ThePhantasm
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Can't shoot ice out of your fingertips... but you can shoot fire out of your mouth?
Compared to an old man shooting a tornado, black holes, and ice out of his fingertips? Yes, that's a big difference. It's called science fiction and fantasy. You may as well be comparing Star Trek to Harry Potter.
I've seen the movie twice. Not many people laughing at it.
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Compared to an old man shooting a tornado, black holes, and ice out of his fingertips? Yes, that's a big difference. It's called science fiction and fantasy. You may as well be comparing Star Trek to Harry Potter.
Starting to get the feeling this flick flew over a lot of peoples heads.
id argue he actually was more angry over the supposed pepper death... he kinda went all "gloves are off" with killain. Not only that.. but I think Pepper's death is a bit harder to process..
let's keep in mind that nothing phased Stark in avengers UNTIL things got real with Coulson's death. And once he was able to decompress.. and had nothing left to think about but Aliens, Gods, Extra Dimensional beings... he snapped.
he obviously was not handling those things well... and Stark has a pretty deluded sense of reality... especially in this film. It's like when he first broke down in Tennessee, it was also the first time he had to also deal with the fact the Mandarin just attacked his house and sent everything he had into the ocean and nearly got his greatest love killed in the process. He didn't cope with it right after it happened.. he put it off. The larger the shock the less he deals with it (this much is obvious) and Pepper dying is a MAJOR shock to his system. So i wouldn't expect for him to deal with it instantly.
Can't shoot ice out of your fingertips... but you can shoot fire out of your mouth?
In the case of IM3 and then that Pepper death scene in particular it's like your girlfriend teasing you with sex all day, then when the two of you are finally in bed at night she dozes off. You'll be up all night cursing the nine realms.
Don't tell me I should be happy because I expected sex and she "surprised" me with none.
Surprised me with none? The twist in this movie is more like she surprised me by pulling down her skirt and she has a penis.
Folks, there's a definite tone of snarkiness towards each other regarding your opinions of the film. I would suggest you direct your feelings, be they positive or negative, towards the film itself. It works out much better for you that way.
I'm getting very annoyed and offended by some of these similar implications like "You don't get it" and such.
I'm getting very annoyed and offended by some of these similar implications like "You don't get it" and such. And I've said millions of times that I'm very happy others are enjoying it, but I can't just agree and suddenly like something when I don't. I acknowledge the film's problems that didn't work for me, and I see others are doing the same thing. I've seen many good reasons people bring as to why they like or dislike the film, and that's fine. No need to revert to name-calling because others don't see things the way we do.
It's why I haven't even bothered to talk about IM3. According to some in here, I don't get the movie and the twist.
The exact same defence used for Inception (another hugely overrated movie).
I find to be humorous, and sad that so many reviews of the first two Iron Man films accused SHIELD's presence of ruining said films. Now that SHIELD isn't in IM3, it too is ruined.
Which way do you want it?
Love the movie.
But my favourite part of this movie is seeing so many of the critical comments in this thread highlight EXACTLY what this film was trying to achieve.
The genre politics of this film are sensational. It's so much smarter than superhero movie fans want their movies to be. It dismantles the propaganda and artifice of that audience-product relationship, as much as it dismantles the various themes it tackles (particularly, villainy - media and the US paradigm - terrorism(s) - popular/marketed warfare).
It's enjoyable whilst punishing you for enjoying it.
I can't think of a more apt way to follow up the Avengers.
Like I said in my review/thoughts on the film just up above, some are trying to make this film sound smarter then it really is. My wife guessed Killian was the main bad guy near the beginning of the film. It was the old evil scientist cliche basically.