PEPPER IN THE SUIT was the best thing EVER. That faceplate going up and a woman's face under it! ZOMG. I really hope she hasn't somehow been "cured" of her superpowers, because her getting powers to match or surpass Tony is so much better than the idea of him throwing his toys away to bring himself down to her level.
Tony as mechanic makes me really happy. Really, really happy.
This was a profoundly meta movie. All those digs about dealing with anxiety and PTSD by distracting yourself are digs at consumers of media, and so is the entire Mandarin storyline. The post-credits scene tells you that this story you just sat through two hours of is so boring it'll put you to sleep! I actually lost track of the self-references.
I also thought the handling of culture-wide shock after a major event was really good. Life goes on completely as normal except that everyone is unsettled, all the time. Are the aliens coming back? No one knows! It's one thing to have superheroes, that's just part of living in the future and it all has some quasi-sciencey stuff behind it, but a god fell out of the sky, WTF! (There must be fanfic about how adherents of various religions coped with that.)
Also, I read the file stamp as actually being "MIA"--as in, the military had no idea what happened to him. AIM seemed to only take on people who were truly desperate and fucked in the head. I agree it would have been nice to see portrayals of disabled people who weren't truly desperate and fucked in the head.
Maya. Whhhhhyyyyy didn't (the movie let) you stab yourself with the Extremis dose after you were shot?
Maybe she did just after she fell out of sight? I could see that being left as a tiny loophole. I thought she was quite wonderful.
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Tony as mechanic makes me really happy. Really, really happy.
This was a profoundly meta movie. All those digs about dealing with anxiety and PTSD by distracting yourself are digs at consumers of media, and so is the entire Mandarin storyline. The post-credits scene tells you that this story you just sat through two hours of is so boring it'll put you to sleep! I actually lost track of the self-references.
I also thought the handling of culture-wide shock after a major event was really good. Life goes on completely as normal except that everyone is unsettled, all the time. Are the aliens coming back? No one knows! It's one thing to have superheroes, that's just part of living in the future and it all has some quasi-sciencey stuff behind it, but a god fell out of the sky, WTF! (There must be fanfic about how adherents of various religions coped with that.)
Also, I read the file stamp as actually being "MIA"--as in, the military had no idea what happened to him. AIM seemed to only take on people who were truly desperate and fucked in the head. I agree it would have been nice to see portrayals of disabled people who weren't truly desperate and fucked in the head.
Maya. Whhhhhyyyyy didn't (the movie let) you stab yourself with the Extremis dose after you were shot?
Maybe she did just after she fell out of sight? I could see that being left as a tiny loophole. I thought she was quite wonderful.