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We make an “ass” out of “u” and “me!”

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But honestly, in looking at the whole movie, I just get the feeling of sloppy handling. You’re spot on about the individual components of the movie working well, but the whole thing turning into a chunky disjointed romp. Which is really a shame, considering that it has some of the most versatile and talented actors for this generation, not to mention the budget to let them run wild. I mean, how can you go wrong with Gwenyth Paltrow in a strong female role, Sam Jackson with carte blanche to be the ultimate bad-ass, and Cheadle as the serious buddy he excels at portraying, while Downey Jr uses the movie as a cathartic vehicle for his own life story? And you’re definitely right that Scarelet Johansen seems to serve as little more than geek-bait, a flesh&blood equivalent to the briefcase armor in missed opportunity.

Or maybe she was just one character too many for the movie? After all, you already have Tony/Pepper, Tony/Rhody, Hammer/Vanko, Hammer/Tony, plus the Senator and Fury who serve to set the scenes for the two halves of the movie.

But eh, I have a different feel on Rockwell’s Hammer. I don’t think he’s aping RDJ’s Stark persona so much here as serving as a counterpoint to it. He’s like the ultimate used car salesman, or the mother of all middle-managers; wanting all the notoriety and money, with none of the responsibility and accountability, or the heavy lifting. He definitely has an evil genius about him, but it’s in knowing which ideas to steal and which people to buddy up to, like a conman who’s it it bigger than he ever expected was possible.

Where the movie’s Stark is a mad scientist who wants to do it all alone, wants to create the next big thing, crush through that next technological barrier, simply because he can (oh, and because he needs to flaggelate himself for selling missiles) They certainly play their roles for completely amoral playboys to led theimpression of one following the other in inspiration; but beyond that, they really serve to play off of each other; Hammer with his easy report with contractors, suppliers, clientele, and PR; and Stark with the preternatural ease of creation and innovation, literally writing the future with each new creation. And each loathing the other for their roles.

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I always though Hammer different from Lex Luthor in that Luthor was always out to gain power, rule the world, or destroy Superman. Hammer did want to make Stark look bad, but the extent of his personal ambitions was just cornering the weapons market, not ruling or governing over anything. Plus, the corporate side of things is central to a lot of Stark’s plot, which means it’s only natural that he have corporate enemies. And it’d be sad to lose one of the greatest foes Stark had from his comic days.

I just want one that doesn’t seem like an evil Jerry Lewis with bad luck.

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I totally agree with the drunk friend fight. It seemed so pointless and stupid. The biggest sticking point for me in that exchange was “How did Rhodey power up the Mark II without Tony’s chest RT?” Did Stark give the suits their own internal power source at some point? If so, why wasn’t it explained. Just a little bit of dialogue would have cleared that up and not left me feeling confused at the point I should have been cheering an armor vs. armor throwdown.

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So slap the genius-level intellect on Whiplash – someone with a personal vendetta that doesn’t care about actually DEFEATING Iron Man. He just wants to poke holes in his armor and prove to the rest of the world he’s not invulnerable. That was actually one of the few things the movie did right and alludes to classic Iron Man stories like The Armor Wars, the proliferation of Tony’s incredible technology and how he can’t possibly hope to keep a lid on it forever.

Stark created Iron Man to atone for his sins as a weapons manufacturer. But all forms of technology can be turned into weapons and that’s the delicious irony (no pun) of it.

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On top of that, the goofy drunk friend fight and the discovery of the secret “weapon” of having each of them fire their repulsor rays at each other is just hackneyed. That end battle was so anti-climatic. I don’t know, it was just limp overall.

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I liked the story line of Ironman has to overcome Tony Stark, but I wish other characters had more to do. But still overall, I enjoyed it enough to buy it.

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