Top 25 Movies of the Otts Countdown: #25 Iron Man

25. Iron Man – Let’s begin the decade appropriately, with a comic book movie. Spiderman was infinitely more important in vaulting comic books to the top of the cinema mountain. But as pure entertainment, Ironman is a better movie than all three Raimi-Maguire Spidermans, including the best of them, Spiderman 2. The reason is simple: Robert Downey Jr. Whereas Spiderman is a remarkably old-fashioned character living in the fantasy of 50’s comic book ethics, Downey Jr. plays to the decade, improbably and epically eschewing the secret identity nonsense altogether. He’s also Robert Downey Jr., A-List star when not coked out, and not Tobey Maguire, whose career has vanished faster than otts stalker Superman.