Iron Man 2 REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the second Iron Man film, "Iron Man 2." So in this movie Iron Man not only fights against the bad guys, he fight against his friends and the government. Why is he fighting them? Well because of his alter-ego.

Lets get this review started with the negatives first shall we? Well I am going to have to say the script/plot of this movie needed to be completely redone. The whole thing was jumpy and didn't feel right. You wanted more from this movie, and as the sequel it didn't fill that need. The ending to me seemed rushed and quick. I hate it when movies have the final battle last one a couple of minutes tops. I mean the whole movie is build up and then, BAM its a quick and easy fight. I did also want to mention that this movie had to much humor in it. It was like it was trying to hard to be funny. The other thing I am going to have to comment on is Mickey Rourke. I really did not like him in this film, and I really also didn't like his character as the villain. It just felt week.

Other than those things I thought this was a somewhat enjoyable superhero movie. Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man is just brilliant as always. He plays Tony's cocky ego perfectly, but yet when he needs to be serious he can be. Don Cheadle is the replacement for Terrence Howard in this movie as the character James Rhodes. I think this is a worthy replacement. Usually I am not fond of studios replacing their characters with different actors, but Don just makes the character better than Terrence ever did. Scarlett Johansson is just incredible as Natasha Romanhoff. I would say more here but trying not to give anything away. Lets just say she is hot as hell, and does an incredible job at what she is supposed to do. Sam Rockwell is also in this movie as one of the other bad guys, and let me just say he can make a good bad guy. I loved him in here. The rest of the cast also is amazing as always. Now the special effects are very good in this film. I loved the work they do with the Iron Man suits. They are just awesome when Tony suits up. This moves us to the action parts of the film. Well I mentioned above they are to quick, but I did want to mention down here in the positives section that they have their badass moments too.

So all-in-all in the end it is a enjoyable superhero action film, but not a worthy addition to the "Iron Man" series. I feel bad about doing this but it is only going to get a rent worthy rating, but if you are a collector go for the Blu-ray. Not a must-see, but in the sake of it leading up to "The Avengers" you should see it. I will give it a popcorn flick rating though. As for the rating out of five it pains me to give "Iron Man 2" a 2.5/5 rating.

Well thank you for reading this review; I really do hope that you have enjoyed it. If you wanted to see my review of the first "Iron Man" film just CLICK HERE. So one more thing before I end this post. I did want to mention that tonight I will be posting my 100th post since I began this site on June 21, 2012. So make sure you stay tuned for that special review, and stay tuned for more . . . coming soon.

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Trailer Talk of "Iron Man 3"

Okay so here we GO!!! Marvel's "The Avengers" was released in May, and so of course there is going to be more of Iron Man, Thor, Captian America, and others to set up another "Avengers" film. "Iron Man 3" is the first release since "The Avengers." Now before I get into things from the trailer make sure you watch it above!

So first of all I just yesterday came to the conclusion that Iron Man for sure is my number one favorite superhero. I am sorry Batman but it is the truth. He just is cocky, super smart, and all around badass! Now for "Iron Man 3" I was a little scared because Jon Favreau wasn't at the helm of directing, but after seeing this trailer all of my concerns were thrown out the window! Holy buckets does this movie look like a freaking epic film. I like how they show that Tony Stark is having issues after the events of "The Avengers." It makes the whole story line a lot more realistic. Now for this film it seems like it is going to be a lot darker than the rest. What I mean by this is that it seems to have a tone to it that makes it feel scary and just more real. Now the threat in this film is HUGE! They make it seem like Tony's world is just crumpling around him, and that he is going to have to rely on his best weapon . . . his intellect.

So am I excited for "Iron Man 3?" HELL TO THE YES! Iron Man is the best, and this film already look like a badass movie. My plan is to order IMAX tickets as soon as possible so I make sure I get a seat at midnight! What about you though? What do you think about this trailer? Let me know below and stay tuned for more.

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Iron Man REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the motion picture, "Iron Man" starring Robert Downey Jr. In this film legendary weapons specialist and inventor, Tony Stark, is threatened with his life. He builds an armored iron suit in a cave to escape. After that he decides to use its technology to fight against evil.

Well lets get the long list of positives out of the way right? Ha well I want to say right now that Robert Downey Jr. was literally a perfect match for Tony Stark. I can not imagine anyone playing that character any better than him. Just an outstanding performance there. I did love the performance by Gwyneth Paltrow. She did a pretty good job. I do want to move onto the story line and the screenplay which I thought was amazing. This story is just a great opening to a great superhero movie. It keeps you interested and just wanting more which I love in a script. I did also think that the humor in this movie was very well done, which is a big deal because I think movies usually do a bad job with humor.  The music/score of the film was decent so I thought I would mention it. I thought it did a good job with adding something to the film. The director of this film was Jon Favreau, and let me just say that he did an amazing job with this story and with the way he presented the film. The angle of the cameras and just everything was great. Jon Favreau also did a good job with the action scenes. I thought those were well done. I do like how he was in the film too, I thought he did a good job as Tony's security guard. The special effects of this film are also something to comment on as they did get nominated for an Oscar. I never even noticed it throughout the entire film which is the best kind of special effects.

Moving onwards to the negatives. Well for acting I did not like Terrace Howard and Jeff Bridges in this film. I just feel like they didn't fit there parts very well. Then there is the end battle which I thought was WAY to rushed. Like HUGE HUGE build up throughout the film and then like a three minute end battle. I always find that annoying. The movie was running on two hours but that doesn't mean cut into the big battle.

So all-in-all what is "Iron Man" going to get? Well it is a great beginning film to what could be a great franchise for a superhero. It will get a Blu-Ray buy-worthy rating along with it being a great popcorn flick. This film will even get a 100% deserved must-see film. It is a really good superhero movie . . . which are rare. As for the rating out of five, "Iron Man" deserves a 4/5 rating.

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Due Date REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the feature film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, "Due Date." This film follow Peter (Robert's character) who is trying to get home before his wife has their first child, but along the way Ethan (Zach's character) "accidentally" sabotages ways to get there. They are in a hurry to get home before she has the baby.

For this review lets start with the positives of this movie shall we? Well I really do like Robert Downey Jr. in this movie. He always seems to play his parts in the movie very well, he just seems to become his character very well. I would though have to say that the rest of the acting in this movie was eh (get to it later). The plot of this film was very good. I did really like it, it seemed to flow very well. It kept me interested I guess I could say (exceptions below). Um . . . there were a couple parts I guess where it was a little funny but not all of it was really. This movie did do a very good job at getting to your heart though, and Robert has helped with that quite a bit actually. Oh, Zach could also touch your heart too. So yes it had somewhat of a good message to it, and I do like how it ended the film. It seemed like it was a realistic ending (somewhat).

Now this movie is nowhere near perfect (like "The Dark Knight Rises"), so it does in fact have quite a few negatives to it. To start them off I am going to have to say I am getting sick of Zach Galifianakis's performance's as a dumb-ass. They are starting to get annoying, can he even pull of a serious role as a main character. Sure thats what he does best at, but it has to come to a point where it just becomes annoying. Well, he hit that with this movie. The other performances in this film were so short that it really never matter. Even though they didn't even see, like they were acting. Just seemed like they were asked to read this line for the film. Moving on to the plot, well there were some gaps in it at point, but I can't give anything away so I can say where, but when watching the film you will see some huge gaps. Um, I didn't like who all of a sudden something between the Peter and Ethan changed. Seemed a little unrealistic. It was like one second this, then blink and it was changed already. Oh and how funny was this movie? Well I laughed maybe (and I mean maybe once) otherwise I might have smiled at one part. Other than that it was again another shove down your throat funny movie.

So all-in-all a somewhat heartfelt movie, that tries to be funny, but has one good actor in it! Um not really a movie you should ever buy, um I guess if you couldn't find anything better and want something new to watch (and its a last minute thing) you could rent this. That will be my rating there, on the scale I will give it a 2.5/5 rating. Now leave a comment below if you have seen this movie (or after seeing it) telling me what you thought about this film.

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The Avengers REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for Marvel's "The Avengers." Well I am sure you all can guess what I am going to rate this film right? Well I can honestly say it is not a full 10/10 unfortunately (it takes a lot for a movie to be able to do that). It is thought a 9/10 FOR SURE!!! If I could do 9.5/10 I would but I cannot so on we go with the review, with one tiny negative about the movie.

Well we should get this darn negative out the way right away. The only thing that bothered me about this film was the fact that it starts out that Iron Man and Captian America agree and like each other and work together for a little bit, but then they are suddenly arguing? I just don't get that I guess. (Oh and also I am not a huge fan of Chris Evans as Captian America but he did okay).

OTHERWISE this film is just bloody freaking epic. Oh it made me laugh, cry, gave my goosebumps, and much MUCH more. I don't want to give anything away to anyone (very few people) who hasn't seen it, so I am going to not try and talk to much about this film. Though I do want to talk about the directing, acting, plot, and just the awesomeness that came from this film. Directing: Joss Whedon was defiantly the man for the job, 1000 freaking percent. The camera angles were always just perfect, and I love how he made every Avenger relevant, even Black Widow and Hawkeye. Acting: well Robert Downey Jr. always does his absolute best as Iron Man (my favorite). I always wonder if that is how he is somewhat in real life? Mark Ruffalo is made to be the Hulk. You might have heard people say this before, but I am going to say it anyway, this movie made me LOVE the Hulk. I hated him before this, but now he is one of my favorite superhero's. Of course though everyone else did a GREAT job. The plot of this film was just superb. Joss Whedon you have defiantly outdone yourself this year with this film. You are now on my list of directors to watch out for. This movie was just a bad-ass movie all together. I love this movie so much, well probably obvious because I have seen it four times now. Just everything, and mostly the last like 20-30 minutes. Not going to give anything away though so I am shutting my words up.

All-in-all a very, VERY good motion picture that I absolutely love, but can't give it my best rating because I said to myself, even if there is one little thing I do not like about it I have to bump it down one rating, which sucks for this film because I love it so much. So a well deserve popcorn flick rating along with a 9/10. A MUST SEE!!!

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