Iron man 3 is the only Marvel film that felt unique. All marvel films feel the same, look the same, and follow the same formula. Iron man 3 is the only one that felt like a director had any creative control at all. And for some reason everyone calls it bad, why? The only complaints I ever hear is the twist with the mandarin and the fact there isn't much iron man action in it.
I loved the fact that the movie was more about Tony and his struggle with anxiety, it felt more personal and made him more relatable. The snowy mountain-town setting with all the Christmas lights is, surprisingly, the most memorable setting of all marvel movies for me. It stands out unlike all the generic cities, military bases and cgi worlds we've seen throughout this series.
I liked the twist with the Mandarin, it was ballsy and broke away from the tired formula that marvel has been using for the last 16 years. Did we really need another villain of the week movie? Better to have the villain be someone Tony hurt directly and serve the theme of the movie rather than fight some generic Osama bin Laden knockoff.
This is the one and only time Marvel took a risk and a lot of people hated it, so now they went back to their old ways of generic villains, stale aesthetics, pointless world building. Seriously do we really need to stop the story for age of ultron just so they can remind us that Thor Ragnorok is coming? That's why iron man 2 sucked: it's just a commercial for future marvel movies.
Creative freedom is very important, otherwise you get the same thing over and over again; like the recent star wars movies. Not an ounce of creative freedom can be seen in those movies just corporate mandated checklists. "We gotta have another death star, we gotta have another cantina scene, we gotta have a villain who wears all black and is related to one of the hero's, let's recreate the battle of hoth but instead of a snow planet we'll make it a salt planet, see it's totally different now, right? Oh and let's recreate the throne room scene in return of the Jedi and stick it in the middle of the last Jedi, no one will ever notice."
The Predator sounds absolutely nuts, I don't know if I'm gonna like it but at least it's gonna be something we've never seen before. And if nobody likes it, fox will just pull a Disney and just give us the same thing over and over again. Just like Marvel and Star Wars, which will be a guarantee since Fox is now owned by Disney just like Marvel and Star Wars.
