Iron Man More on Iron Man at Comic-Con

[Agent 194]

So now she's a Greek physician too?

I got it Antonello. Good one.

 

[Agent 194]

I've spoken of this attitude several times on the boards here....too many people feel that they "deserve" everything that is available....I feel that people "deserve" the basics to sustain life....everything else is lucky extras.

Yes. Right on. My students on a whole feel a little more entitled than I did when I was that age. They talk about their rights a lot. They also throw around the word respect a lot. My right was to sit in my chair and do my work. My goal in school was to get through the day without getting in trouble, get out of there, and go home. Respect was a word that didn't even enter my mind.

 

[C. Lee]

Well luckily for me I dont agree with C.Lee.

I didn't expect you to......generaly, the people of your generation feel your way and the people of my generation feel mine. Just wanted tp put my feelings on the matter out there for people to contemplate.

Luckily for us, a lot of people doesn't agree as well. What we can't get here, we can get on plenty other sites. So why complain?

That's part of what I was wanting to get accross.....some people go balistic because they can't see some trailer, or snippet of film shown somewhere.....geeze people, calm down.....not only will you eventually be able to see it somewhere on the net....but you willnot die if it takes an extra day to see it.

Yes. Right on. My students on a whole feel a little more entitled than I did when I was that age. They talk about their rights a lot. They also throw around the word respect a lot. My right was to sit in my chair and do my work. My goal in school was to get through the day without getting in trouble, get out of there, and go home. Respect was a word that didn't even enter my mind.

That's the word I was looking for...ENTITLEMENT.....so many people today feel they are "entitled" to have everything they want.....I was taught that you "earned" your rewards.

 

[Agent 194]

Yes again, that sense of entitlement transfers to people's concept of respect. It is earned and it is a two way street.

 

[Advanced Dark]

PHOTO GALLERIES:
Comic-Con San Diego
• Iron Man Q&A photos
• The Incredible Hulk Q&A photos
• Disney Q&A photos
• Fans at Comic-Con

 

[Agent 194]

I have a question which has nothing to do with what we speak of......"Can I freakin' hate the new AOL any more than I do?!" God, how I hate it.

 

[antsiou]

(posted on the hulk forum as well)
Here's the working links (AD, the javascript screwed everyhting, so I managed to find the working links, hope you don't mind)

Originally Posted by Advanced Dark

UPDATED

PHOTO GALLERIES:
Comic-Con San Diego
• Iron Man Q&A photos (updated)
• The Incredible Hulk Q&A photos (updated)
• Disney Q&A photos (updated)
• Fans at Comic-Con (updated)

 

[He-Man]

Not sure if this interview has been posted yet.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049281,00.html

Pumping 'Iron Man'
During the Comic-Con madness, we snagged a few minutes with Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, stars of the hotly anticipated 2008 superhero flick

By Nisha Gopalan

The most popular man of steel at this year's San Diego's Comic-Con: Iron Man. There, panelist Robert Downey Jr., who plays brash, Robocop'd tycoon Tony Stark, tested his mettle in front of a tough audience that rivals the cranky crowd at Cannes. Defying the odds, our Oscar-caliber hero managed to magnetize the room with his own arsenal of secret weapons — charisma, quick wit, and a stately, crisp suit. Afterward, EW chatted with Downey about his maiden voyage into geekdom.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You went through a rough period of substance abuse a while ago, when people were wary of casting you in movies. Is this, like, awesome validation for you?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: The physics are pretty simple — if you're not shooting yourself in the foot, you're gonna have better opportunities. Nowadays, it's like the quantum leap from instant stardom to instant bad boy or bad girl is so quick. For me it was a really slow burn. But it's really just a function of age, you know?

What do you see when you look at someone like Lindsay Lohan?
I don't want to talk about that [specifically].... I'm just kind of loving everybody, to tell you the truth. It's ridiculous how different things are now than they were 10 years ago. It's a real challenge to reconcile your own process of growing up and becoming an adult with temptation and celebrity and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, if you don't like what's happening, change it and do something different.

As a character actor, did you ever imagine yourself in a role like this?
I'm a guy, so I'm pretty prone to narcissistic fantasy. And I could always relate to these things. I remember talking to Keanu [Reeves] when he got back from doing the first Matrix, and he told me just what a mind-blowing experience it was. And this is a guy who's not known as the quintessential butch guy. But he became that character, and that franchise took off. I started thinking at a certain point, ''Maybe this is not in the cards for me, and I'll stick to being more of a character actor.'' But Tony Stark is a character. So I think the line is a lot less blurry than it used to be.

It's interesting that Comic-Con has sort of turned into the courtship of alpha geeks.
It really is. It's also cool because this is a true democracy. This is run by the people who really drive this whole industry. I guess the disappointing thing is, it would be nice if I could just stroll out there...or, like, stuff my bag full of stuff from other [studios]. And I'm not saying I couldn't. It's just that I'm here to work. It's like the Cannes film festival: ''Did you have a nice time in the south of France?'' ''I don't know. I was in a hotel room for three days.''

People always talk about how hard it is to make a film like this. But did you ever just go, ''Holy cow, this is fun!''
There's a scene where we're out in the high desert and these massive 60-mile-an-hour winds are blowing. And sand is everywhere, and I'm in this Mark I suit. And everyone's wearing dust masks. I'm just in this contraption, and I looked around and said, ''We have to get this right now.'' It was so ridiculously funny — it'd be impossible that you'd survive. So what do you do? For some reason or another I just started cracking up.

This was your first time at Comic-Con. How did you manage to look completely in your element?
They showed the Iron Man trailer [two days earlier at Comic-Con], and it did so well. I was in Hawaii shooting on this Ben Stiller movie [Tropic Thunder]. All of a sudden, all the guys there, their BlackBerrys are going off. They're like, ''Dude, Iron Man's tearing up at Comic-Con.'' I was like, ''Really?''

Were you as comfortable at that jam-packed unveiling of the Mark I suit at the Marvel booth? Fans were right up in your face.
We were in this little room. And I'm like hugging the producers and [director] Jon Favreau's there. Then they go, ''Robert Downey Jr!'' I walk out and I was like, ''Oh my God, there's all these people!'' I'd kind of chilled out by the panel. But I was a deer in headlights for the first 10 minutes.
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GWYNETH PALTROW

Call her Comic-Con's biggest fashion superhero: Despite recent knee surgery, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow made a surprise appearance in San Diego in a tastefully body-hugging designer dress and vertiginous Christian Louboutin heels — and using her Iron Man costar Robert Downey Jr. as her crutch. An embodiment of the Hollywood leviathan that's officially descended on the humble little nerdfest, the good-humored and well-received Paltrow offered some observations about her journey to this galaxy far, far away from her seemingly gilded world.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You've done big movies, but not really superhero movies. You'd mentioned you liked the dynamic between Robert Downey Jr.'s character (Tony Stark) and yours (his secretary Pepper Potts). But did Robert have to really sell you on it?
GWYNETH PALTROW: First my agent said, ''Jon Favreau is directing a movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard,'' and I thought, ''I'll do it.'' And then it turned out to be this. What appealed to me was the idea that it might be possible to do a movie that is really good — with good acting and real dynamics — but also happens to be a big-budget superhero movie. I like the challenge of that. A lot of people have this idea, ''Well, you do one movie for you, and one for them [the studio].'' And I've never really been a proponent of that. But this movie, it was funny. Robert called me, and he was like, ''Don't you...wanna be in a movie that people actually see?'' [Laughs] That could be refreshing.

You don't strike me as a comic-book nerd.
That's safe to say, definitely.

Do you understand this culture?
Oh yeah, I had a younger brother. So growing up I was exposed to...not even so much the comics, but the passion about the comics. But I never even thought to look at them because it was my brother's thing. It was really only when I was cast in the film that I started to read comics, and I started to get it. Marvel sent me over some Iron Man. I still read them.

Did you even know what Comic-Con was?
I knew what Comic-Con was last year because my friend [actor-writer] Simon Pegg was here with Hot Fuzz.

There's a lot of people dressed like the two leads here.
Oh really?!!? That's great! I gotta tell him that.

There's also a masquerade ball.
Are you serious?

Oh yeah.
That's amazing. I hope somebody's making a documentary about this festival or whatever you want to call it.

Do you think it's now expected of an actor to hit Comic-Con the same way he or she would Sundance or Toronto or Cannes?
It's interesting that it's so important to the movie industry, because it's like this demographic [is the one] that's still going to movies on opening weekend. Normally you do a movie, and you kind of forget about it by the time it comes out. Because life goes on. But this was amazing to, like, feel the enthusiasm. We just finished about a month ago!

Have you ever been in an environment where the fans can kind of approach you, if even through a mike?
No, no.

What's it like looking out into the crowd and seeing a dude dressed like Captain America asking a question? You saw that, right?
I love that kind of passion. I don't care what it's about, whether they completely throw themselves into it impersonating Captain America or painting.

And your director, Jon Favreau, is kind of a nerd too. Is it contagious?
It is contagious! It's almost like when somebody gives you a plate of white truffles. It's like, ''What is this? I don't know this. I've never smelled this.'' And then you eat it, and this whole world kinda opens up to you.

 

[Advanced Dark]

(posted on the hulk forum as well)
Here's the working links (AD, the javascript screwed everyhting, so I managed to find the working links, hope you don't mind)

Originally Posted by Advanced Dark

UPDATED

PHOTO GALLERIES:
Comic-Con San Diego
• Iron Man Q&A photos (updated)
• The Incredible Hulk Q&A photos (updated)
• Disney Q&A photos (updated)
• Fans at Comic-Con (updated)

Thanks bud.

 

[ObakeTora]

C'mon guys. Have some respect and stop posting the bootleg links.

Don't be a killjoy. It's not as if the entire movie is being acessed online.

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ No but the studio is clearly trying to take them down.

 

[nyxboxnyboy]

Hehe well Im a pretty new fan of Iron Man's and dont know much about the character shes playing but I was not thrilled to hear she'd been cast, not because of that ^^^ but because she's a bad actress

You are dumb said that. She is great actress and hot.

 

[nyxboxnyboy]

Hehe well Im a pretty new fan of Iron Man's and dont know much about the character shes playing but I was not thrilled to hear she'd been cast, not because of that ^^^ but because she's a bad actress

You are dumb said that. You are bad actor or actress whatever. She is great actress and hot no matter what said. I am sick and tire of people call anyone bad actor or actress. I never call anyone bad negative actor or actress. All great actor or actress was in the movies.

 

[nyxboxnyboy]

Hehe well Im a pretty new fan of Iron Man's and dont know much about the character shes playing but I was not thrilled to hear she'd been cast, not because of that ^^^ but because she's a bad actress

You are dumb said that. You are bad actor or actress whatever. She is great actress and hot no matter what said. I am sick and tire of people call anyone bad actor or actress. I never call anyone bad negative actor or actress. All great actor or actress was in the movies.

 

[Nameless]

^ No but the studio is clearly trying to take them down.

They will never beat the fan boys. They are outnumbered

 

[Advanced Dark]

^ That they are.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

^ That they are.

Indeed. Anyone who wants to get a hold of the footage just have to follow the clues.

 

[Mauser9910]

I don't know... Isn't this a big plan ?
Reveal the footage at Comic Con. Hyping.
Footage "leaking" to Youtube for some days. More hype.
Deciding to take everything down. More hype from the ones who missed it.
Tweaked version of the trailer officially online weeks later. More hype.

Gwyneth : who gives a damn ?

And I wanted to say I'm so pleased with how everything is going for this film.

 

[FatalEnergy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7LdK1mbp3A

Iron man Comicon panel part 1(of 4)

I'll try and get the rest up today

 

[FatalEnergy]

part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9qUdm2Esk

 

[Figs]

This seems to be about you wanting it to be just for you comic con guys and you're pissed that us that didn't have the option are getting to see it,that is selfish as hell.

You guys are all missing his point and just name calling him saying he's selfish when that isn't the case. There is no bull**** excuse that someone didn't have the option to go. Of course in this day and age when a lot of people grow up thinking everything is owed to them I shouldn't be surprised. If anyone wanted to go to a Comic-Con, they should know it's once a year. Save up money for the next one.

My friends and I had gone to a number of horror conventions in the past. We always started saving way before to ensure we had money to have a good time when we went. The point they show exclusives at any Conventions is to help attract fans and people to go. The people who go are supporting the cause and whatnot. I've been to a number of conventions in the past and their are quite a lot of new people starting out with comics or films and whatnot. It's a great way for them to get advertisement. Showing the people that show up exclusives about a month or two before it shows up in theatres is just a nice incentive.

Now that it gets leaked almost immediately online why would a number of people even bother to go anymore.

 

[Figs]

I didn't expect you to......generaly, the people of your generation feel your way and the people of my generation feel mine. Just wanted tp put my feelings on the matter out there for people to contemplate.

That's part of what I was wanting to get accross.....some people go balistic because they can't see some trailer, or snippet of film shown somewhere.....geeze people, calm down.....not only will you eventually be able to see it somewhere on the net....but you willnot die if it takes an extra day to see it.


That's the word I was looking for...ENTITLEMENT.....so many people today feel they are "entitled" to have everything they want.....I was taught that you "earned" your rewards.

It's good to know there are some older generations on these boards that don't have their spoiled heads up their assess. I agreed with everything you have said about today's generations all thinking they deserve and are entitled to everything. I'm only 26, but I can't believe how many ****ty parents there are out there to not discipline their kids these days. Teach them a little humility.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Now that it gets leaked almost immediately online why would a number of people even bother to go anymore.

To watch it first hand, to watch it in good quality, to see Karen Allen's ass up close.

 

[Advanced Dark]

That's the word I was looking for...ENTITLEMENT.....so many people today feel they are "entitled" to have everything they want.....I was taught that you "earned" your rewards.

That's exactly right. That quote belongs in the "piracy" threads too.

 

[FatalEnergy]

part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBdwdN-Kqs

part 4 coming soon.