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eh, that's making a mountain out of a bit of a molehill
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Yeah, that was my reasoning for it.
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Steaaaaaaam
Yeah but
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It was so fun!
Just say two words
No.
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*shot of everyone partying*
We know what his plan involves and that's it. We can't really poke holes in his wants because we just get a glossing over, he is a dude who is bitter as hell over the fact that he was powerless earlier in life.
So yeah, he probably wants to be a powerful ruler, but maybe not.
We got the important information, just enough to sate out desires and not enough for us to question his logic.
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he is also absolutely insane
he is a crazy person who somehow channels his messed up brain into acting
and sometimes it totally pays off and his crazy is completely on the money and you get a performance like leaving las vegas
other times you get vampire's kiss
the point is, there is something inherently beautiful about an obliviously crazy fucking idiot giving all the energy he has into a performance, whether it makes sense for the role, the movie, the character, or cage himself.
this is why i love nic cage
even though jesus christ he is not a person you should ever think is cool or a role model or someone you'd ever want to know
damnit anti
linda blair: vigilante hero was a goddamn thing
So to me, Nic Cage is just this wonderfully crazy person whose managed to have a pretty decent acting career.
Which is both really exciting and pretty incredible. We will probably have to wait and see how successful Thor and Cap's sequels and GotG are before we get any real indicator of if they are gonna stick to it.
But it is still crazy that they have been able to get into such an amazing position.
Steaaaaaaam
that's bound to be good
Would the War on Terror really be as important to controlling the world after AN ALIEN INVASION?
And Killian was just a sneering douche. And he was Fire Lord Ozai, apparently. Because healing equals fire. Yep.
Instead of a shirtless Guy Pearce Mandarin, why not have, say, one of those space worm things modified via Extremis into an awesome Fin Fang Foom shout out? Or something.
And did Iron Patriot even do anything? At all?
And why didn't SHIELD have Hawkeye or Black Widow or fucking anybody targeting the Ten Rings?
And how did Pepper suddenly know Kung Fu and how to wield Extremis?
And why did no one think to ask Iron Patriot to take off his helmet. On Air Force One. After numerous terrorist attacks.
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I just expected the superhero parts to be better, is all.
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it would be nice to see a bad guy who wasn't just an evil tony stark counterpart
that's what i thought we'd get with the mandarin? so it's a little disappointing to have him turn out to be first a standard post-nolan blockbuster terrorist and then yet another iteration of the standard iron man villain. neither mandarin feels particularly original or has anything at all to do with the character from the comics.
now, this is nitpicking what i thought was an exceptional film with remarkably strong performances from both ben kingsley and guy pierce, and i would unhesitatingly give it five stars, but i can appreciate why people have an issue there
Think about the natural progression of things:
Iron Man 1 - Not realistic but definitely grounded. Technology-based superhero vs. technology-based villain.
The Incredible Hulk - Crazy! But still, the crazy is contained to the hero and the villain and is explained away by "science"
Iron Man 2 - Technology vs. technology again. Drones ratchet it up just a tiny bit.
Thor - Here's the important one. Another dimension. This was the hugest one for testing the waters. People seemed to respond well.
Captain America - Nothing too crazy in this one, in fact it sort of backpedals a little bit on it, but it's also a period piece set during WWII, so hey.
The Avengers - Fucking aliens. And the interdimensional villain is back and here's the big green guy again.
Iron Man 3 -
SPOILERS
I mention all this because even considering the point we're at now, it's all been relatively gradual. But I don't think people are ready for Fin Fang Foom just yet.
They are, of course, gradually building up to a talking raccoon
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
the conclusion that I have come to about nic cage is that he needs a much better agent. It's obvious he can be a great actor when he's taking scripts that are a good fit for him, but my god he's made some bad decisions (not even including the movies that I assume he knew would be bad in advance.)
and in his personal/financial life his decisions, if anything, have been worse
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cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
Well tackling each of those points in order with my own opinion
Yeah, Killian was a douche, but he was a douche with a plan that was working and could have easily worked had it not been for some very unexpected developments regarding Stark's armour. And fire doesn't equal healing in the movie, it's the body going into a state of overdrive in a sense to rapidly heal itself and because of the way we are made, this causes bodies to overheat a la exploding people who can't handle Extremis. So the fire was kinda par for the course, especially after seeing people with lava hands, basically. It's comic book movie science, and it followed the pattern and basic laws it set up itself. I think that's a whole lot more than you normally get from any other movie in a fictional universe.
Seeing as the space whales from Avengers were all dead and useless if not completely beaten up corpses thanks to the team, resurrecting something dead ain't the same as giving it a biochemical cocktail that kickstarts its brain into redlining. Would it have been awesome? Yeah. Would it have fit into this film at all? Fuck no. The fire breathing was a nice touch, the dragon tats were cool, and the embroidered Fing Fang Foom on Kingsley's Mandarin costume was fun. Also, this isn't common knowledge, but they established that only 47 recorded alien items survived the battle of New York, and only one of them works. And it's a gun.
I think that was kind of the point with Iron Patriot, he became a figurehead, an image for people and the government to follow. And Tony knew this, he knew the second they rebranded him and gave the suit a new coat of paint, Rhodey was going to become a glorified lapdog, hence why he made fun of it for so long. As War Machine he did ten times as much as iron patriot, and I hope they follow that train of thought.
The whole issue with SHIELD interfering is indicated by Rhodey saying the US government and military wants its own win, also why he turned down Tony's offer for help, and have basically trying to take down the Mandarin and ten Rings so they can one-up SHIELD. Plus maybe they're busy, or have tried and have failed? They have a super team now, there are bigger threats they might want to focus on.
I...don't think Pepper did kung-fu...? She just kind punched and kicked and threw shit around while under the effects of Extremis. I dunno maybe she does Tae Bo or aerobics? Seeing as her beatdown lasted all of ten seconds, I'd be more concerned with how does Tony know how to pull all of those moves with him jumping between suit to suit, manoeuvring in the air, hell even the way he caught each Mk. 42 piece at the start would've taken some measure of learned skill. He fucking backflips and catches a faceplate. With his face. I don't feel everything like that need an explanation.
Why would they as Rhodes to take off his helmet? What does that achieve? The whole point is that the government always wants him in the suit and to make a big show of him being Iron Patriot, I don't think anyone was expecting the highly advanced suit of armour to fall into the wrong hands when they just sent him out on a mission and reported no unexpected incidents. And the Alpha Henchman, Coldblood, inside the damn thing only kept his cover until they were up in the air, I think even he could assume he wouldn't be able to keep his cover for long.
christ the marketing for this movie was misleading as hell, wasn't it
And then he stole every scene.
I didn't catch his name, or knew the actor, but he's good.
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You really just wanted a really different movie.
I think you were wishing for a different movie so badly that you missed a couple of the important bits.
Because most of what you wrote down is either baffling or wrong.
Except for the bit on
It didn't quite explain how she flip-kicked into an uppercut to break the Iron-Man armor that was targeting her, though.
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she might have picked up a little something herself
Eh, even so I still thought it was kinda silly.
The one thing the movie didn't do a great job with was
One minute he's breaking into a compound with a McGuyver set of tools and weapons, the next he's bumbling alongside Rhodey and he can't hit a spotlight.
I was wondering if I was watching the same movie! He goes from homemade grenades, spy gear, and a PSI-Pistol to wasting his clip shooting at nothing, and generally being incompetent in a firefight.
Basically I felt the last action sequence in the movie was the weakest link and the movie could have standed to be about 20 minutes shorter.
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