-packed movie, and is written by fan-favourite comic book author Peter David ("Hulk", "Spider-Man").

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68729 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
As well as being one of the most popular of all comic book writers, Peter David has written some of the most popular (and successful) of the original Star Trek: The Next Generation novels, including Imzadi and A Rock and a Hard Place, as well as the bestselling official movie novels for Spider-Man and Hulk.

Customer Reviews

If you enjoyed the film, you'll like this
All I can say is that I really enjoyed Iron Man. It made perfectly clear that it's not Arabs that they're going against, but terrorists; Stark has an Arab helping him, who he is very good friends with. Throughout the movie, he tries to save lives where he can - unless someone is risking anothers' (not his own) life through something they are doing - this is where Iron Man is merciless, to Arabs or Americans.

I also enjoyed the novelisation because it was pretty much exactly like the film. It's a good, easy read, and is also interesting for seeing what previous script stages of Iron Man must have looked like. (Novelisations are taken from early scripts.) It retains the humour of the movie, as well as showing more motivations and thoughts behind characters' actions; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Stan Lee jumped on the masonic bandwagon and sold his soul to the devil.
I watched the trailers for months on end, with high expectations, but when I finally saw the film, I was disgusted with what is inevitably yet another trashy masonic film propagating ethnic cleansing.

The problem is as follows; producers and publicists stated the film to be in line with the original comic saga. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the comic, Tony Stark suffered a severe injury, as a victim of industrial sabotage. In order to keep his heart ticking, he fashioned a chest plate, which eventually evolved into a suit of armour.

In this film, he had shrapnel embedded in his heart as a result of a `terrorist' attack, perpertrated by Tony Stark's very own weapons of mass destruction (poetic justice indeed). The so called terrorists then kidnap him and try to coerce him to construct the `jericho' missile. He refuses, since he is aware that this weapon would be used against America. Yet, when he originally designed the weapon, he was well aware they would be used in the Middle East (ie - to butcher the Arab people). Yet he experienced not a single twitch of ethical accountability in this respect. He had no problems washing blood off his hands here.

The table is now turned. Suddenly, he has become a saint and feels a moral obligation to refuse cooperation, knowing fully well how this weapon would be used. During captivity, he fashions an archaic suit of armour and manages to escape, killing many `terrorists' in the process. The scenes are drawn out and quite explicit (it is in contrast to the scene depicting his capture, whereby the invading American soldiers are fired upon, since there is no graphic depiction of blood and guts or immolation).

Unfortunately, more than half the film stuck to this idiotic concept like dog s**t on your shoe and I ask you - what purpose did this serve, other than inculcating subtle conditioning against anything of Middle Eastern descent?.

In fact, the real villain was a white American (Obadiah Staine), who was supposed to be Tony Stark's mentor yet plotted to have him assassinated, by supplying `terrorists' with Stark Industry weaponry.

It has gotten to the point where an intelligent person cannot watch even a comic book film without it having an underlying Imperialist/Masonic tone and my money was used to profit from this trash. It is disgusting. Before any idiot starts squealing `your personal opinion, etc', a professor of mass communication (`Jack Shaheen' of Lebanese descent) has authored many books and reports on this issue. See his books (and web link for reuters news article)-

"Guilty. Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11" and
"Reel Bad Arabs. How Hollywood Vilifies a People".
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL0132230620080501?sp=true

This is not a new issue, since American films have had anti-Arab undertones since the 60's (including colourful references to `dirty, stinking Ayyrabs', etc).

Back to Iron Man. Other than the inherent racism and imperialism stated above, the film did not focus adequately on the suit building. Similarly, action scenes were few and far between and lack lustre (he was so noble, not firing upon the American jets that attacked him). There should have been substantially more incorporation of the evil, back stabbing Obadiah Staine and his pet project, since this is where the real story lay (with the villain of the film).

No doubt there will be another Iron Man film. No doubt it will turn out be racist s**t like this one. By the way, I am not an Arab. I am an Indian.