Kinda disappointed too. Weak plot, weaker dialogue (compared to the first) and the action scenes were 1980ish. Those drones and warmashine... *yawn*.
"Hey, we've got a flying armor that shoots lasers and is powered by some kind of superawesome atomic energy- what can we build in to make it even more awesome? Yeah... a mashine gun." Well done.

Of course, Scarlett makes up for a bit of that. *drool*

Fedaykin

Netherlands2003 Posts

May 08 2010 12:28 GMT

#123

As with most movie threads on tl.net (or anywhere on the internets) the people who rate it down do this on the wrong points. I'm not gonna start a rant and do think you should all think and worry less and just enjoy the film in what it is, don't make it into something it cannot and will not be (hell, as a physicist I didn't mind the particle accelerator and the 'new element stuff' )

Anyway, enough lines, this is how you should watch and value this film:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1691-Iron-Man-2

Weaponx3

Canada232 Posts

May 08 2010 13:08 GMT

#124

the first fight vs warmachine and ironman seemed kinda lame, the last battle against wiplash was short and anti-climatic. the robots being rigged with bombs was also weak. the ending wasnt the great to be honet but the rest of the movie and the the movie as a whole was good.

IrT4nkz

229 Posts

May 08 2010 13:12 GMT

#125

There will be Iron Man 3 if anyone watched till the credits rolled out

Bull-Demon

United States582 Posts

May 08 2010 13:15 GMT

#126

The end fight was very anti climatic but the rest was a fun ride. Wasn't trying to win any awards but I was entertainted for the most part. The part with him trying to solve his little sickness seemed really out of place though.

araged

Czech Republic189 Posts

May 08 2010 13:24 GMT

#127

I was utterly disappointed by this movie, I even went to see it in cinema (I watch most movies at home), not sure what I was expecting, but certainly not this. The first ironman had some substance and charm, this way only style and 80's style at that.

Only Downey Jr and Mickey Rourke were worth anything in that movie. For what it was hyped to be... lame

dani_caliKorea

730 Posts

May 08 2010 13:50 GMT

#128

On May 08 2010 22:12 IrT4nkz wrote:
There will be Iron Man 3 if anyone watched till the credits rolled out

That was about the Thor movie coming out...

AmstAff

Germany949 Posts

May 08 2010 14:19 GMT

#129

bad movie, best and only good scene was scarlett fighting.

Zexion

Sweden971 Posts

May 08 2010 14:43 GMT

#130

Movie was ok. The first one was better.

Weedman

United States65 Posts

May 08 2010 18:00 GMT

#131

This movie sucked.

It was if Tony stark was jerking off on the home audience the entire time and we are spose to love it.

Meanwhile the Ladies man is his sidekick.

rockon1215

United States612 Posts

May 08 2010 19:30 GMT

#132

On May 08 2010 20:30 Manit0u wrote:

Show nested quote +

One thing I really don't get:

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The original Nick Fury was white. But in 2000 Marvel launched he Ultimate line of comics to run alongside the current universe.Ultimate is a completely different universe, but with the same characters starting from their origins. This was to make it more accessible to new readers who didn't want to know 40 years of backstory to understand the comics.

Someone decided that Ultimate Nick Fury should be black and then they realized this made him look exactly like Samuel L. Jackson and they ran with it.

In the one of the early issues of the Ultimates (Ultimate Avengers) the characters were talking about who would play them if there was to be a movie about them. Fury responds, "Why Samuel L. Jackson of course."

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

May 08 2010 19:31 GMT

#133

Watched it last night and it wasn't as good as the first, but I still liked it. The action scenes were okay, but the last fight with Whiplash was INSANELY anti-climatic. I was hoping for a long brawl between the 3 at least. Seeing War Machine in action was awesome, but was short. The robotic drones were pretty cool, but it was pretty lame that they were programmed to self destruct since it was pretty cliche. It was cool to see Captain America's shield and Thor's hammer after the credits.

vibemytribe

Israel29 Posts

May 08 2010 20:10 GMT

#134

i raely liked the first one waitng 4 the 2 second dvdrip

Rkie

United States1278 Posts

May 08 2010 20:31 GMT

#135

i personally thought it was great especially when Stark used the half finished Captain America Shield to hold up his element creating device.

Smorrie

Netherlands2942 Posts

May 08 2010 21:40 GMT

#136

I experienced the first one to be very much like: Marvel Comics/Iron Man + Special FX parade +"America rocks and Iraq (or w/e it was) sucks!!!! We have spaceships and lotsa advanced technology and they live in cardboard boxes loooollll". Which made it a mediocre movie for me, but enjoyable. I've always thought it was overrated a lot. For some reason everyone just jumped the wow it's so awesome!!! bandwagon.

Anyway, I thought Iron Man 2 did a better job than the original, which was very surprising. It seemed that they rather wanted to create some sort of storyline and focus on some character development and build some neat special effects and action around it. The jokes were fun and witty like in the original. And they actually made fun of America itself with some stuff like Tony Stark making fun of the whole court room and easily getting away with it, just because he's a superstar etc. That made the movie a lot more bearable than the original one for me ^^ All in all, an enjoyable movie that I definitely didn't mind watching

Jonoman92

United States9110 Posts

May 08 2010 22:48 GMT

#137

Gonna go see this tonight... hopefully it's decent.

The_Voidless

United States184 Posts

May 08 2010 22:51 GMT

#138

On May 08 2010 22:08 Weaponx3 wrote:
the first fight vs warmachine and ironman seemed kinda lame, the last battle against wiplash was short and anti-climatic. the robots being rigged with bombs was also weak. the ending wasnt the great to be honet but the rest of the movie and the the movie as a whole was good.

I agree it was just too easy for them to take out whiplash but i thought it was better than Iron Man 1's last fight. I would of liked to see scarlet finish the scene or something, she made it so much better... 'drooling'

Danzepol

United States211 Posts

May 08 2010 22:53 GMT

#139

movie was not that great....iron man series still needs more action.

thought most of the dialogue was pretty terrible too.

rockon1215

United States612 Posts

May 08 2010 23:51 GMT

#140

I think it is a good movie, but it has the same problems that have plagued Ironman since he was created.

Ironman villains suck

+69 points for Black Widow though (Scarlet)