Re: Ironman and Urdu
Oh sheesh! Get off the The-Whole-World-Is-Trying-To-Get-Us depression.
Ironman is a movie. If you had stuck around for the entire movie, you'd have realized that the movie was not meant to show-case bad boys muslims, but the hypocricy of US military establishment (and weapon manufacturers) and how they'd sell weapons to anyone to make a penny.
Five minutes into the movie, and the shalwar-kameez clad kidnapper started talking in urdu (with really bad subtitles), and I almost burst out laughing. Not because the guy was comical or trying to be funny, but because who'd have thought that terrorists/freedom-fighters/mujahideen in the middle of Afghanistan will be shown speaking urdu. Pashtu, yes. Darri, yes. Farshi, yes. Urdu --- are you kiddin' me??? I chalked it up to the generally poor world knowledge of film-makers. And its hard to believe there is a deep-rooted conspiracy theory here, because most US movie-goers don't give a frick about which foreign language the dude was speaking, as long as they can read the sub-titles. Plus no one mentioned Pakistan, even once in the movie. It was all about Afghanistan.
Its an other-wise well made movie and a lot of nice action scenes. Plus Robert Downey Jr is kinda cool sort of super hero and makes the movie really funny in parts.