very good movie but why did hi destroy all those suits in the end?

!!!! SPOILERS IN MY COMMENTS BELOW !!!!

I was kinda hoping the movie addressed the whole Tony Stark PTSD thing better. He had a nightmare, a few panic attacks (some for comedic value) and that’s about it. Suddenly, he’s fine fighting the main baddie without his suit on.

You also didn’t mention the ending. It felt horribly rushed in my opinion. Plus the whole taking-out-shrapnel-so-I-don’t-need-mini-arc-reactor-on-my-chest thing is frustrating! Isn’t the whole arc of Iron Man 2 ABOUT that chest piece of his? Realizing that he’s about to die due to slow poisoning, leads to him getting down and letting it all loose, then finding redemption in his father’s hidden message, developing a freaking proton collider in his house to create a new element for his chest piece. This is all negated when we realize at the end of this movie, “Hey, he could have gotten those shrapnel out in the first place!”. In Avengers, he also told Banner that the shrapnel is now a part of him, his curse like Banner’s rage, and he accepts that. Negated!

Overall, the movie is, like you mentioned, a good continuity of the Iron Man movie mythos. But the ending was atrocious!

@ Greg:

Yeah, the browser detection plugin is a bit out of date. I think the original author abandoned it, and I haven’t found anything to replace it yet. Maybe one day I will actually sit down and try to fix and make it detect mobile browsers properly. :P

@ Victoria:

Very true, but we still have an entire phase 2 of marvel movies to go culminating another Avengers movie. As sequels go, this is rather different: like a perpetual, evolving universe.

The good news is that this is the last stand-alone Iron Man as far as we know. Downey will still show up in Avengers 2 but he will probably be done with the franchise afterwards. My hope is that the Avengers will then become what it kinda was in the comics: a power group with more or less a revolving door policy. Old heros will retire and new heroes will be adopted into the movie-verse. The successful ones will be drafted into the bit Avengers film that will happen every few years…

Or the super-hero craze will die in a few years… Which seems kinda unlikely seeing how enduring these franchaises can be and how often they got adopted and rebooted even before Hollywood figured out just how much money and box office swelling power comic book enthusiasts (both past and present) actually have.

IMO, Robert Downey Jr.’s version of PTSD kinda sucked. The kid was horrible. Ah, and poor Guy Pierce – he’s now a Hollywood villain in dope makeup. His ‘early’ version in the movie was kinda Stephen King ‘the wicked years’. After that – just a boring douche. So, I didn’t like the movie much. I need to stop watching movies with number greater than 2 :)

Interesting. When I comment using my Android phone, it’s interpreted as Safari/Linux.

I asked that same question about the suit army to a co-worker, and he said it was because of the rubble covering the opening which the workers only later uncovered. if you’re struggling for an excuse to suspend disbelief, it works.