'Iron Man' trailer online...

Scots Taffer on 14/9/2007 at 01:54

So, I know nothing about the comic and after watching the trailer I have to say that it looks pretty interesting - saracastic, cold-hearted arms inventor gets captured by militant terrorists and forced to build a weapon, covertly builds a suit of superarmour and kicks shit out of said terrorists, then decides to become a technologically advanced superhero badass? Why not.

Scots Taffer on 14/9/2007 at 06:29

Heheh. I take a special, perverse glee out of telling comic book fans that Tobey's emo spiderman dancing sequences were the best part of Spiderman 3. The rest was an abomination.

Matthew on 14/9/2007 at 09:26

I can't say I found them particularly repulsive; yes, the first two fell flat to an extent in different ways, but overall I think they did a decent enough job of putting a Spidey, if not the Spidey, on the big screen. I haven't seen three yet, but opinions seem to be completely polarised on that one.

And where's my fuckin' Bruce-Campbell-as-Mysterio treat, Raimi?

Chimpy Chompy on 14/9/2007 at 09:28

Yeah, Maguire isn't the ideal Peter Parker but I wouldn't say the first two movies were horrible. Unless you're working to some angry-nerd scale that only has two levels, "awesome" and "horrible".

Muzman on 14/9/2007 at 10:58

The second one isn't bad, simply for its purity and simplicity. But I can't get past the sheer amount of maudlin melodrama in all of them. Long winded lectures and speeches about responsibility, adulthood, manhood, relationships yadda fucken yadda; there's just no end to it. I think Maguire was a good choice but the material just weighs all of the films down so badly. I too enjoyed the weird dance bits in 3 simply because at last I was having fun watching a Spiderman movie.
I'm not sure if this is some grew-up-with-the-cartoon vs grew-up-with-the-comic split, but Spidey's draw as a superhero for me was that he was a wisecracking prankster.

Anyway Iron Man's a cool movie subject for me because I didn't really relate to or like the guy but there was some interesting drama in his life; ferocious capitalism, industrial espionage, cold war stuff, armed ex-girlfriends. I still can't believe they took the story to such stupid places as they have. I'm glad a got out when I did. With any luck any film series they make will stick to the old and interesting stuff.

Chimpy Chompy on 14/9/2007 at 11:02

Number 2 might have laid on the "life sucks for Peter Parker" a bit thick... but then that's half the point of the comic. He's just some kid trying to juggle the responsibility of being a superhero with the need to earn a living and look after his loved ones.

The wisecracking thing is just a coping mechanism - although I agree there should have been far more of it.

jtr7 on 14/9/2007 at 21:27

The wise-cracking was an important aspect of his personality for me. I always took it as a sign of his confidence as Spider-Man, mocking the dangerous everyday criminals--especially when they were so weak compared to any of the supervillains. But it would work as a coping mechanism as well, and for when he needed to release his nervous tension.

Stitch on 15/9/2007 at 22:26

Quote Posted by Fafhrd

Can I call a moratorium on intentionally misspelling someone's name in the most ridiculous way possible just because you don't think much of them? It's impossibly juvenile and really fucking bugs me.

I was just poking fun at how difficult your nick is to spell :(

Rug Burn Junky on 15/9/2007 at 22:36

You wanna know why Spiderman 2 sucks? (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1488183#post1488183) THIS is why Spiderman 2 sucks:[INDENT]

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Yeah, sure, the elevated subway through midtown Manhattan line not only doesn't exist, but it couldn't. It also went right from uptown to suddenly lurching off above the South Street Seaport or somesuch. Fine. Whatever. None of that bothered me (Spiderman movies take so many liberties with NYC geography that you have to just ignore them).

The last spur of track ended a couple of hundred feet over the East River. Which, when you think about it, makes no sense what so ever. It just ends. It looks like the track itself may be unfinished, but where the hell is it going to go? There's absolutely no sign of them building an honest to goodness bridge over the river to support this train, and that spur just doesn't make any sense.

Even THAT only marginally bothers me.

You know what really bothers me?

On the last platform, even though the train line ends in a spur above no-where, and there's no possible place for it to go, there are people waiting to catch the train. What the fuck? What kind of retards are these? Where the hell are they going?

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Those poor people, stranded there at a station platform that would never get them anywhere.

And the first train that goes by? Running out of control because of an arch supervillain.

Tellin' ya. Commuting in this city sucks.

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fett on 23/9/2007 at 21:19

Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy

Yeah, Maguire isn't the ideal Peter Parker but I wouldn't say the first two movies were horrible. Unless you're working to some angry-nerd scale that only has two levels, "awesome" and "horrible".

It's not the angry nerd scale. It's the scale that can't tolerate the Green Goblin using vomit voice for 2 1/2 hours and screaming BWUUAHAHAHAAA!!!!! with a clenched fist after every sentence. That starts about 20 minutes into the first one and doesn't let up. I knew at that point we were fucked - my god, even the 80's afternoon cartoons weren't that corny.