We are going to kick each episode of this MC rewatch by going over the stats. Of each film. And then we'll get into the whole episode. Okay. So let's start off with the rotten tomatoes. Ironman one, which was released in 2008. Hey, that's a runtime of two hours and six minutes long. It has 94%. On the critic side and 91% on the user side. That's over 250,000 people on the user side, the reviewed it. So yeah, Ironman one crushed it. Now let's go over to the box office. Ironman one had a budget of$140 million. That was like almost 20 years ago, 20 years ago. It was 15 years ago. I'm like, whatever. Um, I'll say almost 20. It sounds better. So on that budget of 140 million Ironman, one made 585. Point eight. Million dollars. So I kicked off the whole thing. Maybe I should just channel my inner Tony stark and just be as cocky as I can just to SOP. But here's the thing though about our DJ. RTJ. Tony stark. Robert Downey Jr. Was not acting. He is Tony stark. That role was made for him. There's not one person since the first iron man movie came out almost 20 years ago. That is personified a role like Robert Downey Jr. Has with Tony stark. And I don't believe we're even going to see that again in our lifetime. That's how unreal he was. Since it's the first movie of my MCU rewatch. It's going to start off at number one on the board, obviously. This is going to be a long journey. Watching all the. MCU movies was there like 30 something of them. But I'm all here for it. It's just something about going back to where it all started, that you really find an appreciation for those earlier films. And you really start to understand. How. Far behind. Marvel has fallen. Since he, since Robert Downey Jr. Came to the fold to start this whole thing off. Some stray thoughts I had while watching Ironman one. Happy looked crazy young. Like crazy on. He looks like a child. Nice. You hear vision for the first time in this film? Well, I guess in that, at that point, he was called Jarvis, but vision still around and he's going to be around for a few more years for sure. Paul Bettany was just voicing. The AI in this film, just for a little pit, we had no idea he was going to be vision. Just oh man. The nostalgia just. I gotta, I gotta find a way. As I'm ranking these films to look at it unbiasedly and not get caught up on the nostalgia, but you've got to get points for that. Come on. I'm building this Lego Avengers tower as I'm watching. Ironman one. I'm basically Tony stark because I'm building. Tony's building. Well, he's building an iron suit capable of mass destruction, and I'm just building a Lego Avengers tower. This is one that I've actually thought about a lot, but I, I kind of reiterate it. This thought is Ironman was way cooler before the nanotech. Once you started adding now tech and not talking about just iron man, all the suits, it started to become more magic than science. And I don't know, I just. I'm not too much of a fan anymore. At least, I, as much as I was at first. Colson was there too. His first appearance. It's kind of just a side character. I watch agents of shield. So seeing Colson for the first time. Just warm my heart. And that first. Iron man suit up. Oh my God. That's iron man. You know, building it with his bare hands, not just like he pushes a button and the nanotech just envelops him and he becomes Ironman. Like, come on. That's kind of cool. We have nothing at this level. Going with the MCU now. At that level. I mean, Those are stray thoughts. We'll call this. Parting thoughts. It is very cool to see where it all started. This is. Ground zero. This is 0 0, 0 0 1. A D. A no wait. Let's call it. Before Ironman, BIM, BIM. The arc reactor, first appearance didn't Owen. Uh, pepper was like, oh, proof. Tony stark has a heart. I got to get one of those for my desk. That's amazing. Here's the thing that really. Stuck with me, that really was, it was a poignant line that. I don't know. I just been thinking about ever since. It's the line that the guy said to him that I forget his name, that sacrificed himself while Tony was in the cave. Being tortured by the 10 ranks. He said, don't waste your life. That was with his dying breath. I And I don't necessarily. Think that they were planning on Tony sacrificing himself to save the MCU. Maybe they, they are, or they were. But I don't really know. I will say this though. It is pretty poetic that in the very first film, one of the very first real conflicts that Tony stark ever has to deal with this thing, this guy said to him, with his dying breath. Stuck with them all these years. And then through this amazing character growth after. However many movies. Let's count those museums Ironman 1, 2, 3, civil war. That's four movies, Avengers, one age of Ultron. That's uh, six movies. And then you have end game and infinity war. That's eight movies of Ironman. So through eight movies of Ironman, the kind of growth that. Tony stark went through to get to where he was in that final film where he sacrificed himself to save the entire universe is just. Next level writing. And the thing is. There is not one character that has been introduced in the MCU. Since that era ended the multi-verse saga. That has me thinking that I really. Care. Like that, like I did with Tony star. And the problem with that is there's just, there's just too many people. Like I've, I've loved most of the characters they introduced, but I don't have that connection as I did with Tony sharp. Cause we don't see them that much. What if people remember when the MCU started, it was out Avengers movie, and maybe each of them had a movie. In between. But it was really not that many Avengers. Now you have like all these Avengers, we have all these different university of a magical corner. We have street-level corner. We have a space corner of the MCU. That's where they made their biggest mistake. They spread themselves too thin. And we're not feeling for these characters because you can't have like, you basically times that by three. And people aren't going to watch all this shit. And if they do. At least from my perspective, they're not going to have the emotional connection as they had with these original characters. Watching Ironman one. I'm really seeing that. And. I guarantee you, most of the people listening feel the same way. And this is how I'll prove it. I'm going to end this episode one line. And you tell me if there's one line that you heard. Anyone say since the saga ended. The hits you as much as this one, you ready for it? Okay, let me get up my seat to really say it right. I am iron man.