Alright, I know i'm pretty late to the game but I got stuff to say so bare with me.
On memorial day I went to see IRON-MAN 3 and I was so damn exited. I was so utterly disappointed at the crap that was IRON-MAN 2 and I was hoping this would be different. We had a new director and co-writer in Shane black, who I loved from his work on the LETHAL WEAPON films, and after the the success of THE AVENGERS I was back on team IRON-MAN. Okay, so I went to the theater to see the film, and I was stoked. I pretty much liked the film for the most part, it had a different feel than the other MCU films and I gotta say I appreciated it. And then THIS came
I swear to god, I screamed out in my seat WTF! Were people looking at me?, yes. Was I embarrassed?, a bit , but who cares. They totally screwed me and the comic book loving world over. So as I'm sitting there laughing my ass off in my seat ( was Ben Kingsley the Mandarin, no but he was funny as hell.) I was thinking to myself, WHY THE HELL IS IT SO HARD TO MAKE A GOOD IROM-MAN SEQUEL?
I absolutely loved IRON-MAN, loved it. It was the beginning of a new wave of CBM and we all knew it. I was totally on for IRON-MAN 2, AND THEN
WTF! So Vanko is a badass for one second, then he's resorted to being the behind the scenes tech guy for the dancing idiot that is Justin Hammer for nearly the entire film.
Tony is slowly dying from the arc reactor in his chest ( which we learn from IM3 could've easily been taken out and fixed with a simple procedure.)
Apparently Tony's dad knew he would become IRON-MAN, would fail at making a correct chest piece for his heart, so he left his son the formula to a new element in an unexplainable manner on the Stark Expo model.
Tony Didn't learn shit from his time in the cave and is now a bigger A-hole than ever.
And Rodey could take a suit whenever he wanted and just give it up to the government. And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the whole last half hour of IM show Obidiah trying to steal Tony's chest piece so he can power his Iron monger Suit, but Rodey just took a damn suit like nothing? and incase you're wondering, i'm going by the film's rules not the comics.
In THE AVENGERS, IRON-MAN was awesome, but the minute marvel separates him from his super buddies he's a mess.
Anyway, my final thoughts on the matter is that I love the IRON-MAN character, I truly do but damn is it hard for marvel to make the films watchable. I mean they can't even get the hero's most famous villain right, We can have fire breathing soilders but the thought of having a man with ten alien rings is far fetched to marvel, even with the whole THOR mythology in the mix?
Yesterday, I went to see FAST AND FURIOUS SIX and it was off the hook, and this is the SIXTH movie in the franchise and it hasn't lost steam yet, but IROM-MAN loses it at three?
So there you go, that's all I have to say, but I reiterate WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD TO MAKE A GOOD IRON-MAN SEQUEL.