Before I start this post, I just have two words for Tim: Thank you.

2008 is looking up to be a movie year for the record books. You might have already seen the countdown on the right for Star Trek, which is arguably my most-awaited movie for the past several years. On the other hand, there’s also The Dark Knight, which, from trailers I’ve watched so far, make Tim Burton’s original Batman movie also featuring the Joker look like a fairy tale Christmas in comparison.

And then there’s Iron Man.

Now, I was telling my church friend that I wasn’t really looking forward to Iron Man any longer. Even though the scripted villian Justin Hammer aka The Iron Monger is as much a classic enemy of Iron Man as the Green Goblin was to Spider-Man (and we all know how genuinely brilliant that one went), but seeing two suits of power armour face-off seriously doesn’t appeal to me at all. In addition, it looks like Iron Man will be taking to the skies rather often, and unless there’s a dogfight of sorts between Iron Man and several F-22 Raptors, the air-chase has already been done to death in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer – and that one was WAAAAY~ cooler.

That being said though, it does seem like the movie WILL focus on the origins of Iron Man quite a fair bit. Now that, is cool.

It may not be the most promising film, but any trailer that uses Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” is cool in my book.