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1. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeApr 29th 2010

    
   Ok, so, I've read a few negative reviews and comments, but let me be the first to declare here that these people are empirically WRONG! Iron Man 2 rocks in a very similar way to the rockingness of the first film, but with extra Scarlett Johansson in tight clothes (also empirically splendid (my girlfriend's thoughts: "girl crush")). Downey Jr is wonderful, obviously, and the film zings along and hits all the right beats, but stays fun (no introspective Dark Knight noodlings here). Just go see. Simple.
2. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
   • CommentTimeApr 30th 2010

    
   I totally agree. Some of the negative reviews really confused me, one saying there's too much talking and not enough explosions, one saying it starts off promising and then just becomes a load of explosions, but I genuinely think it had a great balance. The action scenes are great and the talky bits never get boring thanks to the characterisation, and the ad-libbing makes the conversations seem real. The Metro review said that it's never really revealed what beef Whiplash has, except... it is! It's all there in the film, it's just that Mickey Rourke doesn't run around shouting "you killed my father, for this you must die" or anything.
   
   Overall it was just as good, if not better, than the first film, with enough geek references to keep us fans happy.
   
   Oh, and stay after the credits, oh boy!
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     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeApr 30th 2010

    
   SPOILER.
   "Hmmm, if only I could find a way to invent a new type of metal that would make the amazing invention from the first film stop killing me! But where could I find inspiration for such a thing? Oh here it is, in a plan of a theme park my dad made 35 years ago. Now, if I just make a hadron colider and point this laser at this thing... there... done it!"
   Absolute nonsense. On a 'loom of fate' level. Nonsense.
4. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeApr 30th 2010 edited

    
   As nonsense as making a flying, bullet-proof, flame-throwing robot whilst in an Afghan cave? Iron Man requires willing suspension of disbelief, certainly. But the Loom of Fate requires excising from human history.
5. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
   • CommentTimeApr 30th 2010

    
   Have to say, I also didn't find that too outrageous within the context of the film. His Dad says that the only thing stopping him making the new power source is the limits of "modern" technology (in the 70's), and he leaves all the clues as to where Tony can find the answer, as obviously he doesn't want anyone else nicking the idea.
   
   Even the loom of fate didn't bother me too much, Wanted was a daft film from start to finish. Fun, but daft.
6. •  
     CommentAuthorMike Infinitum
   • CommentTimeApr 30th 2010

    
   But is it art?
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     CommentAuthorRob
   • CommentTimeMay 1st 2010

    
   Don Cheadle was way better than Terrance Howard as Rhodes. He was so good that I want George Lucas to go back and digitally insert him into the first movie.
   
   This was an awesome movie. Final fight scene needed maybe another 30 seconds of struggling though.
8. • CommentAuthorgreg75
   • CommentTimeMay 8th 2010

    
   Are we going to have to wait till Iron Man 3 or 4 for the Mandarin then?Just disappointed that they didn't use him in either the first or second otherwise both films cool.
9. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
   • CommentTimeMay 9th 2010

    
   The Mandarin was behind both films ;-)
   
   In the first film the terrorist group is called The Ten Rings and in the second one a Ten Rings member gives Whiplash the tickets and fake passport. Favreau has said that he sees him as being like The Emperor in Star Wars, he's behind the first 2 films and then appears properly in the 3rd.
10. • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2010

     
    I have been to the pictures and watched this. i liked it. It was pretty fast and furious (but mercifully, not the fast and the furious), and whilst some areas could have used a little more expansion, it did well to give all areas of its narrative equal screen time. The best scenes were probably the senate ones, and i think they could have made an interesting film based around the whole idea of military ownership of Stark tech and the subsequent difficult position Rhodes was put in (which i thought was very well done - you can see how difficult it was for him being under orders and having to do stuff he didn't agree with). The technological solution to Tony's health problems didn't come across as badly as the 'loom of fate' in Wanted, and was certainly no worse than the made up technology that appears in the comic. If that sequence was guilty of anything, it was of being a little twee - with Howard Stark having laid out the Stark expo based on his theology (!). Black Widow was done well, I liked Scarlett Johnansen in the role, and would have liked to have seen more of her (not like that!), but she's always been something of a supporting character anyway and there's always the chance of a return for her. I was suprised that Nick Fury and SHIELD weren't name checked at all - except through various logos and documents and an onscreen credit,. If I'd have come new to the Iron Man films, I'd have been wondering who the hell he was. Anything else..hmmm... no. A good, solid undermanding film. Perhaps lacking the character stuff of the first film, but a good job nonetheless. Oh! Yes, one other thing: Justin Hammer probably sums up everything thats wrong with certain aspects of US culture: the love of guns . That bit where he's laying out the weapons and giving the hard sell was pure gun porn and underlines how daft gun culture is. These are not sexy things. They kill people in a variety of horrible ways, and its weird how they're almost seen as toys.
    
    I stayed for the post credits bit. I wish I gave too hoots about Thor, I really do...
11. •  
      CommentAuthorMike Infinitum
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2010

     
    I would have liked to have seen more of Scarlett Johansen (like that!)
12. • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2010

     
    Justin Hammer's fake-tanned hands were amazing.
13. • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010

     
    Can anyone tell me what the piece of music is that Hammer struts on the stage to?
14. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010

     
    What kind of music was it? A song or instrumental? I can remember hearing AC/DC, Beastie Boys, The Clash, Queen and Daft Punk.
15. • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2010

     
    Its a piece of James Brown's music, that one goes "get up/ get on up/ stay on the scene/ like a sex machine" i think it may actually be called 'sex machine'. Hammer does a passable pastiche of Brown's moves too!
16. • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2010

     
    Just watched this last week, mostly enjoyed the film and the character interactions were great. Only parts I didnt really care for were the race car explosions (google F1 crashes and I doubt you'll see anything like in Iron Man), he could have drank more (they seemed to just through it all in to the party seen, watching a drunk Iron Man fight villians would have been great), all his villians seem to just be robots or other people in metal suits (the drones were cool, but Whiplash was defeated way too quickly at the end), and the Shield (I mean the Thor reference bit made I kind of sence atleast, but why , jsut like the first film, was Captain Americas Shield just there). The limited by technology bit was ok, but then ease in creating a new 'element' was ridiculous, but I can almost imagine Nick Fury revealing that it was kryptonite or something and Iron Man joining the Justice Society...