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But you're right about Marvel making bad decisons, Favs wanted to wait on putting War Machine in the series, Marvel wanted him there now especially after Howard got fired and then had the script reworked. Quote:
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"Missed opportunities" seems to be the most commonly used phrase in this thread.
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Well its true. I liked Iron Man 2, but I'd be an idiot not to realize that this film had several missed opportunities.
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I just rewatched it again and its still pretty awesome. Most of the complaints just seem silly when you take another look at it. Here and there some stuff could've been patched, but I could say the exact same about the first (or any) movie. Still not quite as good as the first, but also still a solid helluva lotta fun.
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We're treating Favreau like the kid who brought home a "C" in a subject that he normally aces. That's what it really comes down to. We expected better. This is like the only 2nd installment of a superhero franchise in the past decade that didn't surpass the original.
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It's a "C" compared to the first one. But overall you're right. We had A+++++ expectations, thought-especially in the wake of the trailers.
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For me its above average but not up there with the best and a step down from the first one.
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And it all comes down to giving the villains the shaft. Look at the great movies out there, Empire Strikes Back, Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, they were great for many reasons, but also as important was because all had great and memorable villains. Mickey Rourke could have easily been up there with them. He could've easily put a D-List villain up there with the greats. He could've done for Whiplash what Downey Jr. did for Iron Man and put an unknown character as an A-Lister. But instead they decided having War Machine was just more important.
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It's one of the weakest sequels.
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He should have stayed for the third one. I don't like when directors jump ship. Bryan Singer I'm looking at you.
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Not sure if this has been posted before but I'm reading it on my Blackberry and thought I'd post it anyway:
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The script for this film is a complete mess. There is no real story reason for many of the character's inclusion in the film. If you listen to the commentaries, Justin Hammer was added to the film for the sole purpose of having Sam Rockwell be in the movie, regardless of how over stuffed the film already was. There were several scenes, including the whole senate hearing where they just filmed and filmed and essentially wrote the scenes in the editing room. Definitely a weak spot in the phase one films.
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It's not even that. I can't even blame Ratner for X3 because he didn't really have any control. I don't think any director could put out a great movie working under the conditions Fox had for X3. Ratner didn't have much creative control and other directors turned it down because of how Fox was.
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As far as it's placed among sequels.....
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Same here. Though I do like it more now than I did 2 years ago.
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I honestly thought that Iron Man 2 was only slightly above average. The great Mickey Rourke was tragically underused in this film.
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Even though it's not as good as the first film, when stacked up against other superhero movie sequels I'd still have to rank it right at the top.
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