Iron man 2 - Spoilers!

[Jeyl]

Re: Iron man 2

I saw the midnight showing as well. Wasn't too enthralled by it. I'll just go by the good, the bad, and the ugly approach.

SPOILERS AHOY

The Good
- Visual Effects were wonderful, especially whenever the suits get damaged in fights. Love the wear and tear!
- Whiplash coming into the race track.
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff. About time we have a female comic character that isn't cringe inducing or limited to being the love interest. This is a good step in the right direction for female heros.
- Iron Man and War Machine team up at the end.

The Bad
- Sam Rockwell. He chewed through the walls, he chewed through the furniture, yet he's still the center of attention. /bonk
- The Tony/Pepper arguing. It had it's charms in the first film, but here it's WAY overblown and over done. Also didn't like how they essentially restarted the whole relationship like the ending to the first film didn't happen.
- Ivan/Hammer cooperation. Oh, yeah. This will go incredibly well and I'm sure Ivan will cooperate to the fullest extent.
- Stark being ill and not telling anyone about it to create conflict. Lazy.
- Robots that are fully armed in demonstrations. Have we learned nothing from the ED-209 incident??

The Ugly
- ANOTHER Father/Son plot. Wow. It's like the gold standard these days in comic book movies that if your hero is male, he should always focus on the father and not the mother, cause mothers are neither influential, supportive or encouraging. Daredevil, Ghostrider, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Superman, Superman Returns (110% in Superman Returns), Iron Man 2. I wonder what Thor's situation is going to be like.
- Pepper escaped the last film by being a woman of action, but here that's totally absent. Where she helped out in the fight with Stane, here she's really just waiting to be put into danger for Stark to rescue her. Yahoo.

Overall, it was alright. Won't go see it again like I did with the first Iron Man, but I might revisit it later when it comes out to video. I just found this one to be a a little bit more boring and a lot less involving.

 

[darth_myeek]

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If you were at the ILM screening last night, they cut the bit after the credits out.

Yeah I was so bummed about that







name dropper

 

[sycor]

Did they say the name of the element Tony made? I was expecting it to be vibranium to tie in with Cap's shield but I don't think they named it.

 

[Delmustator]

I just saw the movie and it was not named. Jarvis just said "Congratulations Sir, you've created a new element".

 

[foxbatkllr]

Saw the midnight premiere...I thought it was quite awesome. It didn't have the same effect on me as the first film, because I think I was underestimating it. But this time around my expectations were higher. It met my expectations though and I actually liked the stuff with Tony's vulnerability and not telling about his illness. I also enjoyed the father/son thing. Also, War Machine was pretty awesome. "It's called being a badass" was probably my favorite line.

 

[JD]

It was a decent popcorn flick... my biggest negative about it is that this conclusion was practically the same as last movie another Iron Man vs. Iron Man (or men).

Really enjoyed Black Widow, her scenes stole the show when her and Happy went to Hammer. Wish they would've given her more lines and more to do.

 

[Rhett J Martin]

I was beyond happy with this film. It moves lighting fast, and I thought that the small amounts of time the gave to each of the different characters was done well.

I DID think that Happy's fight scene was a bit overindulgent . . .but it also worked.

Sam Rockwell wasn't what I expected, in a good way, and the old film footage stuff, a la Disney was pretty priceless.

I did go into this film expecting it to be nothing more than a gignormous setup film, but I'm very happy it delivered. Heck, I could even tolerate Paltrow!! Normally I roll my eyes at her!

Mickey Rourke rocks! I pray to the comic movie gods we get to see him as Marv one more time!

 

[Larry Young]

All I could think of was Steve Jobs watching the Stark Expo entrance and turning to some underling and saying, "I'll go back to MacWorld if we can get something like that going. No, not the dancers; the suit."

 

[EvilRocketeer]

It was a decent popcorn flick... my biggest negative about it is that this conclusion was practically the same as last movie another Iron Man vs. Iron Man (or men).

Really enjoyed Black Widow, her scenes stole the show when her and Happy went to Hammer. Wish they would've given her more lines and more to do.

I think it was a decent film as well. It is better than most movies that came out so far this year, but it still wasnt the greatest.

You listed the biggest negative of the film..Whiplash as another iron man..the battle between whiplash and the iron duel lasted for like a minute or two.

Sam Rockwell and Black widow were awesome. I enjoy the Hammer Character and scarlet didnt bug me at all. She was great.

 

[phase pistol]

I'm told by somebody who read the novelization that the new element Tony synthesizes is indeed "Vibrainium".

So, give Tony Stark the nobel prize, I suppose.

k

 

[Darius Alucard]

I'm told by somebody who read the novelization that the new element Tony synthesizes is indeed "Vibrainium".

So, give Tony Stark the nobel prize, I suppose.

k

In the comics, pretty much all of the vibranium on Earth came from a meteorite that crashed in Wakanda thousands of years ago. Experiments trying to synthetically reproduce vibranium led to the accidental vibranium-iron alloy used to make Cap's shield, and later, the creation of adamantium.

 

[The Stig]

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Yeah I was so bummed about that







name dropper

I was simply stating that if they were at that screening, they might have missed it because it wasn't there!

 

[Alan Cross]

Saw it this afternoon. It's too long. Frequently boring. Thought Rourke was good. But that final battle was way too short. It just gets started and it's suddenly over. Sam Rockwell is doing the same character he's done in other movies. He's good, but it's just more of the same. I thought Cheadle being able to put on the suit wasn't believable in the context of the story. He steals it. Betrays Tony. And then it's all good in one quick conversation. Didn't buy it.

Liked Monaco. Liked certain scenes. But man, over-all, this was a disappointment. Not nearly as fun as the first one.

 

[MooCriket]

It was "good fun". Pure and simple, not great, but well worth admission. Did'nt really care about ScoJo, Happy, or Paltrow, but really enjoyed Rourke, Rockwell, Cheadle, and Downey, Jr.

 

[cayman shen]

My friggin friends made me late. I got in as Ivan was doing something, then it said "six months later" or whatever and cut to the Stark Expo. Can anyone tell me what happened in the first five minutes? God is chaps my nuts being late to a movie. I can count on one hand the number of times it's happened, too. I don't even like missing the previews.

 

[MooCriket]

My friggin friends made me late. I got in as Ivan was doing something, then it said "six months later" or whatever and cut to the Stark Expo. Can anyone tell me what happened in the first five minutes? God is chaps my nuts being late to a movie. I can count on one hand the number of times it's happened, too. I don't even like missing the previews.

Basically, you have a scene showing Tony Stark on t.v. in Moscow, and Ivan's pop watching the t.v., while Ivan is outside taking a drink from a bottle of vodka. Pop dies, and Ivan begins working on the arc whips:thumbsup

 

[WarpedScale]

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I wonder what Thor's situation is going to be like.

The Thor situation is going to be the same as well. His father is Odin, ruler of Asgard, and they have a strained relationship that caused him to place Thor on Earth within the body of Don Blake, or at least that's how the comics went. It's uncertain how much of a role Odin will be playing in the movie, although Anthony Hopkins has been cast as him.

Ryu

 

[cayman shen]

Basically, you have a scene showing Tony Stark on t.v. in Moscow, and Ivan's pop watching the t.v., while Ivan is outside taking a drink from a bottle of vodka. Pop dies, and Ivan begins working on the arc whips:thumbsup

THANK you!

 

[cayman shen]

Re: Iron man 2

The Thor situation is going to be the same as well. His father is Odin, ruler of Asgard, and they have a strained relationship that caused him to place Thor on Earth within the body of Don Blake, or at least that's how the comics went. It's uncertain how much of a role Odin will be playing in the movie, although Anthony Hopkins has been cast as him.

Ryu

This will ruin Iron Man. Once you start adding NORSE GODS, well, that pretty much pees in the Wheaties. The next one will be the Batman and Robin of the series, mark my words. You'll have to replace "jumping the shark" with "introduced Thor." As in, "We knew Happy Days had introduced Thor, so to speak, when the Fonz jumped a shark."

 

[Jodo]

I enjoyed it overall, but I absoutly didn't like the Birthday part scenes of it. I thought it was very goofy when it came to all that.

But overall, I realy liked it. And as a side not...It would of been SSSSSOOOO much better to have left Ivan Vanko "at large". I want a series that has villians who last longer than one movie for once.....