so that was pretty fucking great
IRON MAN 3!!!
This is not going to be particularly deep or thoughtful, because so many people have already said it better, so let's do this in bullet points! Things I was not an enormous fan of:
- Ugh I'm not sure how I feel about Tony getting rid of the arc reactor. Like, I'm cool with him not being in danger of dying from shrapnel anymore! And when I told
oliviacirce that I wasn't sure how I felt about it, she pointed out that it means now Tony can make the specific choice to be a superhero in ways he couldn't quite as much before/in different ways now; which is true, and also, it's not like he didn't design other connections to the suits besides the arc reactor. But on the other hand -- fff, I just really love all the transhumanism, and him having to work with this thing, and the "terrible privilege" line from Avengers really gets me where I live, and grah. Idk.
- Maya got SUCH a Bond girl death. I was really enjoying her up til then! Talking with Pepper, playing both sides, having genuine conflict, and -- damn, Killian just fucking shoots her and it was upsetting in not-good ways :(
THAT SAID, I'm fairly sure literally everything else was the good bits!
+ Everyone else has had good articulate thoughts about the metacommentary on perceptions of terrorism/whitewashing and yellowface in acting/whether it's even okay to have the Mandarin in a movie in 2013, and how this film was TROLLING THE FUCK OUT OF US. So yeah, I'd heard vague things about how this movie managed to use the Mandarin in non-faily ways, but by god did they manage it. *___*
+ PEPPERRRR. I think they had her damseling for part of the movie in order to do another clever reversal, and I see what they were doing, and it really worked, but I do think that they didn't need her to damsel that hard? On the other hand, oh goddd I love that the story was bookended by her saving Tony, that she's the one who took Killian down in the end, that she then turned around and said something about how wow, that was really violent, and oh Pepper, how so wonderful. <3
+ That child! Harley, I think? He was great and charming and funny without being too saccharine, and I suspect that they cast him by just throwing a bunch of children in a room with RDJ and seeing which one had the best banter timing, because oh did they have great banter. (I would've killed to see a girl in the same role, but I guess we'd already filled our lady quota with Pepper and Maya.)
+ RHODEY. He got to be really competent and save the President and look really great in a polo shirt! And gosh I do ship Rhodey/Tony quite a lot. (Possibly more than Tony/Pepper? I mostly just family them. Let's be real, I'll happily ship all the Tony things.) Oh and Happy was great too! Drunk with security power, watching Downton Abbey! Let's just take it as read that I love Tony's whole ridiculous little family. And especially JARVIS, oh god JARVIS, speaking of things I ship really hard.
+ This has just sort of dissolved into happy screaming without organized bulletpoints, the bulletpoints are now for show. But oh yes "Ever since that guy with the hammer came down here, subtlety's gone out the window" or something like that, I laughed SO HARD, no one is surprised.
+ Oh and BRUUUUCE. I ... sort of required the end tag to be Tony and Bruce hanging out, so I'm less overjoyed than just very pleased, but sd,ldfskjfd what a beautiful end tag, and way to frame Shane Black's love of having RDJ narrate things, and I love Bruce's face even when he's being less fluffy than usual. <333
I'm probably forgetting lots of other things, but the main point here is that I really, really enjoyed it. And I have all these complicated feelings about Tony and transhumanism and robots, which I may or may not actually write plotless fic about, we shall see.
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This is not going to be particularly deep or thoughtful, because so many people have already said it better, so let's do this in bullet points! Things I was not an enormous fan of:
- Ugh I'm not sure how I feel about Tony getting rid of the arc reactor. Like, I'm cool with him not being in danger of dying from shrapnel anymore! And when I told
oliviacirce that I wasn't sure how I felt about it, she pointed out that it means now Tony can make the specific choice to be a superhero in ways he couldn't quite as much before/in different ways now; which is true, and also, it's not like he didn't design other connections to the suits besides the arc reactor. But on the other hand -- fff, I just really love all the transhumanism, and him having to work with this thing, and the "terrible privilege" line from Avengers really gets me where I live, and grah. Idk.
- Maya got SUCH a Bond girl death. I was really enjoying her up til then! Talking with Pepper, playing both sides, having genuine conflict, and -- damn, Killian just fucking shoots her and it was upsetting in not-good ways :(
THAT SAID, I'm fairly sure literally everything else was the good bits!
+ Everyone else has had good articulate thoughts about the metacommentary on perceptions of terrorism/whitewashing and yellowface in acting/whether it's even okay to have the Mandarin in a movie in 2013, and how this film was TROLLING THE FUCK OUT OF US. So yeah, I'd heard vague things about how this movie managed to use the Mandarin in non-faily ways, but by god did they manage it. *___*
+ PEPPERRRR. I think they had her damseling for part of the movie in order to do another clever reversal, and I see what they were doing, and it really worked, but I do think that they didn't need her to damsel that hard? On the other hand, oh goddd I love that the story was bookended by her saving Tony, that she's the one who took Killian down in the end, that she then turned around and said something about how wow, that was really violent, and oh Pepper, how so wonderful. <3
+ That child! Harley, I think? He was great and charming and funny without being too saccharine, and I suspect that they cast him by just throwing a bunch of children in a room with RDJ and seeing which one had the best banter timing, because oh did they have great banter. (I would've killed to see a girl in the same role, but I guess we'd already filled our lady quota with Pepper and Maya.)
+ RHODEY. He got to be really competent and save the President and look really great in a polo shirt! And gosh I do ship Rhodey/Tony quite a lot. (Possibly more than Tony/Pepper? I mostly just family them. Let's be real, I'll happily ship all the Tony things.) Oh and Happy was great too! Drunk with security power, watching Downton Abbey! Let's just take it as read that I love Tony's whole ridiculous little family. And especially JARVIS, oh god JARVIS, speaking of things I ship really hard.
+ This has just sort of dissolved into happy screaming without organized bulletpoints, the bulletpoints are now for show. But oh yes "Ever since that guy with the hammer came down here, subtlety's gone out the window" or something like that, I laughed SO HARD, no one is surprised.
+ Oh and BRUUUUCE. I ... sort of required the end tag to be Tony and Bruce hanging out, so I'm less overjoyed than just very pleased, but sd,ldfskjfd what a beautiful end tag, and way to frame Shane Black's love of having RDJ narrate things, and I love Bruce's face even when he's being less fluffy than usual. <333
I'm probably forgetting lots of other things, but the main point here is that I really, really enjoyed it. And I have all these complicated feelings about Tony and transhumanism and robots, which I may or may not actually write plotless fic about, we shall see.
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