[FILM] Iron Man 2

[tamaranth]

A pleasant afternoon at Cineworld (hey, free ticketses thanx Tesco), followed by cocktails, with la_marquise_de_*.

Good things about Iron Man 2:
- Robert Downey Jr playing another humble, retiring, diffident type doing his utmost to make Tony Stark a three-dimensional character
- MICKEY ROURKE FTW. (What is it about Rourke and pets? I shall never forget the small canine in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.)
- excellent soundtrack inc. 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'
- improbable Genius Home Projects
- some nice one-liners
- MICKEY ROURKE did I mention?
- Prince of Persia trailer, which lured us both
- Robert Downey Jr's dressing-gown
- having Bad Guys For Killing who were machines

Less-good things about Iron Man 2, which I mostly ignored:
- Scarlet Johannsen's action scenes (tho' the first one wasn't bad)
- attempts to weave in Avengers-related plot threads
- the 'plot'

*apart from the spluttering, ectoplasm and scary 360-degree skull rotation during the trailer for Robin Hood. I think it distressed her.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

You bet it distressed me. Tough on hokum, tough on the causes of hokum.
You missed out the dancing-in-the-suit thing aka how to wave that metal booty.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I think the suit-dancing comes under 'RDJ, awesomeness thereof'. Which I did not state explicitly but was, of course, Sole Purpose of Visit.
As for our discussion in F&B's (re "This isn't the worst thing you've caught me doing" from IM1): it's been done. Now I have to scrub my brain.
edit to add done by other people. Not me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

And when do I get to read it?