[Sneakyuser]

Moreover, Tony is unapologetic about getting rich (he’s simply smarter than the competition), openly mocks the senators who are grilling him about his alleged selfishness and warns the government about handpicking winners in the weapons business (such as Sam Rockwell, who plays a rival industrialist who, though this is never explicitly mentioned, has obviously won Pentagon contracts by buying off lawmakers). He notes that evil-axis-dwellers such as the Iranians and the Norks are five to ten years from developing Iron Man technology, and that the cocky-but-inept Rockwell character is “more like 20″ years away.

In a very Howard Roark/Galt-ish moment, Stark chastises the government that it cannot take away his private property.

[mockingbyrd]

So is THAT why it’s getting panned by the critics?

[wally_bert]

I did like the part in the trailer where he tells congress to take a hike.

[swatbuznik]

Okay, I was going to see it anyway, but now it’s a MUST-SEE!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Iron Man has been a longtime favorite to a great extent because he cannot be easily politically labeled.

He has personal problems, a bad heart and alcoholism, but he is loyal to his people, and they are to him. Though he makes conventional weaponry, he does not sell his best stuff, that is, his armor and its weaponry and propulsion, but provides its services for free, as long as it is for a good cause.

At one point in the comic book series, a mercenary hacks into his computer system, then sells his technology to anyone and everyone, which is used by others for both good and villainous purposes. So after his computer expert creates a computer worm that will perpetually seek out and destroy computer records of his technology, he seemingly goes amok, destroying any and all of the technology he can trace.

In doing so, both villains and heroes get hurt, and he seemingly betrays several heroes, because he cannot tell them that he is after the stolen technology they are using.

[Soothesayer]

I loved the first one and expect this next one to be great. Tony Stark is one of the most realistic super heroes and therefore one of the most interesting.

[USALiberty]

GOOD! This should helps spread the philosophy of Ayn Rand. The sooner people abandon socialistic concepts like “altruism” and “selflessness” the sooner we will re-establish LIBERTY!

“The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness—which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man—which means: the values required for human survival—not the values produced by the desires, the emotions, the “aspirations,” the feelings, the whims or the needs of irrational brutes, who have never outgrown the primordial practice of human sacrifices, have never discovered an industrial society and can conceive of no self-interest but that of grabbing the loot of the moment.”

Source: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/selfishness.html

[netmilsmom]

OH geez I can’t wait to see this Saturday!

I am Iron Mom.