Iron Man 3

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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)

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SPOILERS SO MANY SPOILERS

Without going into the full convolutions of the plot: he's actually an English actor called Trevor who's been hired by the (white, American) villain.

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Hrmmm, interesting! Possibly I may actually see it in theaters if other people want to have a group outing instead of pointedly sitting it out.

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Meanwhile the spoilers I've heard about Star Trek are having the opposite effect on me... :/