Them possibly casting Boseman for Black Panther shows they’re at least moving in the direction of a solo film maybe after Avengers 2.
I saw the Hulkbuster, I didn’t realize that was Man-Things wife, I saw Stan Lee, I didn’t notice Tony’s F1 car, I did notice the Doctor at the start, but I didn’t really pay attention to the credits. I remember thinking “wtf why are these longer than normal?”
I’m not quite sure why The Mandarin was in the movie at all unless he’ll be used as a plot device for Iron Man 4. Like, they could’ve stuck with Killian/Extremis only and it would’ve made more sense.
probably cuz it’s a lot easier to sell tickets to Iron Man vs Mandarin rather than Iron Man vs Guy Who Shot Himself In The Head In Comics And Was Never A Villain
Felt way too long and predictable, but shout outs to Gwyneth Paltrow’s abs. Well done.
Dragon breath was cool as fuck dude.
Gwyneth Paltrow not lookin weak and out of the holocaust? Cool.
Still think mandarin can be played up in the movies like a chinese lex luthor with magic rings.
While I agree, I also would imagine that the vast majority of people who went to go see Iron Man 3 did so because it’s Iron Man 3 and not because they were like “Oh yeah, it’s Mandarin time baby!”.
I give props to Marvel Studios to not succumbing to the fans in certain instances. I think if they did follow through on giving us the true Mandarin and Fing Fang Foom, it’d be Half-assed like how Venom was in Spiderman 3. Obviously the writers didn’t have a legit way of doing the character justice that would work for the story so they did this instead.
Really?! THAT was the Hulkbuster?! I think Tony called him by another name during the movie, didn’t he?
Do those modern storylines work in the storylines they established in the Marvel Movie Universe though?
The truth is if no one had ever heard of the Mandarin before this movie, the film wouldn’t be any less enjoyable.
Just like with the weird Whiplash/Not Crimson Dynamo Russian villain they had in IM2, this isn’t meant to stay true to the comic outside of Tony Stark’s character, despite being a long time comic fan and after initially disliking Liam Neeson as Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins, the twist really wasn’t that bad. Truth be told I have little faith in Hollywood and even Marvel with there stellar run of movies, I doubt they can do everything right so them taking this route with the Mandarin is fine as it is better then them trying to shoehorn him in closer to the source material and fail.
Ya…heaven forbid we show respect to the source material and it’s creators and the fans who support the publishers products. If these amazingly “talented” directors/writers want to do a original story then they should create their own characters and their own fictional universe and not rely on banking on a existing franchise with its characters and universe already established.
You still haven’t come up with a compelling reason why a movie should a panel for panel recreation of the comic book.
In a world where we have fan fiction on established characters in different mediums, heaven forbid a studio decides to buck the trend and try something gutsy and different from the norm that actually works.
You guys act like this whole situation with Mandarin is on the level of how Fox fucked up Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four movies.
It’s disturbing to even entertain the idea that bogart might be even a bit serious…
Anyways like I said why can’t we do panel for panel?
What’s wrong with wanting to adapt content into a new medium to expose said content to a new audience?
lmfao movie mandarin sounds like some ultimate bullshit throwaway plot. just saw the movie and totally get why people are pissed hahaha. the whole movie felt like bendis was drunk in the writing room
WTF do you mean no one has time for that shit?
They got dem fancy editors ya know who can easily trim down the film…and the extremis motion comic in its entirety was less then 2 hours long.
Try again.
Yo hold up bendis is a good writer.
you misunderstand…he is a good writer…but try and tell me this movie didnt feel like a bad ultimate universe plot. like bendis was just spitballin shit and the writers took it verbatim.
hahaha im all about criticizin da gawd on srk…but not on tumblr. niggas actually follow me hahaha.
I see your point but I don’t think bendis even at his worst is this sloppy…this felt more like AVX in terms of too many bad ideas all coming together.