John Lindal’s Blog

Iron Man

I got a chance to watch it on the flight home from Norway. Fun movie. Of course, we all want a suit like that

Am I the only one bothered by the size of the hole in Tony Stark’s chest? There is no way his esophagus could still work, and it looked like the hole was high enough up that it would block his trachea, too. So basically, he can’t breathe or swallow!

Any why did both suits leave smoke/vapor trails when flying? It looks cool, but surely they are repulsors, not rocket engines? Neither suit had any storage tanks for the chemical fuel required for rocket engines. And the hand repulsors, which were used for additional acceleration, did not leave trails!