Iron Man 2.

[the_grynne]

I saw Iron Man 2 last on Tuesday, and I gotta say, it left me feeling kind of cold.

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[angstbunny]

I, too, was left cold by the sequel. :(

The heart that was in the first one is completely missing in the second.

[the_grynne]

It was incredibly disappointing. :(

Charlie Jane Anders has a spot-on piece at io9 on how Tony is the villain in his own movie:

But then we get back to the fact that Iron Man, in this movie at least, isn't a good guy. I mean, we're told that he's "privatized world peace" and fixed "East-West relations," whatever that means, but those are a couple of throwaway bits of exposition. On the screen, where it matters, Iron Man does nothing good. The only good decision Tony Stark makes in the entire movie is making Pepper Potts (Paltrow) CEO of Stark Enterprises. The rest of the time, he's a strutting idiot.

[angstbunny]

YES. THAT'S PERFECT. That's exactly everything I was thinking.

In Iron Man 2, Robert Downey Jr. is playing Stephen Colbert playing Tony Stark.

LOLOLOLOL

[rodlox]

which begs the question: if Stephen Colbert were to be in IM3, what role might he play?

[rodlox]

"Missing quotation marks"?

the movie felt like it was made for no reason but to fill the space between IM1 and IM3.

[the_grynne]

Are they necessary, when I've already italicized and blockquoted the thing?

[rodlox]

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I asked because I don't understand the reference the quoted material was making.

[the_grynne]

Ah, I see.

I think the "missing quotation marks" refers to the total lack of irony or judgement in the presentation of Tony exhibiting himself (and hence his oh-so-progressive Expo) by surrounding himself with sex objects.