I Have A New Favourite Iron Man Film!
Apr. 24th, 2013 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteWell, I guess it could hypothetically be the afterglow talking, but I'm pretty sure that there are four things that made me love it more than the first two.
1. SUPER PEPPER!!! Both saving Tony with the suit and with her own super powers. As my friend said, how long until she becomes an Avenger?
2. Rhodey saving the President! And being generally awesome, in and out of his suit. And also an adorable dork. (WARMACHINEROX, indeed.)
3. Best. Mandarin. Ever. I can't tell you how happy I was to see the character used this way - he actually is an awful Yellow Peril stereotype dreamed up by a white dude! And called Trevor. Ben Kingsly stole every scene he was in, which is pretty impressive for anyone on screen with RDJ. Glorious.
4. SCIENCE BROS. All through the credits, the only thing I thought was missing from the film was a little nod to the Avengers - not the events of the film, which got mentioned, but the people who became Tony's team mates that day. Especially Bruce. And then the end happened, and it was perfect.
Other stuff that was great: all of Tony's interactions with the kid. Passing the Bechdel Test. Guy Pearce begging for a punch in the face, which he eventually got. Forty suits of armour. Tony ... being Tony.
1. SUPER PEPPER!!! Both saving Tony with the suit and with her own super powers. As my friend said, how long until she becomes an Avenger?
2. Rhodey saving the President! And being generally awesome, in and out of his suit. And also an adorable dork. (WARMACHINEROX, indeed.)
3. Best. Mandarin. Ever. I can't tell you how happy I was to see the character used this way - he actually is an awful Yellow Peril stereotype dreamed up by a white dude! And called Trevor. Ben Kingsly stole every scene he was in, which is pretty impressive for anyone on screen with RDJ. Glorious.
4. SCIENCE BROS. All through the credits, the only thing I thought was missing from the film was a little nod to the Avengers - not the events of the film, which got mentioned, but the people who became Tony's team mates that day. Especially Bruce. And then the end happened, and it was perfect.
Other stuff that was great: all of Tony's interactions with the kid. Passing the Bechdel Test. Guy Pearce begging for a punch in the face, which he eventually got. Forty suits of armour. Tony ... being Tony.