Iron Man 2 Poster

I just saw Iron Man 2 today, and I have some thoughts that I’d like to share. First, let me explain Iron Man and what it is, for those of you who never saw the movie. You can skip to the 3rd paragraph if you are familiar with the movie. There’s this smart guy who goes by the name of Tony Stark, and his whole life was dedicated to learning technology and building things. Today, he owns one of the biggest weapon companies, Stark Industries. It was first started by his father, Howard Stark who had a vision for the world where technology helps everyone and make the world a better place.

When Stark is taken captive, he learns how his weapons are not just used for peace, but instead for evil. He builds the first Iron Man suit, which is a crude prototype but nonetheless powerful and destroys the place he was held captive, as well as his own weapons that ended up there. He then improves the suit, and becomes Iron Man, a type of superhero that everyone seem to accept.

Iron Man 2, obviously continues Tony Stark’s story of him being Iron Man. The problem however is that the government and military think it should belong to them, it being considered as a “weapon.” Stark however wins his court case by hacking into the system and showing videos of how countries are creating their own Iron Man prototypes, which are causing many accidents. I do not want to give the whole plot away, so I’ll speed through this. Whiplash, who is never actually referred to as such in the movie, builds his own suit, except it’s mostly just the same technology as Iron Man without the whole suit complexity, and has power “whips.” He seems to hate Iron Man for what his father has done, so wants to get revenge against him and builds and a whole line of suits, using them as weapons and causing chaos. Continue reading…