"IN A CAVE!!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!!!"
I'm rewatching Iron Man (it's playing on FX). You know, I've only seen the first film once, and I really didn't give it a fair chance the first time around. I think I thought it was "alright" mainly because:
a. I'd never heard of Iron Man at all before the movie came out. I'm a very bad geek.
b. I couldn't understand why they made a movie about a ( Read more... )
a. I'd never heard of Iron Man at all before the movie came out. I'm a very bad geek.
b. I couldn't understand why they made a movie about a ( Read more... )
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You know, as much as I like Don Cheadle, something about Terrence Howard just fits Rhodey better, for me. His build and everything. I miss him :(
- Obadiah. Dear God, his confrontation with Tony before the climactic battle is so chilling and quietly menacing.
It's awesome! Which makes the actual knock-down drag out fight kind of lame and obvious by comparison. That's one of the few flaws of Iron Man, for me. Obadiah gets a little too mwahaha powermad once he gets the suit on, and I guess it makes sense, it's just a little boring after the subtle menace of before.
And yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to The Avengers more than the new Batman movie. I'm sure TDKR will be all deep and well acted and entirely lacking interesting human-seeming characters aside from like Alfred and Commissioner Gordon and full of angst, but The Avengers will not leave me feeling exhausted ( ... )
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I thought I preferred Don Cheadle because I'd seen the sequel twice more recently, but now I think they tie. Each brings something different to it, and I really can't decide which I like better.
Obadiah gets a little too mwahaha powermad once he gets the suit on, and I guess it makes sense, it's just a little boring after the subtle menace of before.
Very true. Obadiah + Iron Monger suit = cliche city. But with two supersuits, I'm not sure if there's much more they could do. But the menace before is just so perfect. I love the line, "Your father helped give us the atomic bomb. Now imagine if he'd been as selfish as you." There are just so many great things about it, especially now that we've seen IM2 and Captain America and got a peek at the whole Tony vs. Howard thing.
The Avengers will not leave me feeling exhausted after I watch it.Also true. I showed it to my mother last summer and I couldn't stop thinking, "Has it really always been this ( ... )
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Don Cheadle doesn't do a bad job or anything, just Terrence Howard's physically reads more military to me. Although, to be fair, Rhodey is Air Force so they're usually not as built. I also love that the guy who plays the daddy detective on The Good Wife is in both movies as a Major. I like to pretend it's the same character, that was just his career before he settled down to be a badass stay-at-home dad.
I think the problem is that the fight goes on too long; I get that if they were going to pay for the CGI stuff they might as well get their money's worth, but it feels unnecessary. But yeah, all of Tony's daddy issues are much more interesting, especially with the way they do tie back to Obbie, who it's implied is very much a surrogate dad to him ( ... )
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I guess that true, but yeah, the Air Force has a little more flexibility in build. I have an Uncle who's a Lieutenant Colonel and he's about 6'2", and his son is a Sergeant who's only like 5'8". I guess I'm at an impasse with the Rhodeys. Aw, Daddy Detective! That probably was his former job. No wonder he's so awesome! I love spotting the random people who show up in these movies. The Bowler Hat Guy from Captain America turned out to be the current villain on Justified. It makes the latter more interesting.
The first two times, I was on some sort of adrenaline high, watching the Joker being alternately terrifying and amusing, and Batman just being badass. Then I showed it to my sister and I was like, "Whoa. This is some dark, depressing shit." Then I showed it to my mother and I was like, "Why, Nolan, WHY?!" It's a great film, but yeah, I agree---he needs a sense of humor. Green Lantern tried to compensate for TDK ( ... )
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I actually was a little bit disappointed by how not-epic the movie was when I first saw it, although RDJ made up for the not-so-good parts of the movie.
I also felt really bad that Pepper only got a few lines of cliche-sounding dialogue, since I feel like she could have been such an awesome character.
It's good you found it fun though!
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I thought Pepper was a pretty well done character, especially as far as love interests go (think Mary Jane in the Spider-Man movies). She does have a few cliches lines during the climax, but I personally think she comes across as more competent than Tony (at least, you know, on an everyday basis). I was really glad they didn't get together at the end because I kept thinking, "Pepper deserves a better man than Tony Stark." But maybe I'm just overly optimistic.
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