Ironman 3 discussion SPOILERS

Saw Ironman 3 last night and was simply blown away.

Firstly Guy Pearce plays a great villain even though he was quoted as saying his part was only a small cameo. Kudos to you marvel for keeping the major spoiler of the mandarin under wraps but our friends in America are going to be spoiled long before it comes out.

Ben Kingsley "PLAYED" a great mandarin. I loved the idea and was funny as hell but I can see some comic traditionalist being more than a little P.1.5.5.3.D with this but I think it worked for the MCU

RD jnrs contract to play tony stark is now finished and I really hope he signs on to do at least avengers 2 and cameo in guardians of the galaxy. As he said in ironman 1, he is ironman

There were some really great scenes with tony and a young boy Harley and the chemistry was really funny

The final fight scene was pretty epic but not epic like avengers but still impressive. Loved seeing all the ironman armours battle the extremis soldiers

I didnt mind how they took the extremis story arc and turned it on its head but they coulda stayed a little closer to the comic for me.

Not sure why they cast the character of coldblood as he wasn't remotely close to comic. It would made more sense to just call him Mallon.

Was a little let down by the after credits scene even though I love mark ruffalo. Was sorta hoping that tony got a call from starlord and ended with tony shooting back into space however that would contradict the entire films alien anxiety angle

Overall it was a decent film and sits between ironman 1 and 2 for me

8/10

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Originally Posted by KaRNiV8L PRiME

Ben Kingsley "PLAYED" a great mandarin. I loved the idea and was funny as hell but I can see some comic traditionalist being more than a little P.1.5.5.3.D with this but I think it worked for the MCU

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SPOILERS!

I found the portrayal of the Mandarin, very clever, but the reveal latter was funny but it killed it for me. I would of loved Stark's first impression to be true, but unfortunately isn't. Although there was an opportunity to add this as a twist towards the end it would of surprised me, instead they had something else that didn't have the impact.
Ok I haven't really spoiled anything :o but if you have seen the movie you may get what I mean.

Fun enough movie but I wanted to see them power rings in action.

Meh! Sounds kinda dull. Might just wait til the DVD release.:)

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Originally Posted by CBratron

Fun enough movie but I wanted to see them power rings in action.

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So did I but guess we will see something similar in avengers 2 with the infinity gauntlet

My kids were annoyed that - how can I word this? - they didn't see the Mandarin they were expecting.

I was more annoyed at the 'plucky young sidekick' who had a garage with just the stuff Iron Man needed.

The after-credits scene wasn't really worth waiting for.

Saw this last night and came out dissapointed... it was just very meh...

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Originally Posted by KaRNiV8L PRiME

So did I but guess we will see something similar in avengers 2 with the infinity gauntlet

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You'd think that but depicting what each infinity gem does would take up too much time. I fear they may default to a non-specific "It makes him powerful" and battles start to resemble LotR where the armies of men and elves go flying whenever Sauron swings his mace.

So its not better than IM 2?:(

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Originally Posted by Autocon

So its not better than IM 2?:(

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I think it is better than 2 but not 1