Iron Man 3: Sensory Overload
erco
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Jolly good entertainment if you throw logic to the wind. If one suit's good, twenty is better. Maybe fifty? Never a glitch. Never any fuel to replenish, just recharge in any garage & go. Like a Nissan Leaf!
Lots of plot holes. Movies have to keep getting more outrageous. After fighting gods and space aliens in Avengers, Hollywood had no where else to go. Naturally they make you wait for the last little part after the credits roll. Watch how long the list of computer animators is. It just goes on & on...
It was still fun. The first movie remains the best IMO.
I was a huge Iron Man fan in my youth, he was always my favorite. I still have several 12-cent IM comic books (dang I'm old).
Lots of plot holes. Movies have to keep getting more outrageous. After fighting gods and space aliens in Avengers, Hollywood had no where else to go. Naturally they make you wait for the last little part after the credits roll. Watch how long the list of computer animators is. It just goes on & on...
It was still fun. The first movie remains the best IMO.
I was a huge Iron Man fan in my youth, he was always my favorite. I still have several 12-cent IM comic books (dang I'm old).
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I felt as though he was watching me:)
Do you suppose Robert Downey Jr. fell off the wagon during the filming and they
just wrote his sleeplessness into the plot?
Rich
It takes a pound of speculation to produce an ounce of testing.
I could believe they wrote his post traumatic stress disorder into the plot. Surely he gets anxiety attacks wondering where his next $50+ million dollar paycheck is coming from.
PS: Couldn't agree more: It takes a pound of speculation to produce an ounce of testing.
I liked Robert Downey Jr better in Air America.
Jeff
The small clips during and after the credits were quite humorous.
But "Iron Man" was not in the soundtrack...:depressed:
I found myself counting all of the times physics was disregarded, And if you watched it you know towards the end it becomes pointless...
And yes i believe R.D. Jr.'s ego has gotten a lot from IM3.
But if you want to see a traditional movie with a good story and far and away places, I saw this on TV two days before Iron Man 3, and was deeply impressed. It was a huge hit in Australia, but hasn't been so popular abroad.. rent the DVD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZDpiCeUgo
And if you really are frustrated with Hollywood, try Frederico Fellini and brush up on your Italinan with some great B/W movies.
I don't think it got better at any point. I just don't think it stated out bad. It was the first time I have returned to a movie theater since I saw a movie with the tap dancing penguins ... maybe 2002.
I was obvious that many scenes were setup with very strong perspective clues in order to make the 3D better. But visually that made it seem more like a video game than a real story. At least Robert Downey Jr. has gotten his 175 million bucks for it. I haven't really seen a computer animation I liked since Toy Story 1, but I am a rather humbug old codger.
I guess I am saying you need to see it at least on a wide screen with Dolby roaring in your ears. And it might be more fun in 3D. On a DVD, it might just be that you didn't get the whole intended experience.
Rent Red Dog on a DVD... That I want to see again and again.
That's not a bad thing -- you can see the names of the unsung in Hollywood -- many of my friends -- that make those movies what they are.
NOT TRUE!! There's plenty of creative accounting in the movie industry!!!
Added to my netflix queue for next time I feel like watching a movie. Looks good.
Jeff
So we are stuck with a lot of silly movies that young people go to quickly to be wowed and want to see often. Nothing much for the adults that want more mature content... try the library.
And yet, without these "non-creative" types, the rest of us would not be able to do our jobs. It's a giant team effort -- those not in the business have a very difficult time understanding this.
It is called Show BUSINESS, not Show NOT-FOR-PROFIT. Despite what many think and feel, studio executives are not stupid people. If there was no audience for Fast & Furious 6 it would never have been made. I never saw the first in that series, I certainly won't go see the sixth -- but that enough people will justified the expense of making it. It's business. And, sadly, in this Smile economy -- especially with the government on the necks of banks which has limited funds to small and independent producers -- what we're stuck with at the moment is studio fluff.
What Hollywood wants is viewers that with view early, and view often. Anything less is considered mediocre.
I learned to drink and smoke at 12 years of age via the world of movies. Neither of which have served me well. But that was the 1950s and 1960s. Steven McQueen and others also taught me to drive like an idiot.
With the advent of a vast array of special effects, language based plots that address deeper issues of society are set aside for 'shows' such as Fast & Furious -- a world where the hero sets himself above the law and apart from it in a rather self-destructive mode that somehow only he can survive unscathed. Parents and mature adults just shake their heads in dismay at how obvious the ploy is, and how they too bought into earlier versions in their youth.
No, the powers in Hollywood are certainly not stupid or foolish, but it is a self-serving agenda.
And like the hero in Fast & Furious, Hollywood doesn't want to slow down and participate in serving a greater good that converts to less revenue, but wants to have ever increasing revenue while self-justifying the nobility of all this. Look at Disney Studios today and what was supposedly a committed family oriented policy at one time. It has pretty much caved in and us just following the mighty dollar.
I am not sure where this world is going, but if there is a rather edgy mindless impulse to do just about anything, Hollywood will exploit such at the box office just to fill the seats early and with repeated viewings. If I want real content and thoughtful themes, I will look to books -- not film or TV.
Once you have an established industry, you can always claim that the economy needs your contribution to the country's GNP.
That may convince some of your worth, but it can really drag down the fabric of society. AT this point, the USA has become dependent on several large industries that justify their existence by a growing share of GNP, but may be at odds with a better world. The entertainment industries--- including gambling, the military-industrial complex, the gun lobby, much of the insurance industry, the 'ethical' drug companies, and corporate service industries (such as large temporary agencies which have buffered corporations from having to commit to more long-term jobs).
Yeah, I know. You say it is just entertainment. I ain't real. But try to get the youth to slow down and think.
Yep, movies are a huge team effort and those with an Actor's Guild Card have opportunites that the rest of us do not. That is Hollywood.