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This topic and the Star Trek topic melt my mind in a very similar way. At least I can understand this topic, with Iron Man 3 being a divisive movie since it came out - I don't think it's a bad movie, but this topic makes a lot more sense to me than people whose favorite Star Trek reboot movie is Into Darkness.

Honestly, I thought Iron Man 3 was a pretty entertaining movie. It's RDJ ganking dudes with a pistol for an hour and a half, it's funny and it has a lot of heart. Killgore or whatever his name is was a lame antagonist, sure. The Mandarin twist was dumb, sure. But imo, this was a movie which was carried by Robert Downey Jr's natural charisma, and watching him act outside of the suit on a one-man revenge mission was pretty entertaining.

I'm a lot less invested in Marvel since I stopped spending time with some old friends, and frankly I'm regretting a lot of MCU fandom bullshit I was dragged into. I never really liked Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that much, first one was okay but the second one felt like a less enjoyable rehash of what made the first one so unique for its time. Ant Man and the Wasp is one of the blandest movies I've ever seen, and the MCU Spiderman movies feel like mediocre CG junk rather than anything I like about Spiderman (though I'm itching to watch No Way Home tbh).

I still remember enjoying Iron Man 3. I wasn't expecting Tony Stark shooting dudes with a pistol, and as far as his revenge quest went, I was honestly pretty entertained by the action and by RDJ's charismatic portrayal of Tony Stark. I don't begrudge people for being upset with such a mediocre antagonist, but I enjoyed the movie enough that I didn't care about that. It was goofy action schlock - it wasn't a Winter Soldier-level MCU movie, but it was perfectly watchable.