Favreau dealt with the pg-13 issue as best he could in using the "you didnt see them die, but aint no living through that shit" casualty meter. Always tough to come up with an approach that works for everybody.
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Favreau dealt with the pg-13 issue as best he could in using the "you didnt see them die, but aint no living through that shit" casualty meter. Always tough to come up with an approach that works for everybody.
Iron Man is the John Daly of super heroes. I mean that in a good way.
I thought it was a solid movie in every aspect. Robert Downy Jr. seemed perfect for the part. I'm excited for the sequal.
One of the noteworthy things about Iron Man is that it's the first movie out of the newly created Marvel Studios. The filmmaking part of it is 100% Marvel and so is the lion's share of the profits. Probably a big reason why Iron Man was pitch-perfect as a superhero movie.
If they can follow on with a decent effort with the Hulk, Marvel will be flush with cash and set up to really start knocking it out of the park with a long run of superhero movies.
This article throws out a lot of numbers and breaks down the business side of it a bit. The bottom line being that things are looking very good at Marvel.
I saw this today too. A lot of fun. The story was so hilariously unfeasible as to be darn near insulting (how does that military guy get back and forth between Afghanistan and L.A. so quickly?) but it was a riot, and Robert Downey Jr. is as amusing as he is in everything he does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zekyl
P.S. you ever get the feeling that comic book heroes are the new American mythology? Like, young actors in acting school are gonna be like "yeah sure Hamlet is fun and all, but I really want to test my skills playing Batman."
Looking forward to Iron Man. I'm not a big comics fan or anything but it looks badass. In 'Marvel Ultimate Alliance' he was one of my two asskickers, I guess that gives me more hope for the movie.
I'm not sure he actually went back after the Stark rescue. When they showed him in that command center later, could have been stateside. They do a lot of command and control stuff for iraq/afghanistan from here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
I just assumed the command center was stateside. I didn't even think about it being in Afghanistan.
yesQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
ironman was one of the worst movies ive seen all year
what a piece of fucking shit
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That's a somewhat strong reaction to a movie? Did Iron Man rape your sister?
You sure you're not talking the Fantastic Four movie, where the only good thing about it could be appreciated on mute when she wasn't invisible??
Even then it's tough to sit through...
The problem with Fantastic Four:
- Casting
- Writing
- Directing
- Acting
- Besides the Human Torch, the special effects weren't even that great.
So yeah. The movie sucked from every aspect.
You are wrong and have learned nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
:dismissed:
Everyone's just cumming over ironmans face right now. Theres all this hype and how ironmans the shit. sure it's cool, this genius made a robot in a cave and raped the talibans woohoo nationalism~
after that, it was all too much of "i want to save the people, fuck this industry." contradicting 2 ideas if you're trying to go fuck the talibans but we need to save the people. war cost us innocent lives. and they did a good job to portray that but the storyline, not so much.
there wasnt that much more action. Him going to back to save some innocent people, making him look like a hero. he goes back for revenge and kills the one leader. the f16 scene was cool. after that there was where he fights the betraying fuck. see, I cant even remember his name because the movie lost me. There are 3 stages of action and happen strictly in the intro, exact mid, and the end. after that, theres all this drama where pepper may have some feelings for tony, and shiet. love in this movie? get the fuck out, have ironman kill some more talibans or someshit, tha was what I was expecting. The trailer had the most action and basically killed it for me. I lived up to the hype and watched the trailer like 40 times.
weakass story line imo. you knew he was gonna turn on starks, from the way he looked too. he looks like the badguy.
I caught this on a holiday at 10pm with a paper due next day. thought i'd bandwagon this shit out but apparently, i shouldve just stayed the fuck home or watched Taken.
the Brown reporter was hot though, wanted more of her
You sound a little cross.
I can guess Cross doesnt like comics and graphic novels featuring Iron Man. Because most of the stuff he complains about were built more on that. Also I dont get the part about a weak storyline, but you wanted less of it and more action. Which would make it weaker then no? Hard muthafucka to please it seems. Only thing i can say is dont watch trailers 40+ times, wont help you out at all.
on a side note Taken looks good but doesnt hit stateside until september
I'm pretty sure that Jeff Bridges prepared for this role by studying tapes of Phil Jackson. I swear to god, that's exactly who he is in this movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
But anyway you seem like the kind of dude who watches E.T. and when the bikes take off flying, you go "YEAH, RIGHT!"
What if you were to learn that Jamal Crawford had a bit role in the movie as one of the people at Stark? Would that change your opinion of the movie at all?
Is it weird that I thought of writing the same exact thing, Vinny?
I was going to say "You would have loved it if Jamal Crawford had a cameo." But I didn't want Cross to get worked up.
Nothing harsh is intended towards cross from anyone i dont think. In fact if thats how he feels all humor aside more power to him. its just a movie.
Would it change his opinion if Jamal Crawford was War Machine?
There's been lots of atrocities and shit done against our best interests using weapons we've sold. How do you think the Taliban came to power? Rambo went out there and trained the mujahadeen, remember? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
Aside from that, though, Cross has a perfectly valid point, one that comic book geeks have voiced before. Iron Man often degenerates into weapons stupidity. Tony Stark says he's not going to make WMDs, except of course for whatever latest techie thing he's working on that gets compromised and used against him. Then he has to go into Iron War mode to save the day and keep the technology bottled up. It's a classic Iron Man storyline, and the movie was true to that, but it can quickly get stale.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_bV8sDgD7a0w/...lesliebibb.jpgQuote:
the Brown reporter was hot though, wanted more of her
OBTW, I liked Gwyneth Paltrow as a redhead *much* more than I like Kirsten Dunst as a redhead, which pushed this ahead of Spider-Man in my book.
My official position is that Iron Man required a lot of suspension of disbelief, but if you can do that, it's a really good summer blockbuster movie.
My two favorites were when he went ballistic on his escape and when he hit the wall in his flight test. Dead or crippled, roll credits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
each to his own.
yea v im not really a huge comicbook guy. dont enjoy them as much, maybe because i never read them when i was a kid.
xman was okay as well as spiderman 1 and 2 but this goes down as one of the worst along with fantastic 4.
Anyone see Pan's Labyrinth?
Just saw it. Pretty cruel flic.
Yea its labeled as a fairy tale for grown ups. Which is fairly accurate. Though a weed head or shroom addict might freak out watching it.
I really loved it. It was very sad, but an excellent film. Very neat take on childhood innocence. The ending was spectacular. It was as if to say, "the only way this cruelty makes any kind of sense is in some kind of elaborate fantasy world."Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Mexico is booming with awesome film directors right now! Check out all these great movies that were directed by a Mexican director recently:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Amores Perros
21 Grams
Babel
Alfonso Cuarón
A Little Princess
Great Expectations
Y tu mamá también
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Children of Men (awesome flick, if you haven't seen it already)
Guillermo del Toro
Mimic
The Devil's Backbone
Hellboy
Hellboy II
Pan's Labyrinth
The Hobbit (upcoming)
Mexico is fucking up everyone right now in the movies.
Besides The Life Aquatic and No Country, I only watch foreign. I'll check some of them out.
I hate hollywood movies. The endings seem so predictable to me.
Oh please... the greatest Mexican movie hasn't even been filmed yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
And yes, I know this is wrong on so many levels...
I know what you're saying, and I agree, but actually a lot of those movies I mentioned are Hollywood movies, just directed by a Mexican director.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
21 Grams had Sean Penn in it
Babel had Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett
A Little Princess was a Disney movie
Great Expectations had Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert de Niro
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - well, you know this one's British
Children of Men was another British movie with Clive Owen, Juilanne Moore, and Dame Judi Dench
Mimic was a thriller with Mira Sorvino
Hellboy - obviously a Hollywood movie
Hellboy II - obviously a Hollywood movie
Pan's Labyrinth - this was actually made in Spain
The Hobbit (upcoming) - Peter Jackson is still producing this movie and gave Gillermo del Toro the job after being so impressed with Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth
I was going to say that Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Planet Terror, Desperado... soon, Machete) was conspicuously absent from Swami's list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
Robert Rodriguez is Mexican-American, not native to Mexico, and didn't learn Spanish until he was an adult. I love most of his work, but I was joking around. I don't need much of an excuse to post the Machete trailer. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by geerussell
Children of Men was an AMAZING movie. I need to watch it again sometime soon.
There are several long scenes in that movie that were all done with one single camera shot and not edited, almost like watching a "COPS" foot chase. The entire coffeshop scene at the beginning of the movie, up to where the credits start, is one camera shot. The scene where he's running through the prison camp during the big gun battle is entirely one camera shot. It's fucking amazing that they could do that. Can you imagine how many retakes they had to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zekyl
I love that kind of shit, I'll have to check that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
Reminds me of that video with all of those guys on treadmills.
You mean OK-Go?