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[redbrunja]

Let's start at the end:

• Bruce being in the end tag was brilliant. When the screen cut to black I legit whoop-shrieked.


• What this movie did brilliantly - so, so brilliantly - was take away in very, very believable ways, all of Tony's tools, so you really rooted for him.


• THE BANTER, MY GOD, THE BANTER. TONY WITH THAT KID IN NEBRASKA OR WHEREVER. TONY WITH THE FIRE-CHICK. TONY WITH PEPPER, THE ONE THING HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT.


• In general, this was just a much, much tighter movie than Iron Man 2, minus the self-indulgent air force one scene and the ridiculously over-long and confusing climax.


• I'm not sure how I feel about Tony getting the arc reactor removed from his chest.


• Because I saw the trailer, I knew Pepper was going to survive her fall - so I spent all the minutes just counting down until she showed up to kick ass. I kind of wish that had been a surprise.


• But Tony and Pepper's banter! THEIR BANTER.


• Stiles' dad! Jaye's dad! ...maybe Juno's dad?


• Also, I feel like Pepper and Tony should never have a biological kid? Can you imagine how obnoxious he would be when Pepper was pregnant? Or delivering the kid? Ugh, Pepper would have to get Natasha to forcibly remove Tony from the hospital. I think Tony is EPICALLY BRILLANT uncle material, though.


• This movie was ridiculously Christian and America-centric. Like, unbelievably. And I don't think having the Mandarin be a ploy totally made up for that? I'm surprised it did as well as it did for foreign audiences.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

just. you both are so made for each other, haha.

They are. They truly, truly, are.

i thought beyond the mandarin turnaround - which i enjoyed immensely - the movie was rough on "american politics" but not in a way that really damning/beyond surface level? the president's a dick, the vp is corrupt, and yet. that's as far as the commentary goes.

imho, they didn't even go that far. I didn't have any particular problems with the prez (also a lot of affection for him from his time as Jaye's dad on Wonderfalls) so the movie seemed to have a very clear 'yay america!' that wasn't helped by all the judo-christian/christmas stuff.