Marvel Movie Minute

Is Howard’s message to Tony an early deepfake? We think so, made by Nick Fury to sell Tony on this whole thing. Damon Lindelof helped with it too, but it still just doesn’t work for us. See what you think.

Young Tony makes an appearance. Shout out to Davin Ransom! Howard clearly doesn’t like filming for long periods of time as he makes a crass joke. RDJ does great in this scene with his simple looks. And he starts getting a sense of who his father was.

Tony digs around in his dad’s old trunk. Art department easter eggs pop up on the blueprint. Turns out Howard was a comic book fan. But Antarctica? Tony may be using a Compaq iPAQ? So where is Jarvis? And Dad leaves a great big telegraphed hint for Tony.

Justin spends almost this entire minute talking about the RDX missile he’s pitching to Major Allen and Rhodey. And Kyle breaks out yet another attempt at an accent. There’s talk about the Eiffel Tower, the Pietà, the Sphinx, and Ulysses. And Rhodey makes the big purchase.

Why are we talking about hippies and beatniks? Because otherwise, it’s straight-up gun porn in this minute. Clearly, Hammer knows his guns. And what’s amazing is that the screenwriter Justin Theroux was feeding Hammer’s speech to Sam Rockwell through an earbud. Crazy.

Rhodey and Major Allen pull apart the Mark II suit. It’s Justin Hammer’s birthday because now he’s got an Iron Man suit. And now he’s chatting with the military about firepower. There’s weapon talk as Hammer does his salesman pitch. He knows his stuff!

We try to figure out exactly what Tony and Nick have been talking about these last few minutes. Would Howard and Nick really have had this conversation about Tony being the perfect one to solve the arc reactor power problem? It really doesn’t make sense. So that means Nick’s lying… and Tony likely knows but is interested anyway. So that’s pretty interesting… right? And how old are Nick and Howard anyway? And Coulson? He’s not here for that.

The exposition dump just keeps on a-dumpin’, but Nick throws out something a bit more… poetic. There’s more daddy talk. Agent Coulson’s back and SHIELD’s been on guard this whole time. And Howard Stark apparently handed down his… robe?… to Tony.

The arc reactor is a stepping stone to some greater source of power… but never talked about again. We go on a tangent about Val Kilmer and Sly Stallone. We get some backstory for the Vanko family and its relationship with House Stark. And what’s going on with those bad conversational edits? And yeah, Kyle does some bad accents again.

What is Ivan’s plan? Is he completely winging it still? Are there too many villains in this film? Or is it ACTUALLY Tony himself? We talk about a goofy War Machine deleted scene but one we would’ve liked to see in the film. And how about Delta Force? And WOW is there a lot happening in the MCU right now!