Iron Man 2 The Critics review Iron Man 2

[kedrell]

Wow, that was tough to read. Thanks tho.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

There was supposed to be a scene in the movie where Stark is drunk out of his mind and vomits into a toilet bowl with his suit still on. Is it still there?

 

[kedrell]

I remember the production designer talking about making that toilet on NPR. Damn, that had to have been a year ago or more.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

He has a drunken fight with Rhodey as well doesn't he?

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Read that in French. Quite surprising for that critic to come with a positive review of a comic book film.

 

[Tony Stark]

He has a drunken fight with Rhodey as well doesn't he?

That one's gotta still be in as I've seen a clip of part of it. He pretty much kicks Rhodey's ass in the WM armor. The clip sees Rhode on the floor, and the face plate opens up and he says "you can have your armor back".

I think Tony is pissed, because Rhode works with Black Widow to get the government to steal the IM technology, and then is given to Hammer to create his robot drone army, but Rhode goes and helps Stark destroy all the drones.

I'm just speculating, but from what I've seen of the clips and judging from my knowledge of the armor wars series, it seems like the government steals the IM armor, but it's the Mark II, which Tony scrapped because of all the flaws. They must not have the Repulsor technology either, which is why War Machine is mainly munitions based armor.

 

[TheVileOne]

I saw the movie last Thursday night and I'll have my review posted once I get the greenlight.

 

[Chewy]

That one's gotta still be in as I've seen a clip of part of it. He pretty much kicks Rhodey's ass in the WM armor. The clip sees Rhode on the floor, and the face plate opens up and he says "you can have your armor back".

That is footage from two different scenes edited together for a TV spot. The fight is between Tony in the Mark IV and Rhodey in the Mark II, Rhodey on his back in the WM armor saying that line is from later in the movie.

 

[topdog1]

I saw the movie last Thursday night and I'll have my review posted once I get the greenlight.

Really? How did you do that? I don't doubt you but I'm curious. Also, in basic terms, thumbs up or down???

 

[TheVileOne]

topdog1, I'm on lockdown. I saw the movie in Los Angeles last Thursday at a media screening. That's all I can really say.

 

[Kent]

You can't even say if you liked it or not? Sounds odd to me, but okay.

 

[Tony Stark]

That is footage from two different scenes edited together for a TV spot. The fight is between Tony in the Mark IV and Rhodey in the Mark II, Rhodey on his back in the WM armor saying that line is from later in the movie.

OK, like I say I'm speculating from what I know of the armor wars story line and what I've seen in the clips/trailers, and how they might have interpreted the story for this movie.

I always thought from the first film when Rhode looks at the Mark II and says, "not yet" or something like that, that they were going to base WM on the Mark II armour.

I also saw a clip of someone (I'm assuming Rhode) Flying the Mark II over to some government base where Justin Hammer was. I also thought there was a scene of Rhode standing over the Mark II, with a bunch of gund saying something like "can you put all of that in to this." My memory is fuzzy between all the clips.

Anyway I'm assuming, WM is basically a revamped Mark II, meaning it will have the limitations of the Mark II from the first film.

 

[Chewy]

A non-embargoed British screening just got out

Iron Man 2 review, if you liked the last one then you'll like this one, if you didn't you won't. Winkleman your new job is very safe.

SOURCE

Iron Man 2 ... Good, clean, loud blockbuster fun. The movie Transformers 2 wanted to be ..

SOURCE

Well that was fun. Loving Don Cheadle. Not sure it quite hit the dizzy heights of orig. What thought you?

SOURCE

Pleased to report Iron Man 2 is totally ace. To be fair, any excuse to stare at Robert Downey Jr for two hours is good enough for me!

SOURCE

"It's not great."

That's it for now. Gonna write things up more fully overnight. But in short: lower your expectations, folks, cos it's boring as hell.

SOURCE

 

[Abraham]

A non-embargoed British screening just got out

SOURCE
SOURCE
SOURCE
SOURCE
SOURCE

those are... depressing, especially that last one.



Ill wait for Ebert and Faraci to weigh in, even though I disagree with both of them a hell of a lot I can usually tell based on their reviews how I will personally feel about the movie in question.

 

[ultimatefan]

I´ll wait till I see some official reviews. Fan reviews almost always sound too much guided by fan bias, whether it´s positive or negative.The "boring as hell" review could well have been written by a DC fanatic.

 

[Chewy]

I´ll wait till I see some official reviews. Fan reviews almost always sound too much guided by fan bias, whether it´s positive or negative.The "boring as hell" review could well have been written by a DC fanatic.

It was written by a guy who liked X-Men Origins: Wolverine

And hated Watchmen

 

[Ace of Knaves]

He thought it was boring? I thought that would be the least of the worries.

Edit: Oh Robbie Collins... he's the movie critic for The News of the World. The sunday version of The Sun. Don't pay attention to him.

 

[ultimatefan]

It was written by a guy who liked X-Men Origins: Wolverine

And hated Watchmen

See,whether a review is positive or negative, I wanna see where the POV is coming from. I don´t give a crap to critics who generally dismiss superhero movies if they try to have any depth and claim they can´t be more than shallow fun. If the guy thinks Transformers is the model for popcorn movies, I couldn´t care less if he hates IM2.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Looks like the reviews are split 50/50 so far.

No way this gets a tomatometer as high as the first (93%). Hopefully it's good enough to stay fresh (above 60%).

 

[Ace of Knaves]

They don't look split. Only one of them is negative.

 

[Chewy]

RE: Sam Rockwell

He's totally over the top and has a great dancing scene. Remeber his dancing in Charlie's Angels? It's that good.

SOURCE

 

[Keyser Soze]

Okay, forget any negative review. Sam Rockwell DANCES. This movie gets 5 stars.

 

[Chewy]

Okay, forget any negative review. Sam Rockwell DANCES. This movie gets 5 stars.

 

[kedrell]

Looks like the reviews are split 50/50 so far.

No way this gets a tomatometer as high as the first (93%). Hopefully it's good enough to stay fresh (above 60%).

There is no way this doesn't end up fresh. It's simply so improbable as to be impossible. And only 1 was negative(a guy who aside from lousy 3-D, actually liked COTT). Yeah, this was never gonna get 100% fresh but I still have high hopes for it, critically.

 

[PyroChamber]

I saw the movie last Thursday night and I'll have my review posted once I get the greenlight.

Well, the Rate & Review thread is open now.