I'm not really disappointed by the whole thing, but that is part of the problem to me. It's more of a... buddy cop movie with only one cop. It seems the writers have a hard time getting a handle on what the Iron Man actually is.
Tony's supposed to prove in this movie (by their direcion) that he is the standalone Iron Man, even without the suit, but he just fumbles around at parts and survives it half-assed. It felt as if the writers had two ideas of him as a clown and a badass, like a... 'drunken master'. There's a reason his DC counterpart is Batman, Tony is supposed to have some handle on things, he doesn't usually stumble into them.
Maybe I need more time to word it precisely, because I just saw it. I need some time to really get a handle on what does't work here.
I just didn't get the whole line we've been hearing for the past few months of "does Tony make Iron Man, or does Iron Man make Tony?" I didn't feel like the question was addressed. And they said that the movie would not descend into robots beating the crap out of each other. Yeah...
"The film's plot incorporates a number of storylines from "Iron Man" comics, namely: •The 'Extremis' arc, which involved Tony Stark developing and using the Extremis virus, a nanotech version of Captain America's serum •Tony Stark is ousted and rendered a homeless vagrant, and while wandering around befriends a civilian who inspires him •The Mandarin seeks to use Extremis as a WMD •The 'Invincible Iron Man' arc, where Stark goes on the run and War Machine and Rescue appear in his place •The 'Armor Wars' arc, where Tony Stark fakes his death due to constant harassment by Firepower •The 'Enter the Mandarin' arc, where Iron Man clashes with the Mandarin."
They threw it all in a blender. No wonder it feels confusing to me.
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Tony's supposed to prove in this movie (by their direcion) that he is the standalone Iron Man, even without the suit, but he just fumbles around at parts and survives it half-assed. It felt as if the writers had two ideas of him as a clown and a badass, like a... 'drunken master'. There's a reason his DC counterpart is Batman, Tony is supposed to have some handle on things, he doesn't usually stumble into them.
Maybe I need more time to word it precisely, because I just saw it. I need some time to really get a handle on what does't work here.
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"The film's plot incorporates a number of storylines from "Iron Man" comics, namely:
•The 'Extremis' arc, which involved Tony Stark developing and using the Extremis virus, a nanotech version of Captain America's serum
•Tony Stark is ousted and rendered a homeless vagrant, and while wandering around befriends a civilian who inspires him
•The Mandarin seeks to use Extremis as a WMD
•The 'Invincible Iron Man' arc, where Stark goes on the run and War Machine and Rescue appear in his place
•The 'Armor Wars' arc, where Tony Stark fakes his death due to constant harassment by Firepower
•The 'Enter the Mandarin' arc, where Iron Man clashes with the Mandarin."
They threw it all in a blender. No wonder it feels confusing to me.
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