Iron Man

[YellerDog]

So?

Alaska sucks just that Alpha Flight.

Drunk!

[Advocate]

I wish.

[Dolemite]

Saw this for (I think) the 5th time this weekend. It's still fucking awesome.

Plus, to my suprise, it was a Sunday afternoon showing, and it was actually pretty packed. The movie's still raking in dough.

[YellerDog]

As it should, it's a good movie.

[Advocate]

Good news for Iron Man, bad news for Hulk.

ComingSoon.net has posted two separate articles on the box office results this weekend, one on the domestic figures and the other on the international results. Here are some clips from each;

Last week's top movie, Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk (Universal) starring Edward Norton took a 61% plunge this weekend, dropping to third place with $21.6 million just behind Kung Fu Panda with a total of $96.5 million, about $4 million behind the previous Hulk movie five years ago.

[Internationally,] The Incredible Hulk finished a close second by grabbing $23.4 million at 4,700 theaters from 50 territories in its second weekend. "Hulk" has raised its totals to $63.3 million overseas and $159.8 million worldwide.

Having earned a badge of honor from becoming the first movie of the year to cross the $300 million mark, Marvel Studios' Iron Man (Paramount) added another $4 million to its take, once again having the smallest drop-off from last weekend in the Top 10.

Latino Review has sorted through the rumors and asked some sources what is coming around for the sequel. Mind you the first half is not so much rumors, more like a refresher of info we have already discusses. The later half are rumors and rumblings they have heard.

I’ve been looking around and reading different things regarding Iron Man 2 and I took a moment to find some rumors that are pretty solid, but still just rumors. There’s information that we got from the Iron Man film that is pretty straight forward about various characters we might see, but it’s still not known what the overall plot will be. So sit back and read up on these possible Iron Man rumors that I read on the net, and be warned if you don’t want to know, some of the stuff might be spoilers:

You’ve been warned!

• Jon Favreau planned Iron Man as the first in a trilogy.
• According to MTV Movie Blogs in July of last year Favreau believed the sequel will allow latitude in tone, and explore darker story elements such as alcoholism, which he intentionally set aside from the first film.
• Wikipedia reminds us that Robert Downey Jr. has said “the next one is about what do you do with the rest of your life once you’ve completely changed. I think the drinking and all that stuff would be a good way to confront his age, to confront his doubts, to confront the fact that maybe Pepper gets a boyfriend.”
• Downey and Favreau met with Shane Black, who suggested they model Stark on Robert Oppenheimer, who became depressed with being “the destroyer of worlds” after working on the Manhattan Project.
• Terrence Howard added this would be the manner in which his character would become War Machine, like in the comics: Rhodes built his own suit after temporarily becoming Iron Man when Stark succumbed to alcoholism.
• Favreau perceived depicting Iron Man’s nemesis, the Mandarin, as a challenge, as he finds the use of the character as a metaphor for communism dated.
• There are references to the Mandarin into the first movie, primarily with the terrorist organization named the Ten Rings.

Super Duper Rumors:

The sequel will heavily focus on War Machine. Says Howard, “Judging from how that audience responded, we got a pretty good shot of having some War Machine go down.” (MTV.com)

Thor will appear in the sequel, setting up the Thor film.

Iron Man will face off against Mandarin in the sequel.

Captain America’s shield has been spotted lying around Tony Stark’s workshop; there have been rumors that Captain America will be interwoven in the second film’s story line to set up the Captain America film, due out shortly after Iron Man 2.

So there you have it. What do you vatos think? Do any of these interest you? What are your ideas? Do you care about Iron Man 2 or are you looking forward to the other superhero films?

Link: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/iron-man-2-rumors-4911

Theres a video embedded in the article as well.

[Will]

Saw this for (I think) the 5th time this weekend. It's still fucking awesome.

Plus, to my suprise, it was a Sunday afternoon showing, and it was actually pretty packed. The movie's still raking in dough.

Is this the most times you've ever seen a movie in the theater?

Good news for Iron Man, bad news for Hulk.


Latino Review has sorted through the rumors and asked some sources what is coming around for the sequel. Mind you the first half is not so much rumors, more like a refresher of info we have already discusses. The later half are rumors and rumblings they have heard.



Link: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/iron-man-2-rumors-4911

Theres a video embedded in the article as well.

Sounds pretty good, it sucks Stan Winston died because I would have liked seeing him take a crack at the War Machine armor but I'm sure they can get a good effects house/designer for that.

[Dolemite]

Is this the most times you've ever seen a movie in the theater?

Hmm...not sure. I had an unhealthy obsession with the original Blade when that was out in theaters, and I think I may have seen that 6 times. Normally, once is plenty for any average movie. Sometimes it's more than enough.

I dunno, some movies just click with me and I want to savor the theater experience as much as possible. Watching that shit at home on DVD just isn't quite the same.

[YellerDog]

Some motherfucker's always tryin' to ice-skate uphill.

[Rem]

malignant purplenurple

imo

[Dolemite]

Some motherfucker's always tryin' to ice-skate uphill.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14934...s-live-by.html

"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill."

Blade

It is always at this point in our presentation when some disbelievers (hereafter referred to as "motherfuckers") claim that, in fact, some professional screen writer wrote the words of wisdom history has attributed to Wesley.

Oh, you sad, doubting motherfuckers. Go to your Wesley shrine right now and pull out the Blade DVD. Turn on the commentary track and skip ahead to the climactic battle in the subterranean vampire city between Snipes and the evil mayor of vampires, Deacon Frost. There, in the commentary track, you will hear David Goyer state that the line, "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" came from Snipes himself.

Oh, he didn't suggest it for the film. They overheard him use it in a motherfucking conversation.

The screenwriters were so overwhelmed with the line's mind-melting profundity that they shit where they stood, before rushing off to add it to the script. In the final version of the film, Snipes utters the line just moments before kicking a villain in a special way that causes the villain to explode. The fact that some motherfuckers are, in fact, always trying to ice skate uphill was the last piece of wisdom the antagonist carried into the afterlife (The writers don't mention if Snipes delivered an exploding kick to punctuate the real-world conversation they overheard, but their silence on the subject suggests he probably did.).

And, what a piece of wisdom it is. Though Wesley chose to speak in the language of poetry and metaphor, the meaning is clear: The nonbelieving motherfuckers are constantly in a state of futile rebellion against the universe. Wesley demonstrates, through his actions, that he will personally confront the motherfuckers and "kick" them into a state of "explosion." Snipes scholars believe this is a symbol for actual, kick-induced explosive dismemberment of the human body.