All Tony Starked Out
For me the Iron Man franchise went belly-up 2 and 3/4 years ago during that ridiculous Monte Carlo duke-out between Robert Downey‘s Tony Stark (who wore too much eye make-up) and Mickey Rourke‘s Ivan Vanko in Jon Favreau‘s Iron Man 2…God, what an endurance test! And to think what a pleasure the original Iron Man was. Even I, a hater of almost all things geek, was more or less happy with that 2008 film. But I’m off the boat now. Who’s actually enthused about seeing the third installment? Please.
No interest in the Shane Black of it all?
Just pretend it’s going to be the KISS KISS BANG BANG of superhero movies. That’ll get you back on the boat until May.
Iron Man 2 lost it for me when it just seemed like it was a giant teaser for The Avengers.
I’m rooting for IM3 to do huge business so that Shane Black can write his own ticket in Hollywood again and make whatever movies he feels like.
$200 says Jeffrey hits at least one press screening before the release date…and then complains non-stop when the film starts minting cash. “Off the boat” my ass.
I’m kind of torn part of me is interested with Shane Blacks involvement but on the other hand there’s still resentment from Iron Man 2. That film had to be the biggest studio supported FU to non fans of a property in recent memory. I just sat there feeling like a sucker while a 90 minute commercial played out for an upcoming product which I held no interest in viewing. Ill probably hold out on watching IM 3 until I know it’s a separate film fans not being treated like a live action comic book.
Yesterday we got a sob story about your lost ad revenue and declining readership. Your mea culpa ended with an affirmation for HE to give the people what they want.
Today we get more of the same old superhero hate. I’m sure if you look hard enough you’ll find a Six Degrees of Speilberg somewhere.
Time to acquire the taste for calfskin, Jeff. Put that tongue to the tasseled Ferragamo and work it brutha!
Gotta be one of the weirder 180s of the past 30 years that nihilistic fanboy geek types *and* movie snobs are consistently declaring “Shane Black” the “only” reason they’re interested in a superhero property… people who would’ve looked down (and DID look down on) “Lethal Weapon” or “Long Kiss Goodnight” now acting like he’s ALWAYS been the toast of their particular town.
I mean, it’s cool and all, but kind of weird that this revisionist history only came because of “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which is… okay, but hardly on par with any of his real gems, too light and campy and all that INSIDER HUMOR that comes off as smug and jerkoffy…. Plus that EMBARRASSING TITLE.
Just odd that guys who HATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING are now so totally on board with Shane Black, when you know goddamn good and well they didn’t like any of his stuff back in the day.
I doubt Shane Black will even have that much input into it. It looks and sounds exactly the same as all the other Marvel stuff. They were probably just looking for a cheap journeyman to replace Favreau, in the typical Marvel method, and Downey helped out his friend. I doubt Kevin Feige is suddenly going let Black deliver some auteurist reinvention of the genre.
For the fourth time in five years, billionaire military industrial complex asshole is fighing or our freedom against other billionaire military industrial complex assholes.
Too much Gwennie.
@Eloi, rumor has it that this movie is actually quite funny and filled with the trademark Downey wit, courtesy of Black’s screenplay. They’ve completely avoided showing this in the trailers, though.
Look who escaped the Chinese wizard!
What Black brings to the film isn’t going to be on display in these trailers. Downey Jr. has to be aware that the sequel wasn’t on par critically or structurally, so that KKBB dynamic will be there.
Come on Wells, look on the bright side: with Shane Black involved, you can rest assured that he’ll leave “that gay thing” alone.
WHEW!
Yeah, why would anyone think Black’s going off the reservation for this thing? Talented guy but the days of 7-figure bidding wars and Variety headlines are way the fuck in the past. Iron Man 3 will be slick, quippy, and either fun (Iron Man 1) or tedious (Iron Man 2). Marvel is an assembly line. You could throw Malick in the director’s chair and you’re still gonna get the same vibe.
Seems like it’ll be better than Dark Knight Rises-and maybe Man of Steel-so I’ll give it a whirl.
Back in the early ’90s, Shane Black moved back to the small town in Indiana where I grew up. He had a mentor from there, and I’m told he envisioned life there as some kind of American idyll. The starstruck townsfolk gave him a job teaching drama at the local high school. Under his direction, the drama class produced a play that, from what I am told, was all kinds of subversive. After one production, the shocked locals handed him his hat and pointed him toward Kentucky, pronto. That’s the movie I want to see.
^^Awesome.
After today’s news, the decision to make Hugo Chavez the villain in IM3 looks to have failed miserably. I’m sure Marvel will do what they can to fix it in post.
After all the Lincoln hate I’m shocked Jeffery got to see Oz this early.
If he hates on that as well Disney will put someone by the door to make sure he doesn’t see IM3 or Lone Ranger until the first weekend grosses are published.