Intro: Well, that's one way of getting kids interested in chemistry.
The Parents: Boo! Boo! Boo!
Me: Hey! I didn't say it was the best way. Also, you can't complain about a problem and have issues with the solution.
Breaking Bad: This show is centered on a high school chemistry teacher name Walter White, who's diagnosed with lung cancer. On top of that, he has a child on the way and his family is not in the best place financially. So he decides to create crystal meth and sell it with the help of his former student name Jesse Pinkman, who also goes by the alias Heisenberg. The nickname for this show should be How to Be a Drug Dealer 101? Seriously this series shows you the do's and don't when selling drugs. That's what I like about this series selling drugs is a learning curve for the main characters and it can be funny and suspenseful at the same time. This series is also a character study of how an everyday man can go down the wrong path. Although we've seen this story before this series made feel fresh and real. Also, the main character is 50 years old. How many 50-year-old men do you know that want to be a drug dealer? Really this series could have been based on a true story. ( If it is then I stand corrected.) This show does a good job of keeping us guessing, building suspense, and have funny moments. I'm fond of the way this series was shoot, because it uses visuals to tell the story. I appreciate that this show isn't completely focused on Walter White/ Heisenberg because you don't want him to overshadow everything else about this series. We see the cause and effect of everyone's actions the show foreshadows that. You can argue that the theme of this series is obsession almost everyone is obsessed with something.
Walter White/Heisenberg went from a modest family man to a ruthless, arrogant and selfless drug dealer. It's understandable why he would fall from grace because he's dying, going through a midlife crisis and doesn't feel respected by almost anyone. His transformation makes it hard for me to root for him because he has done some horrible things in this series. The hints that he has issues with his mother but the show doesn't explore that. He wouldn't have to sell meth if he let people help him. Skyler White is the most hated character on this show! I understand why I mean she doesn't respect Walter as the man of the house. You can care about someone but not respect them plus she almost babies him. Plus she did some messed up things most of them are not justified. I would have sympathy for her if she got out of the situation when she had the chance. I'm surprised fans don't despise Marie Schrader (Hank's wife and Skyler's sister) as much as they do Skyler. She's nosy, vain and likes to shoplift. To be fair the reason why she does this is because she has some mental problems and OCD. Despite that, she is a loving person.
Jesse Pinkman is a street-smart and lazy when it comes to pushing himself. He has a love-hate relationship with Walter White, to be fair Jesse didn't give Walter a lot of reasons to trust him. Despite being a slacker, you do feel sorry for him. It's interesting how he parallels with Walter White. The only complaint I have with him is the writers tried too hard to make yeah Bxxxh his catch phase. Mike is a hitman with a heart. I'm surprised that Mike and Walter are not close because they have the same motivations for what they do but Mike sees that Walter is in trouble. We learn that he use to be a cop I would like to know more about that. Saul Goodman is Walter's shade lawyer and the comic relief. Hank Schrader is Walter's brother-in-law who works for the DEA and he's outspoken. I wish I could say that he's the hero in this series, but he isn't. I'm not saying he isn't a good cop but he can be a douchbag. He says offensive things, punches people and was willing to get someone killed to catch Heisenberg. Also, he doesn't have to stomach to work for the DEA, well see him having panic attacks and throwing up. Gus is a friendly low-key businessman in public in private he's a brilliant yet scary kingpin. What makes him scary is how casual he is with killing people and when someone wants to kill him, he calls their bluff. He's also very cautious about who he does business with and he has eyes everywhere.
One of the gripes I have with this show is the first episode of season three. Season two build up to that episode and it was a letdown. Speaking of episodes the last three episodes of season 5 seems depressing to me. I also notice some editing mistakes in the series. You can argue that this show is not subtle about being anti-drug war. Overall, this is a fine show, if you like crime dramas then I would recommend this.
Intro: I don’t enjoy doing this, I mean I don’t enjoy dissecting the plot of movies. After everything that's happened in the past few years like 911, the hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and mass shootings I want to see good films. I don’t enjoy wasting my time and money on movies that I thought was going to be good, if I wanted to do that, I would put my money in a shredder or watch reruns of Save by the Bell. (I was going to say watch Maury or a drunken prom date but those would have been obvious.) This movie was under a lot of pressure, not because it was the third movie but because it was a follow-up to The Avengers. However, this movie was just like the other third movies a waste of potential why am I not surprised? I’m starting to wonder do Studios have script meetings anymore? If they do, then they need someone to lash out at them for being lazy.
Either we're not pushing these writers or they're doing this on purpose. I’m mad that they had that writer’s strike back in 2007, I mean if these are the writers, we have let them go. Most of the third movies they wrote aren’t good and they have the nerve to go on strike. You know what I’m not going to blame Hollywood for this, because I refuse to believe that no one in Hollywood has a brain. I’m blaming you the people for this. This is the third movie the third we all know that third movies are usually bad but we still waste our time and money to watch them anyway. Hollywood cares about making money, if that's not true then why did they make sequels to the following films and these films didn’t make a lot of money.
The Terminator
Friday
Robocop
Ace Ventura
The Karate kid
Atlas Shrugged
Kick Ax
I heard Chronicles is getting a sequel
We need to stop giving Hollywood mixed signals we can’t say that the Star Wars prequels are bad and offensive and then have those movies make a lot of money. We made these movies a hit, we defend these films and we won’t admit that they are bad, that’s how Hollywood gets away with this. Now back to the subject at hand, let’s start with what really bothers me and a lot of Iron Man fans about this movie.
No 1 Trevor Slattery: We never saw this coming. That’s right The Mandarin is not in this movie. If you're going to make excuses for the Mandarin twist I don’t want to hear it. You would be outraged too if you watched the dark knight and you found out that the Joker is not the main villain, in fact, he's Ronald McDonald. The joker was created by the league of shadows. So shut up with your excuses. Also, the twist would have worked in the context of the film if the real main villain’s motivations weren’t weak, but I'll get into that later. I’m sorry I’m not trying to sound like an Iron Man fanboy. If I wasn’t familiar with Iron Man, I would still be outraged by this. I mean the creators advertise the Mandarin as the main villain, the previous two films set him up and they got Ben Kingsley to play him. Why? Why is he in this movie, why is his face on the cover, why did he get top billing his character doesn’t do anything. We see him four times we find out that he's not the main villain then the movie forgets him, so why get a well-known actor to play a role that could have been passed as a cameo? Heck, why not get Maggie Grace to play her character? Ben Kingsley is too good for this film, it’s like staring him, Clinteast Wood, Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington in one of the Scary Movies. They might as well advertise this movie by having him and Tony playing patty cake. I wish the Mandarin is like his comic book counterpart, the movie would have been better if they did that. Then again, I remember Mr. Favreau saying that he wants Iron Man to deal with earth-based threats, I don’t get it he deals with gods and aliens why not take that further? What happened to his lessons, I mean in the movie he said only two lessons remind how many were there, to begin with? Also, what happened to lesson number one heroes there are no such thing? P.S the Mandarin looks like a well-known terrorist, I’m not going to say who he is because we all know who I’m talking about. Also, what did Marvel Studios mean by the Mandarin is too ambitious for the first film? What happened to his cool lines like today is the first day of what's left of your life, do you want an empty life or a meaningful death?
No 2 Tony Stark/ Iron Man: This character has two arcs in the film, the arcs are him dealing with the aftermath of The Avengers and does the suit makes him Iron Man or the man inside? The second arc or what’s left of it was ruined because we learned in the last act that he has more suits, so why did he go though the second act of the film like he has no more suits? Why didn’t he use his suits to protect his Mansion, speaking of that what was he thinking giving who we thought was the Mandarin his address? I laughed when his Mansion got destroyed because that was stupid, then again, he's a well-known figure in this movie's world. As far as his Anxiety attacks goes, they should have made it a PDST, in The Avengers Tony was a soldier in that movie, and he almost died. His coping mechanism is building these suits. He had four Anxiety attacks in the film; he wouldn’t have had the last two if it wasn’t for the kid. Speaking of the kid if I was Tony, I would give him a stunner, because Tony told him that he has Anxiety problems and talking about New York makes him edgy, but the kid keeps bringing up New York. Towers the end of the film Tony blows up his suits and removes his ARC reactor from his chest what’s going on here?
Why was that thing Tony said to Bruce in The Avenger?
Yeah so why would he remove the ARC reactor if it’s a part of you, you might as well cut off your writing hand and say I don’t need it.
I’m surprised that Bruce didn’t do this to Tony in the after-credits scene, I mean did Tony mean anything he said to Bruce?
Also, Tony narrates in the film that he can sleep better now that the ARC reactor is removed, I thought the Anxiety attacks were keeping him up. So is Tony done being Iron Man or what, this would make sense if they're setting him up to be the new director of S.H.E.I.L.D. Yes! In the comics, Tony was the new director of S.H.E.I.L.D. P.S. I was hoping the movie would have him deal with The Avenger's aftermath by having him drinking, I mean it would make up for the writers shoehorning the Demon in the Bottle story in the previous film. Also, the Anxiety attacks subplot wasn't resolved. Plus, Tony what happened to I'm a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist without the suit?
No 3 the Mark 42: This is the worst suit that Tony built! I mean the other suits are powered by his ARC reactor from his chest this one has to be charged. Also, it was a prototype none of the weapons work, is this the rescue armor? How can he operate some parts of the suit without the helmet? What makes this suit different from the other ones is that it can be summed from a far distance, which created too many convinces for him. Also, we learned at the beginning of the film that Mark 42 is operated by Tony’s headset, how was he able to control all the other Mark suits? What's powering these suits, like I said his earlier suits are powered by his ARC reactor from his chest so how is this better? P.S. towers the end of the film when the rest of the Mark suits shows up and Road head says suit me up, then Tony says sorry they're only compatible to me. OK if that’s true then how were you able to protect Pepper by putting the Mark 42 suit on her, was that suit an exemption? Also, why would he use the Mark 42 without knowing if his weapons work?
No 4 Extremis: I don't think it was a good idea to do the Mandarin and The Extremis story, just like X-Men the Last Stand tried to do the dark Phoenix saga and the cure story and look how that turned out. I wish the movie explains how Extremis works, I mean the movie explains that it’s an experimental regenerative treatment intended to allow recovery from crippling injuries. In this movie it’s unstable and it’s turning people into the Human Torch how does that work? The writers could have worked this in the story; I mean the Maya Hansen character needed Tony to stabilize it. Tony’s arc is him coping with what he leaks with the other Avengers it would make sense for him to take a virus that can give him powers. In the comics, the Extremis virus got on Tony’s suit and it upgraded his suit. Then again Hawkeye and black widow don’t have powers so yes, the movie didn’t need the Extremis story. P.S. I wish this story was used in the previous film I will get into that later.
No 5 Col. James Rhodes/ Iron Patriot: The explanation to why he's called Iron Patriot is nonsense War Machine is too aggressive are you kidding me? I wouldn’t mind this if Roadhead’s explanation as to why he is called Iron Patriot is because he’s a fan of Captain America and he has a collection of his comics, I would buy that explanation. This character shouldn’t be in these films unless he's going to be in The Avengers movies. Let’s backtrack to what he has done in these films.
Iron Man, He looked for Tony when he was captured and covered his track when he was Iron Man.
Iron Man 2 He stole one of the Mark suits, fought Tony, he was held captive in the suit and he fought with Tony.
In this movie he's looking for the Mandarin, then he gets captured the main villain takes his suit and he gets his suit back and takes the President to safety.
Really, he couldn’t help Tony fight the main villain. So yeah, he shouldn't be in this movie. P.S. How does his suit work, I mean one of the villain’s henchmen was able to fly it and when the President is in the suit and tied up, he can’t do anything.
No 6 Harley: This kid being in this movie really shouldn't bother me because he was barely in the movie but he does, because he's just in this movie to give kids someone to relate to and to make this film easier to market to kids. That’s the only reason he's in this film, this has been a problem that plagued Hollywood in the 90’s. When is Hollywood going to learn that kids don’t want to be the kid characters in the movie, you want to know how I know this? I know this because I wanted to be the hero when I was a kid and so did my friends at that time. This is why those kids were in those action films in the 90s, this is why Robin, Speedy and Bucky were created in the comics. I can’t believe that Hollywood did this with Power Rangers for Goodness Sink.
No 7 Aldrich Killian: He's the real villain in this movie and a lame one. The reason why he's the villain is because Tony stood him up 14 years ago, that’s it that’s his motivation!?! Why is he doing this, what does he have to gain and what does he want? He comes off as a generic villain; I mean he is making trouble in the movie because he's the villain and his evil ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha screw you I’m not buying it. I can’t take this character seriously, because when he reveals himself as the Mandarin it's done for laughs. Also, there was a scene where he got Roadhead out of the Iron Patriot suit by putting his hand on the belly part of the suit and saying things like is it hot in there, are you ready to come out, does your tummy hurt? He has the same powers as his men, OK how is he separating himself from his men if they all can do the same thing? The only thing he can do but his men can’t do is breathe fire. What’s with the dragon tattoos is that a Fin fang foom reference? OK, he told Tony that he wasn’t mad at him for what he did 14 years ago and that he gave him desperation which made him become the villain and come up with the idea behind the Mandarin. So, he thanks him by putting Pepper in danger, OK is he doing this to help Tony or blackmail him? If he's trying to help Tony what does Tony have to gain from this? This movie establishes that Killian and Pepper had history together but that went nowhere. I like the idea behind the mandarin however I would prefer it to be the other way around. This character reminds me of Edward Nigma/ the Riddler from Batman Forever. In that movie Edward wants revenge on Bruce for not investing in his idea, here it’s the same thing. However, it made more sense here than in Batman Forever, because Edward became famous in that movie and Bruce wasn’t a jerk to him. This movie hurts the first film because Aldrich Killian set up the Ten Rings group as a distraction so he can hold the war on terror in his hands. This is the same group that kidnapped Tony in the first film, so he became Iron Man because he stood Aldrich Killian up great just great. I’m tired of this trend with third movies, the trend of trying to connect with the first film all it does is hurt the first film. They have done this with films like Spider-Man 3 and The Dark Knight Rises. P.S. Killian revealing himself as the Mandarin is a lame version of Henri Ducard revealing himself as Ra’s al Ghul in Batman Begins. I refuse to believe that this is the same Ten Rings group that kidnapped Tony.
No 8 Pepper Potts: What's Pepper’s role in this movie, I mean it looks like she is CEO of Stark Industries I thought she resigned in the previous film. Pepper was also annoying in this movie, I mean she complains about Tony building suits, didn’t she complain about this in the first film? Word to the wise if you're in a relationship with someone and they do something that you don’t like either you deal with it or move on to someone else, don’t try and change the person or give that person an ultimatum. Pepper shouldn’t be complaining about that for two reasons first of all that thing you're doing living is because of him, I mean he threw his suit on you instead of himself. Second, you wouldn’t have been able to beat Aldrich Killian without his tech, that’s right this is the second movie where she saved Tony thanks for making him look like a punk Marvel Studios. Also, she's the reason why Tony blows up his suits you know what screw Pepper Potts, she's the real villain in this movie. Why would Tony help her get rid of the extremis virus, I mean she has powers now why not make her a part of the Avengers? P.S. I’m surprised that Pepper didn’t try to kill Tony, I mean he talks about keeping her safe and he put her in danger.
Epilogue: I also want to talk about the Maya Hansen character. Just like road head, this character didn’t serve much of a purpose, I mean we don’t spend enough time with her to know her. We get a flashback of her and Tony at a New Year's Eve party and she created Extremis. Then we see her again trying to warn Tony about the Mandarin, after that, we learn that she's working for Killian. Tony talks to her like we are suppose to know her like he talks about what a great person she was, like I said we don’t know her enough to see that. I like how much detective work Tony Stark does in this movie, I hope to see more of this in future Batman films if WB is planning on making them. The theme of creating your own demons would have worked if Killian had an actual motivation, you know what holding a grudge for 14 years is something a woman would do.
The female viewers: Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
Boo nothing women are emotional men are logical, that’s what makes men different from women, and don’t forget it. You can tell Shane Black directed this movie because this film has a Christmas theme to it just like his other films, which was kind of annoying because that served no purpose in the movie. The way this movie ended made me question are they making The Avengers 2, I mean this movie feels like it's rapping things up also S.H.I.E.L.D wasn’t in this movie. Why wasn’t S.H.I.E.L.D in this movie, Aldrich Killian used the Mandarin as a frontman to be an international terrorist and S.H.I.E.L.D is nowhere to be found? I understand if they don’t want Captain American in this movie however you could have written him out by having this film take place at the same time as Winter Solider, it wouldn’t hurt to have Black Widow or Hawkeye in this movie to help. As I said this movie would have been better if the Mandarin is like his comic book counterpart, this is a character that can mop the floor with Tony/ Iron Man. The Mandarin is just as smart as Tony and he's richer and stronger than Tony. This movie should have the Mandarin beat Tony/ Iron Man financially, physically and emotionally, and he destroys his suits, then Tony tries to beat the Mandarin by outsmarting him. I don’t see how they can make more Iron Man films because of how this movie ended; they could have if they saved Aldrich Killian for the second film and not used Whiplash or Justin Hammer. Iron Man 2 was coming off The Incredible Hulk the Army tried to bring back the super soldier serum and that didn’t work, so the Army goes to Killian they used the Extremis virus to create bioweapons. This would make the Hulk movie more relevant and would give Tony something that he can't comprehend. Each movie would have a different theme like the first film is technology vs. technology, the second film could have been bioweapons vs. technology and the third could have been alien tech vs. human tech, if they want to make more Iron Man films they can use Whiplash or Hammer. If Thor the Dark World is going to be like this movie as far as tone goes, I’m not going to watch The Avengers 2 this time I mean it. P.S. We saw a character that was in the first film which creates a continuity flaw, I mean he said in the first film that he and Tony met at a press conference and he was drunk.
