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Subj: Re: I agree that it was flawed but fun... Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 at 08:22:05 pm EDT (Viewed 508 times) | Reply Subj: I agree that it was flawed but fun... Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 at 09:16:20 pm EDT (Viewed 465 times) | ||||||
Quote: ...I admit to and regret being absent, since my blooming career as a freelance writer should give me more time to get caught up on the goings-on of my friends, but these days it's so hard to separate work from fun on my ( not always well ) self-disciplined schedule, that I have a hard time keeping track of everything. I don't know if there are any other freelancers on this board, but I could use some advice on how to manage everything without the nervous breakdown aspect...Hmmmm... Without the nervous breakdown? I admire your ambition. I just finished a killer two weeks working freelance on a game project. Really, some weeks I have no life outside of work, while others I have way too much free time. Scheduling is rough... I wish I had some tricks to tell you. Quote: Anyway, I liked Iron Man 2 a lot, and I thought there were some utterly brilliant scenes in it. My favorite two being Tony drunk in the armor, for the sheer painfulness his embarrassing actions exude, and the post-humous message from Howard Stark, which actually made me tear up. Scenes like those go a long way towards making up for the shortcomings in other places, like the lack of evidence that Iron Man is actually protecting America ( since the only threats we see-- Vanko and Hammer-- were brought in by going after Stark, and would not have menaced civilians if Tony didn't exist ). I kind of wonder how "privatizing world peace" keeps the company in the black. Unless you loot the countries you conquer... Quote: Also, the thing with Tony's heart poisoning him reminded me of a story by Kurt Busiek in Iron Man's third volume, where he finds out that the armor's ambient energy is killing him. In both cases, it sets up a dilemma where Tony's life as Iron Man is destroying him and he needs to make some hard decisions about his identity-- then completely voids the dilemma by having him fix the problem with his inventive genius, and gets to resume his self-destructive lifestyle without learning anything. At least here there was the symbolic aspect of Tony working with SHIELD and finding his father's notes, along with his hook-up with Pepper at the end ( something we never really got to in the comics ), but it's still annoying. I couldn't help but notice that Tony suffered from one of those Hollywood poisonings where you can be cured and not have any lasting consequences. Actually, that new element he creates not only doesn't poison his body further, it apparently cures all the lingering effects of the paladium in his bloodstream. We should all have some of this stuff jammed in our chests. | |||||||
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