What was the last movie you've seen?

[BurningDoom]

Iron Man 3.

Good movie, but I'm SEVERLY disappointed with The Mandarin. One of the coolest villains in the Marvel Universe, IMO, and Iron Man's arch nemesis, and they completely screw it up. As bad as Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four movie, as far as I'm concerned.

They better do Thanos right in Avengers 2.

[Retrodude]

Iron Man 3.

Good movie, but I'm SEVERLY disappointed with The Mandarin. One of the coolest villains in the Marvel Universe, IMO, and Iron Man's arch nemesis, and they completely screw it up. As bad as Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four movie, as far as I'm concerned.

They better do Thanos right in Avengers 2.

[BurningDoom]

Iron Man 3.

Good movie, but I'm SEVERLY disappointed with The Mandarin. One of the coolest villains in the Marvel Universe, IMO, and Iron Man's arch nemesis, and they completely screw it up. As bad as Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four movie, as far as I'm concerned.

They better do Thanos right in Avengers 2.

Have you seen the movie? Because The Mandarin isn't even like the same guy. We're not talking about just a costume change or a different origin or something here.

[Retrodude]

It's nothing personal. All comic book fans sound like him when they compare the comics to the movies when everyone knows you can't do that because different mediums have different storytelling requirements. Just sayin'.

[BurningDoom]

It's nothing personal. All comic book fans sound like him when they compare the comics to the movies when everyone knows you can't do that because different mediums have different storytelling requirements. Just sayin'.

Yeah, you really just need to see the movie before you continue with this conversation. You're completely wrong in this case.

The Mandarin isn't a villain, doesn't have powers, doesn't fight, nothing of the sort. He's an actor playing the part of The Mandarin and I don't mean an actor playing in the movie, I mean within the story of the movie, he's an actor. He's not The Mandarin at all. No rings of power, no Chinese origin, not even a single punch thrown.

[stickem]

i'm glad i haven't cared for comic books in like 20 yrs since jr high so i can enjoy these movies.

[BurningDoom]

i'm glad i haven't cared for comic books in like 20 yrs since jr high so i can enjoy these movies.

Must be great for you guys to not care about source material at all.

Just because it's comics, it's nerdy to care that the movie reflects the source material somewhat? It's like if The Joker was portrayed as non-threatening joke (no pun intended) in the Dark Knight. Or if Darth Vader was a coward. It's Iron Man's ARCH-NEMESIS for crying out loud, not some minor character.

[dsheinem]

The unfolding of the Mandarin plotline was one of the few things Iron Man 3 did right.

I thought that the twist was actually somewhat funny/clever, and Ben Kingsley was one of the few actors in the film who actually seemed invested in his character. The problem is that the "actual" villain was a lot less interesting..."molten man" or whatever is one of the lamest supervillians in recent comic book film history as his motivations, the cause of his superpowers, the details of his plot, etc. are all nebulous at best

[Luke]

The Mandarin thing in Iron Man 3 was brilliant. It destroyed (in a good way) the audience I saw it with.

And how they basically gave it away in the trailer makes it all the better.

edit*Just realized I got away with not having to screen GATSBY.

I'm using my exception card, right now. I'm not judging the movie, it's that I don't want to see it. At all. Usually I wouldn't gauge my interest in a movie from reviews, but this is my exception.

Even the positive reviews make me not want to see it. "Non-stop feast for the eyes"? Wait!!! A non-stop feast for the eyes from Baz Luhrmann? Been there a few times, never cared for it.

So I beat on.


edit numero dos* GRAVITY trailer

There is no sound in space. Still, it looks interesting as long as I didn't just see the entire film in the trailer.

Wait. How can you travel at the speed of sound in space if space doesn't allow for sound?

[AppleQueso]

Must be great for you guys to not care about source material at all.

Deviations from the source material are rarely a strong criticism in my eyes, and that goes for pretty much anything.

All that matters is how things work in the context they're given in.