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I love Robert Downey. I can hardly wait.

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Kevin D (mail) (www):

I saw that yesterday on AICN. Good stuff. I was pumped about this movie the moment I heard about it and the more I see the more pumped I get.

So... I guess I'm very pumped right now.

2.29.2008 1:31pm

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Scott McLoud (mail):

Looks good. Great effects (but that's pretty easy these days) and Downey seems oddly perfect for the role. However, I get a strong sniff of the Fantastic Four movie(part the first, part the second was actually a minor improvement) from this add

2.29.2008 3:00pm

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Ali Eteraz (mail) (www):

AWESOME.

btw, the villain is wearing a palestinian kaifiyyah and wants "to rule all of Asia." Subtle.

2.29.2008 3:31pm

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Scott McLoud (mail):

btw, the villain is wearing a palestinian kaifiyyah and wants "to rule all of Asia." Subtle.

Eh, they gotta make it relevant to today's viewer and South American Marxist Narco-terrorists are so 20 years ago.

Besides, it isn't as bad as saying Eastern European Neo Nazis are an existential threat to the world.

2.29.2008 3:48pm

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Acksiom (mail) (www):

Taaasty.

Hm. You know, this might -- unlike the Spider-Man movies -- actually fail to suck too much.

2.29.2008 6:01pm

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cardeblu (mail):

Looks fun! I have to confess, however, that I thought it would be based on the song. I didn't know there was a comic book character. Was the song based on that? It doesn't seem like it.

2.29.2008 6:35pm

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Dean Esmay:

The Iron Man comic first came out from Marvel Comics in 1963. The song came out in the early 1970s, and doesn't seem to be inspired by the comic--although I understand that in this comic-based movie, they're retconning it so Tony Stark takes the name because he likes the song.

More on the comic book hero here.

2.29.2008 7:33pm

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Jack G (mail) (www):

I thought it looked nice too.

Since the Civil War Iron Man has become my favorite Marvel character. I suspect I'll actually go see it with my kids iffin I get the chance.

I hope they play on that Iron Man or at the very least the one who used to fight the Ghost (my favorite coporate espionage villain).

I miss those fights.
A man of Iron versus an Insubstantial man.

That's a pretty good set-up.

2.29.2008 8:14pm

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Arnold Harris (mail):

Me for Frankenstein. Just his mere appearance would make you puke in fright.

And how in hell do you kill a guy who can be rebuilt in a junkyard-style laboratory from spare parts?

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

2.29.2008 8:22pm

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Kevin D (mail) (www):

Since the Civil War Iron Man has become my favorite Marvel character. I suspect I'll actually go see it with my kids iffin I get the chance.

Why do you have to bring that up? You know that's a sensitive issue with me. Don't you care about how I feel?

I just can't read Marvel anymore after how hard they boned Iron Man over and how slanted the point of view the entire Civil War storyline was while they maintained it was a fair portrayal of the argument.

Please. It's clear who Marvel sided with. It's clear who the "good guys" were.

I'll take Infinite Crisis over Civil War any day of the week.

2.29.2008 10:34pm

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Sean Golden (mail) (www):

I thought the trailer looked promising. But Iron Man is a tough concept for liberals to accept, so half the potential audience is already going to go in hating Tony (military-industrial complex, capitalist weapon-inventor, techno-phile, spewing rocket exhaust into the atmosphere with abandon, raygun shooting) Stark.

Although he is a drug addict, so maybe that makes up for all the bad stuff. It could work for them too. (yes, alcohol is a drug)

3.1.2008 12:50am

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Dean Esmay:

It's almost guaranteed to have an anti-military spin. It's pretty much implied, when he says that he has had a change of heart and now wants to protect the people he supposedly put in harm's way.

So, the story's probably about how Tony Stark gets a conscience and comes to loathe the American Empire or similar garbage.

I'll be watching for cool special effects and Robert Downey Jr. and gritting my teeth at the rest, I expect.

3.1.2008 10:50am

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Sean,

Tony is a drug (alcohol) addict because he feels guilty about being an evil arms peddler (and we all know that if arms peddlers went away, war would too, right? Of course it would.).

Iron Man would appear to be yet another one of those great leftist fantasies where the violence and mayhem are justified because the targets of the violence and mayhem are the "real" bad guys.

This of course the polar opposite of rightist fantasies where the violence and mayhem are justified because...wait...uhm....well....

Now I'm all confused.

Anyway, I would predict that even IF the villain is a Keffiayah (sp???) wearer, he will be depicted as a creation of - a frankenstein monster if you will - of the "real" villains (three guesses), and in no way - NO WAY - representative of any non-Christian religion they may superficially appear to be associated with, but which they are horribly misrepresenting and which they clearly do not understand as deeply as the director of the movie does.

3.1.2008 11:11am

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