Iron Man 2 (lol late to the party)
Saw Iron Man 2 today. Wasn't overly impressed. It felt...messy. Overcrowded. Too much going on, too many new characters, too much sloppy writing. Love RDJ as usual, but even he seemed off in this one; probably the writing. All his good, charming scenes were in the trailer, though. And I'm mad as hell they cut the scene out with Pepper kissing his mask. That was like a selling point for me; cute and clever.
Gwynenth Paltrow was significantly less spunky than last time, and instead settled for being rather useless and lol STUPID. Who notices at a mech arm TICKING AND FLASHING LIKE A TIME BOMB and just stares at it with a HURRR o.O expression on their face? No one with a brain, that's who. But she's just a woman, there to be saved, so what else could we expect?
Ahhh, I kind of hate Scarlett Johansson anyway, and she's still just as bad an actress as I remember, and her fight scenes were shit. Badly choreographed and physically impossible. And the Black Widow didn't really need to be in this movie anyway, she didn't play an overly active part, so they just had to shoehorn some unnecessary scenes in there for her to act appropriately Black-Widow-ish and do the kick-ass-chick-thing. Utterly pointless.
But really, they just stuffed in pretty much everything having to do with SHIELD and the Avenger initiative to set up that movie, and probably other related movies in the works. I don't mind them setting up the Avengers thing, after all, it was a nice easter egg in the last movie, I just wish the could have done it with more finesse. But no, it was basically just Sam Jackson standing there shouting WE'RE MAKING AN AVENGERS MOVIE for like ten scenes.
I don't get what all the fuss is about Sam Rockwell here. I usually really like him, but his LOL QUIRKY performance was way off for this movie and the character. He wasn't Hammer, he was Sam Rockwell. He even did the Same Rockwell Dance. It's called ACTING, dude, you really should have tried some of that here.
Don Cheadle was disappointingly bland as Rhodey. I realize he wasn't given much to do, but neither was Terrance Howard, and he at least made his character interesting. War Machine here was absolutely no fun, no anything. He was just there.
Micky Rourke was awesome though. I actually liked his character. Isn't it a bad sign when you're a bit sad when the bad guy dies? He was the best part of the damn movie. Not to mention that his death was ridiculously anti-climactic. I mean, Jesus, I think Iron Man fought Iron Monger longer than this guy. Stupid.
And really, I can suspend my disbelief to the point of being downright gullible (no really, I actually bought Stark building a particle collider thing from scratch in his lab), but this movie had even me saying "LOL HOW CONVENIENT." Schematics for a new element hidden in an expo layout from the '70's that just happen to fall into Stark's lap just when he needs them, and just happen to fuel his reactor without killing him? Really? And SHIELD just happening to have a serum for reversing the negative side effects of his SUPER SECRET AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY? WOW YOU GUYS WERE HOLDING OUT.
Then there were little things, like the guards in Monaco just taking on faith that the guy who died in Rourke's jail cell was actually Rourke, despite having NONE of his tattoos, or, you know, MISSING HIS LEGS. I don't care how blown up his body was, I'm sure they at least found PIECES of him, none of which could possibly correspond with Rourke. Not to mention that I'm pretty sure at least some of the inmates SAW HIM LEAVE. And Rourke building a robot army in what, weeks? Without ANYBODY IN A COMPANY FULL OF SCIENTISTS KNOWING? And the Black Widow just randomly being able to understand GENIUS Whiplash's software to reboot Rhodey's system? It was all just sloppy as hell.
There weren't very many good funny lines here, either. Most were just painfully cheesy, or clumsy. Love how Stark named Rhodey War Machine. NOT AWKWARD AT ALL MAN. Pepper and Tony's bickering wasn't cute or as funny as it should have been, just sort of shrill and nagging. Blah.
It wasn't a terrible movie, but it was sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, and very diappointing, not to mention a waste of talent and a good lead-in movie. Here's hoping the next one's better.
Gwynenth Paltrow was significantly less spunky than last time, and instead settled for being rather useless and lol STUPID. Who notices at a mech arm TICKING AND FLASHING LIKE A TIME BOMB and just stares at it with a HURRR o.O expression on their face? No one with a brain, that's who. But she's just a woman, there to be saved, so what else could we expect?
Ahhh, I kind of hate Scarlett Johansson anyway, and she's still just as bad an actress as I remember, and her fight scenes were shit. Badly choreographed and physically impossible. And the Black Widow didn't really need to be in this movie anyway, she didn't play an overly active part, so they just had to shoehorn some unnecessary scenes in there for her to act appropriately Black-Widow-ish and do the kick-ass-chick-thing. Utterly pointless.
But really, they just stuffed in pretty much everything having to do with SHIELD and the Avenger initiative to set up that movie, and probably other related movies in the works. I don't mind them setting up the Avengers thing, after all, it was a nice easter egg in the last movie, I just wish the could have done it with more finesse. But no, it was basically just Sam Jackson standing there shouting WE'RE MAKING AN AVENGERS MOVIE for like ten scenes.
I don't get what all the fuss is about Sam Rockwell here. I usually really like him, but his LOL QUIRKY performance was way off for this movie and the character. He wasn't Hammer, he was Sam Rockwell. He even did the Same Rockwell Dance. It's called ACTING, dude, you really should have tried some of that here.
Don Cheadle was disappointingly bland as Rhodey. I realize he wasn't given much to do, but neither was Terrance Howard, and he at least made his character interesting. War Machine here was absolutely no fun, no anything. He was just there.
Micky Rourke was awesome though. I actually liked his character. Isn't it a bad sign when you're a bit sad when the bad guy dies? He was the best part of the damn movie. Not to mention that his death was ridiculously anti-climactic. I mean, Jesus, I think Iron Man fought Iron Monger longer than this guy. Stupid.
And really, I can suspend my disbelief to the point of being downright gullible (no really, I actually bought Stark building a particle collider thing from scratch in his lab), but this movie had even me saying "LOL HOW CONVENIENT." Schematics for a new element hidden in an expo layout from the '70's that just happen to fall into Stark's lap just when he needs them, and just happen to fuel his reactor without killing him? Really? And SHIELD just happening to have a serum for reversing the negative side effects of his SUPER SECRET AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY? WOW YOU GUYS WERE HOLDING OUT.
Then there were little things, like the guards in Monaco just taking on faith that the guy who died in Rourke's jail cell was actually Rourke, despite having NONE of his tattoos, or, you know, MISSING HIS LEGS. I don't care how blown up his body was, I'm sure they at least found PIECES of him, none of which could possibly correspond with Rourke. Not to mention that I'm pretty sure at least some of the inmates SAW HIM LEAVE. And Rourke building a robot army in what, weeks? Without ANYBODY IN A COMPANY FULL OF SCIENTISTS KNOWING? And the Black Widow just randomly being able to understand GENIUS Whiplash's software to reboot Rhodey's system? It was all just sloppy as hell.
There weren't very many good funny lines here, either. Most were just painfully cheesy, or clumsy. Love how Stark named Rhodey War Machine. NOT AWKWARD AT ALL MAN. Pepper and Tony's bickering wasn't cute or as funny as it should have been, just sort of shrill and nagging. Blah.
It wasn't a terrible movie, but it was sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, and very diappointing, not to mention a waste of talent and a good lead-in movie. Here's hoping the next one's better.