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lowkey ([personal profile] lowkey) wrote 2011-09-02 07:12 pm (UTC)

Well, I guess the icon should have given it away?

I read someone responding to criticisms of Iron Man 2, where the commentator pointed out that the second movie is basically the second act of a "band achieves fame" story: Tony Stark is now having to deal with the fallout from his success, while grabbling with his mortality/grabbling with his father's legacy/creating with his own legacy.

So, I didn't like the second one as much, but I appreciate it more in that light. And the first... man, the first movie had so many things going for it. Like, I don't know, character development that made sense. And awesome dialogue. And Tony Stark.

(Thor is second, but... man, one week, much less one day, doesn't make a punk demigod stripped of his powers make a heel face turn into being a nice guy, nor does it make a generally amoral-but-vulnerable second son into an insane villain. Unless, of course, it was one really bad day.)

But A Dark Knight is all brooding and it's really too long and the ending made no sense to me. Also, I'll readily admit that I was really unsettled by the Joker.

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