I'll have to disagree with you there. Iron Man was awesome, it had a excellent plot progression, pacing and it was pretty awesome. Iron Man 2 however, sucked in comparison to the first one. There was too much going on at the same time. Too many new characters, which made the pacing really really [cabbage]. The story and plot had no motivation itself and all the for all the characters that were there, especially Whiplash, along with all the other characters, didn't really develop and died far too soon. The first Iron Man everything was smooth, the whole film was exhilarating. I went to watch Iron Man for Iron Man, not for the setups for SHIELD, Avengers and whatnot. The whole film sped up, slowed down, took stuff out, put stuff in at really unecessary and uneeded intervals. Scarlett Johansson was o.O though, and Robert Downy Jr got every scene just right. A solid 6/10 IMO. I actually liked it better. The humour was subtle, the actors played their role right, the action was fun. I stay by it, I enjoyed it. A lot. Even though it did indeed focus less on Iron Man itself but more on the person behind it. It was far better than Transformers -> Transformers 2 to say the least.