Iron Man Trailer

The New Trailer is here.

Looks cool, and Robert Downey Jr. is always fun on screen ... but the script looks like, from this tiny preview, a complete clichéridden mindnumbing stupid piece of crap ... common, he builds his first suite in a lair with terroist outside?! (dooooh - that dosn’t LOOK like a missle?!) *sigh* Hollywood sure thinks the general audience has the braincapacity of an eight year old.

Posted by  on  09/10  at  02:23 PM

Thanks so much, I am so looking forward to this movie.By the way, don’t you think the release of the trailer one day before Sept 11 Anniversary rather interesting, timing wise.
P.S. Congrats on the move and I hope everything is going well for you.

Posted by  on  09/10  at  02:27 PM

Thanks, Rick.

Bob, in the original comic, Tony Stark was captured by the Viet Cong during the war and had to make some weapon for a VC general. They just updated it to the current enemies.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  09/10  at  03:58 PM

I see ... never read any Iron Man, so I did not know that. Thanks for clearing that out ...
But I don’t think that changes anything, really ... when they make a movie, which is for a much broader audience, they can’t really rely on the storymechanics of a comic - in comics you can get away with a lot more without anyone going “hey, that’s impossible”, cos it’s a comic ... But when we are talking movies, and movies that seem to be taking itself somewhat serious, you can’t just do that (unless you are directing Dumb & Dumber) ... But hey - we have only seen it in short clips so far, maybe it all makes sence in the theater?!

Posted by  on  09/11  at  12:25 AM

Hud,

I’ve seen the footage from San Diego Comic-Con and I was just not impressed.

Sure, the Red and Gold armor looks half-decent but I just don’t buy Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark.

First off, I always thought of Stark as an Errol Flynn-type with suave sophistication.  The closest I’ve seen to that in films have been Timothy Dalton (in The Rocketeer) and Pierce Brosnan as the last Bond.  Both men are really too old to play Stark at any rate.  Downey just doesn’t have that kind of charisma.  I’m sorry to say that he’s also come off as a bit effeminate (?) in many of the movies I’ve seen him in.

Iron Man just hasn’t been one of the top tier Marvel characters for as long as I can remember, either.  Barring excellent storylines and runs by David Michelinie (sp) and Bob Layton which have been collected in two trades (The Power of Iron Man and Armor Wars) at last count, the comic just hasn’t been worth picking up, either.

I just wonder how the people who “love” Tony Stark so much now after he’s been turned into an unlikeable technocratic fascist after “Civil War” will react to a movie that’s nothing like the comic they’re reading now....  Ah, the problems with ever-evolving characterizations by writers who can’t be bothered with continuity details and editors who just don’t understand the characters they’re supposed to be shepherding!

Posted by  on  09/13  at  09:41 PM
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