...I think Doc misread that as a rex-post...

Or I was just using Jim's own words against him.




Don't worry, Pro. I'll e-mail the Cliff's Notes version to help you figure it all out.

Wow, someone is PMSing....

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to getting to the store and getting some Midol to deal with it. Congratulations on the breakthrough Promod.

Pro is like the Tim Burton of joke stealers. He doesn't copy them, he reimagines them.

Yeah, what gives, Promod? Lately you've been as bitchy as Jim admits to being

Well, if you're going to try and be an adversary, at least try being a worthy one. Being bitchy isnt exactly engaging in a battle of wits.

Little pussy.

you guys should just admit your love for one another...

Hello? I thought this was a thread being posted in by adults? Seems we have a bit of trouble brewing in the playground here now?

i think it was obvious to everyone.....

Thank you, sir. I concede to your experience in these matters...

if you do this often enough jaburg will make you a graphic....

Hawt!

Pro, you are turning slowly to the dark side of the force....

"Turning"?

You may yet be saved..... the force has two sides.. and there may yet be one who will be cause for your salvation...

im pretty sure no one takes your posts seriously, youve become even more irrelevent since rob stripped you of half your forum.....

I love the banner for this thread! It's perfect!

the male ones, yes.

I was wondering why someone had posted my face in the front page banner, but that would be selling tickets on myself, wouldn't it?

you were young and needed the money!

Now I'm old and hope they never release the tapes.

This thread makes me want to listen to "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, for some reason.....

I really, really, REALLY want to get my hopes up about this film. I'm hoping MARVEL's normal marketing team doesn't bland-it-down too much...

AICN has a pic of the Kirby/Heck version of the armor, presumably as a prototype version:





Looks pretty sweet in a retro comic book sort of way.

It looks cool in an Iron Man - meets - Big Guy kind of way.

Iron Giant is a great movie! Now I want to watch it again!

Jeremy approves!

Iron Giant should be sued!
He could hire Klinton!

That's pretty fucking sweet! I wish he'd stay in that armor the entire movie...

You know who would like this thread?

Illegal Machine.

Who knows? If it's like the book, he'll build that as the initial one he wears...

I'm not so good on Iron Man continuity, but doesn't he build the grey one while captured by Chinese communists and have to wear it to keep his heart going? Later he switches to the swish yellow and red one?

I like it. The serial number on the chest suggests its built out of spare parts, too.

Its very Batman Begins like. Thats a good thing.

I dunno how close this is gonna be, but this is what all the pics on Favreaus personal MySpace page, look like of the modern armour!

the only downside to the newer looking armor is it could look very power rangery like green goblin in spider-man....

Kurt Busiek actually retconned it to the nineties Gulf conflict.

Grimm for comic mod.

"Hey, Giant Man, got any coke?"

Tony Beadazzled his shirt.

http://www.mybedazzler.com/?cid=200714

Rhinestones of the future!

Iron Man's a futurist. He knows they're coming back in style.

Crossover!

I always thought Strange was a crossdresser!

Lookin' good.

It's supposedly a prsctical (non cgi) shot. I'm guessing the glow on the chest, palms and eyes are probably enhanced, but that's basically a picture of a guy in the costume for the movie.

Not bad.

Awesome. I like that they're not using the pentagon chest light thingy that's used in the comics now.

I have to give Favreau credit. So far I haven't seen a single thing about this movie that comes off as a misstep.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2435&Itemid=99

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1560949/20070131/index.jhtml


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Jun 1 2007 6:01 AM EDT
'Iron Man' Set Visit: MTV News Gets First Glimpse Of Stark Office, The Mask
Stars, director fill us in on hero's alcoholism, friendship with Bill Gates.

By Larry Carroll

PLAYA VISTA, California — He has waged war on terrorists, alien dragons and Soviet supersoldiers alike. He's traveled to battlefields on Earth and beyond and been near death too many times to count. And now, Iron Man is getting his own movie.

And what a movie it's shaping up to be.

MTV News visited the set of the über-secretive superhero flick Wednesday, getting an eyeful of the elaborate sets, high-powered stars and the iconic Iron Man mask itself. If you're a geek, you know how big this is. If you're a popcorn-lover who digs movies like the "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" flicks, trust us: This is the one you'll be dying to see when it opens May 2, 2008.

"I've always been a big fan of comics — only Marvel comics actually, strangely," grins Robert Downey Jr., explaining what motivation an Oscar-nominated actor has to join the ranks of illustrated leading men like Tobey Maguire and Hugh Jackman. "I always felt like Tony Stark was one of the great characters."

These days, Downey is living out a childhood fantasy by immersing himself in that character. Transformed by a sharp suit, purple dress shirt and triangular goatee, he strikes a pose in the middle of the leather-and-glass-dominated Stark Enterprises office. It's as if we're eyeballing a freshly inked comic panel.

Stark's Trump-worthy office is a masterpiece of glass, leather and wood, overlooking a massive mural of a downtown-somewhere view. The minimalist look is broken up by airplane models, a big-screen plasma TV, and a framed diploma reminding us that "Anthony Edward Stark" received his physics and aeronautical degrees from MIT. Nearby, trophies (the Space Quest Award) and books ("The Tao of Physics") remind us that we're dealing with a hero as agile mentally as he is physically. To drive that point home — almost too hilariously — is a Photoshopped picture of a teenage Downey hanging with an '80s-era Bill Gates.

"[Stark is] a bit conflicted about the ramifications of weapons and what it means [to build them] in today's temperature and political climate," Downey explains. "And then he does something unusual."

As fans of the invincible one know, that unusual action yields an impregnable, red-and-gold suit of armor that blesses him with powers to rival any superhero. And when director Jon Favreau (see "Have Doubts About The 'Iron Man' Movie? Jon Favreau Wants To Hear Them") walks in carrying the trademark mask, the chills are reminiscent of the first time you saw Superman fly across a movie screen or Spidey slinging his web.

"We picked Robert because of his acting ability — and when you put this on, it really shines through," the "Swingers" star-turned-director beams, teasing Downey.

Activating a button near the mask, the Iron icon springs to life, shining lights out of each eye. Sleek, metallic and intimidating, the mask walks a fine line between the practicality of Green Goblin and the homespun warmth of the Rocketeer.

(Watch Favreau and Downey show off the high-tech headpiece.)

"The part that attracts me to Iron Man is he's not really a superhero," Favreau explains. "He's just an inventor and a normal mortal who wasn't bit by a radioactive bug or shot with gamma rays or anything. He's a guy who invents a suit, and he uses his mind to create the persona of the superhero he plays."

As for the rest of the outfit, Downey reveals that it takes three men to put it on him, while Favreau adds: "Robert is very good with the suit. ... [Iron Man] flies, he can shoot repulsor beams out of the palms of his hands and out of his chest. He has a lot of little gadgets that are rigged up into the armor, using other Stark technologies that are used on weapons systems for aircraft."

On this day, a dark-haired Gwyneth Paltrow (as sharp-tongued secretary Pepper Potts) and chrome-domed Jeff Bridges (Stark rival Obadiah Stane) are having an intense conversation at Stark's computer. In the adjoining entranceway, two elevators are accompanied by a green-and-gold bust of Tony's deceased dad Howard Stark, founder of Stark Industries.

"What is he up against? His biggest enemy?" Favreau says, stuttering slightly while avoiding the sinister presence of a nearby Bridges. "I don't want to ruin the movie, but it's himself. It's true."

For Exhibit A, you need look no further than the half-filled decanter of whiskey, sitting on Stark's table alongside cocktail glasses and a bucket of ice. Exhibit B can be found in Stark's basement factory set, located a few hundred feet across the soundstage: Mixed in with the machinery, classic cars and blueprints is a stocked fridge brimming with chilled martini glasses, olives and enough liquor to fuel a young Hollywood bash. In case you haven't figured it out, Stark's alcoholism is being foreshadowed for future films.

(See Tony Stark panic at a party in this behind-the-scenes preview.)

"He's a billionaire weapons industrialist manufacturer," Downey says of the territory they'll mine. "And [we'll also get into] all the other stuff that most people know."

Which includes the "Iron Man" origin story — now updated from Vietnam to Iraq — that features Stark's capture, torture and escape as a prisoner of war. On this soundstage, between the Stark Enterprises set and Tony's basement factory — which contains his silver Audi R-8, several vintage Harleys, a custom hot-rod with the license plate "STARK 5" (Favreau's real wheels) and an old-school oil-can collection — is an enormous Iraqi cave with man-size holes blown into the sides. Largely the site of the film's first act, it stands near another set designed to look like an airplane cabin.

(Watch Howard shoot, Downey duck and Favreau having a blast on set.)

"We're right in the middle of [filming], so we're right in the thick of things," says Favreau, who uses a personalized bicycle to shuttle between the sets of the huge stage. "And a lot of the cooler stuff on these films happens much later. We have [special-effects studio Industrial Light and Magic] working on the film, doing a lot of the CGI work, and I'm only seeing animatics of that."

So what's going on here is mostly heavy-duty acting, performed by respected thespians like Downey, Paltrow, Bridges and Terrence Howard (see "Terrence Howard Reveals Power-Thirsty Side Of Iron Man's Sidekick"). But later on, once Favreau's effects team gets to work, the director reveals that one scene in particular will unleash the full capabilities of the suit.

"From what I've seen, one of the most spectacular sequences has Iron Man flying and dog-fighting with F-22 jet fighters," Favreau beams, proud as a papa. "[He battles] the Raptors, the state-of-the-art for weapons technology."

"But sadly," Downey adds, brandishing a smile, "they're no match for the suit."

After 44 years of waiting, maybe — just maybe — we can hang in there for 12 more months.

AICN is reporting that Nick Fury will be a character in the new "Iron Man" movie and that he is being played by none other than Samuel L. Jackson.

If that's true, then the circle is complete....and hilarious!

"I want these fuckin Hydras off this muthafuckin Helicarrier!"

Favreau cut a special trailer for Comic Con. I'm looking to see if someone put it up on YouTube, but no luck on that yet. Here's what was said about the Iron Man panel:

• After a bunch of movies were hyped-up at the Paramount panel at Comic-Con International (we'll have more on them soon), they announced that as a special treat, they'd be showing "test animation" from Jon Favreau's Iron Man instead of making everyone wait until Saturday. It was obviously a gag as they started to show cheesy animation from the '60s cartoon and after a bit of that (and a lot of laughter from the packed auditorium), director Jon Favreau came out with his video camera in hand, shooting the audience and saying that he wanted to make sure to put it onto YouTube before anyone else could. Yup, we'd been Punk'd but we were given a special treat for the trouble.
  
  Without much urging, he agreed to show some footage, actually a rough trailer, for the movie, rather than making everyone wait until Saturday to see Iron Man in action. It went by fairly quickly but this is what we remember:
  
  Warning, Spoiler:

  The footage starts with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark addressing soldiers with a speech which is paraphrased here: "Is it better to be feared than respected? I say, 'Is it too much to ask for both?' With that in mind, I humbly present the crown jewel of Stark Industries' Freedom Line. It's the first missile system to incorporate our proprietary repulsor technology." He then says something about the best weapon being one you don't have to fire, but he disagrees and says that the best weapon is the one you only have to fire once. "That's how America does it." It's a great scene that shows the humor that Downey Jr. will be bringing to the role as do the next two scenes.
  
  Then we see Tony Stark coming out of an event in a tuxedo and he's stopped by a Vanity Fair reporter to ask him questions about being a "merchant of death" and he makes a snappy comeback. (We also see Favreau as his bodyguard in the scene.)
  
  The next scene shows a bunch of military vehicles driving through the desert to the tune of an AC/DC tune with Robert Downey Jr. sitting in the back with a soldier who wants to take a picture with him. He jokes "I don't want to see this on your MySpace" page and then the soldier makes a V sign and he says "No gang signs, please." The soldier puts the V down and he goes "I'm just kidding."
  
  There's then an explosion as they're under attack and he runs for cover and then in the next shot, he wakes up in a cavern and opens his shirt to see a round metal device where his heart is. "What did you do to me?" he asks and a man in the cave says, "I did it to save your life," and explains how he has put an electro-magnet hooked up to a car battery to save him.
  
  He then starts building the suit and the next few scenes show him taking on a few Iraqi-types and we get to see the first Iron Man suit in action to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." Lots of men are shooting at him but the bullets are bouncing off him and at one point, he swings his fist and his metal arm gets lodged into the cave walls and then one of the guys attacking him walks up and tries to shoot him in the Iron Man helmet but the bullet bounces back and hits him in the head.
  
  The next few scenes are fairly fast-paced showing lots of explosions
  and a brief glimpse of Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Terrence Howard as Rhodey and a few quick scenes showing the evolution of the Iron Man armor until it gets to the most current one. (That got a huge cheer.)
  
  We then see Iron Man in that armor flying with two jets following him behind him and he goes flying off. We see a sheet of metal and a hammer hits a chisel that imprints the Iron Man logo and then there's another shot of the Iron Man armor flying.
  
  The movie looks absolutely fantastic and it'll be great to see this trailer again on Saturday! You can also view a new T-shirt for the movie that was handed out here and here .

From the 'rama: More Iron Man armor images

The footage shown at comic con. Looks pretty good.

Looks fucking awesome!

Pretty good? Try fucking awesome!

Downey is going to own that fucking movie. Can't wait...

If you haven't noticed, there's a trailer on youtube...

in fact...

here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRQjCG8tn4

I've never read a Iron Man comic (other than the Ultimates) and I've never been a fan of Downey. I'm hoping this movie makes me a fan of both.

I think if you just relax and enjoy the comic book ride, you'll dig the shit out of this movie. I don't know what it has to offer in terms of true substance. But, for the sheer sake of a guy suiting up in badass armor and kicking the crap out of things...I'm down...

I'm a HUGE Iron Man fan. I even had an Iron Man site for a couple of years.

Everything I've seen of this film so far makes me happy. As long as it takes iself seriously when it needs to, and strays from the Batman and Robin level hokey-ness I think it will be pretty damn good.

They've obviously got the cast and CG to make it happen.

So far, everything about this movie says "done right."

agreed...

in my high school computer lab they had this poster showing a jet soaring through the sky and it said "you can't do this on drugs."



But Robert Downey jr. proved it wrong.




really makes you think.

That doesn't even make sense Ray...Oh wait...

Oh well, the trailers are down already. That's okay, I saved it on my hardrive...

The trailer is back up on Gametrailers.com

Thank you Chant..that was awesome.

its here as well (film of the film, so if others get taken down, this likely will not)

• Here's one last tidbit from last weekend's Comic Con as I promised in the Joss Whedon article. We've seen the IRON MAN Mark 1 suit from a production photo that director Jon Favreau released a few months ago. You could also see video footage of the Mark 1 suit in battle within the Comic Con footage aired but of course, they tore that leaked video off Youtube this morning. Maniac Shadowhammer certainly helped people out who didn't see the last article in time...He linked it again in the "comment" section on another website. Daforce also sent me a new link of the video footage but I'm pretty sure they're going to get that pulled too.
  
  Still, here's a new video link from a new site to the IRON MAN footage. Let's see how long before it too gets pulled. I hope director Jon Favreau places this footage on somewhere "official" in the same vein as Spielberg publishing his Comic Con footage over at Indiana Jones.com.

This is the stupidest thing that they could do right now. I just showed that clip to someone here at work who had no idea who Iron Man was or how it worked (she thought that he was transformed into Iron Man like magic or something, not understanding that it's a suit). She's now totally excited to see the movie. All the studio has to gain by letting this roll around on the net is to create more good buzz. Free fucking publicity,

the debate between free publicity and content ownership is a huuuuge issue

some companies get it, others don't. remember how bad the wwf and marvel were a few years ago, taking down all those fan sites? matt groening/simpsons stuff was just as bad.

typically, the most tollerant situations are with movies, as film "success" is more and more solely dependant upon box office numbers; specifically opening day. if you have a few thousand fans out there that wanna spread around your word with pictures, clips, or games or whatever, generally studios are all about that.

i really don't know why the iron man stuff is so different.

my best guess is there is a movie coming out in a week or two that was to be hyped for also including the trailer, and thus the studio wanted to control its distribution to maintain the trailer's clout. but, really, who knows. could just be a douchebag decision.

If they didn't want the footage online THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE SHOWN IT AT A CONVENTION FULL OF NERDS.

the first official trailer is here: somebody youtube that shit.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/

Looks like it's going to be pretty sweet.

*Spoilers*

Looks like most of the good stuff they showed before.

looks like most of the good stuff your mom showed before.

... in the butt.

heh

That trailer looks so fuckin' cool. The brief glimpse of RDJ as Tonly looks like he nailed the part. Very psyched for that and The Dark Knight...

Sweet...frikking sweet

I like pizza.

Pepperoni pizza! Coming soon!

now youtubed.

I just looked this movie up on IMDB to see who's gonna play....alright, I admit it, to see who was gonna play Pepper Potts...

BUT WHO CARES??

I noticed that Ultimate Nick Fury's ultimatum has come true! Noone can play Nick Fury other than Mr. Samuel L. Jackson, and the discussion is not even open for debate...

That is fucking cool. So, we have Downey Jr. as Tony Stark (Damn straight!) and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury!

This just keeps getting better and better!

Either of the two, I think, couldn't have been better. I don't think there's anyone who'd be able to deliver, from what we've seen so far, a better Tony Stark.

And ONLY Samuel L. Jackson can play Nick Fury!



















































well, him and David Hasselhoff...

agreed...





that never happend...

seeding for that rumored Avengers/Ultimates flick?

It would be superb to have Iron Man and Hulk in the same movie.

Love to see Iron Man and the X- Men together, too.

He looks like he should be running around the streets of London saying, " Delete! Delete! "

heh.

The costume looks sweet.

Yeah..I'm pretty impressed...its alot better than I thought it'd be

it looks fucking awesome!

fucking is always awesome!



with a woman that is!

Thank God for PJP!

French movie poster

...with Favreau also wants to direct.

Personally, this shit better work. I hate thinking all these hero movies are contained in separate universes.

im rollin with tk on that one...

Of course, this means if we include Spidey and X-Men, we'll have to add all the other FOX properties...

Daredevil.
Elektra.
Fantastic Four.

hurm.

damnit! daredevil extended cut maybe...but the rest..."Oh Hell Naw!"

heh. Blade and Ghost Rider too!

only the first blade and ghost rider can kiss nowie's ass!

Yeah, I'm of the belief that only the GOOD Marvel movies coexist with Hulk and Iron Man...

Ideally...

• X-Men & X2
• Daredevil (sans Garner)
• Fantastic Four & FF 2 (barely...but, only because not all superhero movies have to be uber-serious and all...got to leave something for the kids)
• Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2
• Blade

Am I forgetting any?

Apple trailer site

i thought the superbowl trailer looked really cgi-ish, however, i didn't mind it at all. for some reason, it didn't have the same "power rangers" feel to me that the spidey movies did.

There's gonna be a new minute and a half trailer debuting during next weeks Lost.

Punisher?

Maybe the new one. But, Thomas Jane's version? Nah...

Meh, I thought it was good. There's always the Dolph version.

fail

Once again, its all a matter of personal choice.
Some people here would tell you that Hulk and Daredevil were shit as well.

For my money, the only weak (recent) Marvel films have been Spidey 3, Blade 3 and X-3 (notice a trend?), with only one terrible one, Elektra, which was damn near unwatchable!

i thought Daredevil kicked ass, elektra and hulk were shit....

Daredevil was great (except that stupid playground fight scene), the directors cut was even better.

I agree. Take out the playground fight, Jennifer Gardner, and the Kingpin, and it would have been one of the best Marvel movies. Contrary to universal opinion, I actually liked Ben Affleck as the character. Think he did a damn good job, and I hope they can lure him back again one day...

The best thing about the movie, which kinda made you look at the comic books and say "Why the fuck did nobody think of this sooner?", was the sense deprivation tank.
I even liked Farrell as Bullseye, I thought he was perfect in that role!

Totally agree! That was one of the stand-out points for me. It rounded the character's world out in a more realistic fashion.



A bit OTT sometimes. But, all in all, menacing. I think he would reign it in just a hair, it would be perfect. I'd love to see an all-out, full movie showdown between the two characters in a sequel...

Am I the only one who didn't like Daredevil killing someone? Wasn't that the biggest break from the comic books?

I dunno. He chased one dude till he had a heart attack so..

Also, it's not like he's Batman.

I've always thought of him as the Marvel version of Batman.

i wouldnt have been as mad if it had been consistent. he kills that guy at the beginning but then wont kill the kingpin (who killed his father and the woman he loved) because hes one of the "good guys"? Gay.

Batman killed people in the Burton films, and that still never bothered me cause its a movie.
Same as it never bothered me that Punisher was set in Miami, or Doom was on the rocketship with the FF.

Only times I hate stuff is when it adds nothing to the film itself, like introducing Gwen Stacey in Spidey 3, when it added nothing to the plot (they could have made up a character for the role she played).

Or Ra's al Ghul being one of Bruce Wayne's teachers and the absence of the Lazarus Pit.



Yeah, I agree. I didn't see the point of including her or her father if they weren't going to do anything important with them - it was such a waste (as was most of the movie, sadly).

DD killing people...I can see it happening, especially the way he was in the movie (which had the fanboys foaming at the mouth - heh heh heh). Although yeah, it didn't make sense for him not to kill The Kingpin (or for The Kingpin not to bring about his own demise). I guess they were expecting the movie to be more fiskally beneficial, and they'd bring a vengeful Kingpin back for revenge.

Thats one of the things I didn't like about the Burton films.

fiskally? Anyway. In the comics, Daredevil has shown willingness to kill, though he doesn't always wind up having to kill someone.

Do you really need everything explained to you?

I knew it's a pun, it's just a cringeworthy pun.

Once again, you fucked up and cant admit it!

Whatever you say, Nowhereman.

I don't have a problem with comic characters killing people in their movies, if they're just as likely to in the comic book universe. Now, when I say that, I mean that I think it's only logical that guys like Batman and Daredevil would end up snuffing some lights if it came to it. The movies aren't limited by the narrow editorial vision of a child's franchise. They must be allowed to explore the characters beyond the rules of a comic book. So, I loved seeing Keaton take some fuckers out. I dug that Daredevil isn't afraid to spill a little blood (although I agree about the uneven-ness of it all). What I hate is when a character is forced to have to get around the killing stuff by, what is so obviously, an editorial decree, rather than the flow of the fiction. I think Batman Begins trailed that line pretty perfectly with Ras at the end. I like that he didn't save him. But, on the opposite end of the spectrum, I think any Wolverine movie that isn't rated NC-17 because of brutal violence is weak. For characters like that, they should always be true to the nature of the character...

See, I can see why a Wolverine movie would not be adult rated (by allowing kids to see it, it ups the box office takings), but in this day and age of directors cuts etc, I dont see why there cannot be a dual release.
An edited kids friendly version, and a gore n guts adult version!
It'd only be a matter of off camera violence for the kid friendly version!

The best/worst ones always are. A great American writer understood that (see my sig)

That's why I can never abStane from making them.

They can have Wolverine rack up a bodycount without it needing to be NC-17 or even R, depending on how they film it. Use the right camera angles and some lighting, and we can have Wolverine chopping up people left and right without needing to go overboard on blood and guts.

Remember when Wolvie had Mariko's father shingen his swan song in the Frank Miller mini-series, back when Miller could write? We know what happened to Shingen, and we know it was bloody, but we never saw the death blow. It was actually cool that way, because our minds fill in what we don't see.

Actually, Claremont wrote the mini-series that Miller illustrated...back when HE could write

Oh...whoops.


Yashida seen the embarrassed look on my face when I read that.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29294971

This keeps looking better and better.

but are you stoked?

All over his stomach.

I kinda am.

It's gonna be a doozy.

I am stoked. That looks like perfection.

• -Pro

I too, am stoked.

Robert Downey Jr. to be an actor portraying a Black man, puts Knut and TK to shame.

Film at 11.

This movie is looking awesome.

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This movie is looking awesome.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that they turn Tony into some kind of anti-war figurehead.

In the comic, he's a stanch conservative in love with his own rugged individualism. If he's anything less in the movie after his little experience, it's gonna deflate itself.

holy shit.

Nice of you to post a video that we have never seen before.....sorry, I mean, that has already been posted!


Now, from my memory of Tony Stark in the comics, didnt he do exactly what has been shown in these films?
Turn a company that makes weapons into a company that didnt!

He's been distracted ever since I started posting.

Wow! Really!?

The Iron Man book always walked the fence. It was anti-Communist when it first started being published, but quickly switched to Tony questioning building weapons that kill due to the rising anti-war sentiment of the 60's. He's developed weapons for S.H.I.E.L.D. over the years, but I think the character justified that as a way to continue being Iron Man and updating the suit to keep it non-lethal.

Sunday's Calendar had a big story on Iron Man being the 1st of the new MARVEL Studios films.

Impressive.

And in 2001 I was predicting Marvel would be shut in 5 years.

you also predicted poo would be the new big mac.

And in Australia, it is!

Oy!

You should try the chocolate thickshake.

I dunno guys, its not looking as good as Steel!

it was a classic!

I know man.
The acting, the special effects, the story....all genuine Oscar winning potential.
I think they passed it over cause it was about black people!

stoopid rassists.

not that i own it, but thats only because i am waiting to the special edition dvd.

I'm waiting for the super special edition!
Apparently it comes out long after I have died!

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=51470

New pics.

That was just fucking cool.

I'm almost as psyched for this movie as I am for Dark Knight. That clip was sweet.

I have a feeling that this movie will be this years Batman Begins.

So, no matter how good it is Pariah will hate it?

Yeah, like that narrows it down at all.

http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=28412

Wildly Popular 'Iron Man' Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film

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http://news.yahoo.com/page/parade-rdj/rdj;_ylt=AsaBToBwsNw.FP6IyhgDvw2s0NUE

• The Incredible Hulk panel at the New York Comic Con seemed to set the stage in quite possibly reversing the taste left in fandom’s mouth by Ang Lee’s 2003 artsy interpretation of the comic icon.
  
  Director Louis Leterrier was joined on stage by the film’s producer Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel Studios.
  
  Leterrier, known best State-side for his work on The Transporter Euro-action flicks told the crowd he had just got into town from Seattle where he was working on the film’s score, composed by Craig Armstrong.
  
  “It’s Star Wars good,” he told the crowd. A statement greeted by a skeptical grown mixed with cheers. “We will have a final mix next week.”
  
  When asked what’s new, Feige replied simply: “We have a kick-ass villain.”
  
  Which was the cue to roll the footage of John Hurt as Gen. Thunderbolt Ross and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky, discussing the decidedly painful use of a “super soldier” formula injected into the subject’s deep muscle tissue and the bones. (Later in the panel it was hinted that the vial was the same colors as Captain America.)
  
  After the footage, Tim Roth joined the panelists on stage. Leterrier and Feige made it clear that this version of The Hulk was not meant to diminish what Ang Lee created, but to move the story in a direction more familiar to the fans. To make it a more traditional approach to the character:
  
  “We needed a big ass fight in this movie,” Feige said. “The Abomination is as big as it comes. We wanted the Hulk to be a hero. Against this guy the Hulk is the underdog.”
  
  Leterrier premiered a five-minute clip, not yet complete, of Ross and Blonsky pursuing the Hulk. We see Banner being chased through what looks like an Ivy League university or tony hospital while his nemesis’ daughter Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) looks on. The U.S. Army uses tear gas which only unleashes The Hulk. We see him tussle with Blonsky. Despite looking human, Blonsky is amazing acrobatic, strong and quick. The clip ends with Blonsky gets kicked in the chest by The Hulk.
  
  Asked if this incarnation of The Hulk would speak the film’s director Louis Leterrier joked about the green Goliath’s famous phrase: “Hulk Smash? We should put that in.”
  
  Later in the panel a fan asked how influenced he was by the 1970s Hulk TV show.
  
  “In France Marvel Comics were not that popular," when he was growing up. “But The Hulk TV show was very popular. Bill Bixby was absolutely amazing in it. And a guy called Lou Ferrigno was in it …”, which was the cue for the fan-favorite to walk onto the stage to huge applause.
  
  Ferrigno walked across the stage, stood behind Leterrier and Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel Studio and flexed his muscles to even more applause.
  
  “You see what I started?” he joked to the appreciative crowd.
  
  Ferrigno told the audience how he auditioned for the 1980s animated Hulk TV series and cupping his microphone in his hands bellowed: “Hulk Mad! Hulk Smash!”
  
  At which point Leterrier said Ferrigno is going to do the Hulk voice in the new movie, invited the actor to the studio and that it was “a deal.”
  
  The panel ended with the premiere of the new Hulk trailer, though the director said it was incomplete and using an alternative soundtrack, the ad built on the previously released trailer, explaining in quick succession that Bruce Banner has been in hiding, traveling the world, working on trying to find a “cure” for his malady. We see General Thunderbolt Ross played perennial sci-fi movie actor John Hurt ordering a “snatch and grab” operation to bring Banner back to the U.S.
  
  Next we see Banner, played by Edward Norton running through the streets of what looks like the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The scenes of the Hulk/Blonsky fight are shown. Then we see scenes of Blonksy becoming, well, lumpy and finally we see the Abomination and Hulk throwing down in Midtown.
  
  The audience ate it up, but after the credits a scene was appended to the trailer that seems to lay rest to one of the biggest Hulk rumors on the net: We see General Ross with what appears to be a black eye (or he is rip-roaring drunk) holding up a bar with a drink in his hand. We cut to the bar door opening, and like an old-school western we see a man in silhouette enter the bar and we hear Robert Downey, Jr.’s voice. Due to the screams in the audience what he says is barely audible, but then he walks up to Ross, we see Downey’s face. Ross compliments him as “always having the nicest suits.” Then Downey says to Ross: “I hear you have an unusual problem?”
  
  “You should talk,” Ross retorts.
  
  “You should listen,” says Downey.
  
  Cut to black. Cue audience pandemonium.

Ferrigno as voice? Neat!

Downey confirmed in cameo? Cool!

Tonight is the night it's going down!

And I've got really good tickets

Great movie, absolutely awesome!

I'm seeing it Friday.

likewise...

For what it's worth everyone from AICN to Fox News is going berserk with praise for "Iron Man."

Thank god! I can't like anything unless they say its good. Now I can go and see it without being afraid of turning into a liberal.

My point, Brian, was note that a variety of different types of sites were giving good reviews to the movies. That's good news because it tends to help show that the film has broad appeal.

I thought you'd appreciate knowing that AICN loves the film, given that the cater to the basement dwelling virgin crowd.

No, your point was to link to two sites that you jerk off to.

If I was going to link to a page I jerk off to I would have posted a link to your mom's facebook page.

Whoa she has a facebook too?

She did. But it's down now.

Heh. Just like rex's mom.

Don't you have a thread to rip off?

Yeah but there are just too many "rex's mom" threads to choose from!

You really are retarded, aren't you?

Whoa. Watch it, Jeremy. rex just called you "retarded." Given the years he spent sweeping at ARC, if there's one thing rex knows, it's retarded.

Well it was either that response or his current classic "If you say so". I applaud his choice to be a little more aggressive.

im just suprised he didnt call you beardguy jr...

not to spoil anything, but might I suggest that when the movie is done, you might want to wait with leaving until after the credits...

Just a thought, juuuuust a thought...

I'll be the first one to say that this sounds rather cheesy.

It's typical comic geek stuff. "Avengers Initiative"?? WTF is that? sez the general moviegoing public? And thus you end a perfectly good film with an ending most people who don't even know who the Avengers or Nick Fury Or fucking S.H.I.E.L.D. for that matter, are, will be left scratching their heads at.

Luckily it sounds as if they've buried it where most people won't notice it. But this is the pitfall of a comic book company, who's audience continues to dwindle every year to where they now only number a few thousand, owning the movie studio. You start thinking the movie audience is the same as the comic book reading audience. And for the most part, IT'S NOT!

Yeah, because Sam Jackson is Nick Fury and pays Tony Stark a visit.




SPOILERS!

Damnit whomod!

Don't encourage the boy!

The irony is that I didn't get to see it, because I didn't know about it until I'd gotten home from the movie theatre

Or not...time for a back up plan.

Please keep us updated.

I didn't read any of that.

Too far about your fourth grade reading level?

y'can't make a reading comprehension joke when you mistakingly use "about" instead of "above".

it just loses all of its value.

wbam?

Yeah. I've really got to work on my typing skills.

Maybe stop copying and pasting all the time? I know that would mean thinking for yourself but I think you might be able to handle it.

just got back from seeing iron man, great movie. maybe best super hero movie ever, i'll sleep, reflect and know for sure tomorrow.

Iron Man fucking rocks..or roxors. Make sure to stay through the credits.

Makes Spider-man look like batman returns....

stripper pole in the private jet? oh yes, this movie was off the chain...

i think what set this movie a part from other comic flicks was the depth at acting. Robert Downey Jr. because of past substance problems and early comedic roles never did get his due as a great actor, and here you have one of the best actors in years playing the lead in a super hero flick.

Jeff Bridges playing the villain was a great casting decision, he plays a over the top prick but doesnt come off as hey look at me im over the top, it was subtle and built slow till the end.

Terrence Howard is an very good actor as well as Paltrow and you have them playing supporting roles, so none of the scenes came off as cheap but it actually seemed like any good movie with the main character just happening to be a super hero.


the great thing about the script i think was instead of the obligatory having to get you to being the hero scenes in the first super man, spidey, and batman flicks, it was fun watching him transform into the hero.

plus it was cool to watch him kick the shit out of the terrorists.



my only complaint is Stane didnt drink white russians....

Terrence Howard was good?

I was afraid he would ruin the quality of the movie since he always comes off as a pretentious prick in most of his roles.

I thought Howard did a good job in the first hour of "Crash" and when he didn't it was largely because of the fact the script failed his character at that point.

His acting in Crash was okay. But I'm thinking of his parts in Animal and The Best Man.

all the characters came off as layered in this movie, which was surprising most superheroes movies try to play of duality of the secret identity vs the character, and all the supporting characters have a duality as well but this one seemed to have some better writing, or the actors and the director carried out the story better than it was written...

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Fucking awesome. Went to an early show to avoid the crowd, and it was still packed. One of the best damn comic adaptations I've ever seen.

Fucking awesome is right.

Mrs G and tried to go to an early show but it was all but sold out so we went to the 7 pm show.

She's not a fan of most comic book movies. She liked the Spider-man films and she likes some genre films and TV shows ("Lost" is currently her favorite show). But, for example, she didn't like any of the Batman films (even "Begins").

About half an hour into the film, she whispers to me "Wow. This is really a great movie."

I gotta agree. This is up there with the first Superman and Spiderman 2 in terms of the best comic book movies. And I think that "Dark Knight" is going to have a hard time not getting overshadowed by this film.

The only significant weak part of the film was that Terrance Howard's voice seemed way too fey for Jim Rhodes. I sort of wish they'd gotten, for example, Dennis Haysbert from "24" to play Rhodey. But even that was a relatively minor beef.

Oh, and the scene after the credits. Because of this board I knew it was coming and we waited for it. Very few of the audience did, of course.

Yeah, that bugged me too.



We had to deal with this jackass who after the animated part of the credits were over, kept saying ,"He said it was after the credits! Where is it? It was supposed to be after the credits! Why haven't all these other people left? It was supposed to be after the credits!"

I almost turned around and asked his buds, "How the hell are you friends with this dipshit?"

My only real complaint was the fact that the movie theater was almost full when we got there; so we had to sit on the second row, which fucking sucks.

We sort of lucked out with the theater because when we found out the earlier show was packed, they told us that we would be better off just going into the 7 pm theater and waiting. Mrs G at first wanted to hang out in the lobby but the girl was smart/cool enough to tell us "I wouldn't. People are already going in". As a result we got really good seats.

The only other really, really, minor thing that sort of bugged me was the fact they kept saying that Tony's dad worked on the Manhattan project and the first A-bomb. That seemed a little odd because, if Tony was around forty, that means he was born in the mid to late sixties and his parents would have been at least middle aged (probably older) when he was born. But the picture of his parents on newspaper when they died showed two people who were pretty young at the time of their death. Also, they talked about Stane being similar in age to his dad. Since Stane was obviously in his sixties, if that was the case, Tony's dad couldn't have worked on the A-bomb project.

But that was a pretty minor thing. Furthermore, as BSAMS mentioned, Bridges fucking rocked as Stane. In fact, Mrs. G didn't even realize he was Lebowski until I explained to her that's why I was laughing when Obidiah make the derogatory remarks about hippies.

New York Times:

• Comic book adventure "Iron Man" proved its mettle at the North America box office and topped expectations, kicking off the summer movie season with estimated weekend ticket sales of $100.75 million and marking a commercial rebound for its star, Robert Downey Jr.

I was told who's playing the part of the "end of credits" person.

Sucks.

I can't take three steps in the movie world without tripping over this over-exposed tard. I am so tired of seeing his face plastered everywhere. He simply is not that good of an actor.

I mean, c'mon! He has a recognizable face and viral personality, but beyond that, his appeal is nil.

He's a good actor. I tend to agree his fanboy tendencies have made him choose some questionable roles. Still, it was a fun scene, especially given that they waited to put it after the credits, instead of trying to shoehorn it into the movie.

Besides the best performance of that character was Charlton Heston in "True Lies," even if they had to call him "Spencer Trilby"

Samuel Jackson is a great actor when he has good material, but like you said he makes questionable decisions on roles to take.

Agreed.

christ you are gay...

You two have obviously just met.

Saw it twice this weekend. It rocked that hard!

are you going to go see Iron Man as well?

Yes, we dont need to know about Elsias penis!

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Oh well.

Why do we need videos of Elsias penis?

Wrong large, black, one-eyed Fury.

Speaking of in-jokes. I didn't notice it, but apparently on the table in Tony's workship there was, among the other gadgets, a glimpse of a familiar-looking red, white and blue shield.

Samuel L. Jackson receives:

Samuel L Jackson is the BEST ACTOR EVER!

You just want to butt sex him.

Saw it, loved it. Paltrow is unbelievably hot. This could be a good move for Downey's career. I hope he handles it well.

Oh yeah, we need an image of Downey Jr with Paltrow as he's thinking: "this is my face as I'm fucking you in the ass".

So you agree that Samuel L. Jackson is overexposed and overrated.

overexposed yes. but he can be a good actor when he wants. but he has done a lot of crap jobs where he just plays himself of late.


Iron Man broke 100 Mill over the weekend.


and they are plotting out The Avengers film franchise.

2011 is also the year Disney is releasing a couple sequels, namely Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Tron 2 Pirates 4 among others. That will probably be the biggest summer ever.

Huh. I coulda sworn they already did "Toy Story 3" as a "straight-to-DVD" release. Wonder who's gonna replace Jim Varney.

Yeah, but you're a retard who fake internet killed himself so what do you know?

Just got back. Loved it. Best Super-hero movie I've ever seen. Minor gripes:


















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I agree with G-Man...Terrence Howard's voice was off to me. I liked his performance but most of the movie he sounded like he'd like to War his Machine up Stark's pooper.

Gwyneth has always been 'meh' to me...she's just really basic; skinny, kind cute but not all that. She's what we used to call 'cold cheese pizza' back in the day: you'd eat it if it were the only thing in thne fridge but even ramen noodles or White Castle would be better. I could have done without all the Stark/Pepper romantical stuff. I never really read Iron Man all like that...is a romance between the two canon? I would have preferred they kept him as the wealthy playa/pimp type. I get that Stark noticed her after he had his whole life-altering experience and all but, let's keep it real: He woulda fucked at least 3 different hotties on the plane before getting abck to L.A. AND he woulda been gettin' a buffie behind the podium at the press conference.

For that matter, he never woulda stopped at B.K. Lounge to get a burger when Fattburger, In-and-out Burger and Sonic were options...

I didn't think that the killing of the terrorists when he rescued the town rang true. I would think that the whole 'saw American soldiers die/No more weapons' thing would have put him off killing. Seems like he would have built additional less lethal weaponry into his armor. Though I must admite that I did like how he left the 2nd in command terrorist to face justice at the hands of his victims. That seemed real to me.

Things I really liked:

When Stark was crawling back to his lab to get the power source. R.D. jr. performance evoked his acting in Less Than Zero which has always been his defining role for me.

All the stuff with the suits. The tech stuff was kewl. The testing/results was realistic. The suits were faithful to the comics.

Jeff Bridges as Stane. Really understated and well played. Brings to mind Liam Neeson as Ra's Al Ghul. Stane didn't really seem evil or whatever...he's just a guy making business decisions. Regardless of the consequences. Bet he's a Republican...

Would have preferred Jarvis be flesh and blood but his personality was spot on. The A.I. aspect allows for character development.

The possibilty that the H.T.I.C. returns in the sequel...or maybe the Avengers flick...as The Mandarin(notice how he kept playing with his ring?). I know that they wanted to be more realistic in the opener but The Mandarin is to Iron Man what Luthor is to Superman or The Joker is to the Bat-Man. He's got to show up at some point. The 10 Rings refence was cool but still...he could be introduced in the Thor movie with the rings being an aspect of Norse Mythology. That would be a cool lead to the Avengers flick.

The scene after credits. I haven't been on the boards or anywhere else lately to read the spoilers so I didn't know it was coming. I usually stay thru the credits on most movies and I ALWAYS do on comic movies. I love Sam Jackson. When he spoke and then stepped out of the shadows, I actually applauded. One of my attractions to the Ultimate line was Nick Fury being modeled after him. And yeah, I have to acknowledge pariah in admitting that he is over exposed but, I heard him on a talk radio show a while back. He knows that he's out there a lot but his attitude is that he's going to do what he has to do to get paid. He cited Snakes on a Plane, The Man, The Great White Hype, S.W.A.T. and Shaft among others as movies he did strictly for the loot. Can't really blame him, though I was really disappointed with Shaft...

None of those movies damage his rep as a fine actor or negate his performances in Unbreakable, Jackie Brown, A Time to Kill, Jungle Fever, Pulp Fiction, Fresh...hell even Star Wars, ep. 2 and 3. His voice work on The Incredibles and the Boondocks was cool, too.


All in all, Iron Man was awesome. Dark Knight has some work to do to match the quality...though the trailer looked really decent. I'm sure all of you have seen it by now but, this was my first time. I also liked the trailer for The Spirit. The Happening looked ok as well...though M. Night Shawhatyamacallit is over-rated to me.

See I took it that he decided that he must make sure the weapns he creates don't fall into the hands of those who would do evil, where before he didnt care as long as he was making weapons.

I don't think he was against killing, just the innocent and the soldiers doing good being killed by his weapons.

I think Tony just had his eyes opened. He'd designed all this stuff, made his money, and used it to keep his life one big party. I do think that he always had the best intentions as far as making sure that the soldiers were protected and had the best weapons to defend themselves. It's when he realized that his weapons were being used by even the bad guys, and they'd almost killed him with one of his own bombs, that he decided that his life had to change. He kept talking about accountability after that. He felt responsible for what his weapons did in the hands of the bad guys. I don't think Tony became a pacifist as much as he became actively involved and responsible for the first time in his life.

Exactly. Not unlike his reaction in "the Armor Wars" when he found out that his IM technology had been stolen and used by supervillains. He didn't give up being Iron Man, he just made sure that no one else would use the technology for evil.

Yeah, I can see what you mean, however...His whole demeanor seemed to me to be more of the "give peace a chance" type or thing. I was surprised when he killed the guys hiding behind the civilians....especially once he realized the offensive capabilities of the repulsor rays. Hell, For all I know, Stark could have designed some type of profectile to instantly knock out or otherwise inacapcitate the terrorists that were hiding behind the civilians...maybe a instant acting version of the paralysis device Stane used against him. Though the missile into the tank looked like it would definitely leave a mark....

I dunno...seems like the whole anti-weapon stance would lead to a renewed sanctity/respect for all life...not just "our" side.

Again I dont think it was anti-weapons, so much as anti-lack of responsibility. H epretty much lived care free, he built the weapons and sold them, but figured the military would keep them in the right hands. after seeing they werent that responsible he decided to step back and consider how to proceed, without putting innocents at risk....

Never read that story line and obviously the comic is different from the movie but...did he kill anybody in Armor Wars? Or did he just go and get his stuff back or render it unusable?

In movie continuity, could Stark not have found a way to make his weapons with some sort of a tracking/detonation device so that at any point his company and/or the military could know the location of piece of Stark produced weaponry? This way he could still provide it for our side and make sure it didn't fall into enemy hands...or destroy it if it did so.

I'm not going to get caught up debating this point any further. I can see it the way bsams laid it out. It makes sense and apparently that's the way the makers of the movie decided to go, but....it just makes more sense to me that he would have developed an aversion to killing ANYBODY...not just US soldiers.

I can dig it. Your view also serves the plot better.

I think seeing that professor, soldiers and those innocent people killed by the terrorists would cause more of a sense of the need to kill them first rather than an aversion.


i think there isnt a person alive after 9-11 that doesn't wish we woulda killed Obama Bin Laden when we had the chance, so I think that seeing stuff like that drives you more than makes you want to avert it....

Yeah, but I think the killing of the professor, et al was ancillary to his real issue....HIS weapons were the ones doing the killing. HE was responsible for the deaths. War is war...peaople are going to die on both sides. To me, Stark would have been so appalled at seeing the true destructive cost in HUMAN LIVES that he could no longer, in good concious, make things specifically designed to take a human life...ANY HUMAN LIFE...again.

My point is more that he decided that he no longer wanted to have anything to do with killing ANYBODY any longer. Thats why he decided to stop making weapons. PERIOD.

Re: bin Laden...since he and his organization took responsibility for 9/11, there was a clear target for America's righteous anger. Having read many of your posts here and elsewhere since 9/11, I know that we come down on different idealogical sides of the war...however, I do agree that almost every American...including me...wanted to see bin Laden dead as some small measure of revenge for 9/11.

Now, if you say that Stark wanted to kill the specific terrorists that kept him hostage, killed his friend, killed civilians...all with weapons that he himself manufactured...and you can say that it was vengeance on his part..?

Well I can definitely agree with you about that. Personal trumps idealogical. But, I'd still say that once those that he held responsible were dealt with, he would not DIRECTLY take a life if he could help it.

Which he didnt take any lives except the groups directly responsible. So maybe he wont continue to kill terrorists, I dunno. But the ones he did kill were part of the organization that killed the Prof. and the soldiers he was with.


Your also assuming he decided to quit making weapons because war is war, but their are amny people who think their are justified wars. So assuming he is someone that thinks war is war is a stretch, not a bad one but the way the movie played out it appears he was more wanting to make right that his weapons were used for evil rather than he was dramatically turned into a peace monger.

Good god. That movie fucking rocked. It might even be better than Batman Begins.











(Please don't ban me rob.)

By that logic, when bin Laden had his men fly planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon, Boeing was responsible for the deaths.

But, anyway, I took his decision, and the rest of the film seems to bear this intepretation out, that he was upset by the fact that his weapons were falling into the wrong hands, or could do so, not that he was against violence per se.

If anything, it stretched credibility more to interpret the plot as if he was originally unaware that his weapons killed people. They WERE weapons, after all.

I saw this TWICE but it was good both times!

Yeah cause like it might have been a totally different film both times.

Now, now Fred - I saw it twice too - it really did kick all sorts of ass...

so did I.

I roll with the above...(even with elisa )

The planes were not made to cause death. That they were used in that mannner was unfortunate but, there's no reason at all for the manufacturor of the planes to feel any guilt or responsibility.

Weapons, OTOH, are made to kill. Stark would have no illusions about that. However, it is one thing to intellectually KNOW that the product you made is responsible for death. It's another thing entirely to SEE it and experience it up close and personal.

I've read somewhere that several scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project were extremely upset after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They knew what they were making and what it was to be used for but, when faced with the destruction that it caused...even though it ultimately saved more lives than it took...they found it reprehensible.

As I said earlier, the counterpoint to mine makes as much sense to me as my own. And obviously it works to advance the plot in the flick...just would have been interesting to see it the other way.

I thought Shaft was a pretty good movie although I liked Jeffery Wrights and Christian Bales performances more than Jacksons!

As for the Star Wars precraps, I thinked he sucked balls in them - what a gay way to die!

They're also made to deter. Do you think he'd have any illusions about that?

See also: The Cold War (as opposed to global thermo-nuclear war).

The original Shaft (along with The Mack and Superfly) is iconic in the Black community. I haven't watched it in years but, I saw it prolly 20 times when I was a kid. I was disappointed with his performance and, apparently, so was he since he cited it a payday flick

Re: rhe prequels. The movies were meh but Jackson was cool...especially in ep. 2.

Point.

However, isn't the movie set in the Afghanistan war? In this situation the weapons are being made and used to kill, not deter.

Yeah the original Shafts were cool, especially Shaft in Africa!

I'm just saying that I thought the remake was good nowhere near as bad as I found snakes on a plane, 51st State and shite like that!

Sorry man, I fucking hate everything about those prequels!

It definitely wasn't as bad as some of his other clunkers...just didn't live up to the standard that I had for him or the movie.

Good movie.

By the by, after the scene with Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, someone in the audience said "you can't beat the Hoff!"

guess who ain't riding in the funvee, bitches!

However, there was a specific line uttered by Tony (paraphrased), "When they see this baby go off, they won't even wanna come out of their caves," right after (before?) he demonstrated the Jericho.

In real life, the atomic bomb was made to deter through killing. If not for Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the guns would have never stopped firing.


In any event: The movie was great, but I didn't like Paltrow. I find her to be very plain. I also didn't like her function; she was implemented purely for the sake of grounding Tony. That annoying "all I have is you" crap was laid on really thick (although, that bit about taking out the trash was pretty funny I must admit). Tony's a womanizer, that's his character. A stint in a cave in Afghanistan wouldn't change that.

unless the professor gave it up!

I'm amazed at how successful the movie is. Everyone I've talked to all day today (work, home, being out) raves about how fun it was. Favreau has a winning formula that I really think cannot be copied.

3X2(9YZ)4A

please don't use my screen name without explicit written consent.

i wont be bullied by you any longer.

That's not even a real formula.

it's the formula for gay

I was right

INDEED!

Thanks for the old news, whomod.

At least he linked to a real article.

BANDWIDTH STEALER!

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another reason to see it again: Tony's got THE SHIELD in his lab.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/05/09/captain-americas-shield-found-in-iron-man/

Ex-cel-lent.

I was talking about the fact she said it was good both times, like it was gonna be a different film to the first time she watched it!

What is it doing to Jeff Glacier's hand?!

marrying it

I saw the film tonight (Iron Man, not Elsia raping Glaciers hand), and I agree, it was awesomness multiplied by amazingness!

Two things I liked, as in jokes I am guessing, were the terrorist organisation being called the Ten Rings (Mandarin anyone?) and the bit when Rhodey looked at the Mark II armour and remarked about next time (War Machine anyone?).

Downey totally nailed this film, coming off as a perfect balance between serious as hell, and flippant humourist!

Bridges was amazing as Stane, and really showed his versatility as an actor.

I agree that Rhodey should have had a more "strong" voice, and could probably have done with being a bigger built guy as well, but he wasnt terrible thats for sure.

Cant wait for the sequel!

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OBADIAH!

Further proof these aren't fantasies...they're options.

I saw it again tonight and caught all the stuff I missed. Can't wait for the DVD, and sequel.

I saw the premiere w/ my daughter. We both loved it! Really rates up there as One of the better Super-hero films ever done!

Dear Llancey, I don't see you very often anymore, so I'd like to take this rare opportunity to tell you that you are very fat. Love, Mxy.

Yeah, this movie was a perfect 10 for me. Absolutely flawless. I've never seen a superhero movie this perfect. And, as BASAMS said, it's all down to the depth that Downey jr brought to Stark. It was a fucking fun, smart movie about a guy named Tony Stark. Oh, and yeah he happens to wear high-tech armor. Not the other way around.

The best evar!

just saw this last night. really enjoyed it. i dont think it was as good as batman begins, but im sure a lot of that is my bias towards batman. dunno if you guys know, but he's my favorite comic book character.

by far, this was my favorite marvel movie. i didn't like hulk, never really saw much in any of the spideys. punisher and ghost rider were meh. the xmen series was fun, but got progressively less so. iron man just seemed like it was well made.

i tried not to read this thread before i saw the film, but i did skim through someone's post who stated that they really liked the character build portions, which i really agree with.

my favorite part of the spidey films was the first half of the first movie, before he actually became spiderman. seeing the progression through his high school years and dealing with the bullies and such... that was really cool. i thought the same of batman begins -- the first portion where he's all in training is just so damn cool.

iron man had that feeling through out. even though he had the full set of armor at the end of the movie, it was as if he was still in the building process, and not yet sure or confident of his heroic decisions.

plus, unlike many other super hero films, this one was fun.

batman begins i loved because its a darker, "believable" take on the whole batman story. other movies aroudn this time seem to follow in the same suit, though fail in comparison. iron man takes a believable spin, but never ignores its "silly" part, in that its a guy in a super hero tank outfit. i really liked that whole part of the story.

i dont know all that much about iron man comic books, so i have no critiques good or bad about how true it stayed to the printed story. but, as far as a movie goes, it was fun. definitely a good take.

plus you had a flash back to the blow job scene in Less Than Zero, which you enjoyed tremendously!

i've always liked your work!

you misspelled wang!

Thats cause he had his mouth full!

This movie is pure awesomeness. I'd be gay for Robert Downey Jr if I was gay.

your sweaty wrestler posts already gave you away!

too funny... now their gaying up their own board.

Just saw this movie today and I gotta say it sucked balls!

Downey can't act worth a shit. They should've given the part to Sandler.

Paltrow is a dog and you people should have your eyes examined if you think she's hot!

Daniels was horrible as the villain as he is in everything he does.

The special effects were such crap. The robots looked like puppets and some places it looked like close up shots of action figures.

The story was simple and predictable and poorly paced. There was no human drama or comedy in this movie.


The only good part of this movie was the final scene where they revealed Fury as a one eyed black man portrayed by the underused Sam Jackson. the only better choice for Furry would've been Carlos Mencia. I'm also glad they put this at the end of the credits 'cause I love setting through credits.


Overall this movie sucked and I hope Hollywood doesn't learn a thing from this movie.

Thanks for the review, pariah.

Just lucky he wasnt in this film then!

"now"?

wtf man?

OOPS. It was Jeff Bridges. Than I guess it was an ok movie.

You just have to love the level of hate rex brings to the board...

So I finally got around to seeing this one.

It was EPIC. The acting, casting, story and special effects were terrific.

I was worried that Tony's life altering experience would make him a pussy,
but he shot-up the terrorists real good! I'm glad that this one didn't
turn into a hand-wringing cry session about the value of life and not killing,
and all that bullshit the Batman writers (and most comic book writers) would go on and on about. I'm also relieved that the movie didn't become like Fantastic Four 2, with their anti-US military spin.

Some blood and guts killings would have been nice, but I understand a "R" rating would have hurt the box office numbers.

I notice gayla failed to mention how EPIC the acting, casting, story, and terrific special effects were.

typical steve guttenburg behavior.

Piss off!

don't make it personal.

go back to Russia, nazi!

Yeah, Whomod said you are a bad man!

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/iron-mans-repul.html