An Only Slightly Snotty Iron Man 2 Review...?
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Oh the Irony !
Not a half bad review,....except for its innate condescension in regards to the genre of comics and its fundamental tropes. ( But hey,....."Science-Fiction' itself is still dissed as art in "cultivated" literary circles. Remember,....Kurt Vonnegut never wrote any "science-Fiction",....heavens forbid!
Tony Stark has gone to seed. He's getting soused in the Iron Man suit and wrecking his Malibu pleasure palace. A Russian inventor (Mickey Rourke, copping a "beeg trouble for moose and squirrel" accent) is gunning for him. His palladium ticker is sputtering, and the military wants his goods.
Sounds like a job for Robert Downey Jr., who brings his uncanny mix of cocksure glibness and vulnerability to the bigger, louder but not better Iron Man 2. Smarter than action sequels have any reason to be but still too nonsensical for true satisfaction, the movie rides a gifted cast and a witty (if not cohesive) script to a place somewhere between middling ambition and mindless fun.
You could look at Iron Man 2 as the most heavily armed screwball comedy ever made. When Tony starts riffing with his Girl Friday, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), or his man in the military, Rhodey (Don Cheadle, replacing Terrence Howard), the overblown superhero shenanigans give way to the joys of timing and repartee. It's not every movie that lets a smarmy arms mogul (Sam Rockwell) compare a smart weapon to James Joyce's Ulysses. There's actually a brain at work behind this thing, even if screenwriter Justin Theroux usually has to sacrifice word power for firepower and the interminable explosions that come with it. Hey, it's a summer blockbuster. Whaddaya want?
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Not a half bad review,....except for its innate condescension in regards to the genre of comics and its fundamental tropes. ( But hey,....."Science-Fiction' itself is still dissed as art in "cultivated" literary circles. Remember,....Kurt Vonnegut never wrote any "science-Fiction",....heavens forbid!
Tony Stark has gone to seed. He's getting soused in the Iron Man suit and wrecking his Malibu pleasure palace. A Russian inventor (Mickey Rourke, copping a "beeg trouble for moose and squirrel" accent) is gunning for him. His palladium ticker is sputtering, and the military wants his goods.
Sounds like a job for Robert Downey Jr., who brings his uncanny mix of cocksure glibness and vulnerability to the bigger, louder but not better Iron Man 2. Smarter than action sequels have any reason to be but still too nonsensical for true satisfaction, the movie rides a gifted cast and a witty (if not cohesive) script to a place somewhere between middling ambition and mindless fun.
You could look at Iron Man 2 as the most heavily armed screwball comedy ever made. When Tony starts riffing with his Girl Friday, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), or his man in the military, Rhodey (Don Cheadle, replacing Terrence Howard), the overblown superhero shenanigans give way to the joys of timing and repartee. It's not every movie that lets a smarmy arms mogul (Sam Rockwell) compare a smart weapon to James Joyce's Ulysses. There's actually a brain at work behind this thing, even if screenwriter Justin Theroux usually has to sacrifice word power for firepower and the interminable explosions that come with it. Hey, it's a summer blockbuster. Whaddaya want?
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ironman_0507gd.State....
http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv255/Correctness/IronManComicCon.jpg
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DanPersons
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Hear a discussion of IRON MAN 2 on the CINEFANTASTIQUE PODCAST at HuffPost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/cinefantastique-horror-fa_b_569782.htm...
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DanPersons
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pjacobs51
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The question here is: What if Iron Man were a giant lobster?
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pjacobs51
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remanns
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pjacobs51:
I want one !
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remanns
