I Watch Films: Iron Man 3
So fireworks. When Tony Stark first flies out in an Iron Man suit in Iron Man there are fireworks over the shore. When he drops out of the plane to arrive at Stark Expo in Iron Man 2 he flies through fireworks. And here at the end, the Iron Man suits explode like fireworks.
I don’t know if this is important, but it’s something I noticed.
Anyway, we again have a rival technology industrialist (it becomes noticeable after a while with the long running MCU, so many villains are evil versions of the hero). And we have a terrorist. Tony’s trying to deal with his own problems, which is why his former bodyguard, now Stark Industries security chief, Happy, is the one who is investigating and gets caught up in a terrorist attack.
Tony claims it’s not political, it’s just old-fashioned revenge. It’s not. It’s political, it’s trying to deal with his own problems, and it’s personal old-fashioned revenge as well. It’s worth noting that this film (like the others) shows that Tony is not negligible even without a suit, both in the lab and in the field. It again insists on showing his flaws, then using Robert Downey Junior’s charm to smooth them out the way. He’s still an arse though.
The suits go absolutely bonkers here. We go from IM1 – an armoured flying suit is amazing! IM2 – some drone armour, War Machine’s weapons, a suit of armour that is a suitcase! Avengers – a suit catches Tony when he falls, putting itself on him! And now this – individual bits of armour can fly on their own and attach themselves to him, also his suits can fly on their own.
It’s good set up for Age of Ultron, I’ll give it that.
Watch This: Iron Man has problems, fights bad guys
Don’t Watch This: If spending a fair amount of time not quite engaging with PTSD issues is not for you
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