Iron Man 2 Concerns About Iron Man 2

[Iron_Stark]

"That's your opinion and you're entitled to it.BUT RDJ is not playing himself."

Hes playing the same character over again in different films.

Watch Zodiac and Iron man back to back.

The quirky offbeat characterizations and humor.

I havent read the books in 20 years, so maybe he character has changed, but I dont rememeber Stark behaving like that at all.

Yep, he was so playing himself in Tropic Thunder, Fur, In Dreams, Charlie Chaplin, and the ones kedrell mentioned.

off topic, I hope they don't screw up the Conan casting and hire some Hollywood pretty boy.

 

[Hannibal Smith]

I heard they were gonna go with that Twilight actor Lutz in Conan and i rolled my eyes but he would fit i suppose but needs to be more ripped.
I picture Conan someone like Dwayne Johnson's age.

 

[conan69]

I just watched Downeys speech on the Golden Globes and thought he was playing Tony Stark.

The resemblance was uncanny.

 

[Octoberist]

but I have argued with some that certain actors can get away with playing themselves: some find a formula and then they stick to it. John Wayne, Bill Murray, Jimmy Stewart..Hell, you can even say Clint Eastwood.

Not everyone is a character actor, and RDJ can be great at it. Since he has so much presense and charisma, he can just pull it off.

 

[Octoberist]

i know people complain about Seth Rogen and Michael Cera, but I defend them because whatever they're doing is nothing new.

 

[Iron_Stark]

I just watched Downeys speech on the Golden Globes and thought he was playing Tony Stark.

The resemblance was uncanny.

Now you're just grasping at straws.

 

[conan69]

uh huh ok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pw_w3PZkt4

 

[Weadazoid]

Great modern day actors work themselves into roles....


Face it even though Johnny Dep, gets praise for being a chameleon there were strong similarites to his performance in..

Pirates
Fear and Loathing
Ed Wood

 

[conan69]

And thats fine.

I just saying I dont like his portrayal of Stark.

 

[Iron_Stark]

And how exactly should he be portrayed then? As the dark brooding type? He's not Bruce Wayne.

His portrayal of Stark is pretty spot on.

Pick up some Avengers books pre-Dissassembled all the way up to Civil War or even go back as far as Iron Man Heroes Return, Busiek run and tell me that isn't the way RDJ is portraying him.

 

[conan69]

Go back and read post #74.

If theyre using more modern books for their inspiration thats fine. Im not familiar with them and I clearly said that, and movie Stark is not the way I remember the character being.

No thanks,I dont want to read any current books. What little I have come across here and there, I havent liked.

 

[danoyse]

I just watched Downeys speech on the Golden Globes and thought he was playing Tony Stark.

The resemblance was uncanny.

He was sitting a few rows in front of me at a Broadway show a few years back and he didn't seem anything like Tony Stark when I saw him at intermission. So there you go.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Go back and read post #74.

If theyre using more modern books for their inspiration thats fine. Im not familiar with them and I clearly said that, and movie Stark is not the way I remember the character being.

No thanks,I dont want to read any current books. What little I have come across here and there, I havent liked.

Well with all due respect, why are you complaining then.

Favreau, who is a Layton fan, is using that, and the modern take as an inspiration.

 

[Hannibal Smith]

I wonder how much screen time Sam Jackson will have as Nick Fury.

 

[kedrell]

5-10 minutes is my guess.

 

[Mr. Earle]

[YT]gaoSaePe784[/YT]Its easy to think that this is Tony Stark but its not him exactly. The guy has so much charisma by the way...

 

[Iron_Burger]

4 pages of comments and nobody cares about developed, interesting characters? The backbone of any good movie, even a comic book one? As in not having boring, by-the-numbers stereotypes that fit the plot but instead feel like real people in a fantastical world?

Tony Stark was the only developed, interestingly motivated screen character in the original. Everybody else was a cardboard cutout. Ho was the martyr, Terrorist was nasty evil, Stane was chummy evil, Pepper was a mousy secretary, Rhodes had a uniform and was buds wit Tony. That was all that really defined them. I'm not saying they need to give a lot of screen time to everybody and make the movie bloated, I'm saying the screen time they do get should be good and insightful. Or is that asking too much from a crappy Marvel movie.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

A concern of mine is Whiplash getting punk'd like a *****, unless he gets some armor. It'd take only one fatal shot to kill or immobilize him if he fought both War Machine and Iron Man at the same time.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Nah. Just break his armor. I mean, it looks easily breakable.

When I first saw the Whiplash armor I thought of the leg braces on Forrest Gump.

 

[powerbomb1411]

4 pages of comments and nobody cares about developed, interesting characters? The backbone of any good movie, even a comic book one? As in not having boring, by-the-numbers stereotypes that fit the plot but instead feel like real people in a fantastical world?

Tony Stark was the only developed, interestingly motivated screen character in the original. Everybody else was a cardboard cutout. Ho was the martyr, Terrorist was nasty evil, Stane was chummy evil, Pepper was a mousy secretary, Rhodes had a uniform and was buds wit Tony. That was all that really defined them. I'm not saying they need to give a lot of screen time to everybody and make the movie bloated, I'm saying the screen time they do get should be good and insightful. Or is that asking too much from a crappy Marvel movie.

Any character in a movie can be narrowed down to a couple word stereotype description, it doesn't mean that's all they are though.

 

[Venomfan]

this piece of crap showing up in the movie is my concern

 

[powerbomb1411]

Who said it'll be in the movie? Iron Man might as well be Transformers with it's possibility's for toys.

 

[rashad]

IM was pretty good but not thrilling or anything. RDJ and the Mark 2 and 3 carried the movie for me. The origin was pretty long and flat, the action scenes were short. I suppose it has to do with the fact that Ironman was an unknown character back then and they didnt have such a big budget. Anyway, it was a good start but i definitely expect more this time and i think that they will deliver.

As much as I enjoyed the first film, it did feel like a 'safe' movie. Especially in terms of action. By doing that however, they left themselves room to improve in IM2.

 

[matrix_ghost]

It's probabaly been been adressed here as well but basically i'm hoping that Whiplash will have a proper armor as i honestly can't see a a guy with electric whips defeating a guy with a suit that can move at supersonic speed .
Even the leaked pic of Whiplash's armor shows just too much skin. One clean shot in the head and he's dead.

 

[night0205]

Who said it'll be in the movie? Iron Man might as well be Transformers with it's possibility's for toys.

Redd said he saw MV. And all the other descriptions of the toys have been right on, so... There is a very high chance that is the toy for the actual armor in Iron Man 2.