I’m less worried about his power levels and much more worried about bringing a mystical hero into the same universe as a series of films about heroes made by science, in realities that never gave hints of supernatural forces. It’s sort of like Dr Fate appearing in the Dark Knight.
I don’t know about that. In the press conference from IM1, Stark refers causally to not being a superhero; as if such things exist quite commonly (in other words, without the irony accompanying such a declaration if the only superheroes were in comic books).
In a world with superheroes, anything is possible.
They are using a lot of “the line between science and magic is incredibly thin” talk when the issue of “THOR” existing in the Hulk/Iron Man movie universes comes up.
Loved the movie, Sam Rockwell ALMOST manages to steal the spotlight from Downey which is an incredible accomplishment. I was disappointed in not seeing more of Olivia Munn, i thought she was supposed to have a bigger part.
Me too, though perhaps not the same way you mean it.
For my money they should have shown more of Kate Mara!
Wasn’t he being rammed into a chain link fence? Might have had enough give to not hurt him badly.
So now that they’re making lots of Marvel movies that are all in happening in the same universe, does that mean that the X-men trilogy is a part of that universe?
No… because another studio owns the movie rights. Same withe Spiderman. Same with Fantastic Four.
It was very, very mumbly, and I don’t know very much Russian. I did catch “слишком много говоришь” at one point, which is “You talk too much.”
Woah! Woah Woah…where was she!!!
[spoiler]Tony’s dad was a founding member of SHEILD. Which makes it look like Nick Fury is the Dick Clark of SuperHeroes in the Ageing Department or something.
When Whiplash is being rammed into the fence ( great scene, btw. " Hit 'em again!") later on Whiplash is being dragged off by the guards, he has either one or two fake legs. I am thinking that the legs took the impact of the hit.
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I think IM2 was a romping good time and a great opening kickoff to the Summer of 2010.
It sure in hell beats Transformers 2: Fuck The Plot.
I don’t think either of Vanko’s legs are fake, I think his leg is bent and the scene is shot at a weird angle so it looks like he’s missing a leg. In a later scene, we get a close-up of his bare feet covered with tattoos.
Yeah, seconded. I was amazed that nobody put it online yet. Same goes for Black widow’s Latin proverb.
Near the beginning, she was a TV interviewer shown for a couple seconds during the Stark Expo.
Dammit! I went to the bathroom while Tony was building his supercollider and completely missed the shield.
On another topic, I thought the armor was powered by the arc reactor in Tony’s chest. In other words, no one else could use the armor because Tony had the power source. So how did Rhodey just slip into a spare suit of armor and use it for combat, flight and all the rest?
Am I the only one who didn’t think that was the actual Captain America shield? It looked to me like it was constructed of mesh and sheet-metal, something that you’d hang up behind a desk as an emblem, not an actual functional shield.
Another question: When Tony is looking through his dad’s notes, the equations looked authentic, but I didn’t get a good enough look to see what they actually were (aside from recognizing the tesseract on the last page, of course). I’m guessing that they just took a random scientific paper or textbook and copied the equations out of it; does anyone know what the source was?
I just saw the movie tonight. Enjoyed it greatly, although it wasn’t perhaps as perfect as the first movie (which I have on Blu-Ray and should really watch this weekend). Still a really fun movie.
Couple of quick thoughts:
I don’t think Samuel L. Jackson acts any more. He’s become so well known for being SLJ that half the writers in Hollywood specifically write parts for him, so all he has to do is get in front of the camera and be a Badass Motherfucker. He’s great fun, but I see so little nuance from him these days.
While watching the credits and waiting for the stinger, I noticed a particular credit saying “Expo Action Scenes: Genndy Tartakovsky & (some other guy).” The funny thing is, the Expo scene was completely and entirely Genndy’s style. It could have come straight out of Samurai Jack, with the horde of heavily armed and distressingly capable droids that can be destroyed wantonly without actually resulting in a loss of flesh-and-blood life.
This was probably the biggest question mark I had about the movie, though I hesitate at calling it a full-on plot hole. Stark was so adamant about refusing to hand over the plans to the suit that I find it difficult to believe that he would make a suit that didn’t integrate with his chest reactor. It’s possible that he created a self-powered prototype, but unlikely enough that it should have at least been handwaved in the movie rather than completely ignored.
Seeing as he was expecting to die of palladium poisoning, I think he wanted Rhodey to have the suit, at some point. This also explains why he didn’t just activate those safeguards he told Fury about.
This is also referenced in the first movie when Tony tries to bring him on board the Iron Man project as a friend and not a military advisor. A suit Rhodey can use was probably in the works for a while.