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>>(It was nice to get the bland empty taste of >>iron man 3 out of our mouths). > >funny, i have the exact opposite opinion of both films.
Really? Thats why theres Chocolate and vanilla I suppose. I really WANTED to love ironman3, I really did. (Iron Man 1 is still one of my favorite flicks ever) ..but unfortunately, my wife and I both left ironman3 kinda shrugging our shoulders. I mean, one way I personally gauge how good a movie is or isn't to me is how much I think about it afterwards. Memorable scenes, situations, surprises? unexpected moods, tones, textures? Does anything 'linger' with me?
With ironman3, I'm sad to say, nothing did really. While watching it, I chuckled here and there, but for me it lacked something to hold on to. I didn't feel any 'heart and soul' in it. It felt heavy on presentation, light on guts. Now, to be clear, I don't want to give the impression that I had an AWEFUL time at IM3 , because I didn't. I had a decent ok time. But it's just, nothing stuck with me. It didn't feel like a real meal, it felt...well it felt like popcorn. Not a fully satisfying meal, but more like an easy to consume snack that, while not awful or anything, it's nevertheless something that is predictably generic easy to get anywhere and ultimately forgettable. A coworker said this to me...'I felt like I was watching a transformers movie'....and you know what , I thought that was pretty on point with how I felt afterwards too. Which is unfortunate to me, because, as I said before, the first iron man flick still ranks as one of my favorite 'blockbuster' flicks ever. That one had action and stuff...but also had enough heart n soul to make me feel satisfied in the end.
To be fair, when I saw iron man 3 it was a late show and I was tired, so I'm gonna see it again, just to make sure my weariness didn't play into my ambivalent take, so we'll see...but I'm pretty sure my first take was accurate. But like I said, we'll see on second viewing....
With trek though, I left this first viewing right out of the gate feeling pretty exhilarated and excited...recalling great scenes both grand and subtle, cool moments and deliveries by certain actors, there was humor, actual tension (in both the 'action' sense of tension and in the 'emotional' sense of tension too.....it just 'stuck' with me. Was it perfect? Nah. But based on one viewing each...it absolutely stuck with me in a way that IM3 definitely did not.... � have you listened to her stuff? v
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