Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:00
Iron Man again
We went to see it again last night. Just a’cause. STILL AWESOME. This time I spotted some minor continuity errors, and since I am a dork and a geek at heart, let the nits henceforth be picked!
1. First press conference: Tony takes a cheeseburger out of the conspicuously-placed Burger King bag when stepping out of the limo. Hogan keeps the bag while Tony walks with Stane & chews, telling Obie there’s only one left as he gestures backward toward the guy with the sack of BK. Tony never puts a burger in his suit pocket, yet when he reaches the podium, he retrieves one from there.
2. First arc reactor scene with Stane: Stane’s cigar has ash - fresh grey ash - but isn’t lit. Not really a continuity error per se, but just weird. Could it have been a ratings thing? Can they show Tony drinking and killing people but not a business tycoon *actually* smoking?
3. The miniature arc reactor in Tony’s chest; Pepper turns it clockwise to set it in place. Tony turns in clockwise to set in in place. Stane turns it - you guess it, clockwise, but to remove it. Righty tighty, lefty loosy, people.
4. Last press conference: Moments earlier, Pepper carefully arranges a handkerchief in Tony’s breast pocket. It’s kind of the whole reason they are standing so close, which prompts him to ask about “that night” and so forth. The handkerchief is missing when he takes the podium.
How stupid am I for pointing that crap out? It didn’t take away from a single millisecond of enjoyment, but geeks will be geeks. Also, during this second viewing, I waited for the surprise after the credits. I just read a bunch of Invincible Iron Man and (TITLE REDACTED) written in the mid-to-late 60’s the night before. I was reading them thinking about how (ACTOR NAME REDACTED) would play the character. I watched the scene at the end with an ear toward speech patterns, inflections, etc. It will totally work. (CHARACTER NAME REDACTED) already talks like that, only with a different rhythm. Same words, slightly different way of saying them. I think it’ll be just fine.
No trailer for Hulk before the movie, but we did see a long trailer for Dark Night. Oh. My. God. I had a Batgasm. These are my two favorite superheroes from childhood; Iron Man and Batman. Needless to say this is one hell of a summer lineup for a nerd: GTA 4, Iron Man and Miller-esque Batman? It’s better than porn.
Rounding out my top 5 superheroes are Spidey as a close second, followed by Wolverine and the Punisher. In case you were wondering.
TEASE: Favreau talking about potentially making the Avengers movie as the third Iron Man, as a way to avoid that “third movie always sucks” curse. Could be awesome, as he seems to totally be a fanboy and wants to make us happy.
HIRE HIM: Thor needs a new director. May I suggest a certain Mr. Jon Favreau? Kevin Smith once told a story about how he suggests Ben Affleck for everything. “Keving we need someone to play a seventy year old man in a wheelchair, who do you suggest?” “Ben Affleck.” “Kevin, we need someone to play a female superhero. Her power is long ropes of menstrual blood she can control with her mind. Got any ideas?” “Ben Affleck.”
Well, now we all have a Ben Affleck, only he’s talented and does a great job. Every time someone says “Who should direct this superhero movie?” the answer shall henceforth always be “Jon Favreau.”
RUMOR MILL: Matthew McConaughey as Captain America. I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT FILM. Ever. Don’t do it, Marvel. Hire the guy that played Stanley on Jericho. He’s my new pick for Cap. We certainly know he can do the corn-fed aww-shucks patriotic bit, and he’s big, blonde and square-faced enough to pull off the mask. Barring that, I will settle for Nathan Fillion or Ben Browder. Just not McConaughey. NEVER McConaughey. All done with McConaughey. He’ll stink the joint up faster than week-old pig guts. This is a horrible idea from top to bottom.
Would it be crossing a line if I started a petition to God or the gods or just someone with a lightning machine to strike Matthew McConaughey dead before filming could start?
Posted by JimK at 02:01 PM on May 08, 2008
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#2 Posted by Noblebrown 
on 05/08 at 07:02 PM -
I was about to suggest Fillion myself for Captain America. The guy is a great actor and could pull it off pretty darn well, I’d think.
Oh, and there’s the obligatory wishing that everyone at Fox who had a hand in canceling Firefly will burn in the deepest, blackest pits of Hell.
#3 Posted by supercore on 05/08 at 08:18 PM -
Someone over at Rachel Lucas mentioned him being in the new Wonder Woman movie.
Yeah, But now that Whedon isn’t involved do you really think anyone’s going to go see it? Last I heard they weren’t even done with the script. In any case, Is ANYONE waiting with bated breath for a wonderwoman movie? Anyone?
#4 Posted by supercore on 05/08 at 09:29 PM -
Thor needs a new director.
I’d like to see Darren Aronofsky tackle some sort of superhero movie. As long as they don’t let him write/butcher the script, he’s got an amazing eye for visuals. I don’t know if anyone here saw The Fountain but, barring the nearly impossible to follow plot, it was a great looking movie. Danny Boyle might be a good choice too.
#5 Posted by Joe R. on 05/09 at 12:58 AM -
Righty tighty, lefty loosy, people.
You’ve hit a pet peeve of mine. When people can’t get that straight, I ask them if they’ve ever taken the screw top off a plastic bottle of soda or water. Or maybe they’re dying of thirst.
That said, Stark might reverse-thread it. Not unheard of. Tubs in Maytag washing machines and some types of compressed air bottles, for example.
Hire the guy that played Stanley on Jericho.
That guy deserves more work. If that scene where he says goodbye in sign language to his sister’s corpse at the morgue doesn’t move you a little, your soul is broken.
I will settle for Nathan Fillion
Isn’t he Canadian? He’s cool, but it seems like Captain America should be played by an American.
#6 Posted by EMalachi on 05/09 at 03:30 AM -
In regards to the twisting of Tony’s arc reactor, I thought it was like the little aspirin bottles, where it doesn’t matter which way you turn, just so you line up the right parts before you can pop it off.
I keep reciting Joker lines to myself since I saw the new trailer. My phone’s wallpaper pic is the upclose shot of Joker with his knife in Rachel’s face.
This really has been a great year for entertainment for me.
On the game side we have
GTA4, MGS4, Force Unleashed, Soul Calibur 4, Street Fighter 4, Persona 3: Fes, Crisis Core, and Ghost Busters(!!!!!). The Ghostbuster game is essentially the third Ghostbusters movie, written by Aykroyd and Ramis and with the original cast, sans Weaver, doing the voice work. So excited. ^.^`
On the movie side there is Iron Man, Dark Knight, Speed Racer, The Incredible Hulk, Red Belt, and Hell Boy 2. Speed Racer may be cheesy, but I’m expecting cool ass races. I crossed off Indiana Jones because I read a review of an early screening and it sounds like the Starwars prequels all over again. Why is it that everything Lucas puts his hand into lately turns to shit?
#7 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 05/09 at 10:14 AM -
I thought part of it was that Stane didn’t remove the whole assembly, he just removed the reactor part itself. Tony had the arc reactor up top, and then the various hookins for it below, the ones he needed Pepper’s help with because his fingers were too big.
And yeah, I know what you’re going to say, “But it had the hookins on it later, when he hooked it into the Iron Monger suit!” Well, yeah, obviously Stane would have to ATTACH it to something, but unless by an amazing coincidence he happened to build the Iron Monger to use the same power port that Tony used to hook up the reactor to his own heart, he’d’ve had to stick it on new hookups. When he pulls it out of Tony’s chest, it’s just the glowy reactor part of it. So Stane might have actually been turning it clockwise deliberately to make sure just the reactor itself would come free, and the “junk” he didn’t want would stay in Tony’s chest.
#8 Posted by Sean Galbraith 
on 05/09 at 10:49 AM -
Why was a reactor hooked up to a car battery?
Definitely an epic win movie.
#9 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 05/09 at 11:49 AM -
Nevermind… forgot it was the magnet that was hooked up to the battery.
#10 Posted by ErikTheRed on 05/09 at 12:49 PM -
Bryan Singer was a great comic book film director… right up until Superman Returns. If there ever was a movie that could have used a giant spider… err… Thagarian Snarebeast… it was that one. Superman sings Barry Manilow would have been more exciting.
Other random thought - imagine Jon Favreau mixing in some of the dialog from Swingers into a comic book flick. After the Hero smacks down the Villain, the Sidekick says: “That was so fucking money. That was like the Jedi mind-shit.”
#11 Posted by mgnmfrc1 on 05/09 at 02:59 PM -
s ANYONE waiting with bated breath for a wonderwoman movie?
Only if they go back in time and get a hardcore scene with a 20 something Linda Carter! Yes I had huge boyish crush on her and I want to see her really naked. What? Shut up!
Oh, and there’s the obligatory wishing that everyone at Fox who had a hand in canceling Firefly will burn in the deepest, blackest pits of Hell.
And Wonderfalls. Tards.
#12 Posted by ErikTheRed on 05/09 at 09:27 PM -
Oh, and there’s the obligatory wishing that everyone at Fox who had a hand in canceling Firefly will burn in the deepest, blackest pits of Hell.
Matt Groening got back at Fox execs nicely in the latest Futurama DVD…
#13 Posted by artmonkey on 05/10 at 01:21 AM -
I think the hopes for Filion as Cap is dead. Someone over at Rachel Lucas mentioned him being in the new Wonder Woman movie.
I think you can safely keep your hopes up, here.
Fillion is, indeed, playing Captain Steve Trevor in the new Wonder Woman movie…
...that is to say, of course, that he’s providing Steve Trevor’s voice in the new animated Wonder Woman movie, which will likely be another direct-to-dvd release, like the animated Iron-Man, Avengers and Justice League movies.
So I wouldn’t worry about any conflicts, there.
#14 Posted by EMalachi on 05/10 at 06:40 AM -
Oh, I won’t be seeing the G.I. Joe movie either. Baroness looks hot, as expected, but the moment they said that G.I. Joe was an international body, my interest vanished. Bastards.
#15 Posted by Buzzion on 05/10 at 06:50 PM -
that is to say, of course, that he’s providing Steve Trevor’s voice in the new animated Wonder Woman movie,
ah ok, all good then
#16 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 05/12 at 03:20 PM -
IMDB listing for GI Joe
Looking at the cast.. I would have thought that Duke and Cobra Commander would have been played by people older than currently cast.
#17 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 05/12 at 03:22 PM -
I just hope that the movie will return some value to the box of comics I have :-)
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 05/08 at 06:22 PM -
I will argue that this is not a continuity error and instead a joke by Stark to Stane. I believe he said the one he was eating was the last one. And had already had the one in his pocket. I took as more of a moment of “haha I’m such a dick to you sometime watch me eat my hidden burger”
I think the hopes for Filion as Cap is dead. Someone over at Rachel Lucas mentioned him being in the new Wonder Woman movie.