Troy, did you have to bring up the ROTS trailer I have nightmares of Mischa barton in a tent, camping in a mall. I'm deeply saddened that I remember that, I'm going to go club myself in the head.

I'm not sure if it'll be on Transformers level but it'll be good.

quoting for the new page krew

Never read an Iron Man comic-book, but maybe I'll look into him, because this looks great.

I'm usually nitpicky about CGI animation not being convincing enough, but this time I can't understand what Cryostar sees as cartoonish. There are barely a few secs showing the CGI Iron Man from close distance anyway.

Of course, this is just a teaser...
The last time I got this excited about a teaser, I finished watching Ghost Rider, expecting something really good.

Yep, oh yeah, that rocked my balls

Teaser Poster revealed source: Yahoo Movies

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Hi-Res

The official site has been updated with a few pics and such.

http://www.ironmanmovie.com/

Another big ass image by way of comingsoon.net



A production still from the comicbook adaptation.

Ironman, Batman, The Hulk, Indiana Jones IV, and The Clone Wars: 2008 is going to be great

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http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?catid=23&itemid=11241

toy pics are here!

They look pretty cool. I wonder if the helmets come off.

Shot from the Superbowl trailer, from AICN:

Superbowl ad up at the movie's official site.

Faaaaarkin' sweet! RDJ is on fire....love that "I can fly" line...

Rest of it looks pretty Playstation-game-cutsceney so hopefully they polish up the FX by May...

Direct links for the Superbowl Ad

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Those last shots look like they're from a video game.

I think it looks pretty badass myself. I WANT stylized, larger than life imagery in my comic book films. And Robert Downey Jr seems to be an inspired choice for this film. it's gonna rock!

Oh fuck ya! I agree with you bear and I for one can't fucking wait for this film.

The end does look a little game-ish. But I still like it.

Looks terrific.

Though I find it ironic that Favreau spent some time bashing Lucas for using CGI in his films and it looks like this is filled with it.

Paramount released a bunch of HI-RES Iron Man stills. Some of the sites that elected to post the original HI-RES stills watermarked them. Above are some of them un-watermarked.

RE: The Trailer - Absolutely loved the ending Raiders Of The Lost Ark moment.

well the suit was actually built by Stan Winston and worn by Downey. So it's probably more composite CGI than full characters like Jar Jar.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35727 has some Iron Man WonderCon info:

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- Had to fight hard for Downey to get the role of Stark. “As soon as we did cast him, thanks to the fans and how vocal you all were online, all of a sudden Marvel and Paramount felt very comfortable with him.”

- Favreau wants to do more IRON MAN movies. That's not news (he said as much in my interview with him at last year's Comic-Con), but good that he's still got the bug.

- Someone asked about the Jet Boots scene from the Super Bowl trailer. “It’s really hard to explain about the jet boots… it’s only in the Super Bowl trailer and you only saw a little amount of them. Does everybody know what she’s talking about? The Jet Boots? I could show more of it…” and then he showed the full scene of Downey testing out the boots!

The scene:

Begins with Downey at a work bench, putting some final touches on the boots… A nice camera move around the whole table, revealing what he’s working on, his car room in the background. You think Stark is mumbling to himself, but you find he’s talking to a little robotic arm (you know, that bend a few times and look like table-lamp stands and end in pincers?).

Then you have him in the car room, boots on, controls behind him, grate on the floor. He points to a larger robotic arm and says, “Stand by for fire safety,” then turns to another robotic arm and says, “You, roll it.” The robotic arm has a camera in it and records the boot test. We cut into that view for the rest of the scene.

Stark braces himself, shifts from boot to boot (which are extremely heavy, holding him down to the ground… he has to make a lot of effort to move them) and says “Let’s start this nice and easy. Give me 10% thruster capacity in 3… 2… 1…” BOOM!

He’s fired backwards in a flash, slamming into the concrete ceiling and falling behind the control panel. The whole time the first robotic arm follows his movement and sprays a blast of retardant, like a fire extinguisher, over the top of the control panel, aimed down on Stark… but we can’t see him.

Cuts back to him bracing himself on the grate again. He points to the fire extinguisher robot and says, “Test 37… For lack of a better option, Dundee (I think I have the name right) is still on fire safety. If you douse me again and I’m not on fire I’ll donate you to a city college. Okay, nice and easy… seriously… We’re just going to start off with 1% thrust capacity… In 3, 2, 1…” and he lifts off, the shot from the trailer.

He wobbles in the air, trying to keep his balance and then shuts it down. “Let’s bring it up to 2.5… 3, 2, 1…” and he goes higher and starts moving around the room. He uses his hand thrusters to change direction, but isn’t used to them or the boots yet, so he wobbles in the air all over the room and goes over his cars, the flame from the boots cooking the hoods.

It looks like he gets the hang of it a little bit and he floats back over to the grid and lands, the bottoms of the jet boots smoking. “Dundee” rushes over to him and Stark goes, “Nah-ah-ah!!” to keep from getting another blast of retardant. The Robot backs off and Stark turns and says, “Yeah… I can fly.”

Then it cuts to Downey in a full gold suit (The Mark 2) with no faceplate. It lowers over his exposed face slowly. As it closes we keep on Stark’s face, as if we’re inside the faceplate. He’s illuminated with low blue lighting… actually, it reminded me a lot of how Keanu Reeves was animated while inside the Scramble Suit in A SCANNER DARKLY. Except here you have the reflections of the electronic images sent into Stark’s eyes.

We cut outside to Iron Man POV and it’s like a clear Terminator view… he has readouts all over, electronics and automobiles are scanned, etc.

Stark talks to a British voice. I’m assuming it’s the computer… but I think he calls it Jarvis, which is funny… isn’t that the name of the Avengers’ butler?

Anyway, they talk about calibrations and diagnostics as they prepare for a test of the suit. We’re outside the suit again and spinning around it, from the boots up, spiraling upwards, seeing panels automatically slide shut over exposed machinery and vents letting out hisses of steam as hydrolics work until we see the face. It’s the final Iron Man armor, just without the red. It’s all gold, shiny and sleek as hell.

The crowd cheered at this reveal.

Jarvis said he’s ready to power down the suit and Stark says to not, instead do weather checks and start listening in on ground control. Jarvis protests. “Sir! There are some terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight…” Stark interrupts saying that sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

He takes off, jet boots firing and he shoots out of a long spiraling concrete garage-like corridor and out into the night. There’s a few seconds of him flying around outside, using his hand thrusters and the crowd goes crazy again. The clip ends and the cheers multiply.

- This coming Thursday there will be a 90 second trailer premiering on LOST. “I’m sorry that I could not bring the 90 second trailer here with me because we’re premiering it on LOST… I did, however, bring a 2 ½ minute trailer… It’s going to be in front of 10,000 BC. We just timed it and mixed it yesterday and I think we should show it to you now!”



The trailer:

Starts off with AC/DC’s Back In Black. We see Stark in the Middle East. He’s making the speech you’ve seen a piece of already, but nothing is repeated. “It’s better to be feared than respected…and I say… is it too much to ask for both?” We see a missile flying in the air. It falls to the ground, but before it hits it breaks off into four or five dozen little missiles. As they impact the desert behind Stark he opens his arms wide and says, “May I humbly present the Jericho.” The impact sends a cloud of dust shooting at Stark’s back and past him at the soldiers he’s talking to.

Then quick cuts of the attack that results in Stark getting hurt and kidnapped. A bald dude tells a bandaged Stark that he works for him now.

Quick cuts of him building the armor again and busting out.

We get out of there quickly and Stark, arm in a sling returns and speaks to Pepper Potts. Gwenyth Paltrow felt very relaxed in the role, not forcing her dialogue with Stark.

The voice from inside the suit in the earlier clip (Jarvis) welcomes Stark home, but I get the impression it’s a computer voice, not someone off camera. But what do I know? It’s just a guess.

We get our first real expose to Obadiah Stane, played by the crazy-awesome bald bearded version of Jeff Bridges. He argues with Stark and you hear Stark say, “My eyes are open. I want to protect the people I put in harm’s way.”

Obadiah meets with the bald Middle Eastern kidnapper guy and is handed plans for the Mark 1 suit that Stark left behind in his escape.

Then there’s Stark floating, testing the suit and the Mark 2 flight. He’s going around and trying to make it back home and something blows out in his leg. He falls through his roof, through a couple floors, ending up back on the grid in the garage. He lays there for a half a beat and then… yep, he gets doused by the robot extinguisher.

Jarvis tells him that the armor upgrade is complete. “I tell you what… throw a little hot-rod red in there.”

Stark and Rhodey are in a room together. Stark says, “Good luck keeping up,” and it cuts to IM being chased by the jets. They’re right on him and suddenly his back panels pop forward, like when your flight lands and it drags him back super quick behind the jets.

Stark is half dressed as Iron Man, hanging by cables in a room and Pepper walks in. “What’s going on in here?” He shrugs it off. “Let’s face it, this is not the worst thing you’ve caught me doing.”

There are shots of Iron Man fighting Iron Monger, catching cars that are thrown at him, being batted around.

Then we have Stark addressing a press conference. “There’s speculation that I’m parading around as a superhero. I’m just not the hero type, clearly…”

And then the tank shot from the Super Bowl commercial is back, but it looks so incredibly much better. It doesn’t look like a PS2 video game anymore. Incredibly badass, ending with the Sabbath song once more.

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...and I'm just guessing here, but MF.com will have the LOST trailer ready by closing time?!! Heh.

I'm pretty excited for this flick, almost as much as Batman Begins. Everything seems to point in the "awesome" direction on this...

New iron man poster

screenrant.com exclusive-new-iron-man-poster--1398.html

Nice, although Mark II looks like the Michael Jackson version.

Here's the link to the hi-res.

IS there a difference in the comics or the movie version between the Mark 2 and 3 other than a paint job? just wondering.

this will be an opening night viewing for myself! (sooner if it leaks online beforehand!)



is it sad that I knew what you were referring to?

Well, the marks are just in relation to the movie versions.

In the comics, the 2nd Iron man suit (the Mark 2) was just like the Mark 1 but gold instead of silver, and had a skirt (I shit you not.)

In the context of the movie, I think its just Tony Starks first proper high-tech prototype created with some real funding after his first attempts in his Afghani cave.

Iron Man trailer will bust your balls from the inside it's the breasts!! Can't get the HD links to work for me though boo...

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42452

It's cuz the QT links goto myspace. And myspace can suck deez nuts.

http://media.movies.ign.com/media/034/034317/vids_1.html

Has downloadable HD links. The trailer owns ALL.


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Nah, doesn't work for me. Gotta be an IGN member or some shit.

I hate having to jump through hoops for fucking ADVERTISING!

Still, I'll forgive all because iron man made me wet.

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That's a negative, HD linkys no worky for me still...

Boo.

Wow......that's really all I've got at the moment. That's an awful nice trailer.

here's a comparrison shot between the two trailer versions of the tank battle at the end. not sure which I like better, they'er both awesome

The HD links seem to be working. If they go down, I'll put the mov's up on rapidshare or somethin.

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It is a nice trailer, but I'm still iffy on this movie.

JF has to prove he can pull off this kind of flick. Zathura was abysmal. It's like Nolan before Batman Begins. We knew Memento was damn good, but we wondered if he could pull off Batman.

John is in that same spot. He has Swingers and Elf was decent. Iron Man could be like X2 and Spider-Man 2, or it could be like Daredevil and Ghost Rider. Also, Paltrow doesn't help matters.

I would just like to ask John one question about this type of subject matter...

He was in Daredevil. Does he think that was a good film?

Spider-man 2 sucked.


Iron Man looks to be in good hands. From what I see it looks damn entertaining.

The story-arc I've read for the planned trilogy seems like it could be classic....war machine in film 2 could be incredible.

Haven't we all seen this before? There's nothing new here at all.

This is every comic book movie ever made, only five years after it was almost fresh.

Well, no. This does in fact not appear to be something we have all seen before. Not from a Marvel based comic-book hero at least. Sure, Batman and Superman (DC) have had some fairly accurate portrayals in film. And a lot of the Marvel based films have done some things right as well. But for my money, none of them have really ever got it 100% right. Or hell, even 75%, actually. This looks like it's going to. Haven't seen it yet, so I might be wrong there, but it looks like it. And as this is Marvel Studios first of a series of in-house big-budget productions, it's also fundamentally different in that respect. The publisher didn't have to just hand the property over to some big studio to be truncated by suits who only read the script outlines. And how that process fares in respect to quality is a big question to many fans who, like me, are hoping this works better than what we have seen of the genre recently.

But as far as being five years late, comic-book characters on the big screen is an idea that goes at least back to the 40's, when Captain America was punching Nazis, and the 50's when Superman was flying around drunk, both in black and white. The TV Batman and Robin had a feature length film in 1966, with somewhat more serious attempts at recreating heroes from the medium in 1978 with the first Superman, starring Christopher Reeves. So not only would I like to point out that nothing about this concept is truly trendy or new, but all of these attempts forced existing fans of the characters to accept some kind of significant (in some cases severe) alterations to the characters or thier respective worlds just to get them on screen. Wether it's technologically challenged early attempts or modern day casting mistakes, as a fan, there was always something just fundamentally wrong with all of these. Not just slight changes, but drastic departures from what made the formula work in print. And that, for me, is what is different about this one.

Obviously you aren't excited about it, and that's fine. Not really sure why you posted just to let us know you don't care, though.

Is the big one going to be War Machine?

SHUT UP!


And no, the "Big one" is Iron Monger I believe

Clearly I posted my views of the movie as opinion, since this is, afterall, a discussion board.

Let me clarify:

This movie, to me, looks like almost all the various other comic book movies of the past five (or so) years. In my opinion.
To me, this movie feels like it's been done before because of the tired and predictable origin scenes, a "prototype" costume/suit, the love interest, the bad guy, the visual effects, the character walking towards the camera as something blows up behind him shot, this is all familiar territory and Iron Man is just the latest character to undergo the treatment. When an Iron Man movie is being made, they've clearly ran out of characters. What's worse: they're making an Iron Man movie the same way all the other comic book movies were made. This isn't an original take on the character. I think the fact that Marvel produced this themselves is even scarier. Wasn't it Avi's idea to stick Venom into Spider-Man 3? Marvel has no clue what they're doing when it comes to making movies; they make comic books!

Side note: not helping at all are the awkward extreme close-up shots of Downey, Jr.'s face in his suit.

Well, if we're going to go that way not go all the way.

It's such an archetypical Drama storyline, much like any other storyline. There's a protagonist, there's an antagonist and there are goals that must be achieved.

If you water it down enough, yes, it's like every other story we've ever encountered.

The difference is in the details. I've happened to start liking these details. I hope it's better than the crap that marvel's been putting out these past few years. Let's hope it stays going this direction.

...where's all this hatred coming from for Iron Man all of a sudden?! This movie is looking near perfect! From the casting, direction and the trailers to the storyline! I can't believe anyone would harbour ill-taste for this flick. They've gone a Marvel-esque "Nolan" route for this thing, casting brilliant character actors and a pretty high-quality background story that by the looks of things...has a decent "3 movie arc" attached to it's concept, which is a damn site better than the X-Men or Spiderman films ever had...

Yes we've been inundated with Superhero movies in the last 5+ years - but, we've had 2 VERY underpar Spiderman flicks, a VERY average Daredevil, Superman, X-men and Hulk films...(to be honest I think the Hulk wasn't nearly as bad for non-fanboys as it was for the comic-addicted...I digress)

The only PERFECT Superhero film we've had so far is Batman Begins and possibly Spiderman 1 and X2. Possibly. Though, those have more weaknesses to them than Batman Begins in my opinion - which is the only film in my collection to stand up to repeated viewings on DVD...and doesn't look as awful as Spiderman 1 does...seriously, try sitting through it today and not feeling awkward...

So...I'm pleasantly suprised with Iron Man, especially being a Marvel "sole produced" feature to boot - it hasn't had studio's messing with it AND the casting of RDJ has been inspired.

I think one needs to get off their high-horse for a second and take stock with the absolute trash we've been fed Superhero/Comic-wise in the past 5 years and be thankful we're getting what looks to be a PURE genre-film, with style, substance and supremely good actors...

Makes a change from Horriffic Spiderman sequels and half-arsed comic-book flicks like X3

sunshine just might as well go watch cable because we've got quite a few same old comics movies coming up in the next few years.

Thor, Captain America, another Superman, another Batman after Dark Knight, Avengers, JLA, Ant Man, Watchmen, Punisher War Zone, Wolverine, Magneto, Black Panther, Daredevil 2, Deathlok, Dr. Strange, Ghost Rider 2, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Nick Fury, Silver Surfer, Spiderman 4, Sub Mariner, and Venom.

these are all movies that have been at least announced for future release.

You know, I never thought of old Tony as a smart ass, but I like Downey's take on him as a smart ass.

Do any of you remember what Marvel gave us before this genre took off? Remember Reb Brown as Captain America, the one with the flesh rubber ears ON THE MASK? Have any of you seen Roger Corman's Fantastic Four? Doom's dialogue never got looped in time and his words sound like incoherent garble inside a tin can! And who can forger the Spider-Man TV Show! His webs shot like giant white ropes in slow motion! Anything made today is way better than all that stuff in my opinion...even the third installments of Xmen and Spider-Man.

I like Downey Jr. as Stark too. Think about it, Stark is an addict, always has been. Do you think they were thinking this when they decided to cast Downey Jr., who is an addict as well?

I still consider The Original Superman with Chris Reeve the best of all, maybe because what they were able to accomplish at that day and age. It's a miracle it ever worked as well as it did.

I do look forward to Watchmen with great excitement and fear at the same time, I really loved that story in the 80's and I'd like nothing better than to see it work on film. Anyone think they'll ever make a Miracleman film based on Alan Moore's series?

That's what I mean, by casting Downey in the role and (they will) hinting at the whole addiction thing in the first film, they get an actor who not only knows about addicition but has the range (ala Bale) to play the character a whole lot darker in the second film...

...not "pussy-dark" like Tobey Maguire in Spiderman

There's also one thing that Ben Afleck (Daredevil) Eric Bana (Hulk) that kid from Singers Superman and Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) all lacked that Bale and Downey BOTH have...

Gravitas.



I really don't think Ironman is gonna be a let-down - I get the same vibe as I did from the Begins marketing...the same vibe I'm getting from the early TDK stuff this time around...

Which is something I'm NOT getting from any of the Indy stuff.