Iron Man 3
Jan. 4th, 2014 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerMy brother Chuck and I watched Iron Man 3 on Christmas day - a surprisingly appropriate decision, it turned out, as Iron Man 3 is full of Christmas lights and Christmas carols.
It did basically what I expect Marvel movies to do, which is to be good, goofy fun with sharp action sequences: the attack of the Iron Man suits at the end was all kinds of awesome. If there is one thing more exciting than one Iron Man, it is clearly forty of them, and never mind how Tony managed to control so many suits at once, clearly JARVIS can do anything.
(You know who would be a great villain if they ever do another Iron Man movie? JARVIS! After years of being held back in a supporting role by Tony, JARVIS snaps, turns on Tony, and sets out to dominate the globe… Everyone loves JARVIS, so the villain would have actual emotional heft, which is not often the case in Marvel movies, Loki aside, of course.)
Chuck and I also got in a discussion about the motivations of the botanist-who-isn’t-actually-a-botanist - Wikipedia tells me her name is Maya. When she turns up at Tony’s house, is she trying to warn Tony about the glowy explody people... or is she leading the Mandarin’s helicopters there? After all, when the Mandarin’s people turn up at her and Pepper’s hotel room, it seems like Maya betrayed Pepper to them: why else would the baddies let Maya live?
But we eventually decided that Maya must have been sincerely trying to warn Tony, and that’s why she tries her suicidal plan to save him later. It’s just too convenient that a good talking-to from Tony about how she used to have ideals would change her mind enough to risk her neck for him, so probably she had already decided the Mandarin was evil and went to Tony’s house to try to escape. But when that fell through - even Tony Stark’s house is not safe! - Maya turned on Pepper in a last-ditch attempt to save her own skin.
It did basically what I expect Marvel movies to do, which is to be good, goofy fun with sharp action sequences: the attack of the Iron Man suits at the end was all kinds of awesome. If there is one thing more exciting than one Iron Man, it is clearly forty of them, and never mind how Tony managed to control so many suits at once, clearly JARVIS can do anything.
(You know who would be a great villain if they ever do another Iron Man movie? JARVIS! After years of being held back in a supporting role by Tony, JARVIS snaps, turns on Tony, and sets out to dominate the globe… Everyone loves JARVIS, so the villain would have actual emotional heft, which is not often the case in Marvel movies, Loki aside, of course.)
Chuck and I also got in a discussion about the motivations of the botanist-who-isn’t-actually-a-botanist - Wikipedia tells me her name is Maya. When she turns up at Tony’s house, is she trying to warn Tony about the glowy explody people... or is she leading the Mandarin’s helicopters there? After all, when the Mandarin’s people turn up at her and Pepper’s hotel room, it seems like Maya betrayed Pepper to them: why else would the baddies let Maya live?
But we eventually decided that Maya must have been sincerely trying to warn Tony, and that’s why she tries her suicidal plan to save him later. It’s just too convenient that a good talking-to from Tony about how she used to have ideals would change her mind enough to risk her neck for him, so probably she had already decided the Mandarin was evil and went to Tony’s house to try to escape. But when that fell through - even Tony Stark’s house is not safe! - Maya turned on Pepper in a last-ditch attempt to save her own skin.
