I went to see it a second time last night and didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first time. Very few of the punchlines were really great punchlines- they didn't hold up to a second exposure. The final battle is pretty great, though.
The ableism is particularly bothering because in the original comic storyline there's no need for it to only be amputees who take Extremis. Iron Man is a comic about transhumanism- everyone wants to be more than human, not just the handicapped. The Extremis-ed enemy in Ellis's story is just a random soldier who's pissed at the government.
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Date: 2013-05-14 20:32 (UTC)The ableism is particularly bothering because in the original comic storyline there's no need for it to only be amputees who take Extremis. Iron Man is a comic about transhumanism- everyone wants to be more than human, not just the handicapped. The Extremis-ed enemy in Ellis's story is just a random soldier who's pissed at the government.