Good review Big Kahuna,
and I agree RATTLEHEAD that that fire breathing part was a little weird. I mean it doesn’t seem necessary.
For anyone else, I’d say that Iron Man 3 while being the best is also the most like a comic book of all three. I mean the first one almost, just a little bit, felt like it could happen in our world.
This movie you can tell happens after the more otherworldly Avengers.
[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]
they just minimized one of the most iconic iron man villains, I’m sick of these movies having awful villains or them messing with iron man’s villains so much it’s why I loved Thor so much, Tom Hiddleston just makes Loki such a great villain, it wasn’t an awful movie I just wish they did the Mandarin justice
[quote]Nards wrote:
Good review Big Kahuna,
and I agree RATTLEHEAD that that fire breathing part was a little weird. I mean it doesn’t seem necessary.
For anyone else, I’d say that Iron Man 3 while being the best is also the most like a comic book of all three. I mean the first one almost, just a little bit, felt like it could happen in our world.
This movie you can tell happens after the more otherworldly Avengers.[/quote]
That is exactly how I described it to friends haha!
The 2nd and 3rd one broke my suspension of disbelief too many times.
But I’m OK with Iron Man 3 and the Avengers being a bit out there.
The first Iron Man was great in how close if felt to reality, but they sort of had to address the more science fictiony/comic book aspects eventually.
I was watching Captain America on HBO a couple of weeks ago and that movie starts getting way out there with a whole Hydra Army with laser guns powered by the Cosmic Cube and I then realized that this is all supposed to be happening in the same world as the first Iron Man movie, just 60 years earlier. That was hard to fit together.
I enjoyed the movie. I think I still like the first one better.
Saw it last night. I’m not a comic book kinda guy, and this was the first Iron Man movie I’ve seen. With that said, it was pretty entertaining. Funnier than I had expected.
I didn’t like it very much at all. I’ve liked all of the other Marvel movies I’ve seen much more. The first two Iron Man films were better in my opinion.
I can understand why people enjoyed it though, just not my cup of tea.
Some SPOILERS below *************************
Saw it in the UK couple of weeks ago. Enjoyed it but had it built up to be so much more in my head.
For me I wondered why Rhodey couldn’t get a suit at the end (tony said they were encoded to him) but Pepper could use it earlier in the movie.
Wasn’t the Ten rings organisation in the first movie? Or at least the flag referenced? If so then who is in charge if not the “Mandarin”. AIM?
When he said its not about the suit - sorry it really is about the suit. Batman has the same skills without the suit not Stark.
Guy Pearce breathing fire and having dragon tattoos was a reference to Fin-Fang-Foom IMO.
Mandarin being a fall guy was a nice twist but kinda like having the Joker from Batman being an actual kids clown but putting on a sinister voice - I liked the twist but felt it snuffed out a really great character and i did’nt think Pearce was a proper villian.
Not enough viewing or battle time for the Iron Legion of suits - would have liked them to concentrate on some longer indidual battles they were in and show the variety of powers between suits. The action was too close up like they use in some martial arts movies to disguise the actors shortcomings in action scenes.
For me IM 2 was the best movie - more meaningful interaction between stark/Rhodey/Pepper. The back story of his father leaving the future to him and showing the correlation between the two in their drinking/innovation/alienation and inability to relate to others. Action sequences were very good with the end big battle from stark expo and all those suits.
Justin Hammer was awesome in IM 2.
I still really liked number 3 - I’ve been an Ironman and batman fan for over 20 years and tbh watching a movie and having all the background years of comics sometimes don’t mix well.
I would deffo recommend seeing this to others and anything written above is forgivable - Its fun 
I thought it was great! Thought it was funny how he went to Chattanooga too lol.
There wasn’t enought iron man
Rhodes did nothing cool
Fucking Gwyeneth Paltrow saves the day
The main villain’s scheme made no sense
Rebecca Hall’s character Mya was useless
I was entertained there was good humor some decent action scenes but overall not close to one or two and two was meh to me
I’d rade it a 6.5 out of 10
I saw it yesterday. I thought it was entertaining, not a bad movie at all. But I was a bit disappointed, I think I was just expecting more.
I’ve always thought Iron Man had one of the biggest “cool” factors of the marvel characters. I was just a bit frustrated that he didn’t really have a good, working iron man suit for nearly all the movie. And when it did seem to be working properly it was a bit rubbish.
I didn’t really get the villains bio engineering thing either. Like how tony killed the bald headed second in command guy in the plane by shooting him in the chest. But yet somehow at the end of the movie they couldn’t just shoot all of the other guys, instead they had to get into melee combat all the time where they just lose. It was just a bit too out there for my liking, I liked Iron Man being a bit more science based and less supernatural than the other marvel characters, whereas this one was just really off the wall.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
There wasn’t enought iron man
Rhodes did nothing cool
Fucking Gwyeneth Paltrow saves the day
The main villain’s scheme made no sense
Rebecca Hall’s character Mya was useless
I was entertained there was good humor some decent action scenes but overall not close to one or two and two was meh to me
I’d rade it a 6.5 out of 10 [/quote]
Hit the nail on the head!
Saw it Saturday, thought it was ok, definitely third best of the Iron Man movies.
…SPOILER…
I definitely hated the end where he had surgery to fix his heart. Not so much he did it, I get the letting go aspect, but the fact that this movie essentially rendered the entire second movie pointless since he could A. use his suit without his chest arc reactor which was speeding his death in 2, and B. if he could have repaired his heart at any time, the entire point of creating a new element in time to save his life is moot. Maybe this is better if you have a better knowledge of the comic books, as I do not. I only know what wikipedia tells me.
IRONMAN WAS FUCKING AWESOME.
BECAUSE IRONMAN IS FUCKING AWESOME!!
Here’s what I liked:
Him being able to call his suit to come attach to him at all the coolest most importantest times during the actiony-ness.
Everything else
Here’s what I didn’t like:
NOTHING
CAUSE I LIKED IT ALL
HA
HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayaironman
SPOILERS
The bad guys were very confusing. I still have no idea what kills them or why some of them spontaneously explode. I could have enjoyed the movie just fine not knowing that stuff, but the ending completely ruined it. Tony’s fucking secretary, who possesses no martial ability, saves the day because she was injected with some stuff? Fucking stupid. Also, when the hell did Tony Stark become an action hero? That part (breaking into Mandarin’s mansion) was also pretty dumb.
My favorite part was Tony’s interaction with the kid. The action in the last battle was cool but there was too much of it to really follow anything. I really would have liked to see some of the different suits in more detail. We got like 2-3 second looks; that’s not enough.
I thought Guy Pearce was good, even if his character’s plot wasn’t very clear. I liked what they did with The Mandarin; it was a clever twist, and Ben Kingsley was hilarious after the reveal.
Rebecca Hall is gorgeous. Fuck Gwyneth Paltrow.
What’s Iron Man 3?
[quote]GeneticSynergy9 wrote:
Saw it Saturday, thought it was ok, definitely third best of the Iron Man movies.
…SPOILER…
I definitely hated the end where he had surgery to fix his heart. Not so much he did it, I get the letting go aspect, but the fact that this movie essentially rendered the entire second movie pointless since he could A. use his suit without his chest arc reactor which was speeding his death in 2, and B. if he could have repaired his heart at any time, the entire point of creating a new element in time to save his life is moot. Maybe this is better if you have a better knowledge of the comic books, as I do not. I only know what wikipedia tells me.[/quote]
Good point. I was wondering the same thing myself.
This music at the end (along with the visuals they had that aren’t in this video unfortunately) was great.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayaironman[/quote]
HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayaironman ?!?
[quote]Nards wrote:
This music at the end (along with the visuals they had that aren’t in this video unfortunately) was great.[/quote]
It was the highlight of the whole movie haha, made the whole trilogy seem a lot funner than it was.