Iron Man is by definition what a heroic engineer is (with a lot of sex and addiction issues along the way).
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A lot of the Iron Man franchise focuses on Stark as an action hero, with the engineering bit existing solely as a plot device. (In the movies, compare how much screen time he spends designing/building against how much screen time he spends beating up bad guys.)
Iron Man doesn't really even try to capture the way real engineers work.
Really? I thought the first Iron Man movie was a great depiction of iterating on a product design.
I guess it isn't quite as much an engineer's movie as Apollo 13 or October Sky, but I definitely view it as one.
Yeah, it's been a while since I saw the movie, but I left it off because I remember it being more action scenes than a dramatization of engineering. It's partly why I made the collection, because it's so hard to find movies that do it well.
Agreed; I'm referring more to the comic book narrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man#Fictional_character_bi...