Escape to the Movies: Iron Man 2
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At first I didn't know who the guy at the end of the credits was or who he was calling thor, but I went back and watched the first Iron man and he was like the second in command for SHIELD, or one of the lackies.
I have to say that the trailers really REALLY hyped the action.
This was a 2+ hour movie punctuated with 8-12 minutes of action. Hammer was so 1 dimensional and stereotypical I cringed when he spoke.
As for Scarlett, I feel that she wasn't utilized nearly enough. That leads me to believe she was eyecandy for the trailers and little more.
I was very disappointed.
This was a 2+ hour movie punctuated with 8-12 minutes of action. Hammer was so 1 dimensional and stereotypical I cringed when he spoke.
As for Scarlett, I feel that she wasn't utilized nearly enough. That leads me to believe she was eyecandy for the trailers and little more.
I was very disappointed.
Boy, was this one bad. One step better than the Transformers sequel, sure, but with The Dark Knight sitting there at the finish. Plot is outright stupid (what is this, an episode of Smallvile?..), i've been wanting to slap the negro the whole movie (he looks bloody constipated and acts like a dork the whole time. Bring back the must have african-american from the first one!), action is silly (you know there is something wrong when the henchmen take more time to dispatch than the actual big boss), acting isn't fun at all (Rourke wears only two faces throught the whole thing: "i am a dirty russian har har" and "i am a smart russian te he he"). Overall - do not buy/see. The first one is INFINITELY better. Avengers better not disappoint.
Am I crazy, I saw the movie and everyone I was with agreed it was a steaming pile of garbage. The dialog and relationships between the characters was forced, and plastic. Plot moved along like a new driver. Jokes were god awful. Was no suspense in the fight scenes because I didn't care for the people in the movie at all and they were over too fast. Not to mention there was way too much going on in the fight scenes. Maybe I am just getting too old.
Maybe you are reading it wrong - "Everyone hated Daredevil. Everyone loved Dark Knight. Dark Knight was a duplicate of Daredevil, pretty much scene for scene with even the angles in the warehouse and street shoot out being the same, just more dragged out with 50 minutes of faffing about and with a Batman theme instead." That isn't an opinion, it's a fact. Watch them both side by side, the similarities are mind-boggling.Eric the Orange said:
Saying everyone is stupid and that they have no concept of what is good, that's my opinion. I just happen to think I have more evidence to support it.
You know what makes this even worse? Publicly speaking, Dark Knight overshadows Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Heath Ledger's last great role. It didn't do shit here, most US theaters not even releasing it, and that movie was like ten times better than Dark Knight. It even had Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law character filling for the mind-rape imagination scenes that Ledger didn't get to film before dying and that made it even more awesome. And to top it off it was directed by Terry Gilliam, which if you don't know who that is, you need to be stabbed in the eye repeatedly.Fortesque said:
Same thing I said coming out of the theater. The sequel lives more comfortably in the 'corporate super-hero shenanigans' universe that the first had to struggle to realize. So where Jeff Bridges' corporate-bad-ass-suddenly-deciding-he-wants-to-joyride-in-a-suit-of-armor-so-that-the-third-act-can-have-an-action-sequence made no sense, we totally buy Sam Rockwell Steve-Jobsing it at the Stark Expo with powered suits on podiums behind him.
Also, how great was it to see Mad Men's John Slatery as Stark Sr.? No comment on this Bob? Seriously?
Also, how great was it to see Mad Men's John Slatery as Stark Sr.? No comment on this Bob? Seriously?
I was pretty disappointed by this sequel.
There was so much unnecessary screen time for these Avengers members that I couldn't care less about. They didn't add anything to the plot and having a beauty beat down tons of security guards isn't special either.
The character development was overall pretty awkward and tedious. It got boring pretty fast.
Stark was a bit too exaggerated this time (especially when you consider the way he became Iron Man) and most of the jokes were flawed and not funny at all.
But personally, the worst about this movie were the lacking action sequences. It was one frigging stereotype battle after the other.
So Iron Man tries to flee from the huge amount of drones and his friend in the other suit who of course NEVER hit him at all and guess what, he gets rid of half of them by letting them fly into walls and such... uh. And that part really took forever. All these exploding cars... my ass.
I mean Iron Man was never threated anyway, or? These electric whips didn't do shit when they hit him (while cutting through everything else like a Lightsaber) and all the drone's projectiles couldn't hurt him either.
Meh... for me this movie lacked everywhere: Plot, characters, humor and action.
There was so much unnecessary screen time for these Avengers members that I couldn't care less about. They didn't add anything to the plot and having a beauty beat down tons of security guards isn't special either.
The character development was overall pretty awkward and tedious. It got boring pretty fast.
Stark was a bit too exaggerated this time (especially when you consider the way he became Iron Man) and most of the jokes were flawed and not funny at all.
But personally, the worst about this movie were the lacking action sequences. It was one frigging stereotype battle after the other.
So Iron Man tries to flee from the huge amount of drones and his friend in the other suit who of course NEVER hit him at all and guess what, he gets rid of half of them by letting them fly into walls and such... uh. And that part really took forever. All these exploding cars... my ass.
I mean Iron Man was never threated anyway, or? These electric whips didn't do shit when they hit him (while cutting through everything else like a Lightsaber) and all the drone's projectiles couldn't hurt him either.
Meh... for me this movie lacked everywhere: Plot, characters, humor and action.
One thing I don't get about the first movie was why did Stane go on a rampage? He was about to be placed under arrest, he was (it seemed) a sane man I don't get what he thought he would get out of what he did, even if he killed Tony he would have been hunted down and arrested eventually.
With the second film because of the burning hatred that Whiplash had for Tony the ending made a lot more sense
I like how the writers were in no rush with the romance between Tony and Pepper, it allowed it to develop at a much more interesting pace over the movies.
With the second film because of the burning hatred that Whiplash had for Tony the ending made a lot more sense
I like how the writers were in no rush with the romance between Tony and Pepper, it allowed it to develop at a much more interesting pace over the movies.