1. Iron Man III   

This movie never should have been made. None of it made sense, the characters were all out of sorts and following the story would have required using a magnifying glass and Google Maps to prevent you from becoming totally and helplessly lost.

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s most popular foes throughout the years in the comics. I was encouraged when I saw that Ben Kingsley had signed on to portray the evil genius.  Then the people in charge of the movie decided to give the audience heartburn by making the Mandarin into just a disgraced, fake actor.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, it isn’t Tony and his brilliantly designed Iron man models that take down the bad guys.  It’s Pepper Potts, who has become the heroine of the day.  This movie needed to sit on a shelf for a little while longer.  

What the heck happened?  Seriously, can you describe in a few sentences what the movie was about?  I have been writing my entire adult life, and I can’t do that.  Iron man was struggling with his relationship with Pepper.  The Mandarin was a terrorist that was waging war against America, I mean, an actor trying to get a date.   Iron man loses his powers and his suit.  There is a mutated army of specialists waging war against mankind, led by some woman that Tony dumped and some guy that he slighted over 20 years ago when he was drunk.  Rhodes is the Patriot…sort of, and is protecting the president, I mean, he’s helping Tony who, wait, is making weapons out of stuff he bought at a hardware store in Nebraska, because some genius kid living in a garage helped him…

Writing that gave me a headache, and I didn’t even get to the part where Pepper goes super-nova and saves everybody.  There are 10 new Iron Man suits introduced, run by remote control, but that can also be worn.  Apparently they wanted to beef up the toy aisle at Target that year, because there was no other reasonable explanation for bringing out all of those suits so they could be summarily beaten down by inferior bad guys.  This movie is so bad that my 10 year old asked me NOT to get it for him for his birthday.  Sorry Tony, but this was one too many.