Iron Man 3 (2013)

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Spoilers may be below for anyone who hasn't seen this movie :P

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Really enjoyed it........but:
the whole panic attack scenario. I didn't think it worked too well.

shane24 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

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I heard that they were going to have alcoholism instead, but they decided to drop it. It worked for some of the jokes, but I felt it was a bit forced, didn't feel natural to me.

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man's main villains. In the comics I have learnt that he had ten rings of power that he used against Iron Man. So I don't think they'll like the change. Aldrich called himself The Mandarin at the end, so he's still there, just not what they expect. It bothers me a little because I was enjoying Ben Kinglsey, but the change really let Pearce shine as the main villain.

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I felt something wasn't right with Ben Kingsley's Mandarin character, so I was glad when the story took the turn that it did. Everything fitted into place for me and I liked Pearce a lot.

I liked it when the Harley was asking Tony loads of questions about The Avengers and he started having a meltdown, that was funny, and then when he threw the snowball at the kid!

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

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Ahh yeah I can see why you would think that, Shane! I don't know how I managed to miss it, but I avoided most of the promo that's been out for this movie, so that was a surprise. When all the suits came flying out and were all together, I had such a grin on my face, it was an awesome scene.


Yeah, when he's in the car leaving Harley and says 'because we have a connectionnn' before driving off, that got one of the biggest laughs :D

shane24 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

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How awesome was the Pepper Aldrich fight!? But that leads me to asking- did he die at the end? He just got blown up in a iron man suit, would he really be dead from Pepper hitting him? And if so, why would they just walk off without checking? :)

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

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That crossed my mind as well.



It was all a bit quick, but I did think she killed him although it wasn't clear enough, I agree.
The other Extremis guy was killed by Tony on the plane, wasn't he? When he said 'get up from that you sonofabitch'?

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

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It definitely could have been done better.


I wasn't expecting the fire breathing, haha! Meant to say I loved Pepper kicking butt at the end too, great fight.

I liked Rhodes and Stark together too :D

Kate668 on 4/28/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

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Hahaha yes, the Tony tattoo was one of the funniest things in the movie for me, the way he said 'boom!', it just got me. So funny!

Ethan8 on 4/29/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

They took what worked so well in Iron Man and even Iron Man 2 to a degree and ran with it in an extremely gratifying way with this third installment. The complexity, depth, heart and action were even more off the charts than the first film. I totally agree with most of the film critics who are raving about Iron Man 3. It’s is not just a great comic book movie but a great movie period. .

smatticus on 4/29/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

*HAVE TRIED TO AVOID SPOILERS BUT BE CAREFUL IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM NEVERTHELESS* Iron Man 3 seems to have come from a not too dissimilar place to The Dark Knight Rises in that the hero spends much of the film outside of the suit relying on his wits and intelligence rather than his gadgets. Add to that a villain who was very much created from Tony's own arrogance and ignorance (although I was somehow reminded more of Skyfall in terms of how the villains operated). I think the stuff with Tony's character development (which, let's face it, takes up most of the narrative) ranged from "heartfelt but never heart-rendering" to "unrealised"; I liked how personal the story became and it's nice to see Tony become emotionally vulnerable without spending the first two-thirds of the film being utterly unlikeable as he was in the second film. However, there were elements of his character arc which could have worked well if they'd been resolved by the end of the film i.e. the PTSD from The Avengers. Unfortunately this was kind of washed over, although there is something there. Most of the supporting cast do what they have to do, with a particularly entertaining performance from Ben Kingsley, but the biggest problem with the film, as it has always been in Iron Man films, is the villain. Without wishing to give too much away, the motivation of the villain, while it is at least roughly explained this time unlike in previous installments, is not particularly strong, and I found Guy Pearce's performance to be utterly bland and forgettable. The script still has the wit and charm of it's predecessors and thankfully loses the excessive bickering (which worked well in the first but reaches overload levels in the second) and insufferably hateful corporate pandering and the need to sacrifice of logic in order to hastily establish characters for the Avengers that the second one did. The action is pretty creative, especially with the skydiving rescue sequence, mansion break-in and multiple suit battle, but naturally the action is hampered in the same way as retrospective viewing of the first film is hampered; any action and effects set-pieces in the MCU will now be compared to those of the first Avengers film, and the majority will fail because the Avengers pushed everything to the nth degree. So on the whole, I'd say Iron Man 3 is good effort to follow up on the Avengers movie, and a massive improvement on the despicable Iron Man 2, but never really pushes into premier league superhero territory. I'd say it's stuck in the championship with Captain America and the earlier Spider-Man films, but unlike them, it at least has the potential for promotion. 7 - 7.5/10.

SithRage on 5/2/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

How has 47% of this site seen the movie?! It's Thursday May 2nd... doesn't officially come out until midnight!

Avenger7 on 5/4/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (3 likes)

I had high expectations going in to this film and it managed to hit or exceed almost all of them. I simply loved that nothing held to any type of cliche. Nearly every interaction delivered something unexpected and fresh. A great end to an exceptional trilogy.

Jackhammer1989 on 5/5/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

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Great movie, saw it last night, going to see it again in a couple hours without any hesitation. Downey was great as usual. He and the boy (Simpkins) had wonderful chemistry. Seeing them together sort of reminded me of Indy and Short Round in Temple of Doom. Guy Pearce was his usual, smirky self. Would've liked to see him put up a better fight than he did in the end, but that's nit-picking on my part. It was a fairly big leap over the second one in my opinion, though some might feel differently.

Caesar on 5/6/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (3 likes)

I didn't have huge expectations for this movie, so I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. Big improvement over Iron Man 2.

kookio on 5/12/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Rebecca Hall, James Badge Dale, Stephanie Szostak, William Sadler, Miguel Ferrer, Paul Bettany, Ty Simpkins, Dale Dickey, Xueqi Wang & Bingbing Fan were also in this film.

SLionsCricket on 5/13/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

WOW!! Already 81% have seen it!?! Strange

Showtimebr on 5/21/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (3 likes)

Some minor issues here n' there, but truth is, this is the best "Iron Man" so far and the best Marvel Studios movie for me yet. The rest is already very well wrote here.

shapira500 on 5/31/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

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the mandarin stupid twist plus the dark knight rises ripoff really disappointed me. i expected to an epic trilogy finally with iron man's arch enemy...

FilmOdyssey on 9/26/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (3 likes)

What a stupid movie. Some of the action scenes and dialogue were entertaining but other than that, didn't like it.

julinona on 11/3/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Worst of the trilogy for me.

SquareMaster316 on 11/4/2013 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

I find it hilarious how the resident troll with the 4 dozen accounts is on IMDB right how stating how "incredible" it was for IM3 to debut in the top spot of home media sales the week it was released as if it was something never achieved before.

A blockbuster selling the most DVDs the day it comes out? I'm astounded.

SquareMaster316 on 2/6/2014 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (2 likes)

IM3's home video sales after 10 days: 51M

Dark Knight Rises: 94M

Koroy on 6/14/2015 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Pritty bad actually

Boogiefever on 10/17/2015 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (3 likes)

I have to say that I liked this film right from the start and the more time that goes by the more I love it.

Jarvis on 7/14/2016 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (1 like)

Superb Film. Superb Trilogy.

ReelCinemaFan on 12/23/2019 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

This is the end wins. Apes shall not make remakes.

IloveMovie243 on 4/16/2021 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Do I hate it? No.
Do I think it’s worse then any DCEU movie? No
Do I think it’s still bad? Yes.
Do I think it’s worse then Iron Man 2? Honestly... Yes.

noobpb17 on 5/1/2021 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

ngl, i liked this movie a lot compared to when i saw it for the first time

ChrisFilm85 on 8/16/2021 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Better than 2... But still a weak MCU entry

thecrackers on 4/20/2022 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Definitely not as good as the first, just a little bit behind the second. But not a bad movie, the Iron Man trilogy is the only Marvel movies I have not thoroughly disliked

JimmyMcGill on 8/27/2022 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Spectacular special effects can't compensate for the lackluster antagonist or the absence of an inspired plot.