{"id":4450,"date":"2012-01-20T12:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2012-01-20T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:40:54","slug":"ironman-ii-1-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/ironman-ii-1-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironman II (1 star)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hesitate to waste another second on this movie. If you haven\u2019t seen it, good for you. (If you haven\u2019t seen the first Ironman, Merri and I both loved it.) This iteration was bad in so many ways. I would give it \u20131 stars, but I still love Robert Downey, Jr, and I like seeing the \u201cMinority Report interface\u201d grow ever grander. (Coming soon to your computer by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/help\/?cat=69\">Windows 8<\/a> plus Kinect. Well, less grand, no doubt.)<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking about the brilliance of Aliens: whereas Alien depended on a barely-seen single creature, Aliens features countless monsters to great effect \u2013 both versions work very well. In Ironman II, there are several Ironman suits \u2013 self-powered why? \u2013 plus an army of \u201cdrones\u201d which are on the scene despite the fact that the guy presenting them believes they don\u2019t work. (I wish Gary Oldman had played Hammer.) Endless pointless destruction \u2013 how long is that entertaining? (Answer: as long as there are human beings \u2013 destruction is our raison d\u2019\u00eatre.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hesitate to waste another second on this movie. If you haven\u2019t seen it, good for you. (If you haven\u2019t seen the first Ironman, Merri and I both loved it.) This iteration was bad in so many ways. I would give it \u20131 stars, but I still love Robert Downey, Jr, and I like seeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/ironman-ii-1-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ironman II (1 star)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}