Iron Man 3: Greatest Installment of the Series or Monumental Letdown?

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Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, I am your movie reviewer Oscar Ceezon and today’s film is Iron Man 3. The film picks up shortly after the Avengers heroically saved New York from an intergalactic invasion; an event that has traumatically scarred our devilishly handsome, slightly neurotic protagonist Tony Stark. A new evil known as The Mandarin has arisen. Armed with his legion of regenerating superfreaks, The Mandarin wages war against the US and our fair Iron Man. However, in order to destroy his greatest foe yet, Tony Stark must confront and overcome the demons of his past in order to save his future.
I have mixed feelings about this latest addition to the already large cannon of superhero films. Robert Downey Jr. as usual gives delivers an incredible, comically masterful performance that filled the movie an enjoyable level of campiness. Also as per usual, I did not mind staring at Mr. Junior as he tried to save the world and stuff. The film had brilliant dialogue and hilarious sequences that made it more than your stereotypical action flick. Now for the not so pretty, the movie at times suffered from pace issues and an over-zealous need to explain a point or a moral lesson. Though the film had clever moments, in general the twists were predictably laid out as if the writers were marking off a checklist (1) traumatic experience that causes a villain to be born CHECK (2) over commitment to hero life causes strain in my romantic relationships CHECK (3) macho manly man’s taunting forces the hand of a crazed terrorist to blow sterf up CHECK. I give Iron Man 3, coincidentally 3 Xs out of 5 – despite its shortcomings, I found Iron Man 3 to be in general an entertaining and engaging film.

Movie Review: The Avengers – Why I Want to Make Nerdy Babies with Joss Whedon

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My dear movie goers, Assemble thyself and prepare for one of the greatest superhero films of all time, The Avengers. A part of me feels that I have waited my entire geek life to see this movie come to fruition. Setting the record for the biggest opening debut in North American cinematic history, The Avengers is a project 7 years in the making. Nick Fury, director of the peace-keeping organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., assembles Earth’s strongest heroes, including playboy Iron Man, smash-inclined Hulk, delicious Hawkeye, the deadly Black Widow and the musclely Thor to combat one of the gravest threats the world has ever known. Loki, the demented and downtrodden brother of lightning god Thor, plans to use the Tesseract, an alien cube of limitless power, to transport his army to Earth and take it over– you know the usual world domination scenario. However, the Avengers are a band of egotistical numbskulls with testosterone spewing from their pores. Will their hubris prove to be their undoing and result in the total destruction of Earth and the enslavement of the human race as we know it?
 
What could I possibly find wrong with this movie? It possesses all of my favorite things in life. A film written and directed by the one and only Joss Whedon, who I want to have nerdy babies with, strapping Herculean like mens wearing tight spandex fighting one another in some epic display of masculinity, and a ginger heroine who kicks eurrrveerryboooddy’s ass without breaking a sweat. What’s not to love I’m just saying. The Avengers sets itself apart from many of the other superhero films that have graced our lives over the years because the Avengers didn’t suck, lest we forget The Green Lantern or X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The film captures the whimsical campiness inherent in a comic book flick but also possess a beautifully crafted story ripe with dynamic characters and witty writing. Did I mention the musclely men in spandex beating the crap out of one another? I give this film 4 and a half Xs out of five; basically if you do not go and see this film you do not love yourself.