I thought it was great fun personally. Each to his own, though, eh?

Ya, it makes perfect sense that he would make his suits autonomously powered, how the hell else would the auto-assembling suit pieces work.

If you really wanna nit-pick plot stuff, the big oversight is the fact that he's sitting on 30 suits in cold storage, that he doesn't bring out in the middle of the movie when he's in some dangerous situations and they could really be of use. You know, like saving the president. I think they sorta justify it by Jarvis being off-line and the excavation diggers at the house not having unearthed the bunker yet, but I'd need to see the movie again to see if they explain it adequately.

But again, tone is everything, and I think the movie's blatant "fuck it" tone lets it get away with a lot of this more ridiculous stuff that would feel out of place in Iron Man 1.

The thing I really like is that the action beats all have a kick to them. It's not just loose explosions, people get brutally hurt, people get shot (the air force one sequence is a lot more hard-core than I expect for a Marvel movie). You really can feel Black's comic/violent tone cracking through the boring comic-book sameness that these movies usually have. That's the thing that redeems it big time, it's got an identity and it's memorable.

As someone who doesn't give a fuck about these comic book movies, I can enjoy this as a cool/weird Shane Black movie.

I actually quite enjoyed it. (and pretty much agree with Doctor Submarine)

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no fighting please

I love you guys though. I think it's great that we have a place to have this kind of conversation.

So which do you think is worse, Iron Man 2 or 3?
I think 3 might actually be the worst...

I cannot fathom someone walking away with that viewpoint. Iron Man 2 is literally one of the most boring blockbusters I've ever seen, and a terrible action movie. Whether 3 is better than 1 is certainly up for debate (though I personally think 3 blows it out of the water in terms of fun factor, and I'm way more psyched to re-watch it than 1).

I'd agree with you about up until the end of the first act, which is a real mess. After that it's pretty stream-lined and decently structured, certainly better than whatever the hell was supposed to be happening in the 2nd one.

Overall I liked the film.

I was most amused at the start when Tony is filming himself that his camcorder, according to the onscreen display is shooting RAW video.

I don't watch Spoony ever since his petulant, absurd Cabin In The Woods meltdown. Is this worth watching?