Big Bang, Baby!

I hate scenes with blowing buildings and collapsing debris. I've been in one. Not fun. Other than that, I find the Iron Man 3 movie quite entertaining. The starting scene is a little bit annoying. Set in 1999, it makes me realize that I was old enough to understand the meaning of new millennium by that time. And 'that time' was 14 years ago. Thanks to that revelation, I officially realized that I no longer qualify as a teenager. Sucks.

Killer Stare!

Moving on! The image of a flamboyant millionaire is always interesting to me, and Tony Stark is undoubtedly the ultimate flamboyant millionaire in Marvel's universe. However, this movie, as a lot of others did in the last couple of years, pictured Tony Stark's more fragile human state. Interesting, but to tell you the truth, I don't enjoy PTSD Tony Stark as much as I am intrigued by the overly confident Tony Stark. Come on, Hollywood! Don't you think it's time we return our badass superheroes?


Other thing I find odd for Tony Stark to do is when he revealed his home address to the media. Tony has been a millionaire by birth, no matter how angry he was, this is just a stupid thing to do. Especially with his girlfriend also living in his house. Not only that this attracts terrorist, this also attract paparazzi. I can't really tell which one is worse.

Technologies owned by the Stark Industries and other parties in the movie are definitely one of the main attraction in the movie. Who doesn't like expanding monitors and 3D real time map of our brain? Those are just badass. Deep down inside I can't help to wonder whether these types of technology actually exist in real life. It probably does, who knows. After all, when it comes to technology, I am in the bottom of the food chain.


For the villain, there are Aldrich Killian and his ticking-time-bomb henchmen. Among every other weird mysteries of the universe, spontaneous combustion is definitely in my most-scary-and-disturbing-mysteries-of-all-time list. Being too hot to handle is one thing, exploding because of that, is another. Fortunately, this one is artificially induced, this is not actually spontaneous. Because there's a bit of rationale behind the combustion, I don't think this is that scary. On the other hand, the idea of knowingly giving up your live to achieve someone else's goal doesn't make much sense to me.

As for Mandarin, this is definitely the best part of the movie. Every evil needs a face. And although inconsistent with his name, because he is definitely of British descent, Mandarin plays this part really really well. Especially after knowing that he is a puny actor fetched from the street. Nevertheless, Trevor Slattery had me at hello.

Yes, I'm definitely talking about this one.

Second best part of the movie is Gwyneth Paltrow's abs! Pepper Potts' comeback after her 6-stories fall is just AWESOME! She is burning up! Literally! Further attempts to describe how awesome she is would just be redundant.

I can't say that I'm surprised about the fleet of Iron Men. After all, boys will be boys, especially when they have unlimited resource to buy their dream toys. I'm a little surprise with the scene where Tony blow the Iron Men, though. In my opinion that move equals a man smashing his PS3. Definitely not an easy thing to do. Well, perhaps it helps that he is filthy rich. He can easily build new ones later.

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