I never got a chance to see the bit after the credits. The annoyingly strong winds knocked out the power right as the big fight at the end was starting up. I have a coupon for a free ticket, but I don't know when I'll get around to using it.
They're very long credits for a very short teaser.
The guy who got sent to New Mexico ("Land of Enchantment"!) is driving out in the desert and stops, looking down off a hill towards a large crater swarming with people. He calls SHIELD and says "I think I found what we're looking for" and the camera pans over to Mjöllnir leaning against a rock.
It's probably 45 seconds in length.
It was a good movie. Like everyone else says, not as good as the first but still a solid watch and nothing I was disappointed in. My sole "real" criticism would be that, like in Iron Man 1, the 'climatic battle' with the head bad guy is over in a blink of the eye.
Saw it last night and really liked it. I like the first a little better, but not much. A very good sequel, considering the track record that sequels seem to have nowadays.
I saw it on Friday. I wasn't overly excited to see it, but my bf is a big Iron Man fan, so we went. It was pretty entertaining overall. My main gripe is that the Hammer guy was so ******* annoying I wanted to reach through the screen and throttle him. I don't mind unlikable bad guys, but characters should not be annoying. Mickey Rourke was pretty bad *** though, and Scarlett was freaking hot as a red head, and a "I'm going to beat up 15 guys in the time it takes you to beat up 1" type.
My sole "real" criticism would be that, like in Iron Man 1, the 'climatic battle' with the head bad guy is over in a blink of the eye.
I find most of these comic book movie battles to be pretty uninteresting overall. The main draw for me of the first Iron Man movie was the comedy. Stark was a magnificent *******. In Iron Man 2 they spent time trying to develop him as a serious character, and horribly failed in the way all these comic book movies horribly fail with their characters.
Scarlett was freaking hot as a red head, and a "I'm going to beat up 15 guys in the time it takes you to beat up 1" type.
And she posed dramatically after every one. What was up with that? A pose or two scattered throughout the scene maybe, but after every single 3 second fight? Seriously?
Scarlett was freaking hot as a red head, and a "I'm going to beat up 15 guys in the time it takes you to beat up 1" type.
And she posed dramatically after every one. What was up with that? A pose or two scattered throughout the scene maybe, but after every single 3 second fight? Seriously?
I find most of these comic book movie battles to be pretty uninteresting overall.
It's a superhero movie. That includes fights with (super)villains. Character development or comedy or whatever around that is a good thing but the heart of a superhero movie is seeing the hero acting super. Otherwise I might as well just pop in a comedy or a drama.
Pretty much what I expected from reading the comments here. The big battle at the end, being over so quick, was a little disappointing, but other than that it was an enjoyable watch.
Pretty much anything with Robert Downey Jr. in it is a must watch for me.
It's a superhero movie. That includes fights with (super)villains. Character development or comedy or whatever around that is a good thing but the heart of a superhero movie is seeing the hero acting super. Otherwise I might as well just pop in a comedy or a drama.
Well specifically with Iron Man I found the first movie to be the most enjoyable comic book movie largely because of the humor. That made the movie for me. More generally, I suppose you could say that I'm supposed to watch comic book movies for the action, but in my opinion most of them have pretty terrible and boring actions scenes. I'm probably just very picky about my action scenes. I look for cleverness, originality, and specific types of movement. I just rolled my eyes in Iron Man 2 when he used the same "Trick the enemy pursuers into crashing themselves," bit I've seen in nearly every saturday morning cartoon since I was 8. To me that represents an art team that has a lot of money but not a lot of creativity.I don't care about extremely expensive explosions; I just want people to explode in new and interesting ways.
I have lost a little bit of respect for it just from how they whored themselves off to Burger King. That being said id have liked to see it but the girl I was with wanted to see...bleh.. Date Night... Talk about a snoozer.
Amusing (OK, not really) story about Dr. Pepper. I went to see the movie again on Sunday since I still had to see the end. They are rather insidious about the insertion of it, but you can clearly see Dr. Pepper being consumed twice in the movie, one instance of which shows the actual can on the table. This sort of thing is hardly surprising these days, but it did take me out of the movie for a second when I noticed it.
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I didn't think Scarlett Johansson would be as good as she was in that part. Spider-Man posed, too. It's part and parcel of being a hot ***-kickin' figment of someone's imagination.
My favorite? Tony's brief line to DJ AM ("Goldstein, gimme som music to kick my buddy's *** to"), and the Iron Man/ War Hammer fight.
I didn't think Scarlett Johansson would be as good as she was in that part. Spider-Man posed, too. It's part and parcel of being a hot ***-kickin' figment of someone's imagination.
My favorite? Tony's brief line to DJ AM ("Goldstein, gimme som music to kick my buddy's *** to"), and the Iron Man/ War Hammer fight.
War Hammer fight.?
You're sure you went to see Iron Man 2? :p
And Scarlett Johansson wasn't half bad, just the dramatic posing and over-the-top guard killing kind of irked me. I never enjoy over-the-top action, whether it's intended to be humorous or not. Rather liked the movie, even the ending fight was pretty cool, if a tad short. Shame I didn't catch the ending scene after the credits.
I didn't think Scarlett Johansson would be as good as she was in that part. Spider-Man posed, too. It's part and parcel of being a hot ***-kickin' figment of someone's imagination.
My favorite? Tony's brief line to DJ AM ("Goldstein, gimme som music to kick my buddy's *** to"), and the Iron Man/ War Hammer fight.
War Hammer fight.?
You're sure you went to see Iron Man 2?
And Scarlett Johansson wasn't half bad, just the dramatic posing and over-the-top guard killing kind of irked me. I never enjoy over-the-top action, whether it's intended to be humorous or not. Rather liked the movie, even the ending fight was pretty cool, if a tad short. Shame I didn't catch the ending scene after the credits.
Date night is a cute comedy about a couple refinding their mojo. It involves a lot of running around, and breathless humerous conversations, as opposed to action. Also a hilariously ripped-abs guy who is unapologetically used as a deus-ex-machina and sex-object not once but 3 times, for the absurdity.
I much preferred Iron Man 1 to 2. 2 was great for the fights, I loved the bad guy with his electric whips. I loved the scene where Stark lights up as he finds the hidden code in his dad's map in order to create a new element. I loved Scarlett Johansen, particularly her fight scene. I thought the fight scene's over-the-top speed and posing was appropriate for an action movie.
What I didn't like about Iron Man 2 was the Stark-Pepper Potts relationship, which was completely unbalanced by non-stop miscommunication and fighting the whole way through. It lacked any moments of quiet connection almost entirely, and this lessened their relationship in this movie. The fighting and b*tching dialogue could have been funny, like in the first, if only it had let up a few times.
This constant b*tch-fight also meant that the opportunity was destroyed for what could have potentially been the most emotionally moving scene in the whole movie, when Pepper Potts finally discovers that Stark has been dying all this time of serious toxin poisoning from his Arc Reactor. As it is, throw out any romantic or sexual expectations, you are left with the buddy-relationship alone instead.
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