Stark. Tony Stark.

[hackthis_archive]

I HAVE SEEN IRON MAN 2.

Uh.

Uh.

OH MY MOTHERFUCKING GOD.

So, like first. There is Bob. I love Bob. Do you love Bob?

Why are you here if you don't love Bob?

Do you love Bob in a suit, in a red one, maybe blue?

A shiny suit with moving parts, a black striped suit makes me see hearts.

Yes, to answer your question. Iron Man 2 has reduced me to Dr. Seuss type rhymes. Deal bitches! It's gonna be like this for at least the next week or three.

So, what are hackthis' thoughts on Iron Man:


THE GOOD
* Robert Motherfucking Downey Jr. This man was made to play this role. The suits. The smiles. The EVERYTHING.

* Iron Man arms. Shallow yes, but still hooray. And his chest. Oh, Bob, why are you so hot like this. I do not know why. Ari doesn't know why. But it makes us both cry (with lust). I did not make that rhyme on purpose. That was a total accident.

* Tony cooked. And it took him three hours (makes story notes). And he tried to tell Pepper he loved her. Awwww. He totally failboated but still.

* Don Motherfucking Cheadle. Thank you, Don, for coming and saving the role of Rhodey from the sleazy nastiness that is Terrance Howard. I have never liked Terrance Howard. He was arrested for domestic violence. I hope he rots. I digress.

Dear Don,

You are Tony's BFF. I see you as a real BFF. You started a fight at Tony's fucking birthday party. Which was being DJ'd by DJ AM (Rest in Peace, Adam). Anyway. You looked good in War Machine. Big ups.

* Roger fucking Sterling as Howard Stark. That's right bitches. Roger Sterling from Mad Men as Tony's daddy. I bet that'll fuck your head up the next time you see Mad Men.

* The clothes. Lord, Janis Joplin wanted you to buy her a Mercedes Benz. I am not that difficult, just hook me up with all the dresses Gwenyth and ScarJo wore and we'll be gravy.

* Samuel Motherfucking Jackson. SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE! Oh, wait, wrong movie. Still, I loved the scene with Tony and Nick at Randy's Donut shop. This is the kind of shit I want to fic about, banter! Love the banter! (The same goes for the scene when they were sitting in the remains of Tony's place after Rhodey and he and fought. Sam Jackson is just so awesome). ♥

* Tony/Pepper. Yeah. I ship it bitches. And then it happened. Shocked the hell out of me. It's nice when there's actual character development.

* The new Audi R11. Oh, precious. You are so shiny.

* Agent Coulson AND Christine Everhart reprisals. Check out the continuity bitches! I love Phil. I hope there will be more Phil, but I do not have much faith in Marvel directors who are not Jon Favreau. Speaking of Jon, normally I get really irritated by directors who insist on being in their movies, but Jon is really good as Happy Hogan. I am okay with this.

* THE MOTHERFUCKING HAMMER OF THOR AFTER THE CREDITS. Okay, see, I know Thor the movie is having issues. Anthony Hopkins is being a diva and talking shit about George Kirk Chris Hemsworth. And yet, I stuck around because I knew... I just knew there was a cookie. The hammer of Thor made a fucking crater in the earth. Good times.


THE MEH
* Sam Rockwell. Meh. I don't dislike Sam he just never done anything for me. That's how I felt here. I liked the suits though. The suits were really nice. Wardrobe on this entire movie was SO MONEY.

* Scarlett Johnanssen. I don't get the fuss. Never have. She wasn't bad... she just wasn't anything. Homegirl can't act. I know she wants her own franchise, but uh, why? Shit man, Jen Garner kicks more ass taking her kids to and from the playground.

*Mickey Rourke. I.... eh.

(Please note that I did not object strenuously to any of the above characters, I just did not really think much of them. They were wall paper. And Mickey Rourke is just hella greasy. And his nails were weird looking. They looked like he was wearing acrylics. I wouldn't have noticed if they hadn't shown him making so much stuff.)



THE SAY WHAT NOW?
* Jarvis was in two scenes. TWO SCENES?! You all deprive me of the voice of sex god Paul Bettany and you expect me to be okay with it? NO!

* Tony made Pepper CEO. I see the business sense, and yet... this did not work real well for me. Pepper's *been* running Stark Industries since Tony became Iron Man, probably before that, and yet suddenly she can't hack it? I don't think so.

* The minature village of the 1974 Stark Expo, which Tony just happened to have left in his office, was actually a diagram of the arc reactor, which Tony turned into a new element. Uh, come again?

* Tony almost died. And then he invented a new element to save himself. Oh, comic books I love you so.

*For the last... oh, say, five months there's been a promo of Pepper kissing the Iron Man helmet and then throwing it out of a cargo plane with Tony hollering "You complete me!" as he follows it. Where the hell was that scene in this movie? I did not leave my seat, so unless I had a non-alcoholic blackout, WTF?


IN CONCLUSION
I give it two thumbs up, fine holiday hotass fun. Bob was fab. Don and Sam were fab. The shiny, awesome, we-do-not-take-our-shit-too-seriously aspect? Fab?

I will be seeing it again. Probably next week.

I am, also, thanks to the twelve thousand promos before the movie, most DEFINITELY interested in Inception. I do not give a rat's ass about Leo DeCaprio, but Joseph Gordon Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe and Ellen Page in a movie by Christopher Nolan? Bring it!

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

YAYYYYY IRON MAN!!! I agree with all of this, except the Sam Rockwell bit. He's kind of hit or miss for me (miss in this) but when he's on, he's fucking stellar. I did a rewatch of him in Moon recently and ... it's not just a travesty that he didn't get an oscar nom for it, it's a travesty that he didn't win. Super fucking duper recommended (and it's the sort of mindfuck movie I think would be right up your alley).

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Sam and I just... we don't mesh. I've seen him in several things and never been impressed. I will look into this Moon thing though.

In happier news. This movie? LOVED IT.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

YAY MOVIE.

(about Moon, though, there's a Big Damn Spoiler that's worth avoiding, and IDK how careful most reviews are about it. If you care about that sort of thing, it's worth being careful).

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I did a rewatch of him in Moon recently and ... it's not just a travesty that he didn't get an oscar nom for it, it's a travesty that he didn't win.

Word. To the nth degree.

[florahart]

The other day I said to my son something, I don't remember what, which he found to be a silly statement because of obviousness.

He said, "No shit, Tony." (beat) "Because, you know, the same--"
Me: Yes, yes. Actor played Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark. Got it.
Him: *beams*
Me: What, you were afraid to go a day without confirmation of the shared dork gene?

I suppose this means if I go see this while he is gone this weekend, there will be wailing and gnashing. Damn it.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You can see it twice. You will want to see it twice :)

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

I LOVE RDJ MORE THAN WORDS AND KEYBOARD SMASHES CAN EXPRESS :DDDDD

That scene where Tony cooked for three hours made me all wibbly. He royally sucks at saying sorry but he tries SO HARD. I might have been all flappy hands when they were on the roof at the end.

And continuity always makes me stupidly happy. Agent Coulson FTW!

Comic book logic doesn't conform to normal Earth logic damn it! And I might like it that way ;) It's so absurd it's fun!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

a) Your icon is SO MONEY.

b) The cooking scene was just fantabulous.

c) I admit I kept hoping Phil Coulson was going to show up and then he did, but he left and I wasn't okay with this.

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you for the icon love. It's not mine, but I got it from somebody who got it from somebody else and I HAD TO HAVE IT :DD

Coulson just needs to show up in all the Marvel movies from now on. Srsly. Full stop.

For the last... oh, say, five months there's been a promo of Pepper kissing the Iron Man helmet and then throwing it out of a cargo plane with Tony hollering "You complete me!" as he follows it. Where the hell was that scene in this movie? I did not leave my seat, so unless I had a non-alcoholic blackout, WTF?

YES WHERE WAS THIS??? I think it was supposed to be before he jetted in for the expo but they cut it out of the final cut, the BASTARDS :/

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

YES WHERE WAS THIS??? I think it was supposed to be before he jetted in for the expo but they cut it out of the final cut, the BASTARDS :/

Oh, thank god it wasn't just me, I thought I'd been having an episode.

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

I was really looking for that scene during the entire movie XD

It wasn't until the credits were rolling and I was waiting for the easter egg scene at the end that I realized it was probably cut out of the expo scene :/

So no, you weren't having an episode ;)

[elizaria.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, full enjoyment of that movie :D So much comicbook fun in one movie, including the illogial stuff. Superheros aren't much logic but hella fun instead so I just tend to blink at that stuff. And RDJ does the role so well. I haven't reach much Iron Man as not much him has been translated into Swedish comics but what I read was when Stark was on a downturn and a rather bitter alcoholic where his snark had too much of a bite to people around him. I worried for Tony in the movie for a while there because he was so selfdestruct-mode there.

Gotta ask about Fury though - my old comics has him as a white dude with grey temples and black spandex suit whith huge holster. And eyepatch. When did he turn into this cool black dude?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Gotta ask about Fury though - my old comics has him as a white dude with grey temples and black spandex suit whith huge holster. And eyepatch. When did he turn into this cool black dude?

When the role was offered to Samuel L. Jackson!

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

Yeah that was how I remembered Fury for the longest time too.

I remember hearing that after Jackson was doing all those "badass" roles again and again and again one of the artists and/or writers for one of the Marvel reboots that were going on a few years ago wanted to use Jackson as the model for a new Fury. Jackson was flattered and said "Sure, why not."

So when they started the Marvel movies it was only natural to have Jackson be Fury.

... and that's about the extent of my comicbook!geek knowledge right there LOL

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, Bob. I think I need an icon that shows his face.

I can't see it until Tuesdany, dammit, and am bitty spoiled and on tenterhooks about it.

Did you see, btw, that Bret Easton Ellis has typed a sequel to LessnThan Zero? Talk about something I have mo interest in.


And now I want someone to cast Cillian Murphy in the next Sherlock Holmes, pleasethanks. It would make the world abetter place....

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

You know, my first pick for Moriarty was Bill Nighy, but Cillian Murphy...ooh. Works for me!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Cillian Murphy is the Regulus Black that lives in my brain (and is shipped with David Tennant!Barty Crouch) but he would be a beautiful, smart and formidable Moriarty - more well matched, age-wise, than the amazing Bill Nighy.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I had *thoughts* about this movie. Ari has thoughts about this movie. I adore Cillian Murphy, he will always be my Theodore Nott.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I saw it last night, and it rocked! (Though the memory of the evening I will cherish is the tsunami of boos that greeted the Twilight: Eclipse trailer, and the one lone fierce girl who shouted "DON'T FRONT, YOU KNOW YOU READ THE BOOKS!")

Also, so much WORD re: Inception. Is it out yet? How about now? ...Now?

* The minature village of the 1974 Stark Expo, which Tony just happened to have left in his office, was actually a diagram of the arc reactor, which Tony turned into a new element. Uh, come again?

I thought the Unisphere in the model looked like the arc reactor, but apparently the point was that the 1974 expo's layout represented the atomic structure of the new element, with the fountain as the nucleus and pavilions representing electrons and neutrons. It's a little Da Vinci Code for my taste, but it led to the awesome sequence of Tony Stark building a particle accelerator in his basement, so I can deal.

Sam Rockwell was funny ("I call it ... the Ex-Wife"), but I wish Hammer had displayed some competence at least once; it would've made him a better villain.

ScarJo didn't show much personality, but I did enjoy watching her take down guys twice her size.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

LOL. There was no Eclipse trailer in my showing, but I am loving your commentary about it. I did not know about Inception and then I saw JGL and Cillian and I was like, "IN THE SAME MOVIE? IN THE SAME MOVIE?" [insert high pitched noises here.

I thought the Unisphere in the model looked like the arc reactor, but apparently the point was that the 1974 expo's layout represented the atomic structure of the new element, with the fountain as the nucleus and pavilions representing electrons and neutrons. It's a little Da Vinci Code for my taste, but it led to the awesome sequence of Tony Stark building a particle accelerator in his basement, so I can deal.


Ahhhhh. I loved the building sequence. I love watching Tony build things.

I wish Hammer had displayed some competence at least once; it would've made him a better villain.

WORD!

[jujubinha.livejournal.com]

I *loved* Iron Man 2. I think it was a treat for fans of the first movie. I saw it twice already and I enjoyed both times immensely!

And I loved the dialogues - they all talk in top of each other, which makes sense, because that's how people talk in real life. Scenes with Tony and Pepper bickering had me grinning like a loon, because they do talk like a married couple, and the awesome thing is that it's largely acknowledged. By EVERYBODY.

Don Motherfucking Cheadle. Thank you, Don, for coming and saving the role of Rhodey from the sleazy nastiness that is Terrance Howard.

This, so much. And I love that I could finally see Rhodes as a military man, because Terrance never sold me that. Also, as much as I loved that Don Cheadle kind of underplayed Rhodey (which makes totally sense as it fit the character, in my humble opinion), I absolutely LOVED the ending, with him cracking jokes and mocking Tony and Pepper. "Get a roof" was just genius. :D

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Don Motherfucking Cheadle. Thank you, Don, for coming and saving the role of Rhodey from the sleazy nastiness that is Terrance Howard.

This, so much. And I love that I could finally see Rhodes as a military man, because Terrance never sold me that. Also, as much as I loved that Don Cheadle kind of underplayed Rhodey (which makes totally sense as it fit the character, in my humble opinion), I absolutely LOVED the ending, with him cracking jokes and mocking Tony and Pepper. "Get a roof" was just genius. :D


YES! THIS! I will definitely be seeing it again.

[ionaonie.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about pretty much everything.

Rhodey and Tony were perfect BFF's in this. It made me SO happy. And Pepper and Tony FTW! I loved all three of them on the roof top at the end.

Although my favourite was the bit where Pepper found out he had been dying and he was all, 'I was going to tell you. I made omelette.' Adorable.

I don't agree with your interpretation of the Pepper running Stark Industries thing, though. I didn't think that they were suggesting that she couldn't cope with it. I think it was more that now it was public that she was running the company she had people bugging her about it all the time and scrutiny and the like and it was getting to her, along with her freaking out about how Tony was out of control and not knowing how to deal with it because Tony wasn't actually listening to her.

And I take it you saw Captain America's shield in all his dad's stuff. That made me smile muchly.

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

And I take it you saw Captain America's shield in all his dad's stuff. That made me smile muchly.

That bit got some of the loudest laughs in my theater. There was a guy behind me who went, "But that's his *shield* and you're using it to make the reactor level?!?" I could HEAR the mental sputtering behind me ;)

And YAY Castle! I love that little show ;)

[hypertwink.livejournal.com]

I agree with most but honestly, Sam Rockwell almost made me leave. He was a little too OTT for me. About ScarJo, I just finished the first season of Entourage and her cameo was such a breath of fresh air that it got me to thinking when I started hating her. Maybe, after Lost in Translation, everything she did after that seemed too fake for me.

And yes, I liked Don Cheadle; I never thought I'd see him as Rhodey but I did after a few scenes.

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

sam rockwell was awesome. a) he had fake tan on the palms of his hands, b) his suits were rad, c) he had very obviously stacked shoes.

[nebt-het.livejournal.com]

It was awesome! RDJ even brought his mother to the screening/ Q & A at the Aero!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Aw, Bob. Bob is love.

[maurheti.livejournal.com]

THIS MOVIE HOLY SHIT. I mean, Bob. BOB. And then! With the Roger Sterling! I was all, Wait, is that...? OH MY FUCK IT IS!! And Don, who made it all better -- so much WORD; and "don't think, drink!"; and the omelet of love. And Thor's hammer!

I agree, though: needs more Jarvis.

Also, I had an A-Team preview, which, DUDE.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Dude, A-Team. A-TEAM! Liam Neeson is another one who is getting hotter with age. Just like Bob. OMG, Bob! I couldn't believe how skimpy they were with Jarvis. I know they were blowing $$ left and right with casting, but you're just paying for his voice. You want to tell me you won't pay for his voice? Bad Jon! No cookie!

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

*For the last... oh, say, five months there's been a promo of Pepper kissing the Iron Man helmet and then throwing it out of a cargo plane with Tony hollering "You complete me!" as he follows it. Where the hell was that scene in this movie? I did not leave my seat, so unless I had a non-alcoholic blackout, WTF?

This MAJORLY bugged me. Like, it was the only thing that actually bugged me in the whole entire movie. If you put it in the first trailer, I want to fucking see it in the finished movie. Iiiiidiots.

But for every other thing in this movie, I just say: WOOOO IRON MAN!!!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

This MAJORLY bugged me. Like, it was the only thing that actually bugged me in the whole entire movie. If you put it in the first trailer, I want to fucking see it in the finished movie. Iiiiidiots.

WORD.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

So much word on not digging Scarlett Johanssen. Ever since Lost in Translation made everybody crush on her and be all "omg she's so gorgeous and amazing", I've just been sitting here, unconvinced, going "...really?".

Agree with you otherwise as well, except I loved the hell out of Sam Rockwell, and I'm not sure where that comes from. He was perfect for the character.

I am a smidgeon annoyed that Pepper was made CEO at the worst possible moment. I mean, it makes sense that she doesn't like the pressures of actually being accountable when shit goes down and of course being a woman people are going to question her abilities at every turn. So even though it was kind of well-written, why she quits, I find it annoying that it gives this idea that she can't do it, when like you said, she can and kind of has, unofficially, for ages.

I just realized I haven't read your Stark/Eleven fic yet. Must go correct that!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

So much word on not digging Scarlett Johanssen. Ever since Lost in Translation made everybody crush on her and be all "omg she's so gorgeous and amazing", I've just been sitting here, unconvinced, going "...really?".


I remember seeing Lost in Translation and thinking, yeah, the title is really apropos, because that hype about her? LOST IN TRANSLATION. I don't find her attractive and engaging or any of it. Then again, that's my feeling about 99.1% of the actresses that are supposedly so great.

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

The banter was all so very, very beautiful.

[crownglass39.livejournal.com]

Yes! Iron Man has made me read het. What is the world coming to?

I totally agree about that "you complete me" scene. Where the heck did that go?

[freedomyell.livejournal.com]

I loved Iron Man 2, which made me Love RDJ!
Especially in this roll.
Rhodey made me mad though, stealing that suit and all - twice. Yeah, that's never set well with me. But that's about it. I just hope they hash that one out in IM3. If there is going to be one. I've read that they're going onto the Avengers, which is fine and cool, but I really want IM3.