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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Honestly, this describes every Marvel film except The Avengers. They are all solid flicks, but nothing on the scale of Dark Knight. Nothing that's a game changer or mind blowing.
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Fair enough, but they raised the bar compared to how well super hero flicks in general. Ya, x-men 1 and the original Spiderman was well received, even though I didn't particularly love McGuire in the role and liked last year's Spiderman way more.
The genre as a whole had a lot of crappy releases that often ended up straight to video, and really the Superman movies in the late 70's early 80's were it except the occasional outlier.
Movies like Spawn, or the early 90's Captain America, DareDevil, etc attempts were film abortions, and having Marvel and others intervene and protect their brands and bringing in better writers, directors and talent has made the superhero flicks way way better even if that simply means they would get a solid B grade or so if you're being objective in their quality.
Ironically, the new director for IM3 has his roots in scribing the original Lethal Weapon franchise, and when watching the movie there were scenes that I totally thought of those movies, and I didn't know this before seeing the movie. Don't think many will see this as it was just minor scene location choices and what not. Don't worry, Tony Stark doesn't go all "Rog" and start saying " I'm getting to old for this shit!" or anything.
On a sidenote, I do think Downey Jr. Probably had a great deal of input on who they chose as the director for 3, as they had previously worked together right after Downey's downfall and slide in Hollywood on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
A movie that I love, and put Downey back on the path to A list actor after he was considered too much a risk and all the negative PR had almost killed his career.
His performance with Val Kilmer was awesome. Oddly enough, Kilmer has sort of grown up, and started taking stronger minor roles in very good projects as well as more feature roles in smaller budget, independent or limited release films that have been really good.
Sort of like Affleck stepping away from the leading man shit roles and charging his own career by getting back to writing, directing, and way more selective in his project choices, but obviously to a much smaller degree or trajectory because Val is older and more limited at this point of his career.