This film was smartly written. The villain was both a physical and intellectual threat to Stark and was a good adaptation of his comic counterpart maintaining the comic book version's megalomania, devious plotting and ability to destroy Tony's armor with his bare hands. The balance of tone and switching from serious to comedic was well done and kept me engaged and guessing where the story was headed rather than IM2 where the audience is well ahead of the story. The surprises were genuinely surprising, the action scenes were well done, the comedy was great and they had room for some nice character moments. The vast majority seeing this film enjoy it a lot, only those who went in with expectations of a Ben Kingsly in hand to hand combat with Iron Man scene, shooting beams from his fingers and punching IM's armor apart, but not too much are up in arms about this movie.
On a forum where people spends hundreds on toy replicas, it's understandable that seeing them so easily ripped to shreds and wantonly exploded in a shower of fireworks will cause intense disappointment and displeasure.
Time will not be kind to this film
. Smartly written and IM3 will not be used in the same sentence ever again a year from now. 
I will give you that the film had me asking "what is going on" Of course many of those questions were answered poorly.
I just wanted a smart fun movie like IM1 or the Avengers. Both of those films were witty and character driven. Some of the best scenes in both were not when the Hero's were doing hero things. IM3 had no such scene. No great moment of dialogue, no great memorable lines, no wonderful moments of character interaction (some scenes with kid were OK).. Soooo all that was left was the hope of some good action scenes and Nope we don't get that either.
I am happy you enjoyed it. I guess I should not be bashing on the film to someone who enjoyed the film. I hope you know I am not trying to attack your opinion because I know it can come across that way on the boards sometimes.
Yep basically sums up the film for me.
Yeah, Fans are going to have to let that go. Though it seems SHIELD should have been there somewhere.
KOTCS is a special kind of bad all on it's own. It may be the worst big budget theatrically released film of a major franchise character ever.
IM was bad but not eye rolling bad like KOTCS. I won't lie though. At one point of IM3 I did think "Is this going the way of the KOTCS??" It was when Stark and Rhodes were getting ready to save Potts and Stark seemed to think he was on a comedic adventure instead of on a mission to save the most important person in his life. Sort of like Marion when she is being a critic of her sons fencing skills while he is dueling for his life or driving off a cliff all in "I told you so" fun.... Damn it you made me remember KOtCS all over again.... Man I hate that film!!!!!
Lord knows thats true... but please less posting more building. 
