Iron Man 3

[alias_sqbr]

In short: I liked it! Admittedly it helped that Iron Man 2 had set the bar so low, but there were a bunch of "woo!" scenes and hardly any "ugh" ones, and I don't remember ever being bored.

It is definitely a film about white men and specifically the Awesomeness of Tony, but Pepper and Rhodey get a few moments of awesome I quite enjoyed, and I actually liked Tony rather than wanting to slap him all film like in IM2. It would be nice if superhero films didn't reliably make me think "Oh no a disabled person this will end badly" (WHICH IT DID) but on the plus side it was way less racist than I was afraid of.

Anyway. Explosions, cute character moments, humour, robots, evil industrialists, and lots of SCIENCE. That's what wanted and that's what I got :)

(Possible spoilers in the comments)

Comments

[purrdence]

I rather liked that they stayed away from the typical 'oh, I'm a hero, I do lots of dangerous heroic things which almost kill me repeatedly, this doesn't screw with my head *at all*'

[alias_sqbr]

Yes! I thought that aspect was really well done.