Iron Man 3

[marshallfever]

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Didn't he need to extract the Extremis stuff from Pepper to make it happen in the first place?

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was that ever explained? I thought he said he was going to try to "fix" Pepper, i don't remember hearing anything about using extremis to help himself

[Blzer]

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was that ever explained? I thought he said he was going to try to "fix" Pepper, i don't remember hearing anything about using extremis to help himself

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Only saw it once, but I thought that was the point of it. He could use it to remove the shrapnel from his chest when he otherwise couldn't, or something.

[Altimus]

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Movie is terrible; that is all.

[DieHardYankee26]

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I ****ing loved it. Probably because everyone (I saw it the week after it opened so mostly reviews, not people I knew or anything) said it was so bad, so my expectations were lowered. I'm not sure how much of this needs to be spoilered, so I'll just do all of it:

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The Mandarin thing really hurt me, because I know how it was supposed to go, and I really love Iron Man, he's probably my second favorite superhero after Superman. They took the most powerful and potentially awesome movie villain they could have, and **** all over it.

Having said that, I liked it. I liked seeing a more human side of Stark, made the whole thing more believable to me. He is a person after all, not a robot. Everyone was upset about him not having his suit for large parts of the movie, I thought that was awesome. I don't know why people think he wouldn't have undergone some sort of hand to hand combat training, especially doing work with SHIELD and the Avengers. He probably picked some stuff up sparring with Captain America and Black Widow. I loved Iron Man 1, thought it was a solid 9/10. Hated 2, 7/10. The entire movie got thrown away at the end when Whiplash essentially got destroyed in 10 seconds after a Eureka moment, that was dumb I thought.

The reason I like this movie, aside from the fact that they ruined Mandarin, was just because unlike Iron Man 2 to me, this movie wasn't about the villain. It was about the heroes. RDJ did another great job playing Tony, making him a more relatable character, and the PTSD was awesome and made a lot of sense after what he went through with the Avengers. Cheadle played a really good Rhodey to me, and I'm now glad that they got rid of Terrence Howard after the first movie because I don't think I would've been able to take him seriously in the role he would've had to play in this movie. Pepper was great I thought. I dunno, I will admit I'm far from objective because I basically left the Iron Man 2 theater saying "I know Iron Man 3 is going to be great because that was the worst thing I've ever seen", but I truly enjoyed it. Take out the villain, and it was just an awesome movie about how Tony is dealing with the problems that arose from The Avengers, and I thought that was really cool. Again, as a fan of Iron Man the character over anything, it was very enjoyable.

Super excited to see where they take the character from here in Avengers 2. Psyched!

[Blzer]

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I loved Iron Man 1, thought it was a solid 9/10. Hated 2, 7/10.

I shudder in fear for what you say about a 3/10 film.

I agree with what you said about Stark's action scenes, though.

[DieHardYankee26]

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I shudder in fear for what you say about a 3/10 film.

I agree with what you said about Stark's action scenes, though.

I should say that the reason I hated 2 was basically because of the ending. I thought it was a pretty good experience up until the last fight, and then the entire movie was thrown away in 10 seconds. It just seemed very weak to me. As far as a 3/10, I'm not even sure I could ever dislike a movie that much. I almost hated TDKR that much though, that's like a 5/10 to me.

[BlueNGold]

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My biggest problem with the Iron Man movies is that all of their villains have been **** and basically afterthoughts. Then the one time it looks like they finally have a worthy villain, they go and do what they did in this movie.

To me it's no coincidence that the best superhero movies have well-developed villains. Although funny enough Iron Man 1 is probably the exception to this.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Stone I felt was the best developed villain in this series.

[BlueNGold]

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Stone I felt was the best developed villain in this series.

I honestly can't even remember who Stone is.

[Beantown]

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I honestly can't even remember who Stone is.

Jeff Bridges in the first one. I think.

[DieHardYankee26]

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I honestly can't even remember who Stone is.

Probably because it's Obadiah Stane

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I would say typo, but that's hardly believable.

But yes, that's the pinnacle of the memorable Marvel villains. Or at least in the Iron Man series.

[Leon]

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But yes, that's the pinnacle of the memorable Marvel villains. Or at least in the Iron Man series.

Loki because of Thor, Avengers & now Thor 2.

[DieHardYankee26]

Are we only talking about the current Avengers movie-verse? Because if not, Magneto was pretty good in the X-Men movies I thought.

[Leon]

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Are we only talking about the current Avengers movie-verse? Because if not, Magneto was pretty good in the X-Men movies I thought.

Just the Marvel Universe of films. X-Men doesn't count because they're in a separate universe, movie-wise.