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Please don't do any more Marvel Movies


Ben Kingsley's Mandarin was a far superior villain to Pearce's Killian, and you wasted him on a bad joke. The movie was looking good until "Trevor" was revealed, then it immediately deflated like a big old whoopie cushion. And we end up with yet another superhero flick, where the hero is full of turmoil and trying to save his girlfriend, who we know isn't going to die if she falls because she's been given the extremis. Oh and save The President too, because there were so many reasons to care about him.
Why is it Christmas in a film released in May? That just felt all out of whack. If it's because of the line "It's like Christmas but with more me" you either took it to far, or should have released the film at Christmas time. The music in the first part of the film was also quite lame. Didn't really fit with a guy that's been rockin AC/DC up until now.
I do thank you though for not going full on extremis with Tony's suit being stored inside his bones and all that. That is the most ridiculous thing Marvel has ever allowed to happen to this character.
I guess I didn't catch the Bond references while I was watching, but now reading about it, I have to say that's another really bad idea. This is Iron man, not Bond, mixing the two together is the kind of fantasy you should keep to yourself. There's just no way to do that right...

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I agree with you. He should be barred from anything Marvel-related.

Iron Man 3 is as bad as both Spider-Man 3 and Ang Lee's Hulk.

Hopefully Marvel removes their heads from their asses.

I also have SERIOUS doubts about the upcoming GOTG film.

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If the GOTG film take the IM3 route then it is in serious trouble.

They aren't supposed to be friends-3 of A Kind

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this was like terminator 3, lets take the way of the bad jokes and gags and ruin it.

When the movie started without ACDC I was like "oh boy, this is going to suck"
This ironman is not that ironman that rocks with 2 suits agains aliens and even fight thor... wtf, shane just *beep* in all the series.

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Rock on, excellent critique! I agree 100%, after that "turn" in the movie it just made the everything that came before it less acceptable in the end. One of those flicks you watch once then never, EVER see again!! No need to, if you've seen one bad comic book movie you've seen them all and this one just fell into every bad cliche imaginable, teetotal waste...

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Why would Marvel Studios want to part with him the movie grossed over $1.2 billion so far.

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Oh, idk, probably has something to do success of the first two, plus the avengers. Iron Man 3 was going to be huge and rake in piles of money no matter who directed it...IM3 was a completely different (bad) direction. After I watched it, I asked myself, "Did he even see the other movies?" It would be a okay stand alone movie, but not the 3rd in a series. It had a some cool action sequences, but overall, not very good and by far the worst Iron Man so far.

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It was one of highest repeat viewed movies so far this year, in other words many cinema goers saw it more than once. Positive word of mouth must be great if people a lot of people and see it more than once.

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Luckily it didn't.

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