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most_games_r_ok posted...

Oh no thoughts on Cheadle replacing Howard?

Oh, yeah. In both movies so far they feel equally fine, which is to say there's nothing stand-out about them. I think I like Don Cheadle a little bit more though just because they gave him a bit more, but he did feel a bit flat in this one. I know he gets much better in the role as time goes on.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Would you agree with Scarlett Johansson that Black Widow felt more like a sex object in Iron Man 2 than well-realized character?

I guess I can elaborate on this. I never really got the impression that Black Widow was just a sex object in this movie. There's a scene of her in lingerie in a scroll of Tony looking over her credentials, and then a scene of her changing and Happy sneaking a peek in the review mirror.

But aside from that, she kicks ass in the movie, she comes across as a badass, and she's wearing a catsuit but it doesn't come across as any more exploitative than Thor having his shirt off no less than three times in the following movie.

It does feel like they didn't know how to write Black Widow yet though. She doesn't have much of a personality to speak of, and Scarlett Johansson in this movie phoned it in hard. But there's moments where she can shine. But the scenes she gets, she's super competent and takes no shit from absolutely anyone in this movie, she has subtle moments of comedy that I feel could have delivered better, and she's just really, exceptionally good at her job.

So I mean, no. She doesn't feel like an actualized character just because the writing is so shoddy, but she also doesn't feel like an actualized character like Vanko was, or I'd argue Rhodey in this movie too. It's the nature of the script and not anything unique with Black Widow herself. She should have been done better in this movie, but so should everyone else in the script not named Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and Justin Hammer.