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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 09/21/2007 : 5:28:02 PM
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http://movies.aol.com/movie/iron-man/24396/video/trailer-no-1/1971421
Apparently, the trailer for Iron Man was released today and I was just told about it by a friend.
It is unseemly for a 34 year old man to jump up and down on his bed, but Old Shellhead was my absolute favorite comic book back when I was a lot, lot younger.
Might this be the coolest adaptation of a Marvel comic yet? Better, by far, than X-Men or Spiderman?
Looks like it could be. Kind of suprised by the casting of Robert Downey Jr., but I'm actually looking forward to this.
And wonder of wonders, Hollywood is letting movies portray Muslims as Bad Guys again! Recently The Kingdom, and now Iron Man.
Unfortunately...I will probably be in Kuwait during the release date. I'll have to watch it bootleg, probably on my laptop. |
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/21/2007 : 6:25:14 PM
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Ok, I have to admit that caught my interest. And finally, a superhero/monster film decides to take advantage of the appropriate music.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/22/2007 : 4:55:55 PM
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About all I know about Ironman is what I saw in the cartoons from the sixties, ie: "not much". But this looks like a good one.
If they just get back to the basics of superhero stories and put some honest effort into it, they'll make superhero movies that are worth our time and money.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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nshumate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 06:41:17 AM
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Unfortunately, for those of us who've been following current Marvel continuity and who sided with Cap during "Civil War," Iron Man is Jackass In A Can.
Bet the whole movie is some PR-propaganda ploy sponsored by S.H.I.E.L.D...
Nathan Shumate
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 07:57:50 AM
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I stopped reading comics maybe a couple years after the Marvel "Secret Wars", so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Actually, last stuff I remember reading from Iron Man was Stark beating alcoholism, having the red and silver suit trashed and Stark faking the death of Iron Man to conclude the "Armor Wars". Then he came back, built a new red and gold suit and beat the armored thug who'd destroyed the red and silver armor. I kept reading for a little while after all that, but nothing lasts forever. |
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/25/2007 : 10:10:34 AM
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Originally posted by nshumate
Unfortunately, for those of us who've been following current Marvel continuity and who sided with Cap during "Civil War," Iron Man is Jackass In A Can.
Bet the whole movie is some PR-propaganda ploy sponsored by S.H.I.E.L.D..
I said I feel like a kid again, so I looked into this "Civil War" business over on Wikipedia.
First things first, I'm kind of disappointed in Marvel in forcing young readers into such a quasi-Patriot Act/gun control/liberty vs. order/ kind of debate. Shouldn't comics at the very least be an oasis from the politics we are bombarded with everyday? I know, look who's talking...
This is not to say they shouldn't tackle "issues". For example, the alcoholism Stark struggled with for years during the 1970s and 80s of Iron Man was pretty sophisticated, mature stuff for any reader. It did not require us to pick sides.
A storyline like "Civil War" pretty much requires that the leader of each faction be an original "Legacy" Marvel character. One of the big names from the 1960s era when Stan Lee started all of this.
The Hulk? Too dumb. Prince Namor? Not popular enough, not an American. Thor? Not really "American" either.
Spider Man? Not a leader. He's an individual, not a team player. Professor X and the X-Men? Yeah, they would've been a natural choice for the anti-registration leadership, but they are mutants.
Really, the only logical choices for leadership of the factions would be Captain America and Tony Stark/Iron Man since it would have to be one of the original Marvel legacy characters.
So, fans of Iron Man get to see him become "Mr. Patriot Act", even though many of them do not savor him being written into that role just to serve the writer's and editor's need to unnecessarily politicize and polarize comics. |
Edited by - Citizen Carrier on 09/25/2007 10:11:33 AM |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/26/2007 : 06:28:27 AM
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It was about 1975 when I got out of regular comic book reading, so don't know all that much about what was going on with the story lines and stuff. Back when I got out of it, Wolverine was just a "guest villian" in an issue of the Hulk; years later when I find he's seemingly the most popular character in Marvel, think "huh?"
Anyway, if I had a favorite super-hero, it was probably Iron Man -- Having no actual super powers, he seemed like a character that had more potential for drama. Way back then, it seemed like an impossible idea to have a live action movie starring Iron Man -- An actor in a suite just wouldn't cut it! But now the CGI technolgy is advanced enough that it is possible to present such a character believably, the only problem is getting a good script and the right actors - I've not seen the trailer, but from what I hear about this, it sounds good!
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