IRON MAN Trailer

[filkertom]

Dammit, it's my own fault. I was too caught up in stuff over the weekend to notice this, which I knew was coming out. Fortunately, hughcasey was on the ball.

Dayumm.

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

THAT... looks like fun. :)

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Okay, what the hell is it with all the superhero movies NOT sucking lately? I'm not sure I get that...

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

You didn't see Superman Returns?

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Or X3, IMNSHO.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I feel X3 worked. It wasn't what it could've been. It definitely has problems. But I don't think it sucked.

Superman Returns sucked. Worse, it bored. And I was in Meijer today, and happened to see a well-discounted vinyl SR lunchbag, and they were quite true to the actual appearance of Brandon Routh, and no wonder it's well-discounted.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Eh, whatever works. Me, I thought it sucked. The whole Phoenix/Dark Phoenix saga was a watershed story of comics history, and all the director and writers could think to do was that? This after claiming to care about the property and the continuity. Nope, sorry. Sucked.

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the Dark Phoenix Saga would be a nightmare to translate accurately into film. They'd have to introduce space travel, space pirates, aliens, and a mountain of other things that the comic had had years to develop and incorperate before the saga came along. One has to keep in mind that a film has only 2-3 hours tops to get a story across, while a comic has about 10-12+ issues, not counting crossovers.

I liked X-3. Sure, it wasn't the Phoenix Saga, but it was a ton of fun and a good story, nonetheless.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

(shrug) Comics was the right medium for that tale, sure. Thing is, if movies aren't the right medium? Don't use it. Look at Lord of the Rings, for example. If you haven't read the books, you don't know what hobbits are, where Mordor is, or why you're talking about events that happened ten thousand years ago as though they're relevant now. The director and the screenwriters used the time they had to make it all make sense, to make these things relevant to people who had no background in the story. They could tell the story using their medium, and they did.

Basically? There are plenty of X-Men tales in canon that they could have told very easily, stories that wouldn't have required the background of the Dark Phoenix story. They could have told one of those stories rather than misuse a comics icon.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

You might enjoy this, from the MySpace of Dan Harmon (co-writer of Monster House):

ALTERNATE "SUPERMAN RETURNS" TITLES:
- The Drama Queen from Space
- Clark Kent Stands Behind Someone at a Computer for 45 Minutes
- Shoot Me in the Eye All You Want, I'll Never Stop Crying
- Faggotman
- Supergirl
- My Real Kryptonite is Not Receiving That to Which I Feel Entitled
- Dark Costume, Light Structure
- The Mystery of Lex Luthor's Spooooooky Black Island
- The Adventures of Seaplane Pilot and His Shitty, Lying Family
- Superman Returns, Editor Leaves
- Oh, Great, What Am I Supposed to Do, Find A New Girlfriend? WHERE?!
- The Perfect Storm 2: This Time it's Inconsequential
- The Day Seven Things Needed to be Caught and/or Lifted
- Your Kryptonite Island Killed Me So I Lifted It. Check Mate?
- Stephen King's Heavyobjectcatcher
- It's a Faller! It's a Lifter! It's a Catcher! It's Liftercatch!
- Superman Returns, and Clark Kent Returns at the Exact Same Time to the Hour, but Fuck it, it's a Comic Book
- Wait, if it's a Comic Book, Why is Everyone Crying?
- The Fourth Best Superman Including Quest For Peace
- Superman 5: The Quest for Catching and Lifting
- I Actually Wish Richard Pryor Would Return
- Now Kryptonite Doesn't Kill Me. Maybe I'm Just a Werewolf or Something.
- Thank God My Six Year Old Son is Also a Superman, Now We Have an Advantage
- Get Ready to Root for...uh, I'll Get Back to You
- They Say Kevin Spacey Would be Compelling While Reading a Phone Book. Let's Find Out.
- Don't Break Into His Fortress, it Makes Him Flying Back to His Office Mad!
- Superman in a Dark, Modern, Realistic Context, But Let's Face it, You Can't Catch or Lift Genocide
- Clark, Snap Out of it, Even if You Don't Want to Save Your Friends, Someone Must Be Being Raped in Pakistan
- Your Grandpa Will Love This Movie, Assuming He's a Woman and a Nerd
- Superman: You Will Believe a Man Can Fly, What You Won't Believe is That a Flying Man Can Bore You
- Sure, I Wish He Was Fighting Three Evil Supermen in the Street, But Listen, if Something's Falling on Me, I Want it Caught
- Superman, Where Have You Been All This Time? The World Has Suffered Too Long Under the Yoke of Faulty Aircraft and Precarious Architecture
- Superman versus Lex Luthor: The Villain Who, Left to His Own Devices, Fails
- Yes, I'm a Floating Immortal That Everyone Loves, But Your wife Makes My Cock Hard, Do You Think This is Easy For Me?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

And it's suckage was minor compaired to "The Quest For Peace"

And I hadn't thought about Electra/Daredevil...

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I didn't get much good out of Spider-Man 3. In my opinion, it suffered from an overload of villains.

[desert-dragon42.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

[per_solo]

I need to go see this one...I saw the, um, "comic-con" one on Youtube, and I have to admit, it looks to be pretty decent. I have hopes, but am frightened, nonetheless.

[sdelmonte]

It won't suck. Downey is too good an actor to ever suck. The camera work is great. There is even a little feel of the icninc often missing from Iron Man in the comics. And I'm sure that the armor will look better when the CGI is finished. But right now, the armor seems a bit silly in a way that nothing did in the Spider-films or the better Bat-films. It's certainly not Batman and Robin silly, but it doesn't quite win me over.

What really looks interesting in the retrofitting of his origin from Vietnam to Afghanistan (which recent comics have done as well). No super-hero has been more connected to the politics of his time than Iron Man, and that could give the film an edge if used right. Or could make it jinogistic as any Stan Lee Cold War comic.

But I am cautiously upbeat.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

...right now, the armor seems a bit silly...

Are you talking about the Clunky Gray Prototype? Because that's always looked silly.

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Marvel taking their properties into their own hands... This certainly looks promising, and I've never been all that interested in Ironman.

By the by, I never caught a comment for your views on the Dark Knight teaser.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Okay... that was very, very cool.

It's even cooler when you realise we're edging towards being able to build Ironman style suits.

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

Noooo . . . not the Black Sabbath version . . .

Aside from that, yeah, pretty frigging cool. Downey looks like a truly great Stark.

[denali1.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiousity, what version were you hoping for? I could see maybe the one he did with Therapy? on the Nativity in Black I disc... Outside of that, there are no respectable covers of the song.

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

I wasn't wanting that song at all. It's not about the Iron Man of the film, and using it here is inappropriate.

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

The ironic thing is that if they hadn't used it, everyone *not* annoyed by it being there would be ranting about how they didn't use the song in the trailer... Silly people.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Why is it inappropriate? Taken on a basic level, it's about some bloke saying "I am Iron Man" and going on a rampage of metal-fueled destruction, which fits with the trailer. And it's hilarious!

If the band objected, that might make it a different story. But until I find out about them objecting, I'll definitely headbang along to that.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I would imagine that both Black Sabbath and whichever cover versions they use in the movie (I'd use several, myself) are going to be very well-paid for it. And, what fuuberry said. It's too perfect not to use it.

On the other hand, I remember with bemused retching the animated Swamp Thing series, which used as theme music an astonishingly stupid parody of "Wild Thing". "Swamp Thing... you are a-ma-zing...."

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

I heard the trailer first, hearing the song... and I started thinking...

/Scripton
[Ozzy Osborn's House.]
Ozzy: Kids! Great news! They wanna use one of our fooking songs for a comic book movie!
[Blank stare from the kids.]
Ozzy: For Marvel. Guess which one!!!
[Kids roll their eyes...]
/Scripoff

... I dunno Ozzy, which of your songs has sounded like an add for them for decades...

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

It is, however, a very good "stomp on the bad guys heads" song. A purely instrumental version of it would make good background music. (And I can't understand what they're saying in that song anyhow - I wouldn't notice the difference.)

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen it, Google for Iron Man clips. There's some "behind the scenes" stuff where spies literally hid in the bushes & filmed them filming the movie & got some GREAT unretouched footage of the suit. And lemme tell ya, it looks GREAT.

[bathtubnz.livejournal.com]

Nice.

Not much changed from the Comic-Con footage, I think the video camera shot and the 1 day to make my missile bit were the most obvious.

And they teased the Iron Man music by putting in some Filter instead? Hey Man, nice shot?

[moquif.livejournal.com]

Looks great, but it will have more merchandising potential than Transformers. There were at least 3 versions of the armor meaning at least 3 actions figures. Fortunately I've become immune to noticing shameless plugs and merchandising. I'm going to see this movie at least twice even though I own less than a dozen Iron Man comics. As long as it's better than Iron Man TAS we saw in the 90s that is.

I hope we get to see War Machine in the sequel.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Oh rock! They are using the song.

It looks good...I hope the movie lives up to the trailer.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Yes!! They used the song!! I saw an early version of that tralier, that one looks even better. I have very high hopes for this movie, I can't wait to see it.