Too Much Content To Consume

This week B talks about new project he'll be doing (re-watching and talking about each episode of Smallville). Then we cover all the content available for consumption this week including Netflix original series Dare Devil, Star Wars digital release, and HBO now. In the last segment B talks about what he's watching and playing.

Iron Man 3

So I had the chance to catch Marvels latest super hero movie Iron Man 3 today. I thought the first movie was one of the best super hero movies of all time, and I found the second to be kind of a bore, so I wanted to be optimistic going into this one, but at the same time wasn't holding my breath. On the off chance you've never heard of or seen an Iron Man movie, they feature Robert Downey Jr. playing the very charismatic genius Tony Stark who after a near fatal accident builds an armor wearing suit loaded with high tech weaponry and AI, and decides to fight the bad guys and occasionally save the universe from intergalactic threat.

In this third film we see Tony coping with events from the Avengers which has left him a little shaken mentally, and facing a new villain know as The Mandarin. Unable to sleep Tony spends most of his time creating new Iron Man suits, and keeping to himself, causing problems in his personal life with his current love interest Pepper Potts played by Gwyneth Paltrow. This is as much of the plot as I'm going to give away at this point as to not spoil anything, but I will say that if you have seen the trailers over the last few months they are very misleading about exactly what is going on. Even though I did find the truth to be a little goofy it was also refreshing to have not been spoiled by trailers giving away the whole story which is common place these days.

Now was Iron Man 3 worth the price of admission? Well it still doesn't beat the first one in my opinion, but it was a much more fun ride than the second, and had many moments where I and the rest of the film audience were laughing out loud. Downey has always been the heart of these movies and nothing has changed, I don't think I could ever picture anyone else doing anything better with the role, and considering that this is more of a Tony Stark film than an Iron Man film, that's a good thing. What I mean by that is there is very little suit time and this is more of an adventure starring the very witty Tony Stark trying to come to terms with things and stop the bad guys, with a little help from his tech and friends thrown in for good measure.

I think the only problem really is Marvel out did themselves with The Avengers, I mean how can you go from stopping an alien invasion led by a god from another planet to just some petty guy out to cause chaos. I did enjoy the movie and would recommend it as a movie to go see, but the villains just aren't that menacing compared to the epic battles fought in The Avengers. I believe that this should be the last Iron Man only film,  but the character should definitely be a part of any future Avenger movies.


The trailer is amazing, but I'm pretty sure a few of those scenes were not in the the film, unless I blinked when they happened.

Agent Coulson Rezzurection, Cheapens Things?

Hey Wanna "B's" we've all heard by now that Clark Gregg would be reprising his role as Agent Coulson on the new show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Earlier I read on Nerdapproved.com a theory of how he would be back. Now when I originally heard he was coming back I wondered how could he be back? I mean he was killed in the Avengers movie last year, wasn't he? Well B people might say "these movies are based on comic books, so don't think about it too much, just enjoy it". Yes you are right to feel that way, and I understand that, but I still need answers, and while I do enjoy the comic book movies, I've done very little reading of actual comics in my lifetime. So I did what anybody these days would do when they want answers, I did a search on google.

I did get some theories, one of which is based on LMD's which stands for Life Model Decoy's, basically these are android bodies that act as body doubles for their real life counter parts, in the film The Avengers Tony Stark even answers a phone call from agent Coulson with a joke line saying that the caller has reached his LMD. The other theory is from the above mentioned website and says that agent Coulson held his breath and this was part of an elaborate plan with Nick Fury to motivate the Avengers into working together. Between the two theories I like the Life Model Decoy one allot better. Of course in world of comics there are always other ways of bringing back the recently departed. He could always be an alternate version from and alternate Earth, or even a clone.

Okay so now that we have theories out of the way, the question is do you think he should be resurrected? Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed his character as much as the next guy in all of the recent films, he and Nick Fury are actually the link that binds all these movies together up until The Avengers movie. While Avengers was action packed, and funny at times, one of the most important scenes that had a real emotional impact on me was the death of agent Coulson. This was the part of the movie when all ego's had to be put aside and it was time to gather for a common goal, to save the world, and to avenge the guy with no super powers but the heart of a real hero. Now we are being told this was part of a plan, and I can tell you the next time I watch The Avengers I'm going to have a totally different view on how this scene plays out, and in a way it feels cheapened to me.

Such is the way of life and death when dealing with the comic book world I guess, and no matter what happens I am on board to watch whatever is put out, and I am sure I will enjoy the heck out of it either way. I just wanted to give a little back story, and explain how I felt about the whole thing, and if anyone out there wants to throw their thoughts into the mix, feel free in the comments section.

You can check out Clark Gregg talking about his death and more in the clip below: