I went and saw, ‘Iron Man’, in the theater this week and I have to say it was totally awesome.
I was a huge comic geek as a kid and marvel was no exception. Some of these movies have been totally butchered and I feared ‘Iron Man’, being a somewhat lesser known series, would suffer the same fate. Nope. I love Robert Downey Jr. as well, which helps.

The theater was great. Nice stadium seating, a huge screen, clean and loud. (7th floor of Deji Plaza if your in/familiar with Nanjing)

A couple interesting things about the experience:

There was a women sitting behind my girlfriend and I retelling every detail of the movie as it happened to someone on the other end. The guy on the other end either a) really, really liked ‘Iron Man’ but didn’t have the 60 kuai for a ticket, nor the patience to wait for a bootleg, or b) was very, very bored. I’m leaning towards the latter.

Finally, I saw the movie in the original audio with Chinese subtitles. I can’t help but read the subtitles a bit and while doing so, I noticed something a little strange. Every time the words, ‘America’, or ‘American’ were used, the characters 美国 were nowhere to be found. It happened quite a few times.
In some way, I can understand. From a translation perspective, it may just be an issue of adjusting the voice for an international audience. You could argue that doing so helps non-Americans relate more closely with the material. (yeah…kind of a stretch)

Although, it seems a little hard to argue when one of the said removals was positioned before the word, ‘cheeseburger’.