Iron Man 2!!!
It is The watch of the season, baby. For me, at least.
For a guy, the movie has done almost everything right: From pretty little explosions to a festival of sleek military technology, hi-tech machines that operate with just one word from you to being able to move almost anything that is virtual with your own hands, it's a technogeek's dream come true in some sense.
Of course, who can resist the sizzling Scarlett Johansson? (I AM a guy, so if girls are entitled to scream and swoon over pretty boys, why can't guys gape and drool over hot women? That's equality for you, you know.)
The substance was present too. The witty one-liners from Robert Downey Jr.'s Anthony Stark were superbly executed, as were the hilarious squabbles between him and Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, his long-suffering secretary cum assistant cum lover(?). Then you have token scenes that involved Johansson's Natasha Romanov taking out an entire group of security guards in a flash while the driver/chaffeur of the show, being the macho man he was, charged into enemy territory, took loads of punches before downing ONE security guard.
One friend did mention to me that the ending was a little unsatisfying as everything rushed its way to the peak of the climax, but I begged to differ, thinking that doing the same old thing would be cliche. You can look at it either way, really.
Before I spoil too much, let's just say that the movie was wonderfully made. Though the villains weren't really fleshed out, I supposed it was a decent effort to delve a little into the history of one of them while continuously making a mockery out of the other.
What struck me, again, as Ip Man 2 did, was how human the main character was. Playboy billionaire he was, narcissist he was, the movie did a very good take on the possible reasons why he acted in certain ways.
-Sometimes he did not seem like himself and just went wild. Well, something really, really bad was happening to him. It's just human to act that way. Besides, he did have lots of help because there was something he could apparently offer, allowing him to stand up once again. Of course, no one understood him at that time. Virtually no one. Beyond that, he even gets beaten up by the friend closest to him, who did not seek to understand the situation.
-The narcissism had apparently came about due to something that happened in his childhood, something that made him very bitter about GETTING ATTENTION. I had no problems with his narcissism because it was funny at the start, but later I realise that I felt sympathy for this man.
-Always thinking that he could do it alone, in the end he needed help and he acknowledged that. Did he refuse it initially? HECK YES.
-All throughout the show, did he indulge? Oh, come on...You're talking about a playboy billionaire who can get almost any material possession he wanted in the world whenever he wanted it, wherever he wanted it.
-Yet at the end, he saw the error of his ways. Unlike the real world (This is what separates them, actually...The real world and the movie realm), everyone close to him forgave him because he saved the day. The important thing is, he redeemed himself and was given the chance to do so.
So you see, it's not just the Fabulous Mr. Stark who seemed human. Even the characters are as well, despite there being lesser focus on them. They play along. They misunderstand. They give up. They forgive.
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