Well having gone and watched Iron Man 2, I felt sort of cheated. The commercials showed what seemed like more action than all of previous Marvel films combined. Sadly, most of the action was contained in those trailers.
For the basic premise, I would say that while the visuals have increased pleasingly well, everything else seemed to have gone in the inverse direction.
First of all, the character of Tony Stark. Tony Stark was a likeable enough character in the first film. In the beginning, he was a deadpanning amoral arms dealer. But by the end, he realized the errors of his ways and set out to do good in the world and well, be a hero. Sadly, he doesn?t deliver, and just turns into a completely unlikeable narcissistic, eccentric dick. He also doesn?t have any redeeming factor like wit and humor, instead just trying to shoehorn things by talking unreasonably fast and sometimes spouting out a sarcastic comment.
The plot isn?t necessarily bad, per se. There?s a guy who ?s son believes that his father?s death is because of the Stark?s and vows to get revenge. So naturally, to compensate, he makes his own ?Iron Man? and sets out to kill the arrogant dick. Meanwhile, Tony?s is just living out the good life and attempting to break as many laws as possible and piss of as many people as he can before the nuclear reactor in his chest kills him. But couldn?t Tony just get a regular pacemaker? Or is it to petty for awesome douchebag billionaire inventor? Who knows, Tony just gets lots of people upset at him, and has incredibly irritating overlapped dialogue with his girlfriend.
The Russian dude later goes to France to kill Tony. Tony, being the asshole he is, jacks a Grand Prix racer?s car and starts driving around. Why the bad guy just didn?t get a RPG and blow up Tony?s car, I would never know. So Tony and the Russian guy have a small fight and he gets defeated.
The evil CEO man sees that Russian dude?s suit looks cool so he asks him to build suits for him. And then the story goes downhill from there. The movie shifts around from Russian dude making robots, to Tony?s failing love life, to Tony being an asshole, to Tony trying to cure his radiation poisoning and being bombarded by Marvel fanservice.
The last 20 minutes however are superb. I won?t spoil it for you, but I think it?s THE best Marvel action sequence to date.
Therefore, if you want to see Iron Man 2, do what Tony does. Mute the fucking dialogue! The eyecandy is cool though.
For the basic premise, I would say that while the visuals have increased pleasingly well, everything else seemed to have gone in the inverse direction.
First of all, the character of Tony Stark. Tony Stark was a likeable enough character in the first film. In the beginning, he was a deadpanning amoral arms dealer. But by the end, he realized the errors of his ways and set out to do good in the world and well, be a hero. Sadly, he doesn?t deliver, and just turns into a completely unlikeable narcissistic, eccentric dick. He also doesn?t have any redeeming factor like wit and humor, instead just trying to shoehorn things by talking unreasonably fast and sometimes spouting out a sarcastic comment.
The plot isn?t necessarily bad, per se. There?s a guy who ?s son believes that his father?s death is because of the Stark?s and vows to get revenge. So naturally, to compensate, he makes his own ?Iron Man? and sets out to kill the arrogant dick. Meanwhile, Tony?s is just living out the good life and attempting to break as many laws as possible and piss of as many people as he can before the nuclear reactor in his chest kills him. But couldn?t Tony just get a regular pacemaker? Or is it to petty for awesome douchebag billionaire inventor? Who knows, Tony just gets lots of people upset at him, and has incredibly irritating overlapped dialogue with his girlfriend.
The Russian dude later goes to France to kill Tony. Tony, being the asshole he is, jacks a Grand Prix racer?s car and starts driving around. Why the bad guy just didn?t get a RPG and blow up Tony?s car, I would never know. So Tony and the Russian guy have a small fight and he gets defeated.
The evil CEO man sees that Russian dude?s suit looks cool so he asks him to build suits for him. And then the story goes downhill from there. The movie shifts around from Russian dude making robots, to Tony?s failing love life, to Tony being an asshole, to Tony trying to cure his radiation poisoning and being bombarded by Marvel fanservice.
The last 20 minutes however are superb. I won?t spoil it for you, but I think it?s THE best Marvel action sequence to date.
Therefore, if you want to see Iron Man 2, do what Tony does. Mute the fucking dialogue! The eyecandy is cool though.