Tonight, I saw Iron Man 2 for the second time. I enjoyed it as much as the last blast through, thought War Machine was cooler this time round, but what really caught me out, was the thoughts of friends I went with, ones who aren't comic fans.
While they all agreed the film was good and they enjoyed seeing it, afterwards talk favoured the initial blockbuster, with a few feeling IM2 lost it's way when Samuel L. Jackson entered the film, and took a while to get back on it's feet again. Without giving stuff away, this is where some of the key 'road to The Avengers' moments are.
While they all agreed the film was good and they enjoyed seeing it, afterwards talk favoured the initial blockbuster, with a few feeling IM2 lost it's way when Samuel L. Jackson entered the film, and took a while to get back on it's feet again. Without giving stuff away, this is where some of the key 'road to The Avengers' moments are.
While in a 'Neo and the Matrix' way comic fans can see how these scenes are building blocks, even when I explained that Nick Fury didn't just appear, but was in an end of credit scene in the original, and that its all leading to something bigger - the consenus remained that 'an independant film should still be enjoyable as an independant film'.
I can't share their perspective, but they do have a point.
Don't get me wrong - I still think IM2 is awesome, and stand 110% behind my earlier review, but it does give me an even greater appreciation of the folks at Marvel Studios (and soon presumably DC Entertainment) who, in the hopes of creating a shared universe on screen, have now got to balance the needs of a shared audience off screen - both those in the know and those in the learning.
Now that really is a job for Earth's Mightiest...
Don't get me wrong - I still think IM2 is awesome, and stand 110% behind my earlier review, but it does give me an even greater appreciation of the folks at Marvel Studios (and soon presumably DC Entertainment) who, in the hopes of creating a shared universe on screen, have now got to balance the needs of a shared audience off screen - both those in the know and those in the learning.
Now that really is a job for Earth's Mightiest...
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