Saw Iron Man 3 30 Minutes ago
I think I didn't like it.
PRO:
+ Shane Black knows how to use Robert Downey Jrs acting range.
+ Ben Kingsley's Mandarin was a dud. And a good one at that. And still fun.
+ Rhodey's password scene was great.
+ Aldrich Killian was the most effective villain I've seen yet. He does not fuck around.
+ For the first time the thin sheets of metal that some of the armors are made of actually feel like it. It does work better than the Monaco-Whiplash scene where he slashes through a motorblock but not through Tony's thin armor and limbs.
+ Tony going into action as a stand alone 'A-Team' (HA!) is great.
+ Tony's moments with the minions in the villa felt like it belonged there, especially the guy who flat out surrendered and went "They're all weird here.", that was good!
+ It basically had only one villain. Thank the writers for that. They more or less fuse Killian and the Mandarin and shave off the idea of the all Orient-Alien-Ring origin. I'm fine with that.
CON:
- It has an 80s Whiz kid. Why?
- Extremis is a throw-away plot point, it just serves as a reason to have walking targets.
- Maya Hansen served little to the plot other than to have someone be there to explain the use of Extremis. She felt... underused.
- So Pepper has Extremis now. Yup, cause there are no serious ramifications with becoming part bionic/cyborg to the human body whatsoever. Did I miss the point where Extremis was handed out like candy?
- Normally I don't write about trailers this way, but if you have watched all of them, you know the movie. First time that happened to me.
- The ending felt too little like a closure and almost tacked on. What the hell writers? It feels... empty.
- I feel like the art direction team saw pictures of Extremis and thought it was all fire/heat power based. It isn't, and that is not what Extremis is about. They might have missed the whole point of it.
- Sure it's more exciting to have the suits fight the Extremis-targets tag-team style, but going in effectively, if they each targeted an enemy and used their uni-beams when they had them surrounded, there would have been no fight in the first place.
TL;DR: It felt rushed. It has some Trilogy problems and it has some of Iron Man 2's problems. There are likeable parts, but it felt like it was more glamour and less on topic.
It is the popcorn-movie you would think it to be. Take it as such.
Now I have neither comics or movies that I could coherently enjoy story wise. I guess all I'm left with again is only the idea of Iron Man.
PRO:
+ Shane Black knows how to use Robert Downey Jrs acting range.
+ Ben Kingsley's Mandarin was a dud. And a good one at that. And still fun.
+ Rhodey's password scene was great.
+ Aldrich Killian was the most effective villain I've seen yet. He does not fuck around.
+ For the first time the thin sheets of metal that some of the armors are made of actually feel like it. It does work better than the Monaco-Whiplash scene where he slashes through a motorblock but not through Tony's thin armor and limbs.
+ Tony going into action as a stand alone 'A-Team' (HA!) is great.
+ Tony's moments with the minions in the villa felt like it belonged there, especially the guy who flat out surrendered and went "They're all weird here.", that was good!
+ It basically had only one villain. Thank the writers for that. They more or less fuse Killian and the Mandarin and shave off the idea of the all Orient-Alien-Ring origin. I'm fine with that.
CON:
- It has an 80s Whiz kid. Why?
- Extremis is a throw-away plot point, it just serves as a reason to have walking targets.
- Maya Hansen served little to the plot other than to have someone be there to explain the use of Extremis. She felt... underused.
- So Pepper has Extremis now. Yup, cause there are no serious ramifications with becoming part bionic/cyborg to the human body whatsoever. Did I miss the point where Extremis was handed out like candy?
- Normally I don't write about trailers this way, but if you have watched all of them, you know the movie. First time that happened to me.
- The ending felt too little like a closure and almost tacked on. What the hell writers? It feels... empty.
- I feel like the art direction team saw pictures of Extremis and thought it was all fire/heat power based. It isn't, and that is not what Extremis is about. They might have missed the whole point of it.
- Sure it's more exciting to have the suits fight the Extremis-targets tag-team style, but going in effectively, if they each targeted an enemy and used their uni-beams when they had them surrounded, there would have been no fight in the first place.
TL;DR: It felt rushed. It has some Trilogy problems and it has some of Iron Man 2's problems. There are likeable parts, but it felt like it was more glamour and less on topic.
It is the popcorn-movie you would think it to be. Take it as such.
Now I have neither comics or movies that I could coherently enjoy story wise. I guess all I'm left with again is only the idea of Iron Man.