Monday, May 7, 2012

NOKW - Iron Man 2

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Iron Man 2

Basic Plot:  Iron Man is back and this time he has a sidekick, there is a Russian bad guy, and you get to see Scarlett Johansson in tight leather.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard and nobody cared, mostly because Cheadle is the better actor anyways.  The fact that Iron Man is able to fly despite having no fuel actually propelling his suit.  Sure, you could say his mini-arc reactor provides plenty of enough energy to power the suit, but it still takes fuel to create propulsion for the suit.  The fact that Tony Stark's nemesis, Justin Hammer, is seen in a video during a Senate Hearing helping America's enemy try and develop an Iron Man suit and he is not arrested on the spot for treason.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that the bad guy thought he could defeat Iron Man and his sidekick, War Machine, in a fight at the same time despite having zero experience in his own suit.  Iron Man had been using his Iron Man suit for quite some time and War Machine had at least flown around in his, but the bad guy had literally been locked up in a warehouse under constant supervision and had no time to train with his suit, and yet he still thought he stood a chance against two experienced guys?  I guess that is why he rigged his suit and all of his drones with bombs because he knew that this was a suicide mission.  But even then, he knew both of the good guys could just fly away, so why even bother with the bombs because blowing up the convention where the final fight scene took place didn't really accomplish anything.  If he had fought them at Stark Industries, that would have done some real damage, but at a weapons convention he really didn't destroy anything of real value to his enemies.  I am not okay with that.
"Sir, my eyes are up here."

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