Iron Man movie corrections

Jim Rhodes: What the hell is that noise?

Tony Stark: I'm driving with the top down.

Jim Rhodes: Well, I need your help right now.

Tony Stark: Funny how that works, huh?

Jim Rhodes: Yeah. Speaking of funny, we got a weapons depot that was just blown up a few klicks from where you were being held.

Tony Stark: Well, I'd say that's a hot spot. Sounds ... like someone stepped in and did your job for you.

Jim Rhodes: Why do you sound out of breath, Tony?

Tony Stark: I'm not. I was just jogging through the canyon.

Jim Rhodes: I thought you were driving.

Tony Stark: Right, I was driving... to the canyon... where I'm going for a jog.

Jim Rhodes: You sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?

Tony Stark: Nope.

Jim Rhodes: Good, because we got a lock on something and we're about to blow it to kingdom come.

[Two F-22 Raptors fall in position behind Stark.]

Tony Stark: Whoops, there's my exit!

Mistakes

When Stark fires the two rockets to Raza, before Yinsen dies, there's two green rockets standing next to him that change position in less than a second. See more...

Trivia

The name of the terrorist group that abducts Tony, "The Ten Rings," is a reference to an infamous Iron Man villain, "The Mandarin," who possessed 10 magical rings. See more...

Iron Man (2008) - 50 corrections

Directed by Jon Favreau, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller

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In the opening scene when Tony Stark is riding in a non up armored HMMWV in Afghanistan with several members of the US Air Force. You can tell the HMMWV is not armored by looking at the holes in the side of the vehicle when its attacked. An up armored HMMWV has 1-2 inch thick glass and armor and the holes look dramatically different. There is no way the US military would allow someone of Tony Stark's profile to be riding around in a non-armored vehicle. Months after the US military attacked Afghanistan a General Order prohibited these types of vehicles from leaving protected bases. [The Army has never, at any point in it's history had enough new equipment to supply everyone, at once. 90%-plus of the up-armoring kits for Humvees are going to Iraq. Whoever was in charge of his security simply didn't have one available.]

Corrected by Grumpy Scot

The broadcast of the news conference at the end of the movie has Lt. Col. Rhodes listed as "Col. James Rhodes". He is a Lt. Col, because of the silver oak leaf cluster. In an official capacity a Lt. Col. would not be referred to as a full Colonel. [News broadcasts in the real world frequently make mistakes, so it can't really be considered an error when the news media in a movie makes a mistake as well.]

Time

In the scene where Iron Man is shot at by a tank, only a few hundred yards away. Iron Man side steps the shot - which passes by at about chest level then destroys the tank with an arm-mounted missile. However, when the tank fired first, it fired downwardly (based on level of turret). Therefore, when Iron Man side stepped the shot, the round that flew by should have exploded some short distance behind him. It never does. [Modern tanks are generally between 2.2 and 2.5 metres in height, putting the main cannon at about the two metre mark. If the shell passes Stark at chest height (let's say 1.2 metres), then it's only lost an altitude of eighty centimetres in several hundred yards of flight. To travel the remaining 1.2 metres to impact on the ground would take it a considerable distance, more than enough that we would not see the impact occurring.]

Corrected by Tailkinker

In the scene where Tony is paralyzed, his shirt covers his RT chest plate (repulsor transmitter)). This remains consistent until Obadiah is about to take the RT out of his chest, in this shot a circle around the RT is cut out of the shirt. [There's no hole until after Obadiah extracts the reactor. The dark shadow of the extraction device is briefly visible on Tony's shirt just as Obadiah applies it; this could be mistaken for a hole, but the shirt is still fully intact.]

Corrected by Tailkinker

When Obediah inserts the arc into his suit, he twists it and a sound effect is heard that denotes that it's locked into place, yet when he moves his hand away, you can see that the arc moves, almost as if to fall out. [I watched for this and could not see it, even in slow motion.]

Corrected by Phixius

When Ironman lowers the Audi SUV back to the ground, the female driver accelerates away in a panic with Ironman trying to hold onto the hood. After he loses his grip you see him slide along the pavement, as the driver continues to drag Ironman along underneath the SUV. When he finally lifts up the end of the rear of the SUV to free himself, he is being dragged in the same direction of travel as the vehicle. However, when he frees himself, he begins to roll back toward the camera. Once he gets free, momentum should have continued to cause him to roll forward/away from the camera, in th direction he had been travelling, not back towards it. [Incorrect. The camera is not stationary - it's following the SUV at approximately the same speed as the vehicle is travelling. Once Tony frees himself from under the car, friction between his armour and the road surface slows him rapidly, allowing the camera, which is still moving at the same speed, to catch up and overtake him.]

Corrected by Tailkinker

Tony has a news conference after his escape and is handed a burger as he gets out of his Rolls Royce. As he walks into the room he eats the last bite of the burger. When he sits on the floor in front of the podium he pulls a burger out of his pocket and eats it. The second burger appeared out of nowhere. [Tony is visibly wiping his lips with a napkin as he gets out of the car - he's been eating on the way, so they obviously bought more than one cheeseburger. Had some food in the back with him - ate some, stuffed the rest in his pocket, then Happy handed over some more when they got there.]

Corrected by Tailkinker Time

When Stark escapes from his captors wearing the first Iron Man suit, towards the end of the scene he is shot up by a .50 caliber machine gun. Those bullets would have gone straight through the improvised suit, which is only made of those common metals that Stark had access to in the cave and weapons cache, and out the other side. [We don't know how the suit is designed. He had access to a great deal of advanced technology, as the reason he was there was to build an advanced weapon. He obviously designed the suit with the intention of repelling the weapons he knew they had.]

In the scene where Stark is riding in an Air Force convoy that begins to take on small arms fire, one of the troops shouts "Contact Left!" This is to tell everyone else where the hostile contact is coming from so that they don't expose themselves directly to enemy fire. In this scenario all occupants would exit the right side of the vehicle where there is cover and return fire. The driver of that vehicle jumps out on the left side which is absolutely not the way Air Force combat troops are trained - beyond a simple character mistake. (I would know, I am one and I've been there.) It's no surprise that the driver is immediately shot. [It's not far fetched that an inexperienced soldier would panic and go against his/her training and do something crazy like jump in the line of fire. I would know this, I've seen it many times.]

When Stark tests his boots in the lab, they do not leave burn marks on his cars as he hovers above them. The heat generated is enough to cause red-hot embers to spew across the floor, so they should create significant damage to the cars. [No, they're repulsors (a fictional technology, as discussed as part of the Jericho missile system) that don't generate heat. The sparks are from the repulsor system, not heating. This is consistent with how all other repulsors are demonstrated (e.g. the ones in his gauntlets).]

When Tony is having his chest generator replaced Pepper pulls out the magnet. When he has to use the old generator again after the new one is stolen the magnet is not replaced. [We never see him put the old arc reactor back in. He may have re-installed the magnet or the reactor may have functioned without the magnet.]

Corrected by BocaDavie

Why would Obadiah Stane keep the video message of the 'terrorist' demanding more money for killing Tony Stark? If he wanted the company, just give them the extra money they requested to kill him and be done with it. [It could be for insurance, as a contingency in case the terrorists ever plan to double-cross him.]

Corrected by Cubs Fan

The scene where Yinsen tries to buy Stark more time by firing wildly as he chases the guards down a hallway, only to find himself outnumbered, is almost an exact replica as the scene in Star Wars Episode IV when Han Solo is led into an ambush by stormtroopers. [Having a scene that is similar to a scene in another movie, or even an exact copy, is not a mistake.]

Corrected by pross79

In the scene where Pepper is in Tony's office downloading the data from the ghost drive, she sees the plans for Obadiah's suit under the heading, 'Sector 16'. Later, however, in the scene where she is in the Stark building with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attempting to arrest Obadiah, she says they are looking for 'Section 16'. When they finally find the door, it even says 'Section 16' on it, as opposed to 'Sector 16', as it was labeled in the file. [Already submitted and corrected.]

Towards the end of the film, when Tony's army friend takes out the Audi instead of the used Iron Man suit, the Audi is, at the same time, being used by Pepper - as in the next shot she is arriving at Stark Industries. [Pepper has her own car.]

In the scene where Tony is testing the maximum altitude capabilities of the mark 02 suit, a schematic of a jet briefly appears in the bottom right hand corner of his head's up display. The jet is the Blackbird - the same jet used by fellow Marvel characters the X men. [The schematic shown is of the real life Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" aircraft, not the fictional aircraft of the same name used by the X-Men. While the look of the fictional jet was based superficially on the real-life Blackbird, the two are very different.]

Corrected by Tailkinker

The first time he flies and lands on the roof, he goes through the bedroom, living room, then the garage. Then, later when he goes to save Pepper, he flies directly through the roof out of his garage. [The first time they show him going through the bedroom, living room, then the garage. Later they show him going through the the roof, then cut to him exiting the garage. They just didn't show the other rooms to save time. There's no point: it's already been shown, we know where he passes through on his way out.]

Corrected by Phixius

During the scene where Tony finally successfully flies in the garage. One of the robotic arms has a camera on it. This camera is a Phantom brand high speed camera. All of these cameras only have connections for power and video in the back of the camera, but there is nothing connected to it. [He's just built a flying armored robotic suit which, when finished, ends up armed to the gills with advanced weaponry and technology. I think a comparatively simple modification to a camera isn't out of the question.]

Corrected by Phixius

When Pepper helps Tony stark get his new electromagnet into his chest, you can see when Pepper fits it in, Tony locks it in place, turning it to the right. When Obediah takes it out, he turns it to the right - the same direction Tony used to lock it in place. [Many devices use this type of locking mechanism. Turning the device in one direction locks, then unlocks, then locks the device, similar to a ratchet. Since we never see inside Tony's chest we have to accept that the movement is correct.]

In the scene when Tony is brought outside by his captors to inventory what is available to build the rocket, he is seen carrying the car battery in between his right arm and the side of his torso. Tony Stark was never known to have superhuman strength, and he was in a very weakened condition as it is. There is no way that a person of his size would be able to carry a battery that large in such a manner without struggling to support it, even with two hands. [You don't need to be 'superhuman' to be able to carry a car battery! And seeing as Stark has a vested interest to carry it otherwise he dies, thats plenty of incentive to be able to carry it.]

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