Iron Man 2 (lol late to the party)

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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

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[missdeep]

I think you summed it up nicely by noting that it was sloppy and overcrowded - this is exactly how I felt about this film. Not to mention it was basically just a two hour Avengers trailer.

I really didn't like the way Pepper was portrayed in this film. While arguably Pepper has gone through some serious writer!fail over the years, the current comic!Pepper is just so far removed from movie!Pepper that it's difficult to compare them. comic!Pepper would never chuck a little tantrum and whine about OMG HOW HARD IT IS TO RUN THE COMPANY AND OMG IT'S SO STRESSFUL OH TONY. No, comic!Pepper would run the whole fucking company then go save Tony's ass after dinner because she's so damn good at keeping people safe and out of trouble, that's her entire theme as a superhero (Rescue). The very idea of Pepper have a mini-meltdown and being all OMG TONY~ like that is just... it's insulting.

Not to mention Black Widow. God, Black Widow is one of the most amazing women in Marvel yet here she is all soulless and hollow as window-dressing to masculine plotlines. OF COURSE. Widow understanding Burdlash's software makes sense if you know her full background as a comic character, but none of that is established in this film. You learn nothing about her except that she's an object for Tony to ogle who can smack a few guys in the head when she has to.

AND YES, THANK YOU, THIS FILM JUST.WASN'T.FUNNY. The first one had plenty of laughs and there was some authenticity to Pepper and Tony's relationship. In this the whole thing was hollow, shrill and downright lame.

I kind of just perved on Sam Rockwell doing some combination of a Sam Rockwell/Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element impression. He was such an over-the-top douchebag with no real direction that even looking at his pretty face wasn't exactly a great experience.

OH GOD AND I'M SORRY BUT THE AVENGERS THING HERE WAS SO FUCKING BLATANT, OVERDONE AND A WASTE OF HALF A FREAKING MOVIE. I paid money to see Iron Man, not just some giant ad for a movie I will not be able to stomach watching if fuckface Whedon is attached anyway. I like Samuel L. Jackson but he doesn't embody Nick Fury for me and the idea of him playing the character in up to /NINE MOVIES/ makes me want to sob on the floor. The only thing that will make a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie watchable is if we get a damn Abigail Brand cameo.

/my opinions let me show you them

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Yeah, Pepper was a big diappointment. I mean, I'm not familiar with Marvel comics or characters *at all*, but even just from the first film, and her standard character profile, she didn't live up. Not to harp, but I was really like "w-WHAT?" when she stood there and just stared at the droid's body beeping. I mean, you know why - so that Tony could rescue her, even though he really had NO REASON to believe she was in any immediate danger - but just the fact that they had her be THAT stupid, for the sake of Tony's rescue was just UGH. The car thing, too, in the attack by Vankov(?) She just sat there and screamed and took forever to hand over the goddamn suit, like a useless damsel. Just UGH.

Soulless and hollow and an object for Tony to oogle just about sums it up. I was kind of expecting them to bring her in so they could introduce some sort of love triangle, but they didn't even do that. She literally had no role in this except to just stand there and look pretty :/ It's like, why even bring in a name character like the Black Widow if you're not really going to use her? (I don't count her little Hammer building run as use, since that was essentially pointless -_-;).

Yeah. Seriously, like the few funny scenes were in the trailer or NOT IN THE MOVIE AT ALL. You know that scene in the trailer with Tony and Pepper before he jumps out of the plane where she kisses his mask and stuff? That was cute and funny and charming and NOT IN THE GODDAMN MOVIE, WHY? Leaving it out shaved all of like two minutes off, I honestly don't get that. Although another thing I noticed was that the editing in general was just abrupt and weird. A lot of the scenes didn't flow together at all.

lol I usually don't mind Sam but yeah, no direction and unfocused :/ He can do better than that.

LOLOL IKR? Aw, I like Whedon, although I've never read any of his Marvel stuff so yeah. But his movie track record in general isn't great :/ Haha, you know, even Sam was off in this damn movie, and Sam is never off. I mean Jesus, he was even campily enjoyable in the Spirit, and that was shit. But yeah, I'm not familiar with these characters so all I know is Sam Jackson > David Hasselhoff. x3 Avengers movie scares me though, there's a reason they don't make ensemble big-name superhero movies; I can just see it ending up like a giant sloppy clumsy clusterfuck like ten times worse than this. BUT WE SHALL SEE.