Bursting

[ithildin]

I posted a fic snippet from Iron Man II last night, and yet, my brain keeps running with lots and lots of dialogue - they won't shut up! If I actually wrote all this down, the story would be way too long. Oh, and one thing I don't think I mentioned is just how much love I currently have for Nick Fury. I'm not sure of the whys and the wherefores, but I find him absolutely fascinating, and love the character, even though he probably symbolizes what I most worry about as far as the Iron Man aspect of the universe they're creating. I love Iron Man because Tony is a superhero due to technology, his own brainpower and intelligence. I really dislike the idea of IM becoming infected with things along the lines of mutant spider bites and magical hammers. Remember, Nin drags me to every comic book movie that comes out, and while I enjoyed them well enough, they weren't anything I had any interest in after I walked out of the theater. Iron Man was the 'it' movie for me, and I don't want Tony to have to play with all those other guys [pouts]. And yet, there's Nick Fury, chatting up a storm in my brain. Go figure. I'm hoping we get an IM III before the Avengers movie, so I at least have one more installment of just Tony before he has to join the super secret boy band.


I think one of the best things about the movie was actually letting Tony be an asshat. So not the usual formula. Part of what I love about the character is that he's not a perfect white hat superhero. Because, yeah, I can see why the government would be worried about tabloid Tony having that sort of firepower. Also, it really shines through how much Tony needs to be loved and adored. He eats up the adulation of the public and can't get enough. His speeches at the Expo and at the Senate hearing knock it out of the park. Another kind of addiction. I'm torn during the movie between wanting to smack him upside the head and wanting to hug him.

My silly peeve is that I hate the new triangle version of the arc reactor. It does not please me [sniff] Speaking of the triangle, the silliest thing ever was Tony building a collider in his basement. Though, in the novel, they throw all sorts of techno jargon at that scene to try name make is seem plausible. On the other hand, Tony built the first suit in a cave... in Afghanistan... with a box of scraps! (sorry, couldn't resist)

Love Tony and Rhodey's friendship in this. I was kinda worried from some of the early snippets from the film that they were going to end up enemies.

What was with the whole theme of Tony not liking things handed to him? The only thing I can come up with was because he was germaphobic due to the palladium poisoning.

Pepper, so much about Pepper, but that will have to be another post.



Where did all that come from?!? I rarely do thinky review posts.

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

the silliest thing ever was Tony building a collider in his basement.

And the smartest thing ever was having him USE CAP'S SHIELD AS A SHIM to level it. My strained-to-the-breaking-point suspension of dlsbelief was completely trumped by the hilarity of that.

Also didn't help that he was OMGHOT during that entire sequence. And I usually don't particularly think that about him, much as I love Tony as a character and think RDJ has nailed pretty much every scrap of him.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Love the bit with the shield, and yeah, he was pretty hot in that scene.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I've got to say I prefer Iron Man for that reason too. Batman as well.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

While I completely understand where you're coming from with this, I'm comfortable that the introduction of the more supernatural elements into the story with Thor, etc. will be done with care. With the way Branaugh's talked about Thor's production design and how careful they are being to make sure Asgard isn't a complete departure from our own reality, it's heartening. A lot of other people have commented on it as well:

In October 2009 Favreau confirmed to MTV that he will not be directing The Avengers. He also commented on the difficulty of directing such a film stating; "It's going to be hard, because I was so involved in creating the world of Iron Man and Iron Man 2 is very much a tech-based hero, and then with Avengers you're going to be introducing some supernatural aspects because of Thor... How you mix the two of those works very well in the comic books, but it's going to take a lot of thoughtfulness to make that all work and not blow the reality that we've created."

In a January 26, 2010 interview with SFX, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was asked will it be difficult to meld the fantasy of Thor with the high-tech science fiction of Iron Man in The Avengers. He answered; "No, because we're doing the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee/Walt Simonson/J. Michael Straczynski 'Thor.' We're not doing the blow-the-dust-off-of-the-old-Norse-book-in-your-library 'Thor.' And in the 'Thor' of the Marvel Universe, there's a race called the Asgardians. And we're linked through this Tree of Life that we're unaware of. It's real science, but we don't know about it yet. The Thor movie is about teaching people that".

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I've been seeing those comments/interviews, so I am keeping a wait and see attitude.