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May. 14th, 2010 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsBest part of having Fridays off: having the afternoon free to go see Iron Man 2! A few notes:
1. Honestly, after seeing all the trailers and other people's reviews, the actual plot held together better than I was expecting it to. Maybe I'm just jaded here; after all, I suffered through X3 and Spiderman 3, both of which felt like three (not very good) movies haphazardly crammed into one. So I was impressed that all the different character and plot points were more-or-less integrated into a coherent whole, and that at any given point I actually understood why what was happening and why. This is not a high standard. But it's a standard most movies I see don't achieve, so go them.
2. I don't know who does the costuming for these movies, but whoever decided that Tony should be hanging around his workshop in that little hooded t-shirt with the rolled sleeves: I WILL GIVE YOU MY FIRST BORN SON. *happy sigh* Robert Downey Jr is a pretty, pretty man, isn't he? Especially when he's getting all sweaty and filthy doing science. :)
3. HI HAPPY I LOVE YOU. ♥
4. I wonder if a later movie is going to deal with Tony's substance abuse problems, or if this is supposed to the resolution of that - Tony was acting out because he was dying, but now he's fixed, so everything's okay again? Because I'm not sure I could buy that. I mean, it's not like Tony wasn't an alcoholic in the first movie - maybe the dying thing made him more self-destructive and made it worse - but one of unfortunate things about being a superhero is that there's always something. Tony isn't an alcoholic because his situation is sucky right at the moment; he's an alcoholic because he has maladaptive coping strategies for when things go badly, and fixing his heart doesn't change that. I don't know how well they could deal with that in this series, but I'd like to see them try.
5. My attention tends to drift during big action scenes, so I was pretty happy with this movie's snark-to-action ratio. I assume more action-movie savvy people than me can decide whether the action scenes were good or not, I just enjoyed listening to RDJ babble.
6. It's hard for me to get much into Tony/Pepper, since I'm a die-hard Steve/Tony shipper and more than passingly fond of Pepper/Happy, but damn they are cute together. What can I say, I love charming banter, and they are the charming-est.
7. OH MAN I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT SUMMER IT IS GOING TO BE EPIC.
1. Honestly, after seeing all the trailers and other people's reviews, the actual plot held together better than I was expecting it to. Maybe I'm just jaded here; after all, I suffered through X3 and Spiderman 3, both of which felt like three (not very good) movies haphazardly crammed into one. So I was impressed that all the different character and plot points were more-or-less integrated into a coherent whole, and that at any given point I actually understood why what was happening and why. This is not a high standard. But it's a standard most movies I see don't achieve, so go them.
2. I don't know who does the costuming for these movies, but whoever decided that Tony should be hanging around his workshop in that little hooded t-shirt with the rolled sleeves: I WILL GIVE YOU MY FIRST BORN SON. *happy sigh* Robert Downey Jr is a pretty, pretty man, isn't he? Especially when he's getting all sweaty and filthy doing science. :)
3. HI HAPPY I LOVE YOU. ♥
4. I wonder if a later movie is going to deal with Tony's substance abuse problems, or if this is supposed to the resolution of that - Tony was acting out because he was dying, but now he's fixed, so everything's okay again? Because I'm not sure I could buy that. I mean, it's not like Tony wasn't an alcoholic in the first movie - maybe the dying thing made him more self-destructive and made it worse - but one of unfortunate things about being a superhero is that there's always something. Tony isn't an alcoholic because his situation is sucky right at the moment; he's an alcoholic because he has maladaptive coping strategies for when things go badly, and fixing his heart doesn't change that. I don't know how well they could deal with that in this series, but I'd like to see them try.
5. My attention tends to drift during big action scenes, so I was pretty happy with this movie's snark-to-action ratio. I assume more action-movie savvy people than me can decide whether the action scenes were good or not, I just enjoyed listening to RDJ babble.
6. It's hard for me to get much into Tony/Pepper, since I'm a die-hard Steve/Tony shipper and more than passingly fond of Pepper/Happy, but damn they are cute together. What can I say, I love charming banter, and they are the charming-est.
7. OH MAN I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT SUMMER IT IS GOING TO BE EPIC.