Board Thread:Movies/@comment-7999061-20130502135427/@comment-3545644-20130517035354

Mr. Xemnas wrote: Yeah agreed the first time you see avengers it's just like a buddha moment

A "Buddha moment" is not a moment of sheer awe. It's a moment when a dilemma you're in suddenly makes sense in a way you hadn't thought of before.

Just watched the "Sibling Rivalry" spoiler segment at ThatGuyWithTheGlasses concerning the movie. I have to somewhat agree with Rob and Doug that Killian's plan to get revenge on Tony, go EA on the public by releasing a defective and unfinished product as if it were complete, and engage in actual terrorism to stage fake terrorism; seems like an overly-complicated plan.

In real life, he would probably have done what one woman who was scorned by an employer did on a truTV show clip - try to slip rat poison in the target's Diet Coke. Although, Killian would probably be more discreet so as not to get caught.

I know that in The Incredibles, Syndrome's overly-complicated plan to get back at Mr. Incredible for rejecting him was also totally absurd. But that was a Pixar cartoon. So I can forgive it for being a bit silly. In Iron Man 3, it seemed...lacking justification.

Also, I know I'm beating the Dark Knight Saga comparisons thing to dead horse territory, but even Bane's revenge on Batman and attack on Gotham made more sense and was more justified.

Tony merely led Killian to a roof and forgot him there. Bruce blew up the League of Shadows' home base. And indirectly killed Ra's al Ghoul. Both versions. And threatened the League's core ideology. Also, Killian's whole speech to Tony of "It was me the whole time!" was a bit of a let-down. I'd've preferred if "so-brilliant" Tony had been able to deduce that himself. I can almost hear the line delivery now: "What cheap parlor tricks to hide your true identity, Mandarin!"

Then again, Vanko's plan was overly-complicated. In a way, so also was Obadiah's. So was IM3 perfect? By no means. Was it terrible? No. It missed a lot of opportunities, but it still delivered well on its payload. Is it better than Avengers? I would have to argue no. Shane Black is a way-better director and visionary than Jon Favreau. But it's hard to top the Joss Whedon formula.