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randall 
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 Posted - 09/26/2013 : 21:15:08
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Wow, has nobody seen this but me? [I spent the requisite 5:00 looking for a previous thread and found none, so if there is one, sue me.]
But then, why would you see it unless there are fanboys and girls among you, as I know there are? Cut to the chase: Robert Downey is just phoning it in by now, although his wisecracking hero is really the only thing that keeps me renting these bad boys. His nemesis is Ben Kingsley dressed up to look like bin Laden...or is it? I think there are whiteboards somewhere that explain this whole movie. Let's make Robert lose his Iron Man suit! Let's put it on Pepper! No, his best friend! No, his worst enemy! No, let's make the enemies able to cut through the suit with their frickin hands!
Bye bye, Iron Man. We need some new ideas. I love the Tony Stark character and all the trash he talks, which is the closest replication of the Marvel Silver Age characters that we've seen thus far on screen. [The DC heroes were, and remain, just too square, which is why it took darkness purveyors like Frank Miller, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan to breathe some life back therein.]
Things blow up real good, but it's all gauze and rice-paper behind. Rent only if you're curious. |
Edited by - randall on 09/26/2013 21:39:46 |
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MguyXXV 
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Posted - 09/27/2013 : 01:05:17
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Duly noted.  |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 09/27/2013 : 11:37:00
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Weirdly, I came away from this with a completely opposite feeling. I actually thought this was a film chock full of new ideas (for a filmic Iron Man, at least).
To name just the ones that I can recall a good few months after seeing the film (which is a rare thing for a blockbuster in itself these days): The army of Iron Men and Stark leaping in and out of them like regular people throw aside used tissues, a truly inspired fight whilst in various states of armour undress that almost puts Jackie Chan to shame, a young sidekick that didn't reek of pandering to the kiddie audience, henchmen with their own personalities who actually care about their own welfare, an incredibly risky spin on a long established character, a genuinely threatening bad guy who *didn't* require his own Iron Man suit... not to mention the amazingly brave (all the more so for a franchise) fallout of final events.
Sure there's a lot from the comics they could still add to make the films more interesting- Tony's chronic alcoholism springs to mind, but still this was the best of all three for me.
And sure Downey seems to be phoning it in by now but I think this is probably because he effectively IS Tony Stark in real life. He really doesn't need to do much to come across as a rich playboy and he knows it. (In fact it occurs to me now that this might be one case where casting an actor precisely *because* of his private life worked to the benefit of the role) But it's this same aloofness that he exudes that keeps fans flooding back to these films, so why change what ain't broke? |
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 09/28/2013 : 04:07:01
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Now I gotta see it, so I can better appreciate both of your views.  |
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