It's never too early to anticipate IRON MAN

It looks like they are taking cues from that Iron Man storyline I forget the name of, the one written by Ellis/Carnivale dudes. I is excited.

I hope it's not new school Iron Man because I read a couple of New Avengers issues to read on the train home yesterday evening and they were completely utterly terrible

Updated origin story, which I actually really liked in comic form. If I could remember the name of the title it was in I would really recommend it.

It was a pre-Civil War thing so, yeah, not as bad as current New Avengers.

and I mean he is being played by Robert Downey, Jr. so hopefully Tony will be the drunkiest drunk that ever drank.

I am kinda meh about the Mandarin being the villain.

tales of suspense #39

I want a scene where Iron Man gets hammered and stumbles around in the suit all "I'M MOTHERFUCKIN IRON MAN GIVE ME ANOTHER BEER"

I hope everyone realizes I am perfectly content discussing Iron Man with myself frequently enough to keep this thread at the top of the page.

ban jessie

pix plz

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Forging_Iron_Man.jpg

I am hoping this chest thing means we are going to get the Iron Man where the suit is actually HELPING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE that is my favorite Iron Man.

Oh man, that picture assuaged all my fears about this. The suit should be essential for life support, agreed.

I do not understand how people can be worried about a movie starring ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-07/31431050.jpg

man, robert downey jr. was so so so so bad in Richard III. Iron Man is more his style.

And more fun:

Robert Downey Jr. will be there too. An actor's actor by all accounts, Downey will don a super-power suit of armor to bring Marvel Comics character "Iron Man" to the screen next year in a Jon Favreau film that also features Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard — a cast that proves that hero movies are now winning the hearts and minds of respected actors.

For Downey, the choice to take flight in hero-franchise came after a bit of peer envy.

"I came up with Johnny Depp, right, we were right there and there was always respect and I watched him and his choices, which have been wonderful. And then I see Johnny Depp do 'Pirates [of the Caribbean]' and then suddenly Depp is on a Slurpee cup. And the movies are good. And he's great in them. And I think: If Depp is on a Slurpee, I want to be on a Slurpee."

hahahaha

this may be good, I have friends working on it, but I have lingering skepticism (mostly about Favreau who is, by all accounts, as much of an asshole as you would imagine)

oh Robert Downey Jr., I will preserve your Slurpee cup and use it only to drink the most quality of booze.

I want a scene where Iron Man gets hammered and stumbles around in the suit all "I'M MOTHERFUCKIN IRON MAN GIVE ME ANOTHER BEER"

-- jessie monster, Monday, June 4, 2007 10:46 AM (Monday, June 4, 2007 10:46 AM) Bookmark Link

I still want this to happen.

This looks terrible, just like everything else!

you look terrible.

=D

but will there be any ghostface on the sdtk

seriously, I work too hard to ever waste my money going to see ANY more superhero movies! with rare exceptions!

even if this is bad it will still probably be better than the Watchmen movie.

that's not saying much

it is a RACKET. Don't you SEE?!?!

I hope they're taking their cues from the early Eighties alkie storyline that included that immortal Bob Layton DEMON IN A BOTTLE! cover.

Agreed that the armor/life support thing is totally essential.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-07/31431050.jpg

give me a fucking break

http://imdb.com/title/tt0371746/fullcredits#cast

This lists Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury

Hillary Swank is in this and DOESN'T get top billing? wtf

I mean I hate her but she's won two oscars

http://littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/irondowney.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5671/picironmanarmorforblogvu9.jpg

i will see this, tho i never really read the comics.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/iron_man/robert_downey_jr_/ironman1.jpg

I would love it if they stupidly use the sabbath tune thinking it will make the audience cheer. Because then I will jeer!

yay metroid/anime

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/ironmanhugebig.jpg

I predict they will use "Iron Man" but only in the cover version by The Cardigans.

fuck, i wish superheroes was real

> If Depp is on a Slurpee, I want to be on a Slurpee.

Where's the thread where we say what our name would be if we could still change our name?

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-07/31431050.jpg

OK wait, is he in the kitchen in this scene? Because that's like a fridge full of Perrier on the left and an espresso machine on the right. WTF is going on here? Is he making popcorn with that thing?

Looks like an office kitchen. There are airplane models there too, so maybe some kind of, I don't know, airplane company?

Close. Remember, Stark Industries is a defense contractor.

"I command my latte to RISE."

I'm going to see this. Fuck, I went and saw Fantastic Four II and Spiderman III. The LEAST I can do is go see a really good actor in a superhero movie.

OK the clip they played at Comic-Con made me go from not really anticipating this at all to being super psyched about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxFESpmMRzo

Hillary Swank is in this and DOESN'T get top billing? wtf

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:15 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

I mean I hate her but she's won two oscars

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:15 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

You do realize that actors are usually billed roughly in order of most screen time to least, right? Pretty sure Paltrow is the female lead in this. Plus there are like 5 other actors in this who have at least been nominated for Oscars and are as famous as/more famous than Swank.

But sometimes a movie is just a movie, no matter how little attention you pay to it while whipping yourself up into a frenzy over something imaginary.

"something imaginary" is too far, probably, but still if you can't handle summer blockbusters based on comic books giving glossed-over presentations of complicated, real-life situations, you should probably avoid them

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/mengblom/commie/03_electro.jpg

If comic book adaptations are dealing with complicated, real-life situations, then they shouldn't be half-assed about the politics.

Dark Knight did a pretty good job of dealing with its political implications (so did the first two X-Men movies) - I think it is possible within the confines of the genre.

It absolutely is but it is not a requirement; not every story has to be "deep" or "correct".

Whatever Jon Favreau's strengths I do not expect him to bring incisive ideological clarity to the table.

(and for the record I like all 3 of the movies Shakey mentioned more than I like "Iron Man", largely because of the follow-through he's talking about)

Having an arms dealer who 'reforms' as your hero implies either ambitions for depth or a cheap pass at significance.

btw great last line, somewhat ruined by Sam Jackson epilogue.

if you can't deal with people interpreting a movie as reflecting the culture it was created in, maybe you shouldn't read message boards!

Oddly, though I thought The Dark Knight's politics were confused to the extent they weren't appalling, nothing bothered me about Iron Man's treatment of the Iraq war. I get what Dr. Casino is saying, but the "liberation" element seemed trivial, a momentary distraction in a film that mostly concerned itself with the hypocrisy and secrecy of the military-industrial complex. Not that this was a political film in any substantial sense (I'd say DK was).

Still prefer Iron Man to The Dark Nought.

i thought that iron man was really really weak in that respect actually, like who were the bad guys, really? beyond a bunch of arabs who just wanted to blow everything up? i felt like it wanted to have the significance of real-world implications but didn't have the balls to be any more specific than "arab bad guys"

i see what you did there alfred - clever

Having an arms dealer who 'reforms' as your hero implies either ambitions for depth or a cheap pass at significance.

Or it implies that you read and understood the basic concept behind the source material...?

i thought that iron man was really really weak in that respect actually, like who were the bad guys, really? beyond a bunch of arabs who just wanted to blow everything up? i felt like it wanted to have the significance of real-world implications but didn't have the balls to be any more specific than "arab bad guys"

I thought that was the point of the movie; the bad guys weren't so much the people using the weapons as the people making them.

ya, for sure, but i still had of a bit of a hard time getting past the generic arab baddies

i wish dark knight was 1 hr shorter :(

Yeah from Iron Man I got this icky sense of MORALLY CONFLICTED AMERICA vs. NIHILISTIC BROWN MEN & THEIR WHITE ENABLERS

Never trust a man with a Biblical first name.

ya that was the other thing - they didn't even have any agency... it was weird

Like honestly I walked away from the movie thinking it was a DLC Wet Dream

oversimplolfying but u kno

lol of all movies out there I think this is one where it's okay to oversimplify

Exploitation of Arab baddies was troubling, but again, they seemed to go out of their way to make them apolitical, non-denominational "international criminal" types. I.e., indicting the culture of arms merchantry rather than any particular groop of end users. That's a half-hearted defense, though. Treatement of Arabic peoples was wishy-washy at best. Still didn't bug me much. Dunno why. Perhaps it was just that the film was so good-naturedly trivial overall.

god, Iron Man really is some kind of magic eye poster that fans project whatever they want to see onto

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Having an arms dealer who 'reforms' as your hero implies either ambitions for depth or a cheap pass at significance.

Or it implies that you read and understood the basic concept behind the source material...?

lol zing Dan OTM

OTM for geeks amirite (never heard of the comic)

I am much more than reasonably certain that more than just geeks have heard of Iron Man, Captain Caveman.

Shakey OTM. Given that Iron Man is about an arms manufacturer, and America is a nation at way, and there's no way around any of that, I thought the film did a fairly decent job of engaging with and even critiquing the premise without sabotaging it.

"at war"

OTM for geeks amirite (never heard of the comic)

OK what? I mean, Iron Man is hardly some obscure indie publisher comic title. It's been around for, what, 40 years?

since '63. Dan hasn't seen Double Indemnity, you know.

I did know it existed!

well, I might've heard of the comic if I didn't seal myself in my room to watch Bergman films at 13.

"watch Bergman films"

on your Beta player?

New Jersey public TV, toots

(1 Corinthians 13:11)

yeah I don't watch Bergman anymore either

Still prefer Iron Man to The Dark Nought.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, January 9, 2009 12:24 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its actually "the dark knight"

it is?

alfred's trying to get into the morbius tribute thread

Don't think this has been mentioned?
Mickey Rourke sizes up 'Iron Man 2'

had a really strong desire for a whopper after watching this

followed by a couple of hours playing the avengers arcade game

AMERICA STILL NEEDS YOUR HELP!
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This was good. not *amazing* but good. As much as I do not like RDJ, his performance (and some nice, tight directing choices) made the film. Otherwise, it had some extremely generic elements, touched off with a little flair that relly elevated the movie. I like how they got around the problem of having RDJ encased in Iron by having those shots of him inside the suit, but what a deeply strange way to shoot a movie star! I was certainly never bored. Thanks ILX, now I will report back on the other action movies you told me to see.

figured this revive would be you alright