She's going to come on the Internet and find fourteen million comments between us about the symbolic import of Tony Stark's facial hair selection.
I'm pretty sure she's into the same flavor of pain as we are,
Oh, I'm willing to say that Iron Man blows every single other superhero movie, ever, out of the water when it comes to interioricity.
Oh thank god, because I swear I think it's pretty much my favorite superhero movie (and movie, but I have little to no taste when it comes to actual film, so we'll just pretend I didn't type that, kay?) ever, and people keep throwing Batman Begins in my face, and I'm like "REALLY? THIRTY MINUTES JUST TO PICK A PURPLE FUCKING FLOWER?" and this is coming from a girl that sports a DC comics pin on practically every article of clothing she owns (you work in a comic store long enough, suddenly everything you own suffers the same fate.)
BB was fun, sure, but the script was as weak as most of the supporting cast and films need to be a group effort. Iron Man across the board was fucking top. notch.
And I don't even like Gwyneth Paltrow.
I KNOW, RIGHT? I never expected Pepper Potts to be one of my favorite parts of the film. I'm ashamed to say, but I've been burned by how they handle the female protagonists in superhero films to many times before, I wasn't going to give her a chance. And now I've got like 20 pages of back-story fic all because G-Pat won me over with her little grin-toe-heel spin with the espresso cup in her first scene. Cripes.
If you want to make sure a dude sees stuff in black-and-white, with-me-against-me, it's hard to think of a first confrontation that'll do it more
I didn't even think about that, how the conflict with Stane might practically imprint that sort of automatic response in Tony. That's going to be so fucking frustrating for his friends, when already trying to get Tony to act normal was an uphill process before Afghanistan, now that he's playing the righteous-warrior angle it can't get any easier. Dealing with true believers is always a bitch, but a true believer in a high-tech rocket suit? Ouch.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 09:17 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure she's into the same flavor of pain as we are,
Oh, I'm willing to say that Iron Man blows every single other superhero movie, ever, out of the water when it comes to interioricity.
Oh thank god, because I swear I think it's pretty much my favorite superhero movie (and movie, but I have little to no taste when it comes to actual film, so we'll just pretend I didn't type that, kay?) ever, and people keep throwing Batman Begins in my face, and I'm like "REALLY? THIRTY MINUTES JUST TO PICK A PURPLE FUCKING FLOWER?" and this is coming from a girl that sports a DC comics pin on practically every article of clothing she owns (you work in a comic store long enough, suddenly everything you own suffers the same fate.)
BB was fun, sure, but the script was as weak as most of the supporting cast and films need to be a group effort. Iron Man across the board was fucking top. notch.
And I don't even like Gwyneth Paltrow.
I KNOW, RIGHT? I never expected Pepper Potts to be one of my favorite parts of the film. I'm ashamed to say, but I've been burned by how they handle the female protagonists in superhero films to many times before, I wasn't going to give her a chance. And now I've got like 20 pages of back-story fic all because G-Pat won me over with her little grin-toe-heel spin with the espresso cup in her first scene. Cripes.
If you want to make sure a dude sees stuff in black-and-white, with-me-against-me, it's hard to think of a first confrontation that'll do it more
I didn't even think about that, how the conflict with Stane might practically imprint that sort of automatic response in Tony. That's going to be so fucking frustrating for his friends, when already trying to get Tony to act normal was an uphill process before Afghanistan, now that he's playing the righteous-warrior angle it can't get any easier. Dealing with true believers is always a bitch, but a true believer in a high-tech rocket suit? Ouch.