Iron Man 2 sans spoilers

May 12, 2010 12:20

Huh. So that was Iron Man 2, was it? That was... disappointing. I was so ready to watch another movie about Tony Stark being sexily snarky with punch-the-air AWESOME SCENES, but that really seemed a bit unfinished to me.

They should really have gone over the plot a a few more times and decided what they wanted the movie to be about. And added a whole lot more characterization. And streamlined the dialogue (yeah, if we're going to keep doing that "talking simultaneously for comedic effect" it needs a whole lot more work). Even the action scenes seemed extremely clumsily handled to me - no, the CGI looked fine for once, but the direction left so much to be desired.

How did they succeed so well in the first film and forget how to do it in this one? The only positive effect it had on me (apart from making me smile at those couple of hints at that one upcoming Marvel movie) was to make me want to rewatch the first movie, the good one.

Anyway, I'm just going to leave this here.



As for other stuff, you guys were excellent and guessed every single movie in the "Better than it sounds" meme - except one! Which protagonist murders kids? Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M. You guys go watch it, it's a chilling masterpiece.

flavour of the month, rambling: movies

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