everythingshiny wrote:I feel like the original concept was (or should’ve been) an exploration of Tony’s awareness of his own mortality
No, that’s Iron Man 2 (kinda). They can’t really get into it because it’s already been done (very badly but it stil counts). Excessive drinking is also off the table because of IM2.
If you don’t care about spoilers you should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuhdjNId5xs
everythingshiny wrote:- Considering he almost fell from a great height to his death in the Avengers, the sky diving scene would’ve scared the crap out of him – right? Can’t help thinking that’d be the major time to have a panic attack.
Not really. He lost consciousness on the other side of the portal and then woke up on the ground. I’m pretty sure he’s fine with flying. Space and portals would probably freak him out though.
everythingshiny wrote:Doctor Submarine wrote:And I loved Pepper saving Tony at the end. It calls back to her covering him during the attack on his mansion. It gives their relationship a dynamic that no superhero movie (save The Incredibles) has had before.
Maybe, but she wasn’t really in control of those powers. And the feminist in me took mild offence at his later assertion that he “fixed her”. (Yes, I’m aware that I just contradicted myself…)
He ‘fixed her’ because she didn’t want any of this. Nothing offensive about that.
everythingshiny wrote:Jimmy B wrote:I totally buy that a traumatised Tony made all those other suits in order to try to get over his ordeal in New York.
I do too, I just think he should’ve only made one, and had an arc as outlined at the start of my post. It was never really made clear that his reason for making other suits was because he didn’t want to be inside the suit anymore (if that’s even the point the movie was trying to make).
That’s not why he makes the suits. He builds all sorts of crap because he can’t sleep so he builds whatever pops into his head to keep himself busy.
everythingshiny wrote:The implication that Americans can just fly around the world, spreading their democracy and fixing the world
Isn’t that what’s happening right now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_atta … Statistics
If Iron Patriot existed in the real world he'd be blowing shit up in the middle east right now.