User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Review4U: Iron Man 2 (Film)/@comment-4651179-20140410015413/@comment-1458758-20140410032155

You raise some interesting thoughts, and one or two things I didn't know.

My personal view on it is that there isn't a bad movie in the MCU so far. I've seen bad movies, horribly acted sh*tstorms with worthless effects, terrible acting and stories so flimsy they wouldn't hold up in a food court. And while I'm sure people would tell me I just have low standards, they clearly haven't seen the depths of the crap I have. That's why, my standard is, even if it's a bad film, or doesn't match a high standard, when you can tell people were putting their all into it, it's worth being appreciated.

In terms of Whiplash, the fact that he had Tony and Rhodey by the throats and were killing them until they hit him with Deus Ex Attack combo pretty much sums it up for me. Not to mention, if you look at his resume, he is a physicist, that was his job. He then spent a good long while in prison. End result, not only can a physicist build a miniature arc reactor (A feat Stark Enterprises scientists said was impossible not a week before he did it) he built a unique weapon that could cut through the Iron Man armour, he turned the Hammer suits into automated drones, fixed one to his own specs and included an improved version of said weapon, could write at least 5 codes to control each set of drones plus Rhodey and this is just the intellectual side of it when not including the prison guard he killed and two Hammer Heavies he strung from the ceiling. And this is a man at least as old as Tony who has seemingly been living off a diet of vodka and hate for the past 40 years. By comparison Obidiah wasn't as smart, a manipulator, sure, but he couldn't build this stuff himself and needed the suit entirely to fight. Aldrich on the other hand was maybe smarter, but he was even worse off than Obi in a fight until he had Extremis. in terms of natural ability, Ivan seemingly has the advantage no matter how you slice it.