From where I'm sitting I'd say that the effeminate, "don't-muss-my-hair", Robert Downey Jr. was the absolute worst choice, bar none, to play the Tony Stark/Iron Man character.

Tony Stark may have been a weapons designer extraordinaire and the darling-of-the-hour, but, hey, believe me, he certainly had a lot more money than he did sense. But, nevertheless, Tony Stark was destined to become more than just a nuts-n-bolts type of guy.

When Tony wasn't designing fabulous weapons he was just a jaded, apathetic, alcoholic who really loved nothing more than to verbally humiliate, insult and degrade women.

And, naturally, being Tony Stark, after he had verbally degraded the hottest chicks imaginable, they, of course, would get all wet for him. And then, without delay, it would be "wham-bam-thank-you-mam", before Tony was moving onto his next conquest.

My-Oh-My! Wasn't life as a #1, billionaire, playboy just so rewarding and fulfilling?

It really killed me the way that Tony Stark and Obadiah Stane kept dancing around one another like a couple of "horny-for-each-other" gays. With the way that they carried on, I was half-expecting that, soon enough, these 2 darlings would be jumping into the sack together for a little "in-out-in-out" just like a couple of randy comrades.

To have made Tony Stark a "Super-Hero" at the end of this "Rocketeer Meets Robocop" flick was a literal joke and a half. Tony's change of heart from being a first-class crumb to a civic-minded do-gooder was about as insincere and pretentious as you could possibly get. And it was all made so frickin' laughable because precious, little Robert Downey Jr. was such a bloody bore and so totally unconvincing in his part.

And finally - It sure helped to have the Afghanistan rebels portrayed in this film as being a bunch of absolute soul-less monsters - Real "dirt-of-the-earth". And annihilating the likes of them was so easy to do. Yeah. It was just as if Iron Man had literally wiped his crusty, tin-plated ass with them and then conveniently flushed them right down the toilet.

Yep. Indeed. Iron Man is yet another prime example of why, over this past decade, superhero movies have become my least favorite genre of all (which, of course, makes them perfectly ideal for a damn-good trashing).

P.S. - Did Iron Man's screenplay really require the input of 8 (!!!) contributing writers!? (sheesh!)