Iron Man 2
May. 1st, 2010 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrThis felt very underwritten, like they had an outline and filled in all the bits saying "Action sequence here" but missed 3/4 of the "character development here" and "joke here" bits. I was worried that the casting of Don Cheadle meant Rhodey wouldn't be funny any more but NOONE was so it didn't make much difference.
Also I think the writers missed the bit about Tony being to some extent a morally ambiguous prat you enjoy watching but don't entirely like, and the bit where the moral of the previous film wasn't actually "YAY CAPITALISM WOO GUNS".
Not spoiling anything not in the trailer:
On the plus side, Scarlett Johansen's character and Pepper spent the whole film being self confidently competent and kinda femslashy. I found myself liking the villain Victor (alas Sam Rockwell's character was irritatingly dull), possibly because he was the only person in the film who wasn't 100% in favour of the American military industrial complex (admittedly for not very deep reasons) and Mickey Rourke managed to exude such an intense aura of patient thuggish disdain he somewhat overcame the silliness of the film around him. Plus they were so squeamish about violence I'm not sure he actually ended up killing any totally innocent people (he gave it his best shot, mind you, he's not a nice guy). And he likes Australian native birds! :)
The one thing in the film that genuinely offended me was the physics. Just..what. No. Even by the standards of this sort of film. (nb many other things offended me too, bit I was expecting them more. Russian stereotypes ahoy!)
SPOILERS
I am so totally excluding the bit where Pepper quit from my personal canon. She is CEO and she is awesome, and Tony has more time to tinker with his inventions and be an idiot.
I really wish they'd made Tony actually cross the line by his standards to make Rhodey and Pepper get so pissed at him. I mean, he was an irresponsible prat, but that's his baseline character, you have to go a bit beyond "getting drunk and shooting the wall" for anyone who knows him to even pay attention.
Plus I'm disappointed that Tony's dad didn't actually steal the idea from Victor's dad. But that might have been interesting and morally ambiguous and we can't have that.
Also I think the writers missed the bit about Tony being to some extent a morally ambiguous prat you enjoy watching but don't entirely like, and the bit where the moral of the previous film wasn't actually "YAY CAPITALISM WOO GUNS".
Not spoiling anything not in the trailer:
On the plus side, Scarlett Johansen's character and Pepper spent the whole film being self confidently competent and kinda femslashy. I found myself liking the villain Victor (alas Sam Rockwell's character was irritatingly dull), possibly because he was the only person in the film who wasn't 100% in favour of the American military industrial complex (admittedly for not very deep reasons) and Mickey Rourke managed to exude such an intense aura of patient thuggish disdain he somewhat overcame the silliness of the film around him. Plus they were so squeamish about violence I'm not sure he actually ended up killing any totally innocent people (he gave it his best shot, mind you, he's not a nice guy). And he likes Australian native birds! :)
The one thing in the film that genuinely offended me was the physics. Just..what. No. Even by the standards of this sort of film. (nb many other things offended me too, bit I was expecting them more. Russian stereotypes ahoy!)
SPOILERS
I am so totally excluding the bit where Pepper quit from my personal canon. She is CEO and she is awesome, and Tony has more time to tinker with his inventions and be an idiot.
I really wish they'd made Tony actually cross the line by his standards to make Rhodey and Pepper get so pissed at him. I mean, he was an irresponsible prat, but that's his baseline character, you have to go a bit beyond "getting drunk and shooting the wall" for anyone who knows him to even pay attention.
Plus I'm disappointed that Tony's dad didn't actually steal the idea from Victor's dad. But that might have been interesting and morally ambiguous and we can't have that.
