Comments | endless_run: Iron Man 2 (lol late to the party)

endless_run

Iron Man 2 (lol late to the party)

May 28, 2010 02:13

Saw Iron Man 2 today. Wasn't overly impressed. It felt...messy. Overcrowded. Too much going on, too many new characters, too much sloppy writing. Love RDJ as usual, but even he seemed off in this one; probably the writing. All his good, charming scenes were in the trailer, though. And I'm mad as hell they cut the scene out with Pepper kissing his ( Read more... )

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missdeep May 28 2010, 08:15:57 UTC

I think you summed it up nicely by noting that it was sloppy and overcrowded - this is exactly how I felt about this film. Not to mention it was basically just a two hour Avengers trailer.

I really didn't like the way Pepper was portrayed in this film. While arguably Pepper has gone through some serious writer!fail over the years, the current comic!Pepper is just so far removed from movie!Pepper that it's difficult to compare them. comic!Pepper would never chuck a little tantrum and whine about OMG HOW HARD IT IS TO RUN THE COMPANY AND OMG IT'S SO STRESSFUL OH TONY. No, comic!Pepper would run the whole fucking company then go save Tony's ass after dinner because she's so damn good at keeping people safe and out of trouble, that's her entire theme as a superhero (Rescue). The very idea of Pepper have a mini-meltdown and being all OMG TONY~ like that is just... it's insulting ( ... )

endless_run May 29 2010, 01:10:21 UTC

Yeah, Pepper was a big diappointment. I mean, I'm not familiar with Marvel comics or characters *at all*, but even just from the first film, and her standard character profile, she didn't live up. Not to harp, but I was really like "w-WHAT?" when she stood there and just stared at the droid's body beeping. I mean, you know why - so that Tony could rescue her, even though he really had NO REASON to believe she was in any immediate danger - but just the fact that they had her be THAT stupid, for the sake of Tony's rescue was just UGH. The car thing, too, in the attack by Vankov(?) She just sat there and screamed and took forever to hand over the goddamn suit, like a useless damsel. Just UGH.

Soulless and hollow and an object for Tony to oogle just about sums it up. I was kind of expecting them to bring her in so they could introduce some sort of love triangle, but they didn't even do that. She literally had no role in this except to just stand there and look pretty :/ It's like, why even bring in a name character like the Black Widow ( ... )