Maybe I'm becoming more cynical or jaded over time, but while I liked the movie, I hate going to the theaters. Last night cost my wife and I $30 to watch it in 3D while the Blu-Ray release will probably be less for the 4-5 disk set.
lol i agree, and had that conversation with my wife last night. this was the first movie we saw in a theater since we've put our home theater in, and the whole time we both were saying how movies at home are SSSOOOO much better.
for the $30 i spent last night chances are we could get it from amazon for that price and own it. so we'll probably be seeing very very few movies in the theater again. although, there are a bunch this summer that i want to see and quite a few within the next few weeks
Most people see movies as "Hey...a new movie. I'm interested in the subject, let's go check it out."
You seem to be:
"Hey, a new movie. I must meet all 52 points of my stringent criteria or I will not go see it. If it fails to meet 80% of my criteria, I will not spend $1 at a video vending machine to see it."
lol i agree, and had that conversation with my wife last night. this was the first movie we saw in a theater since we've put our home theater in, and the whole time we both were saying how movies at home are SSSOOOO much better.
for the $30 i spent last night chances are we could get it from amazon for that price and own it. so we'll probably be seeing very very few movies in the theater again. although, there are a bunch this summer that i want to see and quite a few within the next few weeks
I kind of feel the same way. It's way too expensive for what you get. I'm lucky to have a Cinemark theater near me, so matinees are only $3 and a lg popcorn is $5 I HATE paying $13 to see a movie, $15 for popcorn and a drink, and then having to sit through 15 minutes of commercials before the movie starts.
Didn't like it. It was mildly amusing, but villains were overpowered and the show was too "soft". Thor's hammer, blessed by the gods, can't smash through Tony Stark's iron man suit, but this villain's heated hand can slice through it like hot knife through butter. Too over the top powerful, too "corny", and is definitely a wait for bluray movie. I even liked #2 better.
Didn't like it. It was mildly amusing, but villains were overpowered and the show was too "soft". Thor's hammer, blessed by the gods, can't smash through Tony Stark's iron man suit, but this villain's heated hand can slice through it like hot knife through butter. Too over the top powerful, too "corny", and is definitely a wait for bluray movie. I even liked #2 better.
Tony could have easily recreated a platinum or tungsten coating for his suits once he realized the temp that the Extremis goes boom (<=3000 degrees), given his power and influence and connects. Even after losing his lab.
Maybe I'm becoming more cynical or jaded over time, but while I liked the movie, I hate going to the theaters. Last night cost my wife and I $30 to watch it in 3D while the Blu-Ray release will probably be less for the 4-5 disk set.
Thank you! I would have waited, but since I peaked at some of the spoilers, about a minute after
the suits blew up
I was racing toward the exit at the drive-in. I could still hear everything; just couldn't see it. 2nd car out, first car heading east. Otherwise, it would have been 10-15 minutes getting out of there.
Didn't like it. It was mildly amusing, but villains were overpowered and the show was too "soft". Thor's hammer, blessed by the gods, can't smash through Tony Stark's iron man suit, but this villain's heated hand can slice through it like hot knife through butter. Too over the top powerful, too "corny", and is definitely a wait for bluray movie. I even liked #2 better.
Most people see movies as "Hey...a new movie. I'm interested in the subject, let's go check it out."
You seem to be:
"Hey, a new movie. I must meet all 52 points of my stringent criteria or I will not go see it. If it fails to meet 80% of my criteria, I will not spend $1 at a video vending machine to see it."
I kind of feel the same way. It's way too expensive for what you get. I'm lucky to have a Cinemark theater near me, so matinees are only $3 and a lg popcorn is $5 I HATE paying $13 to see a movie, $15 for popcorn and a drink, and then having to sit through 15 minutes of commercials before the movie starts.
Didn't like it. It was mildly amusing, but villains were overpowered and the show was too "soft". Thor's hammer, blessed by the gods, can't smash through Tony Stark's iron man suit, but this villain's heated hand can slice through it like hot knife through butter. Too over the top powerful, too "corny", and is definitely a wait for bluray movie. I even liked #2 better.
i thought that tony stark didn't even use the original iron man suit, but instead got inside of the new experiments he was working on. and it seemed a lot of them were prototypes and didn't have the kinks worked out, and probably were built out of other materials and what not.
oh, and it's a comic book movie so i'm not expecting everything to make 100% sense and be realistic.
Just saw it, loved it. Tony Stark does need to upgrade his armor, though. It's PVP season 15 and the noob still wears season 13's gears. Needs MOAR resilience! Pfffttt...
I started thinking about Marvel's movie plans and I think their Phase 2 was done really poorly when it comes to the release schedule. According to Wikipedia, we'll be seeing...
Iron Man 3
Thor 2
Captain America 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Avengers 2
The thing is... the newer Guardians of the Galaxy story actually has Iron Man in it! I could paraphase it, but I'll just paste in the part from Wikipedia...
In the Volume 5 series, Tony Stark has hit a technological ceiling. After the death of Dr. Maya Hansen and destroying all of the Extremis Ver. 2 kits (which were being sold to the black market) Tony decides that the Earth is not safe without him learning more from what's in the final frontier. He takes his new suit, enhanced with an artificial intelligence named P.E.P.P.E.R. and joins Peter Quill and The Guardians of the Galaxy.
Why can't people simply not think of it as the bee's knees simply because it has faults? I love comic book movies, and I will flat out tell you that Iron Man 3 isn't that good of a comic book movie. The only thing that makes it better than Iron Man 2 is that Iron Man 2 had fucking awful scenes in it like Tony flailing around in his suit at the party shooting fruit.
You can do that sort of stuff in PG-13 movies, but you have to be wary about what exactly you show. I've talked about it in other threads, but watching Die Hard 4 with commentary actually reveals a lot of the stuff you can't do.
how the human body can seem to take in absolutely no food/energy but produce a ridiculous amount of heat? These fuckers are breaking the laws of physics! To be fair, the concepts behind some of it are actually explained in the comics a lot better.
i was entertained. i thought it relied a lot more on action and CG than the previous two movies. it's good in a "bay-splosion" way, but also bad in that i think the dialogue and plot development (not the plot itself) of iron man 2 was better....i thought the villain in iron man 3 was the best by far. 1 & 2 were a little underwhelming.
Crying baby at the 4PM Sunday showing here but it didn't ruin it for me. LOL at my friend for actually suggesting that they should have had the "real" mystical magic Mandarin instead. I recognize that even the basic premise of the most comic book movies requires more suspension of disbelief than many mass-market movie goers are willing to tolerate. When they attempt to tone down, explain, or change to make it more believable, I don't complain.
LOL at my friend for actually suggesting that they should have had the "real" mystical magic Mandarin instead. I recognize that even the basic premise of the most comic book movies requires more suspension of disbelief than many mass-market movie goers are willing to tolerate. When they attempt to tone down, explain, or change to make it more believable, I don't complain.
I certainly can't speak for everyone, but I would assume that the premise of a superhero or villain's powers don't really matter to most people. They don't care if the Mandarin gets his powers from 10 alien rings or from the toy in a Crack Jacks box. If you create a compelling hero and a compelling villain, people will be... well, this is going to sound damn obvious (and maybe redundant)... compelled.
Also,
you don't think most people thought, "... he breathes fire?", when he went all Game of Thrones later on in the movie? Since I didn't know the Extremis comics that well before going in, that got a bit of a "WTF!?" from me. The movie did a pretty poor job to explain what Extremis does beyond the one aspect (regeneration). Although, I've talked about that already quite a bit, so there's no reason to reiterate it.
i thought that tony stark didn't even use the original iron man suit, but instead got inside of the new experiments he was working on. and it seemed a lot of them were prototypes and didn't have the kinks worked out, and probably were built out of other materials and what not.
oh, and it's a comic book movie so i'm not expecting everything to make 100% sense and be realistic.
And to be fair, even at the end of the movie when Tony calls in his army of suits, the fire breathing invincible mad men seem to tear those suits apart like nothing. They never did fully explain how to kill those guys, destroy the heart? Brain? I mean chopping off an arm doesn't do it so who knows. They all disappeared rather quickly at the end.
I started thinking about Marvel's movie plans and I think their Phase 2 was done really poorly when it comes to the release schedule. According to Wikipedia, we'll be seeing...
Iron Man 3
Thor 2
Captain America 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Avengers 2
The thing is... the newer Guardians of the Galaxy story actually has Iron Man in it! I could paraphase it, but I'll just paste in the part from Wikipedia...
God, it would have made so much more sense to put Iron Man 3 before Guardians of the Galaxy! Maybe then...
the post-credits scene could have actually been good.
You do realize that...
1. It's a Sunday.
2. It's Cinco de Mayo.
Why can't people simply not think of it as the bee's knees simply because it has faults? I love comic book movies, and I will flat out tell you that Iron Man 3 isn't that good of a comic book movie. The only thing that makes it better than Iron Man 2 is that Iron Man 2 had fucking awful scenes in it like Tony flailing around in his suit at the party shooting fruit.
You can do that sort of stuff in PG-13 movies, but you have to be wary about what exactly you show. I've talked about it in other threads, but watching Die Hard 4 with commentary actually reveals a lot of the stuff you can't do.
You mean like...
how the human body can seem to take in absolutely no food/energy but produce a ridiculous amount of heat? These fuckers are breaking the laws of physics! To be fair, the concepts behind some of it are actually explained in the comics a lot better.
Crying baby at the 4PM Sunday showing here but it didn't ruin it for me. LOL at my friend for actually suggesting that they should have had the "real" mystical magic Mandarin instead. I recognize that even the basic premise of the most comic book movies requires more suspension of disbelief than many mass-market movie goers are willing to tolerate. When they attempt to tone down, explain, or change to make it more believable, I don't complain.
It would have been tough to simulate the 10 rings and like my previous post, would have equaled cheesewhiz > Green Lantern. Just too hard to pull off all those powers in one movie.
I thought it was good, if not stellar, with a great performance by Ben Kingsley. For the most part I liked the Shane Black-iness of it. My ratings for the three movies would be more or less as follows:
Why call it Ironman? Might at well call it Tony Stark
considering he spends all of 10 minutes in the suit, a broken suit at that. The rest of the movie is full of shitty one liners and a terrible plot. Pepper is more of a badass than Ironman.
Why call it Ironman? Might at well call it Tony Stark
considering he spends all of 10 minutes in the suit, a broken suit at that. The rest of the movie is full of shitty one liners and a terrible plot. Pepper is more of a badass than Ironman.
that is kind of the whole point i got from the movie - that the suit isn't what makes iron man, tony stark is what makes iron man. and i agree, and i think robert downey jr. is what makes tony stark. if they got someone else to play iron man it just wouldn't be the same.
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