Bittersweet feelings over Iron Man
I liked him long before you people!
Before you guys start waving various protestations at me, when I say you people I don’t mean YOU people, I’m talking about the general public.
I know people say this all the time, I liked “blah blah” before everyone else made it popular but I really stuck with the Iron Man character for years. Almost as long as I collected Batman comics (Batman being my first love in the comic book world).
So seeing people jumping on the bandwagon now and being big experts on Tony Stark and on the various Iron Man armours really tears me down the middle. Where were you people three years ago? Five years? Ten..? (you get the idea).
Just take a look at that footage above to see that they’ve done the character justice - I read that the director was adamant about making it believable and I can honestly say I never imagined what it would be like trying to fly as Iron Man the first couple of times but that really captures it!
It’s fantastic to see the character treated as I’ve always known he should be and it doesn’t get better than seeing him on the big screen in all of his Shell-head glory! Shell-head; that’s his nickname in the Marvel universe you know, Golden Avenger is another name (someone suggested he was also known as the Crimson Avenger but I doubt this as this is a DC character and I don’t recall him ever being called this).
So I want the film to do really really really well (I can’t wait to see War Machine in the sequel - yes I’m talking sequels already!) but I do wish to hang on to my snobbery at the same time.
Ahhhh what do I care as long as they continue to bring out kick ass toys (which I may add I put pretty much all of them on lay-by the other day thank you very much)!
Oh and I can’t wait to get my hands on the Iron Man game either:
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Ironman has never been a favourite character of mine although I have to say the preview looks cool. Do you know who the ‘bad guy’ is going to be in the movie?
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Swollenpickles - yes it is a character named Stane (Jeff Bridges) and the Iron Monger armour which is much bigger and nastier than Shell-head.
I expect a pretty cool battle between the two.
Jeff Bridges? This makes me nervous. Robert Downey Jnr was worrying enough!
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Actually I think he looks pretty awesome as Stane and I’m a bit of a fan of his since The Dude oh and Tron LOL.
I’m too young to know him from way back when..
But I really want to see this film.
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Arjan - I consider you “our kind of people” anyway so I’m nothing but happy for you to be excited to see Iron Man.
I admit, I’ve never been that big a fan of Iron Man in the past. The movie just looks really damn good. Iron Man is one of those characters I always liked–like Thor and Ant-Man and the Hulk–but just never enjoyed the comics. Maybe that makes a difference, though… I actually really liked the Hulk movie and expect Iron Man to be very good, but never really thought the X-Men movies were that good, and I loved and read the comic for years.
Of course, I always loved the Spider-Man comics and I love those movies, so it’s all relative. Damn, disproved my own burgeoning theory.
That said, I know how you feel. I felt the same way when Invader ZIM got cancelled and then suddenly everyone who hadn’t watched the show and hadn’t tried to save it from cancellation was wearing the tee shirts. Thanks gain, Hot Topic. Farscape went kind of the same way.
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SamuraiFrog - Invader ZIM is something I never got into even though I’ve heard people rave about it. I forgot that you liked the Hulk - I couldn’t remember who it was that said it, I think it was you and someone else who said they really liked the film.
But I’m interested in your dislike of the X-Men films, I really like one and two and felt them to be very complete films rather than shallow attempts to get the characters on screen which it could easily be. The third one though just seems hollow and direction-less.
*Sigh* I miss Farscape.
I thought the first X-Men film was pretty good; I didn’t expect it to be, despite the fact that the budget was so low the major action climax takes place practically in the Statue of Liberty’s gift shop. But I didn’t find the second one to be a complete film, personally. I thought they added on too many characters in an attempt to make it larger, so everyone else gets less screen time and no one really has a story except, of course, for Wolverine, because he’s the only character who gets treated as important, anyway. And I never bought the whole Jean Grey getting killed off, either. She’s a psychic, she can’t stop a wall of water from inside the Blackbird? It’s such a lame disaster; it doesn’t feel a part of the story at all, it’s just there so they can force Dark Phoenix into the third movie.
Actually, and I know I get very little disagreement on this, I think the third one is the better film. And I only think that because it’s the only film where everyone seemed to realize that the problem with the other two movies was that everything was set-up, set-up, set-up and hurried resolution with far too many characters running all over the place, so instead of sucking up to the fans they’d just do the story and get it over with no matter who had almost no dialogue (did Angel even need to be in the story at all?) and who got killed off. I guess I feel like, except for a few very good characterizations (Wolverine, Rogue, Professor X, Magneto), those movies are all kind of hollow and directionless, and unless each one was going to be four hours long (and why not, really?), why even bother with so much going on and so little resolved?
All that said, I tend to not like Bryan Singer’s movies, anyway. I have similar problems with all of them, especially Superman Returns, which I just hated.
Wow, that was a long comment. Sorry about that.
I miss Farscape, too. In fact, I feel like I need to watch the whole thing on DVD. I haven’t done that for years.
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SF - Once again we have a different strokes scenario where I actually hated the third X-Men film and was reasonably satisfied with Superman Returns (I say reasonably - I mean it wasn’t Superman 4 at least).
You bring up an interesting point about movie length too, I’m always quite angry to read about excellent shots or scenes cut simply to hit a time mark as opposed to artistic vision.
Our attention span isn’t that bad!?
Nemesis is an example of this where they cut certain scenes out that could easily have still been included (Wesley Crusher at the wedding for example!). But they cut them simply to keep the film down to a certain length so they can play extra showings - of course when no one goes see your film it matters very little LOL.
As soon as we get our stuff out of storage I’m going to watch Peacekeeper Wars again!
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