Guns of Iron Man

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Well, I took my son to see this movie today. We both liked it.

Were there flaws in both logic and tactics? Yes.

Was I able to suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the movie? Yes!

I liked it a lot. The markings on the crates saying Stark Industries needed to be there so that even the people who wouldn't have figured it out for themselves would understand that Stark Industry weapons were falling into the wrong hands.

As for the HKs, there were a whole lot of other products, including the Colonel's big, black Dodge truck that got plenty of time on camera too.

Good movie. I enjoyed it. My wife has expressed an interest in going to see it for Mother's Day and I won't mind taking her and seeing it again.
 
It's not the Iron that makes Iron Man withstand stuff like Mr. Browning and 125mm shells.

It's the magnetic repulsor field that Tony designed that makes him so tough.

Tony can know the freakin' Hulk out putting all of his suit's power into one punch. Without the magnetic field, at least in the comics, the armor is as flexible as a t-shirt.
 
Ozzy packs heat?
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In the first episode of MTV's "the Osbornes" show, Ozzy was filmed walking up the stairs of his new home with a M1 Garand in hands mumbling something like "I'm putting this under the bed".
 
Didn't understand the bit with the tank shooting Iron Man. Tanks can't elevate that high, nor do they have the radar and fire control computers to hit something that small/fast. Also, how the hell would a thin bodied vehicle like a suit of power armor withstand a 120mm shell? Also, what was that tiny little missile he fired at the tank? It was barely the size of a 50cal round. You can't fit an anti-tank payload into something that small or the military would do it already.

Also didn't understand the entire conflict of the movie between Stanes and Stark. If you are getting out of weapons production and you still need to make money, why not make more of those little arc reactor modules? It only makes like 4 million horsepower, doesn't consume fuel and emits zero pollution. And you can assemble it in a cave with the simplest of tools and a few dollars of scrap metal. No possible market for a device like that.
 
Just a movie . ... I don't want to pick it apart until something really bothers me.

There was a quick flash of that when the hadji cocked the M2. : " I thought , these hollywood people better let the Browning knock Ironman on his butt."

And they did.
 
I have speculated that the reason for no altering guns and buying a whole lot of HK or other gear is so that they could buy an arsenal and own it legally that the "movie" paid for and the "studio" owns...

Of course I can't confirm that.... Just a suspicion. It's what I would do.
 
You can't fit an anti-tank payload into something that small or the military would do it already.
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The warhead was metastable metallic hydrogen in a warhead that penetrated via burrowing nanites. That accounts for the delay. ;)
 
Also, what was that tiny little missile he fired at the tank? It was barely the size of a 50cal round. You can't fit an anti-tank payload into something that small or the military would do it already.
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I think the idea was that the missile went down the barrel of the tank's main gun and presumably cooked off the ready rounds in the turret.
 
I liked the targeted and guided shoulder pad missiles.

Again, Buzz has it correct - the suit itself is a shell for the magnetic forcefields to protect Tony.

Stop trying to pretend, folks, that you understand this level of science from your reading of a Guns and Ammo stopping power article. :D
 
Stop trying to pretend, folks, that you understand this level of science from your reading of a Guns and Ammo stopping power article.
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Everything I learned, I owe to Data. More specifically, I owe to people proving Data wrong.

Sci-fi is a lot more fun when you can figure out somewhat plausible ways of making things actually work. :D
 
My biggest problems with the guns in that movie were:

A) With the suit MK II he jumps in right before the villager gets shot in the head and gets sprayed by a 5.56 6 or 7 times. Dispatches bad guys, flys off, gets hit by tank....the 5.56 left pock marks all over his armor but the tank shell just scorched him up.... apparently 5.56 is amazing in the future.

B) When the SHIELD agents whip out their sigs as they're going into section 16, there's the "my gun just cocked itself then decocked itself because it's soooooo bad" noise.

Other than that...peachy.
 
The MkII was the gray suit, right? Probably those shells hit Tony's armor without being stopped by the repulsor field (to save energy).

The tank round, however, was contained by Tony's repulsor field.

And the cock-sound - blame the damn sound folks, who do that with Glocks too in 24.
 
Also, how the hell would a thin bodied vehicle like a suit of power armor withstand a 120mm shell? Also, what was that tiny little missile he fired at the tank?
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Obviously the tank was shooting 9mm and he was shooting 45acp...duh!:neener:
 
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Yea I had some beef with IronMan as well. Was the camo that the Military personell were wearing incorrect as well?? I didnt realize any of our guy's wore tigerstripe. Of course as stated there were terrorists armed with G36's UMP's an M4 with some fancy underbarrell shotgun as well. It just didnt feel right, you think they would do enough reaserch to know that the bad guys should have had AK's or some other soviet relic.
 
Buzz - Data is an android and not a good source for info. I prefer Science Officer Spock.
 
Buzz - Data is an android and not a good source for info. I prefer Science Officer Spock.
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Ah, the pointy eared genius who said an ounce of antimatter (with an theoretical yield of around 0.568 megatons) was enough to blow off half the atmosphere of a planet? ;)
 
It just didnt feel right, you think they would do enough reaserch to know that the bad guys should have had AK's or some other soviet relic.
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The point of those weapons was to demonstrate that the terrorists were acquiring the weapons Stark had always assumed would end up in the right hands, thereby leading to his change of heart.
 
The antimatter was formed into about fifteen 45 ACP 230 grain JHP bullets fired from a 1911. That would blow up a planet. You must have missed Spock explain that. It was on the Spock goes to Gunsite CD.

The 1911 used had a neutronium slide with a polymer frame. The Inter-Planetary Shooting Confederation declared it legal in matches.

About the guns in terrorist hands - every watch a Palestinian demonstration - watch all the M-16s. Remember all the guns that went bye-bye in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the Glocks we bought that were sold by the Iraqi police?
 
I'm also sure that Stane (Jeff Bridges) was responsible for the bad guys getting a hold of Stark's designs.

Tony'd have no problem with an American citizen being able to defend himself - which also proves that the Iron Man in Marvel's Civil War was a stinkin' Skrull, since Civil War had 2A undertones - registration of the power to defend yourself (superpowers = guns).
 
Have yet to see it which I wil soon. But in ALL mivies the thing that still bugs the crap outof me is the thing where they ALLWAYS wait till the lastr nanosecond to cock the firearms! It's like hollywierd thinks going in cocked and locked is not as dramatic!
 
Does Tony Stark have to get a permit to carry those concealed weapons in his suit and what about AOW, etc.?

Can you take the TX CHL test in your Iron Man suit?
 
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