Iron Man 3 Disappointments of the Trilogy?

[Doc Samson]

Me, I wanted to see a classic Mandarin. Even Iron Man: Armored Adventures does a better portrayal of the Mandarin than IM3 did.

Extremis is a massive, epic moment in the Iron Man canon. To use it as a crutch to "modernize" a supposed "outdated" villian is just plain weak in an of itself. Thus, we got neither a good telling of the Extremis story, nor did we get a good portrayal of the Mandarin, and all the while AIM gets a completely foreign origin story.

3 facepalms in one story mechanic.

Pretty much all of this

 

[BigThor]

- Iron Man not having any really big strength feats

- Only two epic unibeam attacks

- Not engaging in a proper aerial fight with a villain

- Ten Rings not being fleshed out past the first film

- Not using as big of a variety of weapons as I expected

- Whiplash and Justin Hammer not being used efficiently


Honestly I don't have many criticisms of this trilogy, I consider it one of the top cbm trilogies.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

There's barely Iron Man in 2 and 3. And many times when he is finally there, he's too weak, or something fails, etc. [BLACKOUT]Oh, and Mandarin[/BLACKOUT].

Basically, my main disappointment is that the first one was so good and they didn't even waited for the third one to decline.

 

[BlackFox]

The Mandarin twist

Dropping War Machine for Iron Patriot

Pepper Potts turning into some glowy superhuman thingy

No decent bad guy of note in the trilogy.

Not making the most of the first film.

 

[Green Goblin]

Iron Man 2 and 3, worst films in the MCU in my opinion. Iron Man 1 is my favorite Marvel Movie so far

 

[ThatGuy1988]

Would it kill Marvel to let at least one villain live? And no, Justin Hammer doesn't count. He was more *****ey than evil.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Would it kill Marvel to let at least one villain live? And no, Justin Hammer doesn't count. He was more *****ey than evil.

Hammer was just the comedic relief of IM2.

Villain was Vanko, who spent 3/4 of the movie doing nothing.

 

[SilentWarriorZ]

IM 2 was unwanted IM 3 was suppose to be IM2

 

[kane9321]

IM1- perfect

IM 2-too many characters,Justin Hammer was a complete fool on screen. More War machine

IM3- The reveal of the mandarin was just soo damned stupid. Not enough tony stark "in the suit". More
War machine....not iron patriot...WTF

IM 2 & 3 were just huge disappointments to me really

 

[Steamteck]

IM3 was a huge disappointment for me. I was expecting the Mandarin so it was no big deal. but I was expecting some you know .. actual competent badass iron Man action. hated kid sidekick ( although for such wasn't terrible. I hated I waited all movie for Tony to be Iron Man and I never really got to see him really in action except the plane where he wasn't even in the suit. I hated all the suits including the Iron Patriot were basically useless. I hated we got very little Tony and pepper . I hated super Pepper. Finally I hated the neat little last minute wrap up including the Arc reactor removable as an after thought.

Wow! That felt good.

 

[Deserana]

I watched this film again recently and thinking about it, almost the entirety of IM3 is a disappointment to me. It just wasn't good to me. In fact personally its right at the bottom of this current generation of CBM's other than Green Lantern.

The main things (quite a few) -
- There is no overarching story here. There is a bit carried on from The Avengers but pretty much nothing from the other two. This film just seems so distant from the others in the franchise. Tony is a d**k at the beginning of IM1 then becomes a full on good guy, then a bit of a d**k in IM2 but IM3 he is on full on d**kbag mode. For absolutely no reason at times.

- The arc reactor. Just why? Honestly an excuse such as Tony perfects extremis, puts it in himself so he is now able to remove the arc reactor would have worked and also made sense. The fact that he could have removed it at any point in the past 3 films just made no sense.

- The suits that seem to be able to do just the right thing at just the right time.

- Cracking a joke just after your girlfriend "died". Yeah lol....

- The supernatural-esque villains. Didn't sit right with me at all. We have just had aliens in Avengers but in an Iron Man centric film this just did not work for me.

- The airplane scene. Stark wasn't in the suit. Enough said. Ruins all tension.

- Stark and the kid. The kid was great but there is a diference between having a laugh and calling a kid who helped you a p***y. I do not believe the Stark we saw develop in Iron Man 1 would have behaved that way to a kid who clearly just wanted a guy to look up to.

- The gaps in logic. Stark has zero back up just incase the terrorist attacks his house. Now if it was just Stark I get it cause he does have that sort of ego but the fact he knew Pepper was there just makes him seem like a... d**k. Also he has loads of suits but spends lots of time on just one. The fact that the bad guys have no specific way on how to die. Killian survives 2 explosions. Then dies in an explosion. Same for others. A hole in the chest kills one but the others who have no limbs are fine.

Just really not great for me and there are more but I'm too tired right now.

 

[MarvelFan]

lack of War Machine's action...

i mean, yes Rhodey gets some action in Iron Man 3, but that's him outside the suit...
soon after he rescued that US President, he just flying off, without coming back to aid Tony....My first thought on that: "Is that it? he's done?"

I want War Machine to use more of his big artillery that he had a lot at his disposal.
Iron Man 2's War Machine action was good and quite memorable but it left me wanting some more....

the rest...I'm quite satisfied for what it was...

 

[Gold Samurai]

The surprising lack of "Iron Man" in all three movies.

IM1- The mark 3 shows up around 1 hour and 14 minutes and has an action scene that last 7 minutes.

We don't see Iron Man till the last 10-15 minutes


IM2- Mark 4 at the beginning and Mark 5 about 20 minutes in. Then we get one action scene with the Mark 4 VS the Mark 2.

After that it's Tony's intervention for the next 40 minutes

Mark 6 fights for about 2 minutes

Mark 6 VS whiplash is 2 minutes.
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IM3- The Mark 42 and the beach house comes in 30 minutes in the movie.

After that we don't see it till the last 30 minutes and the big house party protocol.


Also Tony's in the suit for a few scenes or he's remoting it.

 

[metaphysician]

Would it kill Marvel to let at least one villain live? And no, Justin Hammer doesn't count. He was more *****ey than evil.

Abomination lived. Sterns lived. Loki lived. Red Skull "died" in an obviously "never found the body" manner. And while not done explicitly, they certainly left plenty of room for Extremis soldiers, or even Killian himself, to have survived IM3.

Sure, Marvel has killed off a bunch of villains, but the MCU is a *lot* better about it than all the non Marvel Studios films.

 

[Kabuki_Jo]

Disappointments?

The third movie entirely. It's just a terrible, terrible movie.

 

[Human Torch]

- Cracking a joke just after your girlfriend "died". Yeah lol....

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After seeing the film a second time,I don't think the line ("The prodigal son returns" or something) was delivered as a "joke" with a smirk and a wink,but more grimly ironic.

It also isn't right after Pep's "death".At least I felt they gave enough breathing room before the line.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Disappointed in most of IM 2 and IM 3. The first film was good though.

 

[Crossopholis]

Mainly just the Rhodey actor switch (not that I don't like Cheadle, but stuff like that just irks me) and IM2 being a little weak.

Other than those two things, I liked the first and third movies about the same. I can see why some people don't enjoy the third as much, I just don't agree with many of their points, personally.

Also, just because it bugged me when I was reading through the thread:

because it's a MAJOR PLOT HOLE. the 35 unused armors had no reason to be in the movie when you look at their significance to the story. it's clear those armors were added just to satisfy the need for a big action climax.

I agree the other armors should have had more screentime and all that, but this totally isn't a plot hole; it's just an aspect of the movie you didn't agree with or enjoy. A plot hole is when something established in an early part of a story is directly and logically contradicted at a later point in the story. Generally speaking, if you can come up with a reason to easily explain it away, then it isn't a plot hole. In this case, a person could say that the other armors were also prototypes due to their rapid construction, or maybe that the Mark 42 really was that much more powerful in comparison to the others, even in prototype form. Just quick examples.