IRON MAN 3 Predictably Debuts At #1 On Home Video Sales Charts

Came out ages ago here in Australia

BEST IRON MAN MOVIE!!!

What I don't get is why people continuously say it's a horrible movie, it just did things that many fans were upset about, but a horrible film?? Sorry if the film was that bad then those sales wouldn't be so high, so apparently people liked it.

I would had preferred a more accurate Mandarin, but I enjoyed the film, simple as that

@Maxi91291: So the Transformers films are good films, correct? And the Twilight films.

@Luminus

Because of the Mandarin???

So Transformers and Twilight are good films, correct?

And why is my opinion irrelevant simply because I disagree with you? There was no need for that. Fanboy logic indeed.

@McNyagano: Yes

Twilight also pulled in a bunch of fangirls because of Pattinson, Laughtner, and it's bullshit love story. The Iron Man movies have a love story, but it's not front and center like Twilight's is. Bitches love sappy love stories...

@McNyagano: The Mandarin was exciting to watch, before the Trevor outing. He was 10x more interesting than Killian. He was actually a valid threat, instead of a generic villain who was mad because Tony didn't want to talk to him ala Syndrome from the Incredibles.

@Luminus

Maxi91291 is not a troll but he's making a very good point.

Trevor's portrayal of the Mandarin was the typical generic terrorist who hates America. Killian is much more than a "Nerd who wants revenge" villain if you were actually paying attention in the movie.

@Luminus So you would say that The Mandarin was like Marvel's version of Osama Bin Laden before the reveal?

@PeterDarker121: Something like that. If he had the rings, that would've been the icing on the cake. I don't buy that they wouldn't make sense, when the producers turned right around and had molten, fire-breathing super people with healing factors walking around and not burning up their own clothing.

Because it was actually good.

Unlike some horrible other CBM's this year.

*cough*Supershit*cough*

@Cartoon22: No and yes. No! And yes :)

@Luminus

How the hell was Trevor an actual threat?? o_O I have yet to see the Mandarin make any sort of impact in the Marvel comics universe the way Doom, Magneto and other major villains in that universe have.

I think the approach they took with the Mandarin worked perfectly because not only did Killian end up being a more than a physical threat for Tony but it added to his intellect, supposedly Tony's greatest asset, yet he was out-smarted every step of the way. This made the Mandarin so much more than a scary guy in a robe, he was a terrifying idea. The very concept of terrorism is real in general, is well, terror. He's not real, it's all all smoke and mirrors but it gives America an obvious and easy to hate villain to take to reponsibility hence why Killian said "The second you give evil a face, a Bin laden, a Kadafi, a Mandarin, you hand people a target".

The fact that it's Killian who has constructed an image that he KNOWS Americans will be able to hate and fear is quite smart. It was a way of turning something that could have been politically incorrect into something that's making a smart critique on the fear of terror culture with America. Don't judge the bearded, ring wearing Mandarin under the robes that's used to portray him, judge him on the man pulling the strings from behind the shadows.

OK

The completely derogatory use of the term "fanboy" is getting really old on this site. It's been overused for awhile now and it's annoying. We're all fans here, and yet anyone who doesn't like a certain thing is treated lesser for it. And we all get how it works - when the editorials complain about something, it's "critical analysis", but when others complain about something the writers of said editorials like, it's trolling or fanboy bitching. The hypocrisy is noted at this point.

Also getting old is the utter hostility for the so-called crime of someone not liking a film, when it is not a requirement nor should it ever be. General consensus should not mean a damn thing to inform how someone views something themselves, and yet anyone who didn't like the film is called a "fanboy" and a "troll" multiple times. That's a ridiculous and off-putting mindset and all that it's really doing is pointing out how absurd it is to call someone a troll while doing what is, by it's very definition, trolling.