Fair warning, this video spoils the big plot twist.

I have to say, I actually really enjoyed that twist. I loved the fact that it was just fun. Ben Kingsley was awesome in it.

Yeah, figure there would come a day when you and I eventually disagree on something @ChaosEngine

It was extremely disappointing and I agree with the video that what they did with the Mandarin was stupid as hell. I don't even like the Mandarin in the comics, He's a remnant of the whole outdated east vs west mentality and he's just not relevant anymore, and that's when they do the character right. This was just a joke.

That and they totally pissed on the entire Extremis storyline.

Iron Man 3: the spolier has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine on that post.

@VoodooV, nooooo! Say it ain't so.... we can make up...

I would call myself a low level comics geek in that I'm reasonably well versed, but I don't follow everything and Iron Man was always just below my radar in comic form. So (unusually for me), my first real exposure to Iron Man was the movie...
and I loved it. It was just such a nice break to see a superhero movie that was having fun with the premise. Don't get me wrong, Nolan's Batman movies are awesome (well, the first two certainly), but variety is nice.

So I had no investment in the characters or existing storylines, and maybe if I did I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.

That said, I still think it was an interesting take.

and I think this (shameless plug) *related= http://videosift.com/video/Iron-Man-3-the-spolier sums it up well for me.

I equally liked and disliked the sudden character change of The Mandarin. I'm not at all invested in the Iron Man comics so I didn't care on that front, it was a cool little twist and the goofy character was fun.
However, Kingsley also did such an amazingly intimidating and fearful character I would love to have seen how it would've played out without putting in the twist.

Overall Iron Man 3 sucked, too much unnecessary plot complexity. Sometimes (more often than not, actually) a simple, straight forward plot works best for these sorts of films. Here is the bad guy, here is the good guy, have at it! I'm disappointed and surprised, I had much more faith in Shane Black.

What I don't get is how Hollywood has apparently ignored the lesson of Spiderman 3 where they simply tried to do WAY too much in one movie and unsuccessfully tried to pull off 3 villain plots.

Iron Man 3 was just all over the place, The extremis plot, the Mandarin plot, Tony's little mental breakdown thing, the kid sidekick thing. It was so unfocused. Instead of doing one story well, they tried to pull of 3-4 stories poorly.

Maya Hansen was pretty crucial to the comic book Extremis story, but in the movie she was completely useless and was nothing but another woman for Tony to flirt with.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'honest trailers, iron man 3, tony stark, thor, robert downey jr' to 'honest trailers, iron man 3, tony stark, thor, robert downey jr, spoilers' - edited by doogle

When you amplify everything you hear nothing... - John Stewart

I actually thought the kid sidekick was one of the better kid sidekicks in movies and arguably, even a subversion.

and a fantastic line....
"Dads leave sometimes, you don't have to be a pussy about it."

The best point in this whole video was that the armor(s) - which previously withstood all sorts of mayhem - break apart all over the place. They could have made the character feel vulnerable without ruining the integrity of the suit itself.