MCU: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Iron Man

5. The Effects Hold Up

Usually when you're looking at movie genres that rely as heavily on special effects as Iron Man does, there's some compromise on how well their effects hold up over the years. The fact that Iron Man has been out for a decade now pretty much gives it a free pass from being compared to the effects of things like Black Panther, but even if it didn't, it mostly looks better in those sequences than Ryan Coogler's film did.

That much is remarkably impressive and testament to the way Favreau frames the film to take advantage. It's not like he protects his story from having to rely on effects (they're a necessity after all), but there's no sequences where they're so heavily in focus that you can see the strings showing, as it were.

Even next to Iron Man 3 there's not a massive downgrade in effects quality, and given the difference between Hulk and Thor: Ragnarok's Hulk effects, that's hugely impressive.