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They've already addressed the whole "why aren't The Avengers in every movie" question. The answer was - the movies are no different in the comics. There are Avengers comic books and there are Iron Man comic books. That doesn't mean that every time Tony Stark is in trouble, Thor and Hulk show up to bail him out.

I need someone to answer this for me.....I've seen IM3 twice now and still can't figure out what that big hulk of metal behind Pepper is in this scene. I thought maybe it was what's left of the race car, but it has red in it and I didn't think the race car had any red.

Does anyone know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vdHU17X5EgU#t=17s

I'm not clicking it, I already know you're asking about the scrap statue in the basement cause I asked my wife wtf it was too. :lol
 
No idea.

Still wanted an explanation for that damn bunny. :lol

They talk about it with Maya, but that's it. Those look like bunny **** more than they did arms.
 
A significant amount of people do not like this movie. Yet many do and it'll be a huge hit. So what?

The point is that people are trying to say this has a negative/mixed reception because they think it should because they didn't like it. Or they see anecdotal message board criticism. Those are far less accurate indicators. Yes, some people like it. Some people don't. But most people like it. People who don't like it can stick their fingers in their ears and go "La la la" but it doesn't change anything about the fact that it's reception is not negative or mixed by any measuring stick.

To say otherwise (such as the "eventually people will think otherwise" or "critics just wanted to like it so they did") is just people trying to legitimize their viewpoint by pretending everyone will eventually think like they do. It's not necessary. Just because they are in the minority doesn't invalidate their opinion. I just wish people would stop acting like the negative crowd is the largest crowd. It isn't.

Also, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had a CinemaScore of a B, not an A. :)
https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20202447,00.html
And a 59% Like rating from Flixter users. Though, yes, that could have gone down more than right after it came out.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indiana_jones_and_the_kingdom_of_the_crystal_skull/
Of course, I'd say that IJ:KOTCS isn't as bad as people say (though not brilliant) but that's a story for another time... :)
 
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The Rhodey swing, president save was a tad bit too much though. :lol

There's a lot of crap like that in this movie. That was my biggest problem with it, actually, not the Mandarin twist, the kid or any of the shark jumping humor. It's the completely implausible, lazy action stuff. Every character is a physics expert, too. This wasn't even a tenth as plausible as the first film. Hell, even Thor & Asgard is more believable.
 
There's a lot of crap like that in this movie. That was my biggest problem with it, actually, not the Mandarin twist, the kid or any of the shark jumping humor. It's the completely implausible, lazy action stuff. Every character is a physics expert, too. This wasn't even a tenth as plausible as the first film. Hell, even Thor & Asgard is more believable.

Correct, even Stark sans suit was jumping around like Spiderman. :(
 
I would agree that it started to feel less real/grounded effects-wise, which makes me sad as that was one of the things I liked about the first movie. Particularly, it looked pretty fake whenever they showed someone's face in an opened helmet.
 
Correct, even Stark sans suit was jumping around like Spiderman. :(

And apparently almost anyone can wear a Stark armor suit now and instantly know how to use it. And armor that used to take a pounding is now as vulnerable as a Rubies costume.
 
And apparently almost anyone can wear a Stark armor suit now and instantly know how to use it. And armor that used to take a pounding is now as vulnerable as a Rubies costume.

The battle at the end of IM1, that many complained about, now seems so much more grounded and meaningful.
 
And apparently almost anyone can wear a Stark armor suit now and instantly know how to use it. And armor that used to take a pounding is now as vulnerable as a Rubies costume.

People using the War Machine armor is a bit odd. I'd like that one answered a bit more. Pepper being in the armor I assume and can roll with because Tony is actually in control of it. The armors when people where in them held up like normal. I also think the extremis soldiers were super strong and could tear apart suits when nobody was in them. The only issue I had like I said was the War Machine/Iron Patriot issue.
 
The battle at the end of IM1, that many complained about, now seems so much more grounded and meaningful.

Just like the best action scene in this movie (and the most heroic) was completely gutted for a reveal that Stark wasn't even in the suit or anywhere nearby.

The whole Air Force One rescue scene went from cool and classic Iron Man to a punchline. And why?? Completely unnecessary. Stuff like that adds nothing, but takes away a lot.
 
People using the War Machine armor is a bit odd. I'd like that one answered a bit more. Pepper being in the armor I assume and can roll with because Tony is actually in control of it. The armors when people where in them held up like normal. I also think the extremis soldiers were super strong and could tear apart suits when nobody was in them. The only issue I had like I said was the War Machine/Iron Patriot issue.

Yeah, I could buy Pepper getting the armor on her because I can see Tony making that a failsafe. Though how it flew onto her without her having those injections I have no idea.

And it was also lame how she immediately knew how to do things like open and close the faceplate automatically. The suits must read minds or something. :dunno:

It's just hard to reconcile stuff like that being in the same series as the first movie, where it literally took Stark (a genius) a lot of time to learn how up use the suit.
 
Just saw it....expected to really not like it too much after reading all of the comments in here, but...it was entertaining enough, I guess.

The thing I find the most amusing about it is....it's basically a date/buddie/plucky kid family flick with "Iron Man" curtains and accessories thrown in.

The neat, tidy "period" at the end (talk about leaving a mess for Whedon to sort out!) right down to the flashback-styled montage clips.

It was "okay"...but I can see why so many folks are upset....the whole "Mandarian" thing was a bit of a bad joke, the "Extremis" thing felt more "Terminator" than anything else and there were a lot of "call-outs" to other Shane Black flicks to the point where it was getting distracting...

Be interesting to see what the final consensus is once the new-ness wears off and folks have had a chance to see it again and/or think about it some more....
 
I can buy that he automated some of this stuff, literally have an open/close option in the HUD.

She did mess up with the suit when escaping.

Plus Jarvis helps out when necessary.

But there is plenty other stuff that continues to bug me about this movie. :(
 
Yeah, I could buy Pepper getting the armor on her because I can see Tony making that a failsafe. Though how it flew onto her without her having those injections I have no idea.

And it was also lame how she immediately knew how to do things like open and close the faceplate automatically. The suits must read minds or something. :dunno:

It's just hard to reconcile stuff like that being in the same series as the first movie, where it literally took Stark (a genius) a lot of time to learn how up use the suit.

Her being knowing how to use the mask I will assume was shown to her by Stark at somepoint. Also, could be since its his system he has pepper in it as you said as part of a failsafe.

I suppose. One of the things I liked during the recent Invincible Iron Man run was pepper getting the rescue suit. Her being tagged with the extremis could lead to that. I think over the three movies several things have come from that. For me that's why some of the things we've seen don't bother me.
 
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