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  1. Iron Man 3

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    See, here's the thing. Yes, this is a universe with super-technology and magic. My problem with the nanotech is more that it's freaking magic. It regrows limbs in minutes. It makes flesh and blood limbs from thin air. It breaks conservation of mass. It's being used for what is essentially a money-making scheme. It gives a guy flame-breath. It allows human tissue to conduct large amounts of heat that should outright boil the nervous system. It makes people explode in fireballs.

    Okay, I did forget about the VP's daughter's leg but still, Killian's plan still makes no sense when he realizes that they were no place close to perfecting the nanotech. Before the military even touched this thing they would have wanted extensive field-tests conducted by independent contractors. It doesn't matter if these are unintended side-effects. The FDA would have come down on their skulls. SHIELD should have shut them down in minutes. The short term antidote wouldn't fly for the same reason that we only practice triage in times of war: Short-term solutions are more of a risk than anything.

    Proactively dealing with this point, Killian wanted Tony's help in fixing the problem. Then he proceeds to try and kill him and/or use Pepper to get him to do it. I get it. Tony's smart but he specializes in robotics and, to a lesser extent, energy. I hate when movies dictate that all scientists can do everything. Not really. Sure, a nuclear engineer has some basic knowledge of biology but you can't expect him to cure AIDS.

    I didn't even bring up the stupid fake Mandarin plot really but here goes. Let's say that Killian wins, keeps using Mandarian to pump up sales of Extremis (now with 20% more laws of reality bending action). How long before someone sees a video of one of the Mandarin's addresses and recognizes him from his stage-acting. I've been able to watch commercials and remember someone from another commercial like four years ago. It won't be long before the money trail gets traced. The plan is just stupid. I don't expect rocket science but still, the plot is so stupid when you think about it for longer than ten minutes and notice it's swiss cheese.

    And yeah, RDJ's 50 million did come from percentage so Marvel/Disney didn't directly shell out money but it's still money that they didn't get to pocket, all the same. Downey is expendable. If he expects the same payday from them again, even with residuals, it's going to be some nasty negotiations that end with Disney pointing out, "Yeah, tell you what, why don't you just go home. It's not that hard to search/replace Tony with Rhodey. Later."

    So yeah, I somehow find myself hating this movie now than I did an hour ago. Give me another day and I might start comparing it to The Last Airbender.

    The speed at which they regrow the limbs could be explained away by the idea that they are using DNA similar to the plant in the opening, which unfortunately blew up. That, and Tony's arrogant formula that nobody stopped and said "Since when was he a biologist?" In Marvel movie logic, this could be possible. In real world, not bloody likely.

    Yeah, it could destroy the nervous system, and it did, most of the super soldiers could not feel pain, and if they could, it was driven down, and the explosions is just the body rejecting the serum from the system. Far fetched, but still slightly plausible.

    Of course it's a money making scheme, Killian, like most real world villains, isn't in it to make a point, or show off, he's in it for the money.

    With your comment about the FDA, I think a quote from RoboCop fits here, "We had a military contract, with a twenty year contract for spare parts, who cared if it worked or not!" Killian/Shane Black/The Marvel Brain trust probably didn't think this through, but that's the best defence I can think of.

    The Mandarin was given plastic surgery, so's that what you said about recognising people couldn't happen. And, what if Killian beat Stark? What is stopping Killian from just killing The Mandarin after a while, then just cut and paste his clips together? I'm sure Killian didn't just The Mandarin to record specific segments related to the war he commited, he probably did an old wrestler promo thing, where you just said the name of your opponent, the name of some city, then they just cut and pasted it together in editing. If you say something like that can't happen in the real world, wasn't there a rumour for years that Bin Laden was dead, and all his footage was just recuts of old footage to keep the public afraid of this figure of war?

  2. Iron Man 3

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    Will, on some of your points:

    The vice presidents daughter is missing a leg, if he's able to get AIM to be readily available that means his daughter has a better chance at a full life, in his eyes at least. They were going to kill the president to have the vice president take over, and then they could make AIM the US Armies first port of call for the super soldier weapons. When he's outed from office, AIM will already, in theory, have their feet under the table.

    The exploding soldiers was a problem they never properly dealt with, so they just didn't tell anyone and found an antidote that only worked for small periods of time, and if they blew up, they'd call in the Mandarin to say "I did that" in a form of damage control, which was explains why the soldier at the Chinese Theatre was acting like a crazed drug addict, he did not want to die, and only AIM could save his life.

    And the Nanotech wasn't supposed to give you superpowers, it was supposed to repair limbs and fix cell issues, so's the soldiers could become stronger and faster than the opposition. The superpowers were just an unwanted side effect at first. Of course Killian would have them, he was likely the test subject. And he pumped Pepper full of the stuff in the hopes of making her explode, for turning him down when he looked like a generic geek.

    Oh, and I think part of RDJ's money from Avengers was a percentage deal, so Marvel didn't technically pony up the 50 million to get him on the film, it's just he was able to write himself a fantastic deal.

    7: There's always a chance with surgery that Tony could die, and he didn't want that. Plus, he's an egomaniac, why would he trust someone else to work on him while he is out cold? Tony likely kept using the reactor as he didn't want a repeat of what happened to him in the first film.

    I thought those things were made clear during the film. Again, it's not the best film of all time, but I look forward to seeing again, at home, on Blu-Ray, while eating cereal.

  4. Iron Man 3

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    Adding spoiler to my comments, just in case.

    I went to see the film in 2D, and felt like I missed nothing, so, can I ask those that did see in 3D what scenes were in 3D? I'm guessing the bit in Pepper's office was one of them. And am I right in thinking that they never explained how Tony survived the big space rift in Avengers, or did they not explain it, as he didn't know he was going to survive and took it as a suicide mission?

    Also, I'm guessing you've not seen Incredible Hulk, Des, that, or you really dislike that film :P The music was strange as, and I may be wrong about this, this is the first time in a Marvel film featuring Iron Man that they haven't had any AD/DC music. And the terrorist thing makes sense to me, why follow BP and admit failure, when you can just blame a ghost terrorist, and have everyone blame terrorists, rather than you billion dollar corporation.

    I still enjoyed it, it wasn't the best film of all time, but it was a fun popcorn film, even if they felt the need to kill off the villain at the end. Which they clearly did after bringing him back over three times.

  8. Random wrestling thoughts

    in Sports

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    Speaking of Foley, I watched his new documentary, that was really good, but the match selection is noticeably inferior to his Hits and Misses DVD set. Also, his Hell In The Cell match with Taker, has aged badly, and is kind of over rated. It's not a proper cell match like HBK and Taker had the year before, it just felt like a stunt fest with no story. It's a shame that match is on this set, as I would rather watch any match from their 96 wars. Or any other match between the two, than the cell which has been at least 5 compilation sets so far.

    If I remember, Foley was the one, who storyline brought the Radicalz to the WWF, and they tagged around with him for about a week, till they turned on him, as Triple H offered them contracts to do it, I think Eddie hurt his arm in his debut match against the New Age Outlaws, so he wasn't involved in the big tag match, so it was 3 VS 3. Radicalz VS Rikishi, The Rock and Cactus Jack. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)

  11. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    Has anyone seen the new Zombieland tv show? It's not as bad as I feared, but not as good as I want it to be. It needs stars people have heard of so we won't think of the people from the movies.

    I hated it. I thought the guy playing Woody Harrelson's part was the worst, the show felt really cheap, and then the ad for how Ikea was able to survive the zombie apocalypse was blatant. Maybe if it got a full series, it'd be better, but right now, I'm not convinced.

    I also watched the pilot for the John Goodman sitcom, and apart from the opening scene, it was confusing and very dull.

  12. Marvel Comics Discussion Thread

    in Marvel

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    So, in the latest issue of Superior Spider-Man:

    Doc Ock found the part of Peter that was still alive in his mind, and was able to erase it, or at least Peter's memory of who he is, leaving Otto as the one and only Spider-Man/Peter Parker.

    That's nice, I guess.

  13. WiiU

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    The Wii U just got a price cut from a major retailer in the UK, ASDA (Walmart's UK Brand) has cut the price of the WIi U basic bundle to £149, and the premium is now £199.

    I for one am still not interested as there's just currently nothing on the console that grabs my interest in the way that Mario World, Mario 64, Zelda: Windwaker or Super Mario Galaxy did before.

  14. Random movie and tv thoughts

    in General Discussion

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    Oddly I'm fine with talented people getting paid for this shit. To quote Michael Caine re Jaws The Revenge- "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

    That is the best justification for anything I've heard in a long time.

  19. Everything DC

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    For that matter, how did Dick Wang decide to open his hooker basement filled with buxom Asian Beauties? What business loans did he have to acquire and how did he get out the word that asking for the secret sauce got you entry into it?

    He took out a mob loan from Fat Boney. It's his accountant I feel sorry for, Regina Dicksonwang.

  20. Iron Man 3

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    And what the hell was the point of that after credits sequence? Apart from letting us know that we're in a shared universe? Couldn't they have done that a much better way in the actual movie?

    How else would you justify Tony's opening narration? It was just a nice joke, admitting that Tony and Bruce are still kind of friends, who just really tolerate each other.

    I agree it's not as good as the first one, and some of Stavros's points are right, but overall, I am glad it's a stand on it's own film, rather than what 2, Thor and Captain America ended up being, which were pretty much 90 minute prequels to the Avengers.

  21. Randomness

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    I just spent ten minutes waiting for an e-mail to load in outlook, the broken piece of crap replacement for hotmail. In an related note, I clearly have no life if I'm sitting waiting to open an e-mail on outlook for ten minutes.