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Saw Iron Man 3 this weekend and with the news that Joss' S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show got picked up, I thought I would make this a Marvel themed post.
First, yay, Joss is returning to television! Frankly, it was a no brainer. It's Joss and the Marvel cinematic universe rolled up into one. And with Iron Man 3 making a boat load of money, why wouldn't you want to have a TV show to cash in on that? Of course, just because Joss is producing it and it has Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and it's set in a very rich fictional universe doesn't mean that it's going to be a runaway hit, but I bet ABC will stick with it. Plus we need another superhero TV show. There's only Arrow. Another plus: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has an Asian in the cast and it's Mulan herself!
Now, on to Iron Man 3. Way better than Iron Man 2. I saw it in 2D, because I'm like that, but I'm sure it was still awesome in 3D.
I can't quite put my finger on why Iron Man 2 was bleh. Maybe it was the villains? In Iron Man 3, the villains are pretty good, and there's a great twist, but I think the most interesting roadblock was Tony himself. What happened to him in The Avengers really shook him. You don't really picture him as a guy having panic attacks. But it makes sense. He nearly died trying to save Earth and that's got to leave you a little shell shocked. But this is Tony Stark so instead of being a blubbering mess in the corner, he builds more Iron Man suits because that's what he does. The guy's like MacGyver but with a stylish goatee.
And that was pretty cool, seeing all of those Iron Man suits flying around at the end of the movie. The new one, the Mark 42, was pretty cool, too. Since the pieces can come flying to Tony at his will, they got to do some different things with it. And it's not perfect, either, which makes the suit a threat as much as an asset.
But what I really liked was that Pepper wasn't just the damsel in distress this time. I mean, she was, since she gets kidnapped and tortured just so the bad guy can irk Tony, but in the end, she takes out the bad guy. Whoo! Actually, the first neat bit with Pepper is that she gets to wear the Mark 42 briefly. Tony puts her in the suit to protect her when the baddies blow up his mansion and she gets to play the hero. Sure, it's for only a minute, but she gets to save Tony from being hit with chunks of debris and she gets Maya out of the house. The fact that Pepper has no obvious troubles with the suit leads me to wonder if Tony has her put one on before. Part of the reason he's been obsessively building suits is to protect Pepper, so I wouldn't be surprised if he suggested to her to try one on just for emergency purposes. And the suits reacts to her commands, too, so Tony has coded at least the Mark 42 to her specs. But Pepper taking out Killian in the end was great to see. She does some ninja move, takes down an Iron Man suit to get one of the hand blasters and she blows up Killian. Can Pepper be a part-time Avenger or something? She has her own suit in the comics. Or maybe Pepper can be the new Iron Man?
That was an unexpected twist that. Tony destroys all of his suits and he gets the shrapnel in his chest removed so he doesn't need the arc reactor anymore. He can still be Iron Man, obviously, but just from the way the movie ends, it feels like Tony has moved on. He's going to rebuild his life but that doesn't necessarily mean Iron Man will be a part of it. It'll be interesting to see Tony when Avengers 2 rolls around. Will we find him and Pepper happily running Stark Industries and he has no desire to put the suit back on? I doubt it. If Thanos is coming to destroy Earth or whatever, then Tony will definitely suit up again.
Random: The Mandarin twist. Oh man, that was hilarious. From all of the trailers, you're expecting Ben Kingsley to be this bad ass villain and he's just some washed up actor pretending to be the bad guy while the real bad guy plots and schemes. I don't read the Iron Man comics, so it was a sly piece of storytelling, but I'm sure the real fans were kind of annoyed that they messed with the Mandarin's origins. It was nice to see Happy being an actual character and not just a walking joke. I mean, he's still treated as a joke, but he was investigating when no one else was and he nearly gets blown up for his troubles. It was neat to see how The Avengers changed the world. Tony's an even bigger celebrity and all people want to talk about with him is about the invasion. And I love how at the very end of the movie, Tony goes back to his destroyed house to pick up the remains of his robots, Dummy and You. Oh my god, I love those robots. They're so cute. Tony insults them, but he clearly loves them if they are the one thing he goes back for. I hope Dummy and You get re-built and then they get installed in the Avengers' tower.
But wait, Tony returning to his house and throwing away his arc reactor and him salvaging Dummy and You isn't the end of the movie. This is a Marvel movie. There's always something after the credits. I couldn't believe that people actually left while the credits were still rolling. Do you know nothing people?! But anyway. Tony's been narrating the movie the entire time, but who has he been narrating to? OMG, it's Bruce! There's Bruce Banner, completely bored by Tony's story. I loved it. It doesn't set up anything for Phase 2, but it's great to see some of the Avengers hanging out. Out of the entire team, Bruce would be the one that Tony would talk to the most. Because Thor is off in Asgard, Steve is adjusting to the present day, and Fury, Hawkeye and Black Widow are busy with S.H.I.E.L.D. And Hulk isn't getting his own movie anytime soon, so he's got to show up somewhere.
There was a trailer for the Thor sequel before the movie. I'm really not sure what's going on, but Christopher Eccleston plays the villain, under a lot of make-up, so that alone should be worth seeing.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. won't premiere until the fall but I'm sure ABC will promote the heck out of the show. I foresee the cast showing up at Comic-Con this year with footage.
First, yay, Joss is returning to television! Frankly, it was a no brainer. It's Joss and the Marvel cinematic universe rolled up into one. And with Iron Man 3 making a boat load of money, why wouldn't you want to have a TV show to cash in on that? Of course, just because Joss is producing it and it has Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and it's set in a very rich fictional universe doesn't mean that it's going to be a runaway hit, but I bet ABC will stick with it. Plus we need another superhero TV show. There's only Arrow. Another plus: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has an Asian in the cast and it's Mulan herself!
Now, on to Iron Man 3. Way better than Iron Man 2. I saw it in 2D, because I'm like that, but I'm sure it was still awesome in 3D.
And that was pretty cool, seeing all of those Iron Man suits flying around at the end of the movie. The new one, the Mark 42, was pretty cool, too. Since the pieces can come flying to Tony at his will, they got to do some different things with it. And it's not perfect, either, which makes the suit a threat as much as an asset.
But what I really liked was that Pepper wasn't just the damsel in distress this time. I mean, she was, since she gets kidnapped and tortured just so the bad guy can irk Tony, but in the end, she takes out the bad guy. Whoo! Actually, the first neat bit with Pepper is that she gets to wear the Mark 42 briefly. Tony puts her in the suit to protect her when the baddies blow up his mansion and she gets to play the hero. Sure, it's for only a minute, but she gets to save Tony from being hit with chunks of debris and she gets Maya out of the house. The fact that Pepper has no obvious troubles with the suit leads me to wonder if Tony has her put one on before. Part of the reason he's been obsessively building suits is to protect Pepper, so I wouldn't be surprised if he suggested to her to try one on just for emergency purposes. And the suits reacts to her commands, too, so Tony has coded at least the Mark 42 to her specs. But Pepper taking out Killian in the end was great to see. She does some ninja move, takes down an Iron Man suit to get one of the hand blasters and she blows up Killian. Can Pepper be a part-time Avenger or something? She has her own suit in the comics. Or maybe Pepper can be the new Iron Man?
That was an unexpected twist that. Tony destroys all of his suits and he gets the shrapnel in his chest removed so he doesn't need the arc reactor anymore. He can still be Iron Man, obviously, but just from the way the movie ends, it feels like Tony has moved on. He's going to rebuild his life but that doesn't necessarily mean Iron Man will be a part of it. It'll be interesting to see Tony when Avengers 2 rolls around. Will we find him and Pepper happily running Stark Industries and he has no desire to put the suit back on? I doubt it. If Thanos is coming to destroy Earth or whatever, then Tony will definitely suit up again.
Random: The Mandarin twist. Oh man, that was hilarious. From all of the trailers, you're expecting Ben Kingsley to be this bad ass villain and he's just some washed up actor pretending to be the bad guy while the real bad guy plots and schemes. I don't read the Iron Man comics, so it was a sly piece of storytelling, but I'm sure the real fans were kind of annoyed that they messed with the Mandarin's origins. It was nice to see Happy being an actual character and not just a walking joke. I mean, he's still treated as a joke, but he was investigating when no one else was and he nearly gets blown up for his troubles. It was neat to see how The Avengers changed the world. Tony's an even bigger celebrity and all people want to talk about with him is about the invasion. And I love how at the very end of the movie, Tony goes back to his destroyed house to pick up the remains of his robots, Dummy and You. Oh my god, I love those robots. They're so cute. Tony insults them, but he clearly loves them if they are the one thing he goes back for. I hope Dummy and You get re-built and then they get installed in the Avengers' tower.
But wait, Tony returning to his house and throwing away his arc reactor and him salvaging Dummy and You isn't the end of the movie. This is a Marvel movie. There's always something after the credits. I couldn't believe that people actually left while the credits were still rolling. Do you know nothing people?! But anyway. Tony's been narrating the movie the entire time, but who has he been narrating to? OMG, it's Bruce! There's Bruce Banner, completely bored by Tony's story. I loved it. It doesn't set up anything for Phase 2, but it's great to see some of the Avengers hanging out. Out of the entire team, Bruce would be the one that Tony would talk to the most. Because Thor is off in Asgard, Steve is adjusting to the present day, and Fury, Hawkeye and Black Widow are busy with S.H.I.E.L.D. And Hulk isn't getting his own movie anytime soon, so he's got to show up somewhere.
There was a trailer for the Thor sequel before the movie. I'm really not sure what's going on, but Christopher Eccleston plays the villain, under a lot of make-up, so that alone should be worth seeing.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. won't premiere until the fall but I'm sure ABC will promote the heck out of the show. I foresee the cast showing up at Comic-Con this year with footage.
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