IT'S CAPABLE OF BUSTING A BUNKER UNDER THE BUNKER YOU JUST BUSTED: I know it's late (and I know you're weary), but I did finally see Iron Man 2 this weekend and wanted to vent about all the suckage and laziness. The first one? Loved. Great origins story, witty, interesting character arcs all entertained me just fine before the machine v. machine mayhem at the end. This one? Meh. Just a few nice RDJ quips (esp. the Gallagher line) and ScarJo and Sam Rockwell did their things just fine, but the plot generally bored me and the machine violence did nothing for me. Been there, done that. I wonder if it worked better for folks already familiar with the comic books and thus more excited about the overall Marvel Universe stuff which was going on, because as much as I liked the first I was clearly not the target audience for this one.
One more thing: the film has an extended cameo from DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), and to say that it's a distraction which took me further out of the movie is an understatement. I wasn't prepared for that.
