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Iron Thread 3: Out Now! [Iron Man 3] (Use SPOILER Tags!)
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I like to think that
"Mommy, I need a shot of adrenaline! Trevor just ODed!"
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On the plus side, drive-in movies are super cheap and fun!
I disagree that it would have been boring or dull. Did you find X-men 1, X-men 2, Batman Begins, Amazing Spider-man, Dark Knight Rises, Avengers* or The Dark Knight boring?
* until the third act
Here's the IMDB plot summary for Iron Man 2 (because i know most of us don't want to think too hard about that movie and remember this crap)
Now that Tony Stark has revealed to the world that he is Iron Man, the entire world is now eager to get their hands on his hot technology - whether it's the United States government, weapons contractors, or someone else. That someone else happens to be Ivan Vanko - the son of now deceased Anton Vanko, Howard Stark's former partner. Stark had Vanko banished to Russia for conspiring to commit treason against the US, and now Ivan wants revenge against Tony - and he's willing to get it at any cost. But after being humiliated in front of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, rival weapons contractor Justin Hammer sees Ivan as the key to upping his status against Stark Enterprises after an attack on the Monaco 500. But an ailing Tony has to figure out a way to save himself, get Vanko, and get Hammer before the government shows up and takes his beloved suits away. And can he figure out what a mysterious figure named Nick Fury wants with him?
i'll spoil the rewrite just in case
Actually, genius terrorist would also describe Killian, now that I think about it. It's like two cliches for the price of one!
The Ironman 3 you guys wanted to watch would've been a boring movie precisely because the rest of those movies exist.
I disagree. They didn't have a problem liking
Yeah, exactly. (re: hacking)
Also: RSA tokens and two-factor authentication and yadda yadda yadda
They also used it to subvert a lot of little kid movie cliches.
Like how Stark
This is from the last page, but you're probably reading too much into that. I'm almost certain that line refers to
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They didn't
Killian doesn't want revenge. Killian doesn't care about Tony. He's (mostly) over it. Can't resist a barb at the end, when by coincidence they end up on a roof together. Could you? There's no malice there, or regret. Just plain old snark.
Tony being dragged in wasn't Killian's plan. Killian would never have bothered with Tony or Pepper. Except that Tony decided to publicly yell at the Mandarin. When that happened, Maya realizes that Killian is not going to let it go unanswered, and goes (against orders) to "help" Tony. When Tony is presumed dead, she has to pretend to be on the run from Killian with Pepper.
It would have been perfectly reasonable for Maya or Killian to kill Pepper ... except that Killian has a thing for her, and keeps her prisoner. There's a line about her being a trophy.
When Tony shows up alive, Killian decides "what the hell, I'll give it a shot" and injects Pepper with Extremis as an incentive. Presumably she's well secured and couldn't have escaped even with super-powers.
He's not trying to kill her; he's trying to convince Tony to save her*. Either Tony cures her (a win for Killian) or Tony fails (null outcome). They overdose Pepper in a safe place, she dies.
*That's a pretty fine hair, to be sure.
Saw Iron Man 3 last night. I enjoyed it, perhaps not as much as I expected or wished to. Maybe I was hyped too much? I'm not sure because it seems like all the things that people say they liked about it, I wasn't as impressed. I dunno, I think I just liked the first two so much that it became difficult for this one to live up to it. Sorry.
One thing that bugged me that perhaps I can get some clarity on:
Good movie though, definitely worth the price of admission, and I love seeing these things on the big screen.
I'm probably playing Neverwinter or SimCity right now.
It was a joke coming from the kid
It's a step up from him hacking a buncha satellites and Hammer's secure servers and hijacking a TV feed by pointing an iPhone at it. :P
does that gel with the kid saying
Also was kinda hoping after he said that,
Yeah nobody thinks that about pepper.
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"I don't even like working here, these people are crazy."
I thought that was the perfect attitude for a guard to have. He's not a true believer, he's not willing to die for these people, he just wants a paycheck.
Aah, still works
i don't think harrison ford is the only thing that sells Indiana Jones movies. I do think that RDJ is the only thing selling the Iron Man movies. Opinions i guess.
We'll find out eventually how true this is. But I expect the role to outlive Downey Jr.'s interpretation. People thought James Bond should have ended when Connery left, too.
i know i will but...
Couple of things:
1 - where's the AC DC?
2 -
If you mean at the end
Yup
You do the math.
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Actually I'd have to say that
I also have to wonder why the bad guy blew fire once, but then never did it again and why, if Tony Stark could summon the all of the suits that he left in California to his position (no matter where it was), he didn't just do that when he was in Tennessee.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
I think Marvel got too complacent with RDJ too quickly. A big reason why TDK and DKR eclipse anything Marvel has done besides maybe Avengers is because Joker, Bane, and Two Face were genuinely terrific bad guys. Loki is the only one so far who comes close IMO. Hiddleston is pretty much the most magnetic Marvelverse presense besides RDJ.
You're underestimating how awesome the Marvel universe is. They know how to cast well and their movies are usually good to incredible. That goes a long way in keeping people/fans interested. This is only the beginning.
Way I've come to see it, the three Iron Man movies work well together, and, for modern 'trilogies' or franchises or whatever, it has been a very, very long time since I've seen a third movie in a series work satisfyingly and tie everything together. These days I've come to see the Third Movie for most acts as the point where most people involved go, "Fuck it, we've got a huge profile and the marketing presence, merchandising, and box office takes of the last two behind us. Let's just show up and call it a day."
Iron Man 3 was certainly quirkier than the first two...and there were certainly times in it were it seemed like it wasn't a SuperHero Movie, just a movie about some regular guy who happens to be a genius, insanely rich, and owns a collection of advanced robotic suits he built on his own. There were points in Iron Man 3 where I felt like Stark would be more apt to plunk down on a secondhand couch in a shitty apartment somewhere and order takeout and that was his life, rather than the one the past few movies have shown us.
I'm impressed. But, then again, I also liked Iron Man 2, so what do I know.
By that logic we should have gotten to see pepper's pots.
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To be honest, I that was my favourite little beat in the movie. I have been waiting years, for one of the terrorists, guards, soldiers or crook to go "fuck it, I am out of here".
I can buy storywise, one guy taking out a hundred mooks single handed with his special skills/weapons, but the idea that not one of the mooks will decide to quit and become a mall cop in Boca Raton instead of charging the hero is incredible.