Iron Man 2
It's 2:15am and I just finished watching Iron Man 2. I found a way to make it happen. I also have church at 9:30am and I have to teach little six year olds on obedience. This is gonna be fun. But, I have to say something about this movie because, um, wow. I'm not quite sure what happened in those two hours, but it was action packed, hilarious and dark in some places. Yeah.
Apologies in advance for run on sentences, incoherent thoughts and spelling errors. You've been warned.
So, I really have no idea what just happened. I missed like half the dialogue because my sluggish brain couldn't keep up. Then again, I think I'm just super slow hahahaha. I mean I had to watch the first Iron Man THREE TIMES before I realized that it was Pepper's voice that Tony kept hearing every time he blacked out. THREE TIMES. HOW SLOW CAN I GET? So when IM2 comes out on dvd at the end of September, I'm putting the frickin' subtitles on.
Besides, the banter was awesome this time around. I mean it was in the first movie as well, but omg, so funny. Just everything between Pepper and Tony and Pepper/Tony/Rhodey was really good. I kinda missed Terrence Howard as Rhodey but Don Cheadle did an okay job. I'm a big fan of Cheadle ever since Ocean's 11, but I kinda wish there wasn't a cast change. I hate when they do that for movie series. The only time it's acceptable is if there's death a la Dumbledore in Harry Potter but even now I'm still angry about that. But that's another rant for another time.
SO PEPPER AND TONY ARE TOGETHER. FINALLY. YAY.
CAN I JUST SAY THAT I WAS SO FREAKING PROUD OF PEPPER WHEN SHE WAS STONEWALLING TONY AND BEING ALL UBER CEO AND PUTTING HER FOOT DOWN AND NOT GIVING INTO HIM. SHE WAS SO FRICKIN' BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME FOR DOING THAT. YES. AND THE ARREST. AND I HOPE HAMMER KEEPS HIS THREAT BECAUSE YES, I WANT A PEPPER AND HAMMER SHOWDOWN. LIKE FULL ON PWNAGE AT TAKING HIS COMPANY DOWN AND SNARK AND YEAH. That and I secretly hope Tony gets to watch and be all proud and turned on by UBER!CEO!PEPPER. AND I JUST FREAKING WANT MORE PEPPER PWNING. REALLY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? BECAUSE SHE DID A GOOD JOB IN THAT ONE SCENE.
And Tony. Tony is such a douche. Seriously, that's why I was so happy with Pepper stonewalling. After his tragic and terrible display of pure idiocy and self-indulgment and self-pity, I'd want nothing to do with the man either. I wanted to POUND him into the ground. How can you take on the mantle of Iron Man and then pull that stunt? Honestly? When Rhodey got into War Machine I was cheering like mad crazy cuz Tony needed to be taken down. You asked for this, Tony. You don't get to throw it away like that. It's so scary how one could have so much power and wealth like that. Imagine if he never got straightened out. al;ksdjf;alksdfj;lasdkfj;lkajsd I WANT TO RAAAAGE AT HIM. RAAAGE.
He forgot his purpose and got all caught up in his self-pity of dying. Yinsen wasn't there to guide him. He forgot what Yinsen told him -- Don't waste you life -- and went back to his old ways just because he could and because he was hating himself and pitying himself because he was dying. Is that really the legacy you want to leave? Wasn't that entire point? a;slkdfja;ldkf
See. RAAAAGE.
So, now that I've got that out, Natalie/Natasha/whoever Scarlett Johanssen was supposed to be was cool at first and then I thought she was a bit overdone. She's like Sydney Bristow on crack and no flaws. I didn't like that. Although she was good at her cover and she was pretty much protecting Pepper, so that was nice. The Happy and Natalie scenes were awesome! Yay for Happy!
Now I'm digressing and rambling worse than Tony Stark. Wow. So, um, back to Pepper and Tony. Right. After that entire rant, I still love them together. Of course it took all of five minutes for Tony to completely ruin his and Iron Man's image, but of course, in the end he cured himself and got back down to business. Nothin' like a good kick in the rear to set things going. I still miss Yinsen though. But Nick Fury and Howard Stark did a good enough job to get Tony back into business. The whole NEW ELEMENT deal was kinda... lame. I felt like it was the Fifth Element all over again aka Love or the latest Indy movie with ALIENS. Idk, I hate buying into this whole new element that doesn't have a name or we don't even really know how or what Tony used to synthesized it. (That thing looked like some kind of particle accelerator or whatever they use to smash atoms together, but whatever.) With how much realism they tried to put into the Iron Man movies, I wanted a better rationalization for curing Palladium poisoning. Oh well. Whatever, Tony's cured and he's got his head on straight and he's with Pepper.
The Palladium poisoning looked pretty cool though. The veins and everything. Idk, I thought it was kinda hot lol. Apparently though, Tony is good at ALL sciences? I wasn't sure if he was into the whole biology aspect. Then again if he was dying, I'd want to know everything too especially if my body was off and then create some kind of biometric device to measure how poisoned I am.
Also, when did his reactor have batteries like that? What happened to the wires and digging into his chest? He upgraded to battery-like chips? Okay.
Can I just say that the ending was pretty much anticlimactic? That last battle with Whiplash or whatever was SO LAME. Maybe if there was less time on trying to get away and destroy the drones, the battle would've been better and LONGER, but no. One big energy blast and BOOM, goodbye. Oh, but there's a failsafe self-destructive thing with the drones and... yeah. No. Bad. Bad ending fight with Big Bad Bad Guy. I mean this isn't Bowser and Mario and even some of those fights were more epic than the Whiplash one. COME ON. The Rhodey and Tony fight was epic. I think they destroyed most of Tony's mansion and it was AWESOME. It hurt to watch, but oh so good. Plus, Tony fighting like that while completely trashed is pretty amazing. But it doesn't matter, freaking bad ending. Funny though. The whole battle plan failing, the apology that wasn't, the awesome red laser of doom from Tony, the Ex-Wife failing and "Hammer Tech?" "Yeah." -- THAT WAS GOOD. One blast to destroy this bad who's been harboring a grudge since he was practically BORN? Not cool. BAD MARVEL. COME ON.
But at least there was humor. Everything about Tony/Pepper was awesome. The constant fighting, the constant yelling, Pepper getting all worked up and overemotional, more yelling, stonewalling. SO. MUCH. AWESOME. From her first scene where she's pissed about the art collection and worried about he's not telling her to the random promotion to the boxing ring and meeting Natalie and them sharing a couch and just bantering -- oh yeah. And I love how Tony kept trying to impress her and get in her space and at least make these gestures and she just kinda brushes it off. And I love how he stutters and stumbles when he wants to just TELL her that he's dying and that they should just go off and disappear and that he loves her. It's adorable. Absolutely adorable.
But I love when she just rages at him and screams. The whole race car thing and how she's just freaked out and tries to throw the suit to him and it's cute. And then there's the whole trying to get him to end his birthday party and she's all trying to be diplomatic and he's just hitting on her and trying to kiss her. Btw, did he say he loved her in that drunken madness? I might've missed it. And then stonewalling. Omg. Stonewalling. Then the Superman scene where he flies in to swoop her off because one of the drones was going to explode. If I were Pepper, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs. Then the rooftop. Oh the rooftop. She finally lets go and RAGES AND RAGES and quits and resigns and is so worried about him that he's going to kill himself and she wants nothing to do with him and he's like trying not to be all down and sad and be the bigger man by saying that's okay, you helped me through the rough patches and it's all cool, really, I promise. And she's like okay I'll work out the transition and clean up and he's like okay, sure you got one more week left and she's like that's like dog years in working for you and he's like I know and -- they kiss.
How awesomely perfect? Cheesy, but perfect for them.
And Rhodey is all like damn, you guys are totally going at it like seals or some terrible metaphor and Tony is like hey, back off, private moment here, get your own rooftop and Rhodey is like dude, I got dibs on this place first and btw, I'm stealing the suit cuz you wrecked my car and Tony is like psh, forget it and Rhodey is like too bad -- and blasts off. Then Tony and Pepper go back to what they were doing like nothing happened and banter about work and how she can't resign now and -- voila, the Story of How Tony Cleaned Up His Life and Got The Girl.
I want MOAR OF THAT.
But we got Nick Fury saying NO RECOMMENDATION FOR IRON MAN but we'd like to keep you as a consultant and Tony's like DUDE. I CLEANED UP MY LIFE, MAN. YEAH I SELF-DESTRUCTED LAST WEEK BUT DUDE, THAT WAS LAST WEEK AND NOW I HEALED MYSELF BY CREATING THIS NEW WICKED ELEMENT THAT MY DAD HAD THOUGHT ABOUT LIKE 20 YEARS AGO AND I'M IN A STABLE-ISH RELATIONSHIP WITH PEPPER AND GODDAMMIT WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Oh, okay, fine. No fees, but small favor? Get someone cool to award me and Rhodey medals for our awesome stunt in destroying the Expo but saving everyone's lives, yeah? Sure, no problem, Tony. Lemme send in Senator Suck-It Stern. That ironic enough for you? Yeah, cool, thanks, Fury. And if he calls me a prick I'll -- ow, dammit that hurt. Yeah, it hurt, you prick.
See, those last few paragraphs pretty much summarized the entire movie. I'm excited now about the next one. Tony and Pepper being together. Will Pepper still be CEO so Tony can go off saving the world and will they go to Venice? And will there be the epic Hammer/Pepper showdown? PLEASE? And epic Happy fights with cute scenes with Natalie? And MOAR EPIC FIGHTS WITH IRON MAN VS VILLIAN OF THE MOVIE? ONE THAT IS ACTUALLY EPIC AND NOT WORSE THAN A VIDEO GAME? PLEASE?
But all in all, this movie showed us the darker sides of Tony. His self-destruction, and his climb back and his awesome awesome new workshop. I mean dude, 3-D holographic stuff EVERYWHERE? YES. And I want Tony to get back the art collection that Pepper worked TEN HARD YEARS for. I hope she gives him hell about that now that they're together. And he should try and cook for her some more. Even if it takes three hours. And not give her strawberries that she's allergic to. Yeah.
One more thing before I end this because I've been writing this for an hour, wtf? The whole part where Natalie reboots Rhodey and she gets the readings off of Tony and is like oh, wow you did it, your vitals are good and hey, you're not dying and Pepper's like WHAT? YOU'RE DYING? and Tony's like oh hey, Pepper, I, uh, no, not dying, not at all. I'm all good, I promise. But you WERE dying? Um, yes? I was going to tell you I promise! I tried to, but you wouldn't let me and -- WERE YOU REALLY GOING TO TELL ME? I was going to make you an omelet and tell you then. OH MY GOD. TONY. We could've been in Venice. Hey, lovers, save it for the honeymoon. Oh right, sorry Natalie or Agent Whatever. Look, Pepper, I'll talk to you later okay? After I save the world from drone invasion cuz you know, that kinda takes more priority than arguing with you over how I WAS dying. Yeah. Fine. This ain't over, bud. Gotcha. Yeah THAT whole part was SO AWESOME. I half thought Pepper would slap him on the rooftop, but the shove and the RAGING was good enough. When he gets out of that suit, I hope she freaking punches him then kisses him and then gives him ice for his bruises and they're all cuddly and cute and bantering about how irresponsible and thoughtless Tony can be sometimes and he's just all God, I love you. Please don't leave me. Ever. And she's like, I want the biggest raise of my life. Done. And you tell me everything that happened with you dying. And then you tell me what's going on with all of this Iron Man stuff. And no, I won't leave you. I don't think I could. Whatever you want, Pepper. Oh, and that art collection? Yeah... I'll get right on that. Good.
I'm done. I swear. I've rambled on more than Tony Frickin' Stark. And I have six year olds to teach and I can't be cranky. And yeah. Stopping. Now.
PS. I need Iron Man icons. Or Tony/Pepper ones. Argh. I hate limited icon space.
Apologies in advance for run on sentences, incoherent thoughts and spelling errors. You've been warned.
So, I really have no idea what just happened. I missed like half the dialogue because my sluggish brain couldn't keep up. Then again, I think I'm just super slow hahahaha. I mean I had to watch the first Iron Man THREE TIMES before I realized that it was Pepper's voice that Tony kept hearing every time he blacked out. THREE TIMES. HOW SLOW CAN I GET? So when IM2 comes out on dvd at the end of September, I'm putting the frickin' subtitles on.
Besides, the banter was awesome this time around. I mean it was in the first movie as well, but omg, so funny. Just everything between Pepper and Tony and Pepper/Tony/Rhodey was really good. I kinda missed Terrence Howard as Rhodey but Don Cheadle did an okay job. I'm a big fan of Cheadle ever since Ocean's 11, but I kinda wish there wasn't a cast change. I hate when they do that for movie series. The only time it's acceptable is if there's death a la Dumbledore in Harry Potter but even now I'm still angry about that. But that's another rant for another time.
SO PEPPER AND TONY ARE TOGETHER. FINALLY. YAY.
CAN I JUST SAY THAT I WAS SO FREAKING PROUD OF PEPPER WHEN SHE WAS STONEWALLING TONY AND BEING ALL UBER CEO AND PUTTING HER FOOT DOWN AND NOT GIVING INTO HIM. SHE WAS SO FRICKIN' BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME FOR DOING THAT. YES. AND THE ARREST. AND I HOPE HAMMER KEEPS HIS THREAT BECAUSE YES, I WANT A PEPPER AND HAMMER SHOWDOWN. LIKE FULL ON PWNAGE AT TAKING HIS COMPANY DOWN AND SNARK AND YEAH. That and I secretly hope Tony gets to watch and be all proud and turned on by UBER!CEO!PEPPER. AND I JUST FREAKING WANT MORE PEPPER PWNING. REALLY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? BECAUSE SHE DID A GOOD JOB IN THAT ONE SCENE.
And Tony. Tony is such a douche. Seriously, that's why I was so happy with Pepper stonewalling. After his tragic and terrible display of pure idiocy and self-indulgment and self-pity, I'd want nothing to do with the man either. I wanted to POUND him into the ground. How can you take on the mantle of Iron Man and then pull that stunt? Honestly? When Rhodey got into War Machine I was cheering like mad crazy cuz Tony needed to be taken down. You asked for this, Tony. You don't get to throw it away like that. It's so scary how one could have so much power and wealth like that. Imagine if he never got straightened out. al;ksdjf;alksdfj;lasdkfj;lkajsd I WANT TO RAAAAGE AT HIM. RAAAGE.
He forgot his purpose and got all caught up in his self-pity of dying. Yinsen wasn't there to guide him. He forgot what Yinsen told him -- Don't waste you life -- and went back to his old ways just because he could and because he was hating himself and pitying himself because he was dying. Is that really the legacy you want to leave? Wasn't that entire point? a;slkdfja;ldkf
See. RAAAAGE.
So, now that I've got that out, Natalie/Natasha/whoever Scarlett Johanssen was supposed to be was cool at first and then I thought she was a bit overdone. She's like Sydney Bristow on crack and no flaws. I didn't like that. Although she was good at her cover and she was pretty much protecting Pepper, so that was nice. The Happy and Natalie scenes were awesome! Yay for Happy!
Now I'm digressing and rambling worse than Tony Stark. Wow. So, um, back to Pepper and Tony. Right. After that entire rant, I still love them together. Of course it took all of five minutes for Tony to completely ruin his and Iron Man's image, but of course, in the end he cured himself and got back down to business. Nothin' like a good kick in the rear to set things going. I still miss Yinsen though. But Nick Fury and Howard Stark did a good enough job to get Tony back into business. The whole NEW ELEMENT deal was kinda... lame. I felt like it was the Fifth Element all over again aka Love or the latest Indy movie with ALIENS. Idk, I hate buying into this whole new element that doesn't have a name or we don't even really know how or what Tony used to synthesized it. (That thing looked like some kind of particle accelerator or whatever they use to smash atoms together, but whatever.) With how much realism they tried to put into the Iron Man movies, I wanted a better rationalization for curing Palladium poisoning. Oh well. Whatever, Tony's cured and he's got his head on straight and he's with Pepper.
The Palladium poisoning looked pretty cool though. The veins and everything. Idk, I thought it was kinda hot lol. Apparently though, Tony is good at ALL sciences? I wasn't sure if he was into the whole biology aspect. Then again if he was dying, I'd want to know everything too especially if my body was off and then create some kind of biometric device to measure how poisoned I am.
Also, when did his reactor have batteries like that? What happened to the wires and digging into his chest? He upgraded to battery-like chips? Okay.
Can I just say that the ending was pretty much anticlimactic? That last battle with Whiplash or whatever was SO LAME. Maybe if there was less time on trying to get away and destroy the drones, the battle would've been better and LONGER, but no. One big energy blast and BOOM, goodbye. Oh, but there's a failsafe self-destructive thing with the drones and... yeah. No. Bad. Bad ending fight with Big Bad Bad Guy. I mean this isn't Bowser and Mario and even some of those fights were more epic than the Whiplash one. COME ON. The Rhodey and Tony fight was epic. I think they destroyed most of Tony's mansion and it was AWESOME. It hurt to watch, but oh so good. Plus, Tony fighting like that while completely trashed is pretty amazing. But it doesn't matter, freaking bad ending. Funny though. The whole battle plan failing, the apology that wasn't, the awesome red laser of doom from Tony, the Ex-Wife failing and "Hammer Tech?" "Yeah." -- THAT WAS GOOD. One blast to destroy this bad who's been harboring a grudge since he was practically BORN? Not cool. BAD MARVEL. COME ON.
But at least there was humor. Everything about Tony/Pepper was awesome. The constant fighting, the constant yelling, Pepper getting all worked up and overemotional, more yelling, stonewalling. SO. MUCH. AWESOME. From her first scene where she's pissed about the art collection and worried about he's not telling her to the random promotion to the boxing ring and meeting Natalie and them sharing a couch and just bantering -- oh yeah. And I love how Tony kept trying to impress her and get in her space and at least make these gestures and she just kinda brushes it off. And I love how he stutters and stumbles when he wants to just TELL her that he's dying and that they should just go off and disappear and that he loves her. It's adorable. Absolutely adorable.
But I love when she just rages at him and screams. The whole race car thing and how she's just freaked out and tries to throw the suit to him and it's cute. And then there's the whole trying to get him to end his birthday party and she's all trying to be diplomatic and he's just hitting on her and trying to kiss her. Btw, did he say he loved her in that drunken madness? I might've missed it. And then stonewalling. Omg. Stonewalling. Then the Superman scene where he flies in to swoop her off because one of the drones was going to explode. If I were Pepper, I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs. Then the rooftop. Oh the rooftop. She finally lets go and RAGES AND RAGES and quits and resigns and is so worried about him that he's going to kill himself and she wants nothing to do with him and he's like trying not to be all down and sad and be the bigger man by saying that's okay, you helped me through the rough patches and it's all cool, really, I promise. And she's like okay I'll work out the transition and clean up and he's like okay, sure you got one more week left and she's like that's like dog years in working for you and he's like I know and -- they kiss.
How awesomely perfect? Cheesy, but perfect for them.
And Rhodey is all like damn, you guys are totally going at it like seals or some terrible metaphor and Tony is like hey, back off, private moment here, get your own rooftop and Rhodey is like dude, I got dibs on this place first and btw, I'm stealing the suit cuz you wrecked my car and Tony is like psh, forget it and Rhodey is like too bad -- and blasts off. Then Tony and Pepper go back to what they were doing like nothing happened and banter about work and how she can't resign now and -- voila, the Story of How Tony Cleaned Up His Life and Got The Girl.
I want MOAR OF THAT.
But we got Nick Fury saying NO RECOMMENDATION FOR IRON MAN but we'd like to keep you as a consultant and Tony's like DUDE. I CLEANED UP MY LIFE, MAN. YEAH I SELF-DESTRUCTED LAST WEEK BUT DUDE, THAT WAS LAST WEEK AND NOW I HEALED MYSELF BY CREATING THIS NEW WICKED ELEMENT THAT MY DAD HAD THOUGHT ABOUT LIKE 20 YEARS AGO AND I'M IN A STABLE-ISH RELATIONSHIP WITH PEPPER AND GODDAMMIT WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Oh, okay, fine. No fees, but small favor? Get someone cool to award me and Rhodey medals for our awesome stunt in destroying the Expo but saving everyone's lives, yeah? Sure, no problem, Tony. Lemme send in Senator Suck-It Stern. That ironic enough for you? Yeah, cool, thanks, Fury. And if he calls me a prick I'll -- ow, dammit that hurt. Yeah, it hurt, you prick.
See, those last few paragraphs pretty much summarized the entire movie. I'm excited now about the next one. Tony and Pepper being together. Will Pepper still be CEO so Tony can go off saving the world and will they go to Venice? And will there be the epic Hammer/Pepper showdown? PLEASE? And epic Happy fights with cute scenes with Natalie? And MOAR EPIC FIGHTS WITH IRON MAN VS VILLIAN OF THE MOVIE? ONE THAT IS ACTUALLY EPIC AND NOT WORSE THAN A VIDEO GAME? PLEASE?
But all in all, this movie showed us the darker sides of Tony. His self-destruction, and his climb back and his awesome awesome new workshop. I mean dude, 3-D holographic stuff EVERYWHERE? YES. And I want Tony to get back the art collection that Pepper worked TEN HARD YEARS for. I hope she gives him hell about that now that they're together. And he should try and cook for her some more. Even if it takes three hours. And not give her strawberries that she's allergic to. Yeah.
One more thing before I end this because I've been writing this for an hour, wtf? The whole part where Natalie reboots Rhodey and she gets the readings off of Tony and is like oh, wow you did it, your vitals are good and hey, you're not dying and Pepper's like WHAT? YOU'RE DYING? and Tony's like oh hey, Pepper, I, uh, no, not dying, not at all. I'm all good, I promise. But you WERE dying? Um, yes? I was going to tell you I promise! I tried to, but you wouldn't let me and -- WERE YOU REALLY GOING TO TELL ME? I was going to make you an omelet and tell you then. OH MY GOD. TONY. We could've been in Venice. Hey, lovers, save it for the honeymoon. Oh right, sorry Natalie or Agent Whatever. Look, Pepper, I'll talk to you later okay? After I save the world from drone invasion cuz you know, that kinda takes more priority than arguing with you over how I WAS dying. Yeah. Fine. This ain't over, bud. Gotcha. Yeah THAT whole part was SO AWESOME. I half thought Pepper would slap him on the rooftop, but the shove and the RAGING was good enough. When he gets out of that suit, I hope she freaking punches him then kisses him and then gives him ice for his bruises and they're all cuddly and cute and bantering about how irresponsible and thoughtless Tony can be sometimes and he's just all God, I love you. Please don't leave me. Ever. And she's like, I want the biggest raise of my life. Done. And you tell me everything that happened with you dying. And then you tell me what's going on with all of this Iron Man stuff. And no, I won't leave you. I don't think I could. Whatever you want, Pepper. Oh, and that art collection? Yeah... I'll get right on that. Good.
I'm done. I swear. I've rambled on more than Tony Frickin' Stark. And I have six year olds to teach and I can't be cranky. And yeah. Stopping. Now.
PS. I need Iron Man icons. Or Tony/Pepper ones. Argh. I hate limited icon space.