{"id":575,"date":"2010-05-24T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-05-24T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:11:59","slug":"iron-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2010\/05\/iron-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Man 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Iron Man 2<\/em> picks up not long after the first film. Tony Stark is dying of Palladium poisoning from the arc-reactor embedded in his chest, he is coming under increasing pressure to turn over the Iron Man suit to the US government, especially when a new threat in the form of Whiplash, the alter ego of Ivan Vanko, a Russian physicist with some strong grievances against Stark.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I had a great time with this film. I really enjoyed the first one, and I get the sense that the studios have learned a lot from the relative flops that were the <em>Spiderman<\/em> sequels. There are some good nods to the comics, especially with the inclusion of Nick Fury and the SHIELD initiative.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That being said, the script suffers a bit from having to be everywhere at once. Although all the disparate plot lines (Whiplash, Hammer Industries, Government interference, SHIELD, Tony&#8217;s own self-doubt) are tied together nicely, the pacing seems choppy at times, with scenes crucial to understanding what&#8217;s going on sandwiched in at 30-second snippets between other bigger scenes.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, though, <em>Iron Man 2<\/em> is a rough-and-tumble action flick, tempered by some good character performances, especially from Robert Downey, Jr and Gwynneth Paltrow. \u00c2\u00a0Mickey Rourke also brings a strong presence as Ivan Vanko\/Whiplash.<\/p>\n<p>Buy some popcorn and just enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Man 2 picks up not long after the first film. Tony Stark is dying of Palladium poisoning from the arc-reactor embedded in his chest, he is coming under increasing pressure to turn over the Iron Man suit to the US government, especially when a new threat in the form of Whiplash, the alter ego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[119,422],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-9h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}