I’ll be seeing this later today as I live in Taiwan and it comes out today.
I’ve read a couple of very positive reviews so far and I trust Shane Black to make a snappy movie. Wait, is he the director or only the writer?
Anyway, I’ll chack back tomorrow if anyone wants to hear what I thought and what that teaser thing after the credits is.
I’ve been seeing positive reviews so far. I would like to hear what you think of it, but I don’t want to know what the teaser at the end of the credits is! Make sure you put spoiler alert in it.
Will do.
I watched it… it was OK. Some cool fights and story wasnt too shabby. Ill keep dem spoilers to myself.
Really looking forward to this, super hero movies are my cup o tea
Looks good, but darker than the first. The new Thor 2 trailer is out as well… meh
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Looks good, but darker than the first. The new Thor 2 trailer is out as well… meh [/quote]
That’s my general feeling with Marvel in general now.
I saw it and I liked it a lot. The first is special because I like the origin stories, but it’s better than number 2, and I was one of the ones that thought number 2 was pretty good.
I guess it’s a bit darker, but still a great comic-book movie in the end.
Also, I’m a guy that can become comfused in these types of movies as to what can and cannot kill the bad guy ( or even the good guy)…I mean the bad guy may take 50 bullets to the face and smile ,then a grenade makes him look up and wordlessly mouth “…oh shit…” so I had that with this movie a couple of times. I may just be dumb.
If anyone wants to know about the after-credits sequence it follows:
SPOLIERS:
The movie begins and ends with Tony Stark talking to what we think is us, the audience, about his life…then we see that he’s on a psychiatrist’s couch and he’s talking to Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner.
So the after-credits thing is cute and funny, but not very exciting.
I hope it was the last Iron Man
I have a feeling they’ll just have him in Avengers 2 and that’s it, I’ll take him in Avengers 3 too, why not, but yeah, he doesn’t need another movie to himself.
I bet even the second Thor and Captain America movies will be their last ones too.
I mean I love the character of Tony Stark but there is a thing where you know that enough is as good as a feast.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I have a feeling they’ll just have him in Avengers 2 and that’s it, I’ll take him in Avengers 3 too, why not, but yeah, he doesn’t need another movie to himself.
I bet even the second Thor and Captain America movies will be their last ones too.
I mean I love the character of Tony Stark but there is a thing where you know that enough is as good as a feast.[/quote]
hmm they probably will have him in but I feel it kinda of ruins the punctuality of the ending no?
Also, wtf was with Guy Pierce looking absolutely untrained muscular wise but then having decent arms?!
I know he used to try to bodybuild supposdly when he was younger and got decent size out for lockout but still
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Also, wtf was with Guy Pierce looking absolutely untrained muscular wise but then having decent arms?!
I know he used to try to bodybuild supposdly when he was younger and got decent size out for lockout but still[/quote]
Dun ever Bad mouth Guy Pierce he is a beast.
I guess he did what other actors do when they hear they’ll be in a superhero movie…work arms, abs and don’t eat.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I guess he did what other actors do when they hear they’ll be in a superhero movie…work arms, abs and don’t eat.[/quote]
Unless you land the greatest, stupidly biggest stooper villain role ever. I bet that bulking diet was the happiest thing in the world.
stupid story line
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
stupid story line[/quote]
??
It was likely the smartest out of the three.
I mean the first movie was simple and had its work cut out for it. I’d prefer some qualification as to why it’s stupid.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
stupid story line[/quote]
??
It was likely the smartest out of the three.
I mean the first movie was simple and had its work cut out for it. I’d prefer some qualification as to why it’s stupid.[/quote]
I felt the story was fine, acceptable for an iron man movie.
However I couldnt take the breathing fire shit
Shane Black did wonderfully with the film, not only taking on the full directive responsibilities but also choosing to take over the creation of the script, of which he’s shown himself to be incredibly good at. The script was brilliantly made, Downey Jr has proven himself to be incredibly comfortable and effortly impressive in the role of Tony Stark, and his chance to play off the fresh-to-the-franchise wit and flair of Black’s dialogue is a welcomed display of harmony that I’m glad was as strongly inclusive as it was.
Kingsley was brilliant as The Mandarin, an actor I’ve appreciated for the number of years I’ve been able to look over his work, while Downey Jr carries the films to the height of what we hope of them, Ben Kingsley was certainly no outcast here, and certainly made for a much more promising villain-type portrayal than Rourke did.
The story has a couple of plot holes, and is maybe not the strongest point of all, but it is by no means such a bad thing that I would dismiss the rest of the film’s flavour and awe on that basis alone. While at times it can be a little uneven, the overall result is so incredibly satisfying that I can’t help but sport praise for it.
A construction that becomes greater than the sum of it’s parts, I loved Iron Man 3. Anyone who’s either a fan of Shane Black, action movies, or Superheroes would find this to be a worthy example of all three, and I recommend this to all of them.
