Comments on: What’s with that ‘cheeseburger’ talk in Iron Man, anyway?

By: Mysterious Stranger

Mysterious Stranger — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:55:09 +0000

I don’t think its so much the cheeseburger itself as it is the fact that its a Burger King cheeseburger. That’s the point of the story. He was so desperate for a piece of home that he would settle for a bad cheeseburger from Burger King. That’s what I think Downey was saying.

(personally I don’t mind Burger King burgers, but I can’t eat Wendy’s anymore though thanks to the Hoff)

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:22:22 +0000

That line was so obvious! He had been deprived, while imprisoned, and now that he was back home, he wanted something that was familiar.

I can’t believe anyone had trouble getting that.

By: Kat Kan

Kat Kan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:27 +0000

Fifteen years ago I traveled to China with a bunch of other librarians. By the third day, I kept overhearing comments about my fellow travelers craving hamburgers and steak. While in China, with all that magnificent cuisine! You don’t even have to go out to the wilderness to get a craving for a dang cheeseburger! That scene just rang true to me, it made me flash back to my China trip and hear my fellow travelers’ complaints all over again.

By: Templar

Templar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:26:39 +0000

… this doesn’t make sense to anyone else?

seriously, his drug problems and product placement aside… go off into the wilderness for several weeks at a time. no civilization, no working toilets, no guaranteed access to water or food unless you brought it with you…

right around week two… all you can think about is a cheeseburger. you want it more than sex. more than electricity. more than indoor plumbing. more than a hot shower. more than ANYTHING…

every outdoor nut i’ve ever known… first thing they do when they come back to the civilized world, is get a dang cheeseburger.

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:03:33 +0000

The King is of course really just waiting for his moment as the star of V for Vendetta 2.

By: Alvin Draper

Alvin Draper — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:11:37 +0000

RDJ might be off whatever he was on but it doesn’t look like the King is.

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:10:24 +0000

and here i thought it was just obvious product placement! seriously, i forgot this anecdote. i think it also ran in some sort of NYT pre-release interview.

By: Vinnie Bartilucci

Vinnie Bartilucci — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:25:48 +0000

Burger King saves a man’s life. Take THAT Morgan Spurlock!

(Yeah I know, he did Mcdonalds, work with me here…)

By: Joe H

Joe H — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:16:34 +0000

This line of reasoning confuses the hell out of me, but good for him.

By: Seth 4:10

Seth 4:10 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:12:08 +0000

To think, if he had stopped at an In-N-Out Burger, we’d of been robbed of Iron Man…but saved from Pirates 3.