So when news broke that fans and normal viewers would receive another installment into the Iron Man trilogy, the internet irrupted into a tail-spin of speculation and and all around awesomeness. And with the film doing hot off the heels of easily one of the best CBM's of this generation, most (if not all)of us expected it to be up there with the big dog. But then someone jack wagon decided to spam the site with several pictures of Ben Kingsley in his Mandarin motif saying 'THIS IS NOT THE TRUE MANDARIN'. And as an Iron Man fan I'd do my best to argue back at him, tell him he was a troll, call his mother a an animal, the usual. But I always had that stray lingering thought in the back of my mind that 'Maybe this guy is right...'. But I never let is psych me out. So I dragged 5 friends to my local theater to go see the film. The whole time I told them that it would be an awesome film and it might be better than the Avengers. Well....I was wrong.
One of the first things that left a rather disgusting taste in my mouth was that scene taking place in either the late 90's or early 00's. We see a douche bag Tony Stark (which is to be expected) parading around (I think) Miami with a stunning woman tied to his arm. Then, we see a Happy Hogan with a mullet. This gave me a nice chuckles as did it the rest of the viewers in the audience. But what happened next was what really chapped my ass. We were introduced to Aldrich Killian, who looked like a dweeby version of the lead singer for Motle Crue. But I was willing to over look that, for some time.
Jumping ahead some time Killian magically went from bozo to Adonis in the blink of an eye, but again I over looked it. Now the next thing that got my goat was the scene at the Chinese theater. I personally felt that if they killed Happy off, that would give Tony the push he needed to confront the 'terrorist'. And not to mention that Happy is a rather useless character. He's only there for comic relief, and even Tony handles that duty better than him. So it's a missed opportunity in my eyes.
The mansion scene was also very highly annoying. The helicopters attacking was to be expected, but the fact that there was no support from the FBI or CIA or even Military personnel surrounding his (Tony) house was illogical. I mean lets think about it:
Relatively small stuff, but when you tally everything up it didn't help this film in the least bit.
In line with keeping this short I'm just going to jump to the Mandarin twist. I feel like when someone takes a film class, and they learn how NOT to pull of a twist, the Mandarin twist from Iron Man 3 should be what they are taught about. First off, the twist didn't serve a damn purpose. It was a twist for twist's sake. And the way the twist was brought to fruition was sad and pathetic. Instead of possibly going to the route that the guy we THOUGHT was the Mandarin was actually just a legitimate terrorist who was hired by Killian to be the face for the Ten Rings. Nut no, he was in fact a down in the dumps actor with a crack addiction. And thats not the only way the Mandarin was raped.
It then comes out that Kilian was the other doppelgänger. It's funny, because in the comics Killian isn't the Mandarin. Now sure, Mandarin has been portrayed as amore business type character, but he was still A). Asian and B). A Terrorist with freaky rings. But when you think about it, they not only screwed up the Mandarin, they also screwed up Killian. Killian was always a bad guy scientist, he wasn't a bad guy scientist AND international terrorist AND man who has dragon breath. And then you come to realize that Aldrich did all this bullshit because he was left on a roof....let that settle in for a moment.
And to add more kick to the bruise is the one-shot Marvel eventually released which basically said, "Not only is Trevor NOT the real Mandarin, but Aldrich's NOT the real Mandarin either, and the REAL Mandarin is still out there....somewhere! "
But, I've got to give credit to those people out there that have the power to turn a cluster-[frick] into a blessing from god. And it's cute when they say "Well RT said yada-yada" or my favorite, "Iron Man 3 made yada-yada amount so it's a good film" But it's simple logic...
One of the first things that left a rather disgusting taste in my mouth was that scene taking place in either the late 90's or early 00's. We see a douche bag Tony Stark (which is to be expected) parading around (I think) Miami with a stunning woman tied to his arm. Then, we see a Happy Hogan with a mullet. This gave me a nice chuckles as did it the rest of the viewers in the audience. But what happened next was what really chapped my ass. We were introduced to Aldrich Killian, who looked like a dweeby version of the lead singer for Motle Crue. But I was willing to over look that, for some time.
Jumping ahead some time Killian magically went from bozo to Adonis in the blink of an eye, but again I over looked it. Now the next thing that got my goat was the scene at the Chinese theater. I personally felt that if they killed Happy off, that would give Tony the push he needed to confront the 'terrorist'. And not to mention that Happy is a rather useless character. He's only there for comic relief, and even Tony handles that duty better than him. So it's a missed opportunity in my eyes.
The mansion scene was also very highly annoying. The helicopters attacking was to be expected, but the fact that there was no support from the FBI or CIA or even Military personnel surrounding his (Tony) house was illogical. I mean lets think about it:
- So a man goes onto some form of a television outlet, threatens a crazy terrorist, basically tells him to bring it on, and not a single person from the military, CIA, or FBI shows up? Come on.
- And lets also point out the 4 helicopters that SOMEHOW managed to get to his house in mere hours is also surprising.
- And not to mention that when they entered american air-space, they didn't alert a single [frick]ing person.
Relatively small stuff, but when you tally everything up it didn't help this film in the least bit.
In line with keeping this short I'm just going to jump to the Mandarin twist. I feel like when someone takes a film class, and they learn how NOT to pull of a twist, the Mandarin twist from Iron Man 3 should be what they are taught about. First off, the twist didn't serve a damn purpose. It was a twist for twist's sake. And the way the twist was brought to fruition was sad and pathetic. Instead of possibly going to the route that the guy we THOUGHT was the Mandarin was actually just a legitimate terrorist who was hired by Killian to be the face for the Ten Rings. Nut no, he was in fact a down in the dumps actor with a crack addiction. And thats not the only way the Mandarin was raped.
It then comes out that Kilian was the other doppelgänger. It's funny, because in the comics Killian isn't the Mandarin. Now sure, Mandarin has been portrayed as amore business type character, but he was still A). Asian and B). A Terrorist with freaky rings. But when you think about it, they not only screwed up the Mandarin, they also screwed up Killian. Killian was always a bad guy scientist, he wasn't a bad guy scientist AND international terrorist AND man who has dragon breath. And then you come to realize that Aldrich did all this bullshit because he was left on a roof....let that settle in for a moment.
And to add more kick to the bruise is the one-shot Marvel eventually released which basically said, "Not only is Trevor NOT the real Mandarin, but Aldrich's NOT the real Mandarin either, and the REAL Mandarin is still out there....somewhere! "
But, I've got to give credit to those people out there that have the power to turn a cluster-[frick] into a blessing from god. And it's cute when they say "Well RT said yada-yada" or my favorite, "Iron Man 3 made yada-yada amount so it's a good film" But it's simple logic...
Source: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ManWithRedMask/news/?a=103184
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