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    Retro Throw Back: 2005's King Kong- What Went Wrong?

    in Box Office Discussion

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    I took my future wife to this movie for our first date. I started crying at the end lol. Thank god she still fell in love with me:pNarnia stole its thunder as it seemed more family friendly. Perhaps basing it in 1933 may have hindered the interest. I remember being shocked with the 9mill number too. Still doesn't make sense to me. Good thing it had great legs to reach a respectable dom gross at the end of it. Batman begins and King Kong were the best movie of 2005 for me

    Dark Knight Rises VS Iron Man 3....ugh

    in The Speakeasy

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    Let's see, Iron Man logic for a typical action scene:

     

     

    Step 1: Give home address to international terrorist who is known for sneaking explosives into the most unlikely places

     

    Step 2: Make no attempt to put up any sort of protection around or leave said address even when your girlfriend who you claim to be obsessed with protecting BLATANTLY SAYS you should be hightailing it out of there and how unbelievably stupid it is.

     

    Step 3: Call upon consistently malfunctioning suit in place of 40 other fully functional suits.

     

    Sidenote #1: I'm pretty sure heading into a stone wall at 80 miles per would cause his bones to shatter and internal organs to turn into a confection of chunky salsa, but nope, it just stuns Tony.

     

    Sidenote #2: I'm also sure that pulling someone out from underneath tons of rock and metal AND underwater by their flesh and blood hand would result in a very messy situation for the victim.

     

    Sidenote #3: Pepper leaning over the balcony while its collapsing and yet is somehow fine in the next scene.  There is no way she should have escaped/survived except that "the plot says so".

     

     

     

    Action scene #2:

     

     

    Step 1: SS agents, the most notoriously anal retentive officers on the planet, allow a fully weaponized death machine aboard AF1 without any sort of vocal or visual identification, even though its been shown in previous installments that suits can be hijacked.

     

    Step 2: Replace bulletproof windows with easily shattered glass, thus making everyone think that the only difference between AF1 and a generic passenger plane from Air Nova is replacing air marshals with secret service agents.

     

    Step 3: While you could very easily send each piece of the suit down to collect each falling passenger seeing as how they move much faster individually than when connected, why just do a ridiculously elaborate and time wasting measure that looks like a rejected stunt from a MarineLand show just so we can pull of a contrived twist to show Tony's not in the suit?

     

     

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

     

    - Tony has been shown numerous times in previous installments to be close to death (The opening attack which resulted in his arc reactor, the escape scene, the removal of his reactor by Stane, the overloading of the large reactor during the climax, the blood poisoning, the bombs at the end of IM2)  and yet it's nearly getting killed in space that triggers PTSD?  Is getting killed by a freaky looking metal monkey somehow more traumatizing than getting blown up by a 15 foot hulking robot or atomized by a nuclear explosion? 

     

    - Tony cures his PTSD by 'building something?'  What the hell do you call those 40+ suits he came up with?!?

     

     

     

    - Tony's only disguise is a baseball cap and yet the only person that manages to recognize him in an entire town of hundreds is a news reporter?  He's an over the top glory hound and the most prolific figure on the planet who was famous for saving the world and yet no one except a reporter who's probably had to cover stories on him numerous times over the years recognizes him?

     

     

    Twists:

     

    The Mandarin twist seems to be focused on a lot in this film, possibly because it was the only twist that wasn't entirely predictable.

     

    - Even if you've never seen The Incredibles, Killian being revealed to be a villain was entirely too contrived and coordinated. 

     

    Ignoring the OTT Edward Nigma stereotype portrayed by Pearce, do you really expect a guy who was snubbed by Tony in the OPENING FLASHBACK of the film and then returns later on as a successful entrepreneur is only there to walk up to Tony, stick up his two middle fingers and say...

     

    "Na-Na-Na-Na-Naaa-Na

    I'm-a-big-suc-cess-now

    Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!..."

     

    in nothing more than a glorified cameo?

     

    Also, pretty weak motivation to become a supervillain.

     

     

    - Pepper survives the fall.  Yeah, because revealing that Extremis subjects are super powerful with various weaponized attacks is in no way going to be displayed by Pepper at some point during the climax of the film. <_<

     

     

     

    Misc:

     

    - So Tony's suits are coded to him only, yet Pepper and Killian can wear them, no problem.

     

    - Tony and Rhodey seem quite comfortable discussing classified information in a public bar.

     

    - Tony's computer can reconstruct a crime scene that was never recorded by any device.

     

    - Where was Shield during any of this?  Fury can shoot the breeze with Tony when he's pissing around with blood poisoning but can't send in a single agent to help when the PRESIDENT IS KIDNAPPED?

     

    - Or, for that matter, where is that National Security that was all over the first Iron Man film?  Terrorist copters attack Tony's house and he ends up somewhere in the middle of Tennessee but no rescue is deployed at any time.

     

    - Also,

     

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    WHERE THE MOD EDITING MOD EDIT WAS THIS GUY DURING ANY OF THIS!?!

     

    - Extremis is apparently hot enough to melt steel but does no damaged to normal, everyday clothing.

     

    Sidenote: In the Avengers, the IM suit can withstand lightning bolts which usually have an average temp range of about 53,000 degrees, yet here, it can't withstand temperatures lower than the sun (5,600 degrees)

     

     

    And possibly the DUMBEST moment of the film, Tony blows up his suits...

     

     

    Why?

     

     

    Some ridiculously contrived moment of "SYMBOLISM" to show you don't need them?  Because it looked like you were pretty much a fish flopping outside of a bowl without them.  Hell, Pepper was the one who killed Killian with a piece of that tech!  Did aliens, superpowered beings and various other villains just vanish from existence?  What is the point of destroying an army of extremely useful robots? Just WHAT!?!?!

     

    If this film wasn't associated with the Marvel conjoined universe and was just another alternate studio release like Daredevil and Ghost Rider, it would have been no better received than those contributions.

     

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    I think this is abit too much to be honest...even though i agree with most of it:P 

    Weekend Numbers Smaug 31.4, AM2 26.7 Frozen/AH 19.1

    in Numbers and Data

    Posted

    I was shocked as well how they shut shop in the last 3 overs following Faf's dismissal. I am not complaining though. The stinger at the end which made the crowd really angry was Steyn hitting a six off the last ball - you could see everyone thinking "Why didn't you do that 10 balls ago"

     

     
     

     

    No, we are talking about what may have possibly been one of the greatest test matches ever played in Cricket history.

     

    yeah. Pity though would have been great win for SA, but i think they remembered they always choke so played it safe at the end. Good return from India

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