Iron Man 2

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I love the Iron Man series and am largely entertained by even it’s latest, lamest incarnation. I simply enjoy watching Robert Downey Jr. act and interact with his robots and stuff. The story, however, I find hilarious. Iron Man doesn’t actually help anybody. He basically creates problems and ‘fixes’ them, in the sense of periodically destroying large parts of his city. In the first Iron Man I kept track and I think he saved literally 17 people. In doing so, he killed like 50. It was basically some random villagers in Afghanistan. In the second one I can’t recall him really saving anyone at all, besides himself. The movie really is all about him.

Posted on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 in Video, out.

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Comment by B.I*
2010-06-03 08:15:23

hey he saved that kid with the iron man mask! :)

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Comment by Whacko
2010-06-05 13:33:41

random Afghani’s don’t count as people. hyok

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