Ironman 3

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
I actually felt like it was the best Iron Man film to date.

Stark's character underwent a lot of progression and development and you can see the differences between him from Iron Man, Iron Man 2, the Avengers, and Iron Man 3. To that end, it did a great job fleshing out a character we've already grown very familiar with.

As a comic book fan whose read quite a bit (a lot) of Iron Man...

Spoiler:
the whole Mandarin thing was kinda disappointing. I figured we'd get a very grounded take on the character - no power rings, no chi kung fu, no alien space dragons, etc - but the whole swerve with Killian being the main bad guy and the "real" Mandarin was unexpected. That said, divorcing myself from the comics and the knowledge I have from them, the ploy served the film well.

I'd give it an 8.5. Good development from the principal cast, best action scenes of the franchise, good pacing, etc.

Couldn't of said it better. 👆

Originally posted by Kazenji
guess you haven't read or watched Extremis going by your reaction.

Spoiler:
The Mandarin not having powers I mean that's IMs arch enemy.. they could've at least done him some on screen justice (almost like the Power rings wouldn't have been believable) then to give the Extremis users such crazy powers.

Originally posted by Golgo13
I could care less about how much it makes. I just want to see something different, something new. It seems it's not as good as IM 1 from regular posters. I'm still going to see it, but I should lower my expectations.

well you really shouldn't believe what other posters say and have a mind of your own... i am seeing this on sunday so i very stoked to see it

Originally posted by DARTH POWER
Looks like most people agree with my assessment of the film. Tony was cool, IM was cool, the action was cool, but still a few big complaints. Which could have easily been corrected/adjusted. Really not sure why they were done.

i can't judge until sunday but i won't be at all surprised if they done to make way for Iron Man 4

Originally posted by TheHulk
I personally felt it was better than IM 2.

To each his own, I liked IM2 better than the first but I am probably in a minority.

IM1: 7
IM2: 8
IM3: 6

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker

i can't judge until sunday but i won't be at all surprised if they done to make way for Iron Man 4

Don't read any of the IM forums until you see it. Spoilers have a way of presenting themselves even when you don't read the spoiler tags.

Originally posted by Mshinu
To each his own, I liked IM2 better than the first but I am probably in a minority.

A very very small minority Lol.

Originally posted by DARTH POWER
Don't read any of the IM forums until you see it. Spoilers have a way of presenting themselves even when you don't read the spoiler tags.

i don't mind some spoilers

Saw the midnight showing and I gotta say I am disappointed. It's not a bad film, rather it's merely decent and only marginally better than IM2.

I had two major problems with it:

1st:

Spoiler:
The Mandarin twist. My problem isn't that they mangled the comic character, rather they ruined a very intriguing and awesome movie villain. Throughout the 1st half of the movie the Mandarin is very intimidating and appears to have complex motivations, however they throw this away for an unintriguing villain with rather boring motivations.

2nd:

Spoiler:
Pepper Pots defeating Killian. This was utterly ridiculous and my biggest gripe. The hero is supposed to overcome the antagonist, he's not supposed to be defeated only for a secondary character to come in and do his job for him... Ugh. It reminds me of TDKR, but at least in that movie Batman was able to overcome Bane. Here, Iron Man isn't victorious but rather Pots is. Awful IMO.

Movie was originally 3+ hours

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=78791

interview starts at the 45 mins mark

Originally posted by Mshinu
To each his own, I liked IM2 better than the first but I am probably in a minority.

You know with how much control Jarvis had over the suits they could totally make him Ultron. Tony accidentally creating Ultron makes more sense than Pym.

Just got back from seeing it. I wonder what SHIELD was doing througout this whole movie? Anyways I give the movie a 7 out of 10, I actually liked IM 2 better.

Based on some of the spoilers I've read, especially regarding the Mandarin, I wonder if I should go and watch this movie at all.

^ It's still a good movie. And with the spoilers you won't have your expectations too high like we did.

Originally posted by TheGodKiller
Based on some of the spoilers I've read, especially regarding the Mandarin, I wonder if I should go and watch this movie at all.

Cheater!

Originally posted by DARTH POWER
^ It's still a good movie. And with the spoilers you won't have your expectations too high like we did.

Spoiler:
disappointing turn of events

I've read spoilers for other movies before, and still went on to watch and enjoy said movies. I have a feeling that it won't be the same with IM3.

Originally posted by Golgo13
Cheater!

Entertaining movie but I was disappointed by it.

Spoiler:
No Extremis Iron Man, they butchered the Mandarin the second half of the movie and no GotG after credits.

Newjak Edited incorrect Spoiler tags.

Originally posted by TheGodKiller
It's not the spoilers as much as the

Spoiler:
disappointing turn of events

regarding what's supposed to be THE Ironman villain.

I've read spoilers for other movies before, and still went on to watch and enjoy said movies. I have a feeling that it won't be the same with IM3.

Spoiler:
The bit with the Mandrain was kind of sad/disappointing but it worked within the context of the story they writing. Also I think knowing it before hand helped with it.

Iron Man 3 was good. Everyone complaining about the movie gets 3 warnings. sneer

Originally posted by Badabing
Iron Man 3 was good. Everyone complaining about the movie gets 3 warnings. sneer

Honestly probably my biggest complaint would be

Spoiler:
The inconsistency of how the armors dealt with the Extremis Enhanced Humans. Killian and his right hand man made the armors fall to their knees with mere touches yet when the unmanned armors were fighting the Extremis Thugs they were able to take on two to three of them at a time and do pretty well. Heck based on the final fire work display and with their apparently being only 42 made it looks like the only suits Tony lost were the ones Killian and Pepper took out. Also Killian survives one of the suits exploding but then gets destroyed by random armor missile mixed with repulsor blast.