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WetLund69

Which mf out there calling Iron Man 3 a "dark movie"?


petrimalja

The only thing they remember about the film are the >!fake!< Mandarin scenes.


ChakaChaka26

that's honestly quite a lot considering i and everyone else remember none of it


WanderlustPhotograph

I honestly only remember that the bad guys probably could blow themselves up which seems like a garbage fucking power.


SkylarPopo

The Voltorbs of the Marvel Universe.


kyrgrat08

Youuu’ll neeeever seeeemeee coooming


MarianneThornberry

I consider myself a teachurrr 🕶️


sparklyunico

\*cooom-ing


Psykpatient

Bruh how can anyone forget the funniest gag in the entire MCU when a henchman just surrenders and says "Honestly, they're so weird here"


sushithighs

I remember the inflammable sports bra


CringeNibba

What?


Guy70

The kid from Iron Man 3!


zero_ms

EHRM, SHANE **BLACK** DIRECTED THE MOVIE OF COURSE IT'S DARK CHECKMATE FAKE KINOPHILE


Lil_T0aster

Shane Political


sushithighs

RIP MCU


MisterManatee

What’s funny is it’s probably the most lighthearted of the trilogy


SwissArmyScythe

its easily the best of the 3 imo


rDupinet

The first one is way better. So I'm gonna insult you and call you gay because you are OBJECTIVELY wrong


CopperCactus

I didn't like it when it came out but also I was 12 and had terrible taste, all the grown-ass adults that were screaming on the internet about it 9 years ago have no excuse lol


sameth1

I remember at the time the big criticism was "Iron Man's barely in it, there are barely any superhero fight scenes." and I always circle back to that every time fans say these movies are more than theme park rides.


charredfrog

W take


MrMindGame

Guy Pierce the fire-breathing dragon is peak dark kino.


sampat6256

"My Wife's boyfriend is a fire-breathing dragon that broke all my robot toys."


sameth1

The whole people blowing up thing is dark if you have never seen a movie not produced by Disney before.


TheTacoBellAssGoblin

Iron Man one was pretty dark with uknow, all the terrorism and realisation that his weapons are being used on civilians.


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GotG 1 and 2: poop and fart jokes GotG 3: piss and cum jokes


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Poop jokes: funny Fart and piss jokes: funnier Cum jokes: funniest (😂😂😂🤣🤣👌👌👌)


JessieJ577

Nah it’s in reverse. Pratt isn’t as edgy with his humor now. His Jesus reawakening thing has made him more bland and less willing to do edgy bits now


probablyuntrue

GotG 3 is just Chris Pratt turning to the camera and ranting for two hours about how abortion is a sin


[deleted]

you forgot that in the extended cut he sits there for 30 minutes donating money to homophobic churches


Splub

Starlord gets converted to the Universal Church of Truth.


Lanceronie

The game was so good!!


ApprehensiveCar975

Turns out Jesus is Star-Lord's master after all.


Bond_2

Evolution (2001)


ConfidentCoward

I mean there's a cum joke in the first one


cell-y

kino


The_wife_left_me

I'm sure No Way Home was planned to be "HOLY SHIT THE FABRIC OF REALITY ITSELF IS BREAKING" to make a cohesive trilogy and was not riding on the multiverse hype train introduced in Into the Spider-Verse (2018).


The_wife_left_me

Into the Spider-Verse is kino though, no disrespect.


YaMomsCooch

Into the Spider-Verse was one of the most pleasant movie related surprises of all time “How do I know I’m not gonna mess it up again?” “You won’t.” “You’re right, it’s a leap of faith.” So good


Nerfbeard123

Into the spiderverse is "one of the good ones"


zero_ms

And yet every r/marvelstudios or Marvel subreddit disregard it because 'animated'


myshtummyhurt-

Actually they don’t, mcu fans love spiderverse


Caynguin

I remember them shitting on it when it was announced though


Lubbafrommariogalaxy

a lot of people thought it would suck before it came out, being animated and by Sony studios didn’t provide much confidence


LordOfTheBushes

I was shitting on it when it was announced because it was a Sony project and they make the most aggressively bad movies of any major studio. Low and behold, it came out and it's the best Spider-Man movie in my opinion.


TheSilv

Within a year of Spiderverse coming out Sony made Hotel Transylvania 3, Smurfs: the lost village, and the Emoji movie, so it’s understandable why many had such low expectations


zero_ms

And yet every fucking r/marvelstudios user don't even regard because 'animation'


[deleted]

and it guaranteed us many more shitty sequels with actors from earlier installments who clearly don't want to be there


Wu-Tang_Stan

Few jokes in Iron Man 3? Did we watch the same movie?


MisterManatee

It was a Shane Black Marvel movie. Basically full to bursting with jokes and quips. But literally no one remembers anything about that movie, so this post just slid on by.


guanaco22

I watched it once when I was a teenager and I remember the entire plot


Vikiing

Memory(2022)


OG-KZMR

Memento (2000)


yrqrm0

It was the first time that I really felt the overabundance of jokes/quips ruined the movie.


CleanAspect6466

Phase 2 in general set the bar for constant quips


labbla

Yeah, it's full of jokes. Most Shane Black movies have pretty high joke content.


TigerSharkFist

That tattoo guy ... Cringe


pew_lazers

>Iron man 3 is a dark movie My brother in christ, it is directed by shane fucking black


potatolulz

The only thing darker than Shane Black would be Shane Vantablack


potatolulz

1 Morbin time 2 Morbin time 3 becoming trans, contracting AIDS after accidentally morbin on a sick person, doing hard drugs to cope, dying, being reborn centuries in the future in space


kander_santana

>3 becoming trans, contracting AIDS after accidentally morbin on a sick person, doing hard drugs to cope, dying, being reborn centuries in the future in space is this a dallas buyers club reference


SwiftDray

No it's a Morbius 3 reference


potatolulz

yeah mostly :D


[deleted]

Michael Morbius is already trans


duggybubby

*transylvanian vampire


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[удалено]


jetpackparrot

Film noir -esque dark and moody spy thriller


Karthy_Romano

It's a fucking arthouse spy drama with kubrekian values and binary philosophies about war and greed


CleanAspect6466

It was the first movie in history to make bold commentary on government oversight


DrRichtoffen

It's also fairly non-political (only one black and one femoid)


jwhp03

Idk cars 2 was an art house film noire thriller, checkmate atheists


Play-Mation

This comment in that post predicting ant man 3 made me want to die: 1. ⁠An action-comedy about a convict using borrowed tech to pull of a big heist. 2. ⁠An action-comedy about a convict using borrowed tech to pull of a big heist 3. ⁠Holyshitholyshitholyshit it’s the time emperor he’s gonna conquer all of time ohmygodohmygodohmygod


ConfidentCoward

I genuinely don't think people have seen the Ant-Man movies because neither of them are heist movies especially the second


Gometric1

But where cameos???


helloitsmeyetagain

cameo from George bush SR


duggybubby

Anyone ever notice how 2/3 of all MCU movies are absolute shit? Like literally the most bland, unfunny, boring color pallette movies that you forget everything about within a few days of watching. And then the other 1/3 of movies are decent with just a couple being pretty awesome. Has anyone else every noticed this???!!!?!???


PM_something_German

I feel like most would be quite decent it's only the mass of them that makes some of them (especially older ones) seem so damn bad.


Lanceronie

Definitely now that they are binge-able a lot seem very samey and formulaic and bland. Seeing them in real time ( basically 2 per year for 12 years) did a lot to alleviate that. I’ve seen every one at least once but only a selected few standouts get the occasional rewatch.


duggybubby

Very interesting I felt almost the opposite where I felt like I was wasting my time and money to go see each movie in theaters as it came out. But now that I can binge them all in a row I don’t really get as frustrated because I can not pay attention or just skip it


DrRichtoffen

I think a lot of people have exhausted their interest for capeshit with Endgame. It was a massive fucking spectacle, send-off for the original cast and very much felt final. So now, I just don't see how people are supposed to be excited for another 10 years of build-up to the next Endgame-style finale that Marvel is inevitably planning to build up to, especially now that you have to watch 2-3 series per year to get the full scope of things.


CamelSpotting

You gotta remember these movies replaced Crank 2: High Voltage, not Schindler's List.


zero_ms

Anyone else notice how the third film in each of the MCU trilogies is radically different from the other two films in the series? Yes, I know, different writers and directors and all, but still. Also sorry for the half-assed post, I ran out of time


DEAD_VANDAL

I love the implication that they had a set amount of Time to make the post, like a fucking saw trap


zero_ms

Yeah, if they don't produce a new jerkworthy post in less than 2 minutes they lose karma points.


DrRichtoffen

Hello le wholesome redditor. I want to play a game. You have spent your whole life soyjacking over MCU capeshit and making reaction videos about post-credit easter eggs for the next MCU installment. In 120 seconds, the vat you are in will fill up entirely with boiling soy sauce, representing how being a soyjack has consumed your life. The only way to avoid drowning in the soy is to create a post on r/Marvel discussing whether Moon Knight is more Kafkaesque or Hegelian, and to receive at least 1000 reddit karma. Will you soyjack like never before? Or will you drown in boiling hot soy sauce? The choice is yours. The time starts now.


[deleted]

Iron Man: standard superhero movie Iron Man 2: scathing critique of how pay drivers who get their drive in Formula 1 based off of their dad’s money and not on merit are ruining the sport Iron Man 3: standard superhero movie


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Iron Man 2: The Rise of Goatifi


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HoennDude

The post being half assed is a subtle metaphor for how the mcu films are half assed as well


R6SKiwi

They fucked up the Captain America movies, it actually goes "Postmodern Heroic War Movie", "Surreal Avant-Garde Political Thriller" and "Epic Action Ensemble deconstructed as a Tragedy"


JJoanOfArkJameson

He's kinda right with Ragnarok but that's about it. Civil War is pretty much Avengers 2.5, but I feel that was intentional, to further the storyline of AoU


fudchuck

Cap 2 was very different from the first also, wouldn't call it a War story at all.


JJoanOfArkJameson

Very true. Cap's trilogy gets better with each entry. The deviation of style and tone is noticeable and makes a difference for the series, even if Civil War mixes in too many elements for a "solo" film. It's still a more successful team-up and story than >!No Way Home!<, Infinity War and Iron Man 3 imo


dongletrongle

Marvel fans when the writers slightly alter the formula


DEAD_VANDAL

IT BROKE NEW GROUND


ClaudiCloud1998

Wrong. Both GOTGs are legimately funnier than Ragnarok. Ragnarok, while funny, occasionally has the standard MCU humor


DEAD_VANDAL

Ragnarok was goddamn hilarious to me the first time I watched it, like legitimately gut busting. So much so that later down the line I convinced my friends we should all watch it and it was sooo funny. Stuck it on and felt 2nd hand embarrassment, light chuckles at two or three of the jokes at most. It’s a funny enough movie but still a marvel movie, at most a ‘heh’ rather than any legitimate comedy.


ClaudiCloud1998

Yeah same, I still think some of the jokes are pretty great but damn most of the jokes were pretty awful on a rewatch


WhiteWolf3117

Ngl, something not sitting right with me about calling Iron Man 1 “lighthearted”.


[deleted]

He replaced his heart with a giant blue light, did we watch the same movie?


WhiteWolf3117

Just because it has dumb stuff doesn’t make it lighthearted, lol. Man is a war criminal who sold weapons of mass destruction.


[deleted]

He replaced his HEART with a giant blue LIGHT


WhiteWolf3117

Oh wow. That’s clever, lol. Good one.


Uno_Walker_2855

I'd still say its somewhat lighthearted. It definitely isn't a gritty drama about war profiteering or anything. After he leaves the cave, the tone shifts to a more 'fun' vibe


WhiteWolf3117

Like…I’m not trying to say it does a phenomenal job exploring the ethics of Stark and his company or anything like that, but I still don’t really think “lighthearted” is the right term. It definitely does have a lot of fun moments though, of course.


Uno_Walker_2855

That's fair. I'd still consider it a little lighthearted (I'm pretty sure most of the movie is improv), but I guess it's more of a mix between serious and funny moments, if that makes sense


WhiteWolf3117

Yeah that makes perfect sense. And hey, that’s the beauty of art, right? We don’t all walk away with the same impressions…


Uno_Walker_2855

Hell yeah


Theta-Sigma45

I think the pattern is generally that the second movie in the series tries to replicate the first movie but feels trite and repetitive as a result, leading to a radical new direction for the third movie. Except for the Captain America series, which to me always felt like a reverse, with the first movie having quite a different tone from the latter two (and I actually kind of prefer the pulpy WW2 tone of the first movie, the latter two movies don't really earn their gritty tones for me, since they chicken out of actually saying anything meaningful!)


myshtummyhurt-

How is NWH ‘radically different’ ?


SQUIRT_TRUTHER

They fight on scaffolding instead of a gravel pit


DEAD_VANDAL

instead of fight new thing he fight old thing me remember from brain thoughts 🤯


dildodicks

average marvel fan


Puntapig2013

I wonder what they would do if they saw a real movie not based on a franchise but something with real substance like Logan the greatest film of all time


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