Escape to the Movies: Iron Man 3

[tautologico]

Iron Man 3 is, at least, a big improvement over the dreadful second film, so for this alone it's worth watching. But I thought it was, in fact, the best in the trilogy, and one of the best individual Marvel movies, no doubt. Devin Faraci's review at Badass Digest is full of spoilers but he discusses the movie at length, in a positive light. Film Critic Hulk also published some analysis of IM3 as a Shane Black movie, and I agree with most of their points.

 

[Henkie36]

All I can say is that I really hated that twist, and I expected Bob to feel the same way about it. It is definetley a risk and not something you'll see coming, so job well done for creating a twist. But the way I see it, it is only a small step above making it all play out in a dream sequence. So my initial reaction was more in the lines of ''They didn't. They honestly didn't. Holy-crap-you-have-got-to-be-shitting-me they just did. Damn.'' That said, I still think it was better then Iron Man 2, even though not as good as the first one or The Avengers. They get very creative with the suits and I agree with Bob that finally Pepper Potts gets fleshed out a little more, making herself actually useful through her on-screen actions.

 

[Vrach]

Yeah, saw it last night, was pretty awesome. The plot twist was fantastic as well, hope no one spoils it around here, it's just such a lovely moment in the theatre, everyone was literally laughing at the premiere.

As for the "stay after the credits", I wish you told that to the guy who was handling the projector. While about 25-30% of the theatre stayed seated after the credits, the guy at the projector apparently didn't get the memo, didn't watch/play a single Marvel movie so far, had no idea what he was playing, no eyes to see the amount of audience waiting and no respect for the movie to let the credits play through. So RIGHT BEFORE the ending scene... the moron cut the video. The sound was still there, so while we started to doubt a little if there would be a scene (the movie really feels like an Iron Man finish), we heard the sound playing the scene. Then, after the audience started shouting, the guy turned the video back on, then backed up... to the final scene before the credits. So after waiting some half hour, the ending scene received a really lukewarm reception, which, while it's not as awesome as the previous movies are, it doesn't quite deserve.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I bet Chipman is over hyping....

I've seen it, and it was awesome.

A bit disappointing he didn't talk about the twist, the amount of times we get spoiled in other countries because we get a movie a month or two after the states sometimes is annoying. But I understand why he chose not to, and I agree that it was an awesome part of the film.

i enjoyed it. was it perfect, no. was it fun, hell yes. the twist was fun, the Marvel CU doesnt stick too close to the books so get over it. n c'mon, canon gets messed with plenty anyway.

still not sure why the UK gets to see it first, but hey, i enjoyed it

I like that they mix things up in these films, if I want to see the story exactly as the comics are written, I'd read my comics. This way I get a new story with characters I love in it.

I'm not sure why the US gets it after, but like I said in my earlier post, most other countries get movies and games etc later then them, was kinda nice to see something big be our turn to see first. It took Wreck it Ralph two extra months to make it to NZ, not as big a movie as Iron Man 3, but one of the newer examples. Once the US has something released, it gets way harder to avoid spoilers of any kind on most websites and they pop up in the most unexpected of places sometimes.

 

[RJ 17]

This Sunday is my birthday and that's when I'm heading out to see it with some friends. I'm glad Bob gave it his seal of approval as his tastes are generally in line with my own.

Still, I don't know that I've seen a Marvel movie that has disappointed me....except Spiderman 3...and I haven't seen any of The Hulks so they don't count.

 

[Razhem]

Saw it and loved it. The twist was awesome and frankly, the more "faithful" approach would have been lame as hell as far as I'm concerned, though I will admit I don't have much respect for the Iron Man mythos of old. Was fun all the way through but didn't feel I had to turn off my brain to enjoy it. It did have a bit of lowbrow humour, but nothing anywhere close to being jarring and there was some audience pandering by adding a child actor into the mix, but frankly, I liked those scenes and the kid never felt annoying to me which is something I consider worth mentioning. So yeah, loved it and prefer it over the other 2 Iron Man films, this is the first time I felt the villain was actually dangerous, not like in 1 which had a stupidly convoluted plan and a pretty weak climax and 2 which was cool, but really low key. The enemy not being another guy in a suit really helped me there.

 

[leviadragon99]

Mm, I actually enjoyed the twist and found it clever myself, and I had a sneaking suspicion Bob would feel the same. :XD:

 

[DalekJaas]

Saw it ages ago in Aus and did not enjoy it at all, nothing but cheesy one liners. It tried so hard to be funny and I thought the 'Extremis' story was a boring book and it turned out to be an equally stupid movie. It was like Iron Man vs Xmen. When Killian breathed fire I almost walked out and left the cinema, he did it once so they could set up another joke.
And the after the credits scene is not worth watching, if you dont really care dont wait around for it.

 

[Lethos]

I found it enjoyable enough. I wasn't really expecting a clever storyline after the first two films, but I was surprised when the twist happened. It's a good enough sci-fi action film to keep me happy.

Bob I gotta say though, for someone who didn't like the Dark Knight Rises, you sure seem to compare a lot of films to it.

 

[shrekfan246]

This Sunday is my birthday and that's when I'm heading out to see it with some friends. I'm glad Bob gave it his seal of approval as his tastes are generally in line with my own.

Still, I don't know that I've seen a Marvel movie that has disappointed me....except Spiderman 3...and I haven't seen any of The Hulks so they don't count.

Spider-Man movie rights are owned by Sony, not Marvel.

OT: Eh. Saying it's second only to Captain America does nothing to hype it in my eyes, since all I remember of Captain America are some loud explosions. Also, I didn't care enough to see the second Iron Man, so the point of watching this one is pretty lost on me...

I do think it's a bit funny that Bob glosses over things he would've harped on about had the film not been Marvel, though.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Got to admit, surprised Bob liked the twist, given he normally gets quite ranty over things like that

 

[LordMonty]

Bravo I whole heartedly agree, took a moment to set in after it finished but yes is the best Ironman film and you pretty much said what i was thinking(but without spoilers)

 

[Nomanslander]

Captain America was not a good movie.

Same feelings here.

The first half was promising when it came to the origins story, decent at best. But the second and third act just felt totally lackluster as CA began duking it out with the Red Skull. Watchable on a boring Sunday afternoon, but nothing more than that.

 

[CheckD3]

I personally enjoyed it. The plot focused on Tony, but set up the other characters nicely. It had humor, drama, some good action, and personally I thought it was a great movie. I still prefer the original, though that's me, and I also didn't HATE the 2nd one, just thought it wasn't as good as the first.

It's hard to make a movie like this and release it a year after Avengers. The first movie had no mark and got the excitement for Avengers up, now we're swimming in the wake of that movie and the waves are still hitting these sequels, and will, no matter how hard we try to avoid them.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I bet Chipman is over hyping....

He does for pretty much all of these movies. I think the only super hero movie he didn't really drool over was TDKR (there's probably others but considering how often he bashes it -and for some reason the whole series now- is why it came to mind).

Edit: I just need to say, his by far most over-hyped film is Captain America. For whatever reason, he loves it. I personally thought it was the weakest of all the Avenger movies. The villain was incredibly bad and that's probably its biggest problem but it had plenty of others.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Just got back from seeing it. It was pretty damn good. I understand why they did what they did with the twist too.

CAPTCHA: The Big Apple

Well, there goes Tony on another PTSD episode.....

 

[RJ 17]

This Sunday is my birthday and that's when I'm heading out to see it with some friends. I'm glad Bob gave it his seal of approval as his tastes are generally in line with my own.

Still, I don't know that I've seen a Marvel movie that has disappointed me....except Spiderman 3...and I haven't seen any of The Hulks so they don't count.

Spider-Man movie rights are owned by Sony, not Marvel.

Last time I checked he was still a Marvel character, I'm not talking about who owns the rights.

 

[shrekfan246]

This Sunday is my birthday and that's when I'm heading out to see it with some friends. I'm glad Bob gave it his seal of approval as his tastes are generally in line with my own.

Still, I don't know that I've seen a Marvel movie that has disappointed me....except Spiderman 3...and I haven't seen any of The Hulks so they don't count.

Spider-Man movie rights are owned by Sony, not Marvel.

Last time I checked he was still a Marvel character, I'm not talking about who owns the rights.

Well yeah, but it's technically not a "Marvel movie" was my point.

He's a Marvel character, but Marvel themselves had nothing to do with the production of Spider-Man 3 as far as I know. I could be wrong, of course...

 

[Gatx]

Wait wait, is this just an early Escape to the Movies or a bonus episode? Will there be a Star Trek review tomorrow or just nothing?

 

[teamcharlie]

If only because I haven't seen anybody else mention it, here's the biggest thing that bothered me about Iron Man 3: the Mandarin is Goddamn bright orange.

A guy. Called 'The Mandarin'. Is literally Mandarin orange. Which is basically his power. There ya go.