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Tony Stark Is The Weapon NOT Iron Man = Brilliant

posted 12 years ago by DUKEJBM
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First off, I must say this really is a great number three film. Second, I'm one comic book fan who enjoyed almost every minute of this film. Despite a few whines, IT DOES STICK TO THE BOOKS where it counts.

9/10

I had high expectations going in to this film and it managed to hit or exceed almost all of them. I simply loved that nothing held to any type of cliche. Nearly every interaction delivered something unexpected and fresh. Stark was shaken to his very core by the events of Avengers and further more by the events early in this film. Make no mistake, this movie is all about Tony Stark’s struggles both external and especially internal. Choosing to focus on Tony out of the armor is a wonderful decision. RDJ is as brilliant as he’s ever been as Stark.

Fans of the books (of which I’m one) may complain about certain character translations but I really have no complaints. Flexibility has always been a Marvel strength over the years and I liked how they flexed and twisted certain ideas here. The thing they get so right from the books is the ingenuity of Tony Stark. He’s so much more than a man in a metal suit. It’s his brain and his wit that are the true weapons. This movie goes out of its way to illustrate that brilliantly.

The armored adventure scenes do thrill but are spaced by gritty old fashion action and a movie filled with a lot of heart and humor. Again, it was well played and I found it to be genuinely refreshing while bold all at the same time. No one can accuse them of playing it safe.

As for the supporting cast, the results were spotty. Pepper is given her due and Killian is an amazing villain. The rest of the supporting cast is barely seen and underutilized. Despite one very cool hero moment, Rhodey isn’t fleshed out at all. I can’t say much about The Mandarin.

Overall, it’s a well crafted, funny and refreshing number three film that wraps up the trilogy beautifully.

[–] McGrit 10 years ago

Great googley moogley what a fine film!

[–] SloberDon 10 years ago

This is exactly why people are still calling it brilliant to this very day.

[–] dagenspear 9 years ago

Tony showed that he can't fully accomplish anything without his armor.

He couldn't defeat that guy in tennessee without his blaster.

He broke into the mansion and was defeated after by getting knocked out.

He couldn't escape without his armor.

He couldn't save those people without his armor.

His armor is the reason he defeated Killian.

A piece of his armor is how Pepper defeated Killian finally.

Basically you take his armor away and he's a smart guy who can make weapons and beat regular guys, but is useless against superpowered people.

God bless you! God bless everyone in your life!

[–] AfterBuzz 9 years ago

Yet it was Tony's genius that created all those things in the first place.

I accept your surrender.

[–] dagenspear 9 years ago

But that isn't what the movie was saying. Someone building a weapon that's used doesn't make them automatically a hero because it's used heroically.

God bless you! God bless everyone!

[–] sacflyzone 9 years ago

If it's used heroically that's the definition of hero.

A gun is gun but the user defines the result of using that tool.

[–] blackdoug 9 years ago

Is RDJr the best actor of our generation or is that a question best asked in a different thread?

[–] mh-newressistance 9 years ago

I'm one comic book fan who enjoyed almost every minute of this film.

There is already a contradiction in your first sentence. This movie does everything against its source material, from the way the characters are portrayed, to the way how story is portrayed. I've been Iron Man die-hard fan since the late 90's, when I was about six or seven and I bought my first issue of Kurt Busiek's/Saun Chen's Invincible Iron Man run. After that I became obsessed with the character and his history. And, as a fan, I can say that this movie is the most overrated, poorly put together, offensively unimaginative pile of defecation that I saw for a long, long time.

I simply loved that nothing held to any type of cliche.

Except for the story, jokes, characters, character motivation, themes, and everything else.

Nearly every interaction delivered something unexpected and fresh.

Such as what? This movie is poorly written, characters in it are imbeciles, the thematic integrity is non-existent.

Make no mistake, this movie is all about Tony Stark’s struggles both external and especially internal.

By introducing a pointedness PTSD subplot that randomly appears and just as randomly vanishes without being mentioned again? If you want to see how a real "internal" struggle of Tony Stark should feel like, go and read Denny O'Neil Iron Man run. That is how you do an internal struggle of Stark right.

Fans of the books (of which I’m one)

I doubt it. Maybe you read comics, but I doubt that you were ever interested in Iron Man primary before movies.

may complain about certain character translations

And they have a full right to do so, since they are fans, and they have right to judge a movie that is based on their favorite comic book, movie that completely misses the point of the source material.

Flexibility has always been a Marvel strength over the years

"Flexibility"? More like "primitivity", since vast majority of MCU movies have been coke-cutter, trivial punchfests with a zero equivocation when it comes to the characters and the story.

The thing they get so right from the books is the ingenuity of Tony Stark.

I think you don't know anything about those "books" about which you are talking about here. Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 is an exalted, clownish, imbecilic douchebag who takes nothing and no one seriously. Tony Stark in comics, for the most part, was an uber-dark, uber-serious, multifarious character who always took everything and everyone seriously. Tony Stark is like Don Draper, not Charlie Sheen.

He’s so much more than a man in a metal suit.

Right... He's also an idiot.

>"The armored adventure scenes do thrill but are spaced by gritty old fashion action"

>"with a lot of heart and humor."

>"No one can accuse them of playing it safe."

I can accuse you of being self-contradictory. Having a generic action scenes that are filled with lighthearted humor IS playing safe.

Pepper is

Terribly portrayed here. Way too unlikable and unrelatable. There is nothing in her movie counterpart that resembles her superior comic book counterpart.

and Killian is an amazing villain.

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I can’t say much about The Mandarin.

Because you don't know that much about comic book Mandarin? Because you pretend that you are a fan of the Iron Man comics so that it'll give more validness to your subjective opinion, while you clearly not a fan of the comics?

Overall, it’s a

Terribly put together, painfully mediocre, unintellectual bastardization of everything that was great about Iron Man in comics.

[–] DUKEJBM 8 years ago

Yes, it's still brilliant and maybe even more so today.