Iron Man 3 Official Iron Man 3 rate/review thread. - Part 1

[redfirebird2008]

Although I wonder if we'll see that same uproar like we did from the people who were offended by Thor's "He's adopted," line in Avengers last year.

People were offended by that?

 

[Norek]

People were offended by that?

I was about to ask that as well. Really?

 

[Ultra Nolanite]

Honestly Rhodey was also a racist stereotype in the olden days. Saying things like "brother, sweet sister" and such. Suffice it to say I'm shocked he's still a black guy today. They should've made him white because there's no WAY you can adapt Rhodes today and not have him be the guy RDJ played in Tropic Thunder.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Yes idiots were offended by a joke in a silly Superhero film.

 

[Quasimod0]

I was about to ask that as well. Really?

Really. That was ridiculous

 

[Flemm]

Amen man. The whole Mandarin thing was overthought. Wouldn't surprise me they were just trying to appease the Chinese by making the bad guy not of their ethnicity.

Well, if that was their goal, they could have just changed the ethnicity

While I can understand why some would prefer a more straight-forward villain, I can't blame them for doing something different, and something that has a bit of intellectual weight to it.

That's not a bad thing. The movie can be fun and still contain some worthwhile ideas.

 

[danoyse]

People were offended by that?

I was about to ask that as well. Really?

Yup.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Oh this thread is going to be interesting and so much fun...

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Yeah there was one person on the Thor forums that apparently found that line incredibly hurtful. I can't remember if she was adopted herself or if she was just trying to defend poor Loki though.

 

[danoyse]

Here's an article over the Avengers line. There was even a petition to try and get them to edit out that line for the DVD.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/that-hes-adopted-one-liner-in-the-avengers-not-funny/

 

[Kelly]

Here's an article over the Avengers line. There was even a petition to try and get them to edit out that line for the DVD.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/that-hes-adopted-one-liner-in-the-avengers-not-funny/

That's ridiculous, that line has been used in movies, books, cartoons etc for decades.

I'm am so sick of this PC crap....

 

[Flemm]

Honestly Rhodey was also a racist stereotype in the olden days. Saying things like "brother, sweet sister" and such. Suffice it to say I'm shocked he's still a black guy today. They should've made him white because there's no WAY you can adapt Rhodes today and not have him be the guy RDJ played in Tropic Thunder.

Meh. Not the same thing at all. Yes, they could have probably found a way to make the Mandarin a Chinese bad guy without it being a racist stereotype.

But who cares?

What they did is likely more interesting than that would have been.

 

[thalidomide]

The good thing is, people didn't really pay attention to that crap.

 

[Ash Talon]

Saw this last night. Honestly, it's about even with IM2. I felt it was too jokey and never got serious enough. There's no sense of danger or immediacy. It feels like they rolled Stark back from the place Avengers took him (self sacrifice) just to let him more forward again. In other words, his arc felt forced. The only action piece that was interesting was the plane rescue, but even it felt a bit anti-climatic. The ending battle was just clutter. I'm still waiting for a Marvel movie which has a message.

6/10

 

[danoyse]

That's ridiculous, that line has been used in movies, books, cartoons etc for decades.

I'm am so sick of this PC crap....

Exactly! And it was so obvious in Avengers, before that line and after, that Thor clearly still thought of Loki as his brother and was trying to save him from himself. It was Loki who rejected it.

 

[Flemm]

Exactly! And it was so obvious in Avengers, before that line and after, that Thor clearly still thought of Loki as his brother and was trying to save him from himself. It was Loki who rejected it.

That's true. I thought the line was a little forced, tbh, coming from Thor. He doesn't seem to ever have thought of Loki as anything but his brother. But I guess one could see it as a momentary gut reaction to distance himself a bit from Loki's recent crimes.

 

[Norek]

Here's an article over the Avengers line. There was even a petition to try and get them to edit out that line for the DVD.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/that-hes-adopted-one-liner-in-the-avengers-not-funny/

Thanks! I can't believe this joke escalated like that.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Yup.

PC police?

 

[danoyse]

That's true. I thought the line was a little forced, tbh, coming from Thor. He doesn't seem to ever have thought of Loki as anything but his brother. But I guess one could see it as a momentary gut reaction to distance himself a bit from Loki's recent crimes.

That's all it was, an awkward moment from Thor.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Meh. Not the same thing at all. Yes, they could have probably found a way to make the Mandarin a Chinese bad guy without it being a racist stereotype.

But who cares?

What they did is likely more interesting than that would have been.

This.

 

[Raider4000]

At no stage was I angered by SM3, sure, I thought bits didin't make sense, plots are introduced and then dropped, you have coincidence and happenstance but at no stage was I angered by what I was watching.
I was seething at the end of IM 3, SEETHING.

A lot of people in my movie theatre were like that as well. Few people were saying "there better be something after these credits to save this movie." I just didn't like it and really did think Spider-Man 3/3rd movie curse as soon as we reached the middle of the film. The story was completely made up and the teasing of what we THOUGHT we were going to get was a travesty, making the race debate a moot point in the end, lol.

 

[Tony Stark]

A good friend of mine is adopted and didn't find out until a very late age, right before he went off to college, he was very pissed at his adoptive parents for a while, but they mended ways and he found his birth mother year later and have become good friends.

That line in the movie came up in a discussion one day and he told me he laughed his ass off at that line. He said it's OK for him because there's weird **** his adoptive parents do (his dad would ask his mom if they wanted to have sex at the dinner table and other weird akward stuff like that), so he can just say, "hey I'm adopted". LOL!

 

[D4rkShaDoWz]

I have a question about the film:

Spoiler

Has Tony ever removed the shrapnel by his heart in any comic book series? This is the only part of the movie where I had a question. Yes, I know that Tony is still Iron Man even without the arc reactor and I know that's the point of the movie. I always liked how his character had some sort of deficiency that made him a little more human.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

^ That's not awkward... its creepy.

 

[Mr.T]

7.5/10
Can't give half ratings so I rounded up to 8 when I voted.
Thought it was a good movie, better than IM2, but not by much. I definitely had 2 major complaints already noted in this forum several times.
Taking the family to see it early Sat and looking forward to a 2nd viewing.