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featherynscaleOther than Beltane and Beltane and Beltane and Beltane, this weekend featured Iron Man. If you have any interest at all in superhero films, films that go boom, or Robert Downey Jr., I exhort you to see this film. I mean, really. You so rarely get a chance to walk out of a film saying, "Wow, that was the role that man was *born* to play." (Actually, that might happen to other people more often, but I mostly only watch the sort of films with a lot of monsters and explosions. But I digress.) Robert Downey Jr. is a better Tony Stark than a lot of the Tony Starks in the comics. Seriously.
Further notes from the film:
- When it comes to playboy billionaires, Bruce Wayne is Doing It Wrong.
- Gwyneth Paltrow makes an adorable redhead.
- Apparently I have some sort of paraphilia for machinery. You get some lovely sequences of Stark 'suiting up' that were far more interesting to me than they should have been. I mean, yes, it's Beltane and all that, but still. (This is actually not that surprising. I mean really, it was like machine porn. Gratuitous engineering. Or something.)
- It is possible to shoot a scene involving industrial robotic arms as characters, and give said robotic arms an astonishing range of expression.
- I've said it before, but I'll say it again: They'll let *anybody* be an Avenger.
All in all, a fully worthwhile way to spend an evening. Also, for what it's worth, I predict that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agrnmn's robotics class will experience a dramatic upswing in interest when school starts again. :)
Further notes from the film:
- When it comes to playboy billionaires, Bruce Wayne is Doing It Wrong.
- Gwyneth Paltrow makes an adorable redhead.
- Apparently I have some sort of paraphilia for machinery. You get some lovely sequences of Stark 'suiting up' that were far more interesting to me than they should have been. I mean, yes, it's Beltane and all that, but still. (This is actually not that surprising. I mean really, it was like machine porn. Gratuitous engineering. Or something.)
- It is possible to shoot a scene involving industrial robotic arms as characters, and give said robotic arms an astonishing range of expression.
- I've said it before, but I'll say it again: They'll let *anybody* be an Avenger.
All in all, a fully worthwhile way to spend an evening. Also, for what it's worth, I predict that
agrnmn's robotics class will experience a dramatic upswing in interest when school starts again. :)
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Date: 2008-05-05 04:05 pm (UTC)Neat! I did not know that.
Also, I second your OMG. :)
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Date: 2008-05-05 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-05 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-05 05:25 pm (UTC)As for Thor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/
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Date: 2008-05-05 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-05 06:08 pm (UTC)Iron Man 2 announced for a release on April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of '10 and '11.
Matthew Vaughn's Thor is set for a release on June 4, 2010.
The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) will kick off the summer of 2011 on May 6, followed by the highly-anticipated and foreshadowed The Avengers scheduled for July 2011.
(Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is also listed as being in development with no release date set.)
In a conference call this morning, Marvel Studios' David Maisel said that Iron Man 2 will be used to introduce Thor. Regarding more "Hulk" movies, Maisel said "We definitely plan on continuing." He added that development continues on Spider-Man 4. "I can't give any other updates other than to say it's in development and everybody's excited about 'Spider-Man 4,'" he said.
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Date: 2008-05-05 06:18 pm (UTC)