Iron Man 3 reaction post
Jun. 4th, 2013 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverflight8SO I just got back from Iron Man 3, oh my god--
Pepper gets to wear the suit. The movie was made, right there. And she kills Killian! When she did that it suddenly made sense that it'd take someone with the Extremis virus to actually destroy another one. I'm so glad Pepper got to do her own fighting--that was so fun. And now the trailer makes sense!
I'd already been spoiled for the twist about the Mandarin and the arc reactor being removed (though ;_; at the removal--I definitely think it was a really big part of him.)
The pan down of the vice-president's daughter shocked me completely. At first when he said to the security guard 'everything is fine' I thought that the vice-president was afraid his security had been breached, but then that shot--oh wow.
I love all the role reversals, including Rhodey saving the president and having Tony be his backup. Also the aforementioned Pepper wearing the suit. And Pepper yelling 'Tony' as he falls into the water, and then Tony just staring in to the fire that Pepper fell into--symmetry!
The guy that James Badge Dale plays--thank you Wikipedia, it's Eric, he freaks me out. There's something off, something way too square.
Literal dunce cap on Dummy! Awww.
That kid was a perfect foil for Tony. He's like a little Tony himself, talks back just the same. There were so many little comedic touches that really helped balance out all the explosions--there were a lot of explosions. Tony dragging his suit through the snow, the suit sitting all forlorn outside the phone box, Rhodey & Tony banter, the little boy trying to guilt Tony into all sorts of things, Tony trying to summon the suit.
Thought about processing power and algorithms when JARVIS controlled all the suits that Tony'd made at the end--so useful, JARVIS.
Maya died :( I was so hoping she'd make it. I don't really understand her threat? Was she threatening to inject herself and reject it and blow them all up? Didn't catch what she was saying.
I thought that the parts about Pepper & Tony were really well done. Like when she wakes up because Tony's having nightmares, and then freaking out when the autonomous suit bends over her--oh my god, I'd want to get out of the house, not just go downstairs! And the whole "Who's the hot mess now?" exchange, hearts everywhere. I also liked that Tony had PTSD--it's an excellent nod to continuity and the fact that humans don't just up and walk away from catastrophic events fine always.
I notice Tony got bloodier and bloodier every scene we got with him, post destruction of his Malibu house, but then it went away? And Maya only got a couple scrapes across her forehead--they landed pretty hard! At least Pepper has an excuse, she's injected with Extremis.
I was predisposed to like this movie and it definitely didn't disappoint me!
Pepper gets to wear the suit. The movie was made, right there. And she kills Killian! When she did that it suddenly made sense that it'd take someone with the Extremis virus to actually destroy another one. I'm so glad Pepper got to do her own fighting--that was so fun. And now the trailer makes sense!
I'd already been spoiled for the twist about the Mandarin and the arc reactor being removed (though ;_; at the removal--I definitely think it was a really big part of him.)
The pan down of the vice-president's daughter shocked me completely. At first when he said to the security guard 'everything is fine' I thought that the vice-president was afraid his security had been breached, but then that shot--oh wow.
I love all the role reversals, including Rhodey saving the president and having Tony be his backup. Also the aforementioned Pepper wearing the suit. And Pepper yelling 'Tony' as he falls into the water, and then Tony just staring in to the fire that Pepper fell into--symmetry!
The guy that James Badge Dale plays--thank you Wikipedia, it's Eric, he freaks me out. There's something off, something way too square.
Literal dunce cap on Dummy! Awww.
That kid was a perfect foil for Tony. He's like a little Tony himself, talks back just the same. There were so many little comedic touches that really helped balance out all the explosions--there were a lot of explosions. Tony dragging his suit through the snow, the suit sitting all forlorn outside the phone box, Rhodey & Tony banter, the little boy trying to guilt Tony into all sorts of things, Tony trying to summon the suit.
Thought about processing power and algorithms when JARVIS controlled all the suits that Tony'd made at the end--so useful, JARVIS.
Maya died :( I was so hoping she'd make it. I don't really understand her threat? Was she threatening to inject herself and reject it and blow them all up? Didn't catch what she was saying.
I thought that the parts about Pepper & Tony were really well done. Like when she wakes up because Tony's having nightmares, and then freaking out when the autonomous suit bends over her--oh my god, I'd want to get out of the house, not just go downstairs! And the whole "Who's the hot mess now?" exchange, hearts everywhere. I also liked that Tony had PTSD--it's an excellent nod to continuity and the fact that humans don't just up and walk away from catastrophic events fine always.
I notice Tony got bloodier and bloodier every scene we got with him, post destruction of his Malibu house, but then it went away? And Maya only got a couple scrapes across her forehead--they landed pretty hard! At least Pepper has an excuse, she's injected with Extremis.
I was predisposed to like this movie and it definitely didn't disappoint me!
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Date: Jun. 5th, 2013 05:09 am (UTC)In Syne's comments or somewhere, someone came out with the concept that um hey, she's a mad scientist, and at some point every mad scientist experiments on themselves, and who's the logical test subject for the stable variant of Extremis? So the fixit idea is that she already had the stable version, so getting shot like that is totally survivable and she will return to light a fire under someone's ass in a future movie.
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Date: Jun. 6th, 2013 02:31 am (UTC)Yeah! Exactly--the first test subject is yourself :) I would love to see a lot more Tony & Pepper (<3) and hopefully they can also squeeze Maya in.