Comments | gwalla: Iron Man 2

gwalla

Iron Man 2

May 10, 2010 00:17

...was surprisingly good. I'd say on par with the first one, which was a damn good movie. Most of what I'd heard about it boiled down to "entertaining, not enough action, too talky". I thought it had plenty of action, and was very well-paced. Robert Downey Jr. continues to own the character of Tony Stark. Don Cheadle did a great job with Rhodey ( ( Read more... )

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cholma May 10 2010, 07:56:28 UTC

"Most of what I'd heard about it boiled down to "entertaining, not enough action, too talky". I thought it had plenty of action, and was very well-paced."

Yeah, I don't get that complaint either.

From the trailers, I didn't know Scarlett was supposed to be a good guy, so when she showed up in the film, I assumed she was a bad guy infiltrating Stark Industries! :D

(Um, you *do* realize that your comment form is entirely in Japanese, right?)

gwalla May 10 2010, 22:40:22 UTC

She'd been promoted as "Black Widow", so it was pretty clear to me that she'd be a good guy at least by the end. Technically that'd been a spoiler but I don't think it hurt my enjoyment of the movie.

And yeah, the Japanese is deliberate. I'm learning the language, so I set it that way for a little extra immersion.

scribe_of_stars May 10 2010, 11:20:28 UTC

There are explosions in Robin Hood because Americans will fall asleep unless there's at least one explosion per fifteen minutes.

Just wait until they rerelease "When Harry Met Sally."

gwalla May 10 2010, 15:54:23 UTC

"I'll have what she's having."

forsythferret May 10 2010, 20:04:26 UTC

Did your showing not have the A-Team trailer? Where they parachute out of a transport plane in a tank, and shoot down a jet fighter with the machine gun on the tank?

I have no idea if the movie will be any good. Probably not so great. But I gotta give them props for saying "screw you!" to any attention to sanity.

The thing that makes me have the least confidence in The Last Airbender? "Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

I wonder if Walt Disney Howard Stark will get to cameo in the Captain America moie.

gwalla May 10 2010, 22:37:29 UTC

No A-Team trailer. I guess it won't be showing at the Grand Lake. I'm somewhat looking forward to that, just because it looks like it may be crazy enough to be fun.

And yeah, even before the whole racefail thing around The Whitest Airbender, Mr. WHAT A TWEEST's involvement had killed any interest I might have had (which wasn't much since I never saw the series).