"Iron Man 3" Review and Discussion Thread (spoilers)

Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Dream, Apr 23, 2013.

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Rate Iron Man 3

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  1. The Wormhole

    The Wormhole Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    But that just raises the question, did Stark have the time to get his credit card? I doubt he carries the card for an account he has listed under an alias with him all the time. Although, maybe the Iron Man suit has a compartment where it keeps credit card(s). Probably the most secure place he can keep them, and they're available in emergencies.
     
  2. The Mirrorball Man

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    And does his credit card number start with a "0"?
     
  3. Shaka Zulu

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    I'm on the IMDB boards a lot myself, and no, I disagree; not everybody's a kid; many people are adults making adult comments. And most of the comments might probably be about how they hate movies like this.

    I suspect that many of the fans (the kids you were talking about) thought that the movie would be like the recent CGI animated series in which the original version of the Mandarin's a major character; when they didn't get what they wanted, they were angry.
     
  4. The Mirrorball Man

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    Sure, I guess, if you broaden the definition to those who can use a fork.

    Are those the "adult comments" you were referring to?
     
  5. Mage

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    Well, I really liked it, loved it actually. The entire angst made sense to me, considering what Tony went through in Avengers. It's interesting to consider how he made Iron Man an identity on its own, almost taking him over, loosing himself in this creation of his, because the real world is just to much to handle now. Creating all those different armors, they are all different aspects of him, things that he needs to be able to do to protect himself but mostly those that he loves. Since he realized that all his might, everything he created sofar wasn't not good enough. Both his armors in Avengers, as powerfull as they were, were almost not enough to save the world. I mean, the Mark 42 he could actually remote control and wrap around others, not just him, to save them.

    I really liked how this movie focused on Tony, not on the armor. Other then that, the fact it was all less superhero and more a good cloak and dagger thriller was something that I enjoyed as well.
     
  6. Thestral

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    Couldn't he have simply stolen a credit card from that Extremis agent he killed, or any cash she was carrying? If we're so concerned about where he got the Home Depot money, I mean.
     
  7. Turtletrekker

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  8. Set Harth

    Set Harth Vice Admiral Admiral

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    He doesn't look like an "Ellen", though.
     
  9. P Tom

    P Tom Commander Red Shirt

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    How did Killian get off Air Force One, if the president was the one inside the Iron Patriot suit as implied by the subsequent scenes?
     
  10. Scout101

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    Presumably carried him off and then switched after?
     
  11. The Nth Doctor

    The Nth Doctor Infinite Possibilities... Premium Member

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    Killian wasn't on Air Force One. Savin used the Iron Patriot suit to get aboard and we all saw what happened to him.

    I saw this again tonight and I have to say I still enjoyed the shit out of the film. It's not as "deep" as Iron Man but it's still a lot of fun and most the funny lines still had me cracking up. I enjoyed Ben Kingsley's performance even more knowing the big reveal, but it's also a lot more obvious that he's playing a cheesy, bad actor portraying a fake terrorist.
     
  12. Thestral

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    So it's his wife's. :p
     
  13. JarodRussell

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  14. ATimson

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    Well, you still have to pay RDJ for the voice. :p Then it's just a question of which is cheaper: paying RDJ to be on-set, or paying the VFX vendors for all that work.
     
  15. JarodRussell

    JarodRussell Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Since VFX people are exploited like slaves and happy with it, it's cheaper.


    The most interesting thing about the article is that the schedule of summer blockbusters is so extremely tight that they don't even account for possible injuries of their main actors. Which is incredibly stupid considering that their main actors are doing stunts themselves. And then they end up torturing the VFX houses, who comply with everything because otherwise they go bankrupt. But then again most of them also go bankrupt when the film is a success.
     
  16. LaxScrutiny

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    I don't see how it's cheaper. If RDJ is billed as the star, he will still get his $40 million or whatever, even if most or all of his appearance is VFX.
     
  17. JD

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    It's scary how good the face replacement technique is getting, because I never once suspected that it was going on.
     
  18. Keith1701

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    I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, this weekend.:)
     
  19. the G-man

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    I saw it last night and this is pretty much how I felt.

    I almost had the impression that Downey's agent wrote as much of the film as Black did. it seemed like every beat of the film [and the ending itself] was an excuse to get Downey out of the suit as much as possible so that "the star" was on camera and not the Iron Man character from the comics. Most of, if not all, of the big Iron Man action sequences consisted of Tony remotely controlling the suits or jumping in and out of them every ten seconds. The remainder of the action was either Stark running around like a wannabe SHIELD agent or the supporting characters getting their contractually mandated "moment of glory" (and given Pepper the Extremis virus was like weaponizing a piece of wet lettuce).

    In these respects, it was less of an Iron Man movie and more of "Robert Downey Jr and Shane Black do 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' in the Marvel U."

    In addition, while the plot moved breezily along, if you thought about it for more than two seconds at a stretch, it collapsed:

    So, apparently, having the shrapnel in his heart was elective the whole time? If so, the blood poisoning in the second movie makes absolutely no sense.

    I suppose it is possible that, once he fixed "extremis," he used that to cure the heart problem. However, this begs the question, why not fix it before Pepper got infected?

    Yes, Killian was evil. However, here Stark knows that the virus has an unexpected side effect that makes it even more dangerous to civilians. It sometimes accidentally blows up people in public. Fixing it would have hampered the whole combustion issue that was getting people killed and, if anything, made Killian's plans less, not more, dangerous.

    Then there was the sequence where he taunts the Mandarin publicly and then gets his house blowed up. Why didn't the house have better security?

    Tony Stark has been publicly outed as Iron Man for approximately five years now. Besides being a superhero, he's a brilliant scientist who tinkers with weaponizable gadgets constantly and somehow connected to SHIELD. He's been publicly attacked several times as a result, including in IM2. His first mission in IM was blowing up a terror cell. This is a man who has painted a target on his own back multiple times, a man who designs the best defense tech in the Marvel U (even if he-ahem-no longer allows it be used for military purposes [except when he does])....and he doesn't have his house set to to protect against weapons as conventional as helicopters and rocket launchers?

    Again, while a nice set piece it seemed as if it was there simply to set up a reason to get Downey out of costume for the middle third of the film.
     
  20. The Mirrorball Man

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    Good, because Robert Downey jr. is much more entertaining than the Iron Man character from the comics ever was.