Iron Man revealed

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Wow, Jon Favreau got un-fat.





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Linkzg said:
impressions of the video?
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I'll even highlight it.

After a bunch of movies were hyped-up at the Paramount panel at Comic-Con International (we'll have more on them soon), they announced that as a special treat, they'd be showing "test animation" from Jon Favreau's Iron Man instead of making everyone wait until Saturday. It was obviously a gag as they started to show cheesy animation from the '60s cartoon and after a bit of that (and a lot of laughter from the packed auditorium), director Jon Favreau came out with his video camera in hand, shooting the audience and saying that he wanted to make sure to put it onto YouTube before anyone else could. Yup, we'd been Punk'd but we were given a special treat for the trouble.

Without much urging, he agreed to show some footage, actually a rough trailer, for the movie, rather than making everyone wait until Saturday to see Iron Man in action. It went by fairly quickly but this is what we remember:

The footage starts with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark addressing soldiers with a speech which is paraphrased here: "Is it better to be feared than respected? I say, 'Is it too much to ask for both?' With that in mind, I humbly present the crown jewel of Stark Industries' Freedom Line. It's the first missile system to incorporate our proprietary repulsor technology." He then says something about the best weapon being one you don't have to fire, but he disagrees and says that the best weapon is the one you only have to fire once. "That's how America does it." It's a great scene that shows the humor that Downey Jr. will be bringing to the role as do the next two scenes.

Then we see Tony Stark coming out of an event in a tuxedo and he's stopped by a Vanity Fair reporter to ask him questions about being a "merchant of death" and he makes a snappy comeback. (We also see Favreau as his bodyguard in the scene.)

The next scene shows a bunch of military vehicles driving through the desert to the tune of an AC/DC tune with Robert Downey Jr. sitting in the back with a soldier who wants to take a picture with him. He jokes "I don't want to see this on your MySpace" page and then the soldier makes a V sign and he says "No gang signs, please." The soldier puts the V down and he goes "I'm just kidding."

There's then an explosion as they're under attack and he runs for cover and then in the next shot, he wakes up in a cavern and opens his shirt to see a round metal device where his heart is. "What did you do to me?" he asks and a man in the cave says, "I did it to save your life," and explains how he has put an electro-magnet hooked up to a car battery to save him.

He then starts building the suit and the next few scenes show him taking on a few Iraqi-types and we get to see the first Iron Man suit in action to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." Lots of men are shooting at him but the bullets are bouncing off him and at one point, he swings his fist and his metal arm gets lodged into the cave walls and then one of the guys attacking him walks up and tries to shoot him in the Iron Man helmet but the bullet bounces back and hits him in the head.

The next few scenes are fairly fast-paced showing lots of explosions
and a brief glimpse of Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Terrence Howard as Rhodey and a few quick scenes showing the evolution of the Iron Man armor until it gets to the most current one. (That got a huge cheer.)

We then see Iron Man in that armor flying with two jets following him behind him and he goes flying off. We see a sheet of metal and a hammer hits a chisel that imprints the Iron Man logo and then there's another shot of the Iron Man armor flying.

The movie looks absolutely fantastic and it'll be great to see this trailer again on Saturday! You can also view a new T-shirt for the movie that was handed out here and here.
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He then starts building the suit and the next few scenes show him taking on a few Iraqi-types and we get to see the first Iron Man suit in action to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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in action to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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Black Sabbath's "Iron Man.
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OMFG. This movie is going to be ace. Secondarily, it will rock city blocks.
 
Real quick: Who the heck is Hilary Swank playing in this movie?

My bet is The Wasp or Black Widow.
 
EMBee99 said:
Real quick: Who the heck is Hilary Swank playing in this movie?

My bet is The Wasp or Black Widow.
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Probably Black Widow since Nick Fury is supposed to be in the movie too. She's a SHIELD agent, right?
 
:o

awesome
 
Although it seems so obvious, I never once thought of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" being used in the movie. Now I feel stupid for not thinking of it. Nevertheless, Im always up for hearing some Sabbath pumping at the theatre.
 
:lol at people hyped up that the movie uses the Sabbath song.

Seriously, I can't think of any higher level of cheeze than that. I hope they opt not to use it in the final film.
 
aku:jiki said:
:lol at people hyped up that the movie uses the Sabbath song.

Seriously, I can't think of any higher level of cheeze than that. I hope they opt not to use it in the final film.
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Its a comic book movie. Cheese is pretty much inherent. To that end, for a movie Im not taking seriously in the first place, Black Sabbath is welcome.
 
Use the song for the end credits.

I'm sure it's just temp stuff to psych up the comic geeks. It's not like they'd have any actual original score to put in at this point anyway.
 
Finally watched the clip. I really like what I am seeing. Downey Jr. makes anything watchable. Any word if this clip or a teaser of decent quality will be hitting the web soon?
 
Solo said:
Finally watched the clip. I really like what I am seeing. Downey Jr. makes anything watchable. Any word if this clip or a teaser of decent quality will be hitting the web soon?
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It won't. Favreau said this trailer was made exclusively for Comic Con.
 
Man, I'm getting real Rocketeer vibes from the Flying Iron Man footage.

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I watched the movie recently - first time since I saw in in theatres back in '91 - and I was amazed at how well it held up.

This in May, and Batman in July. ****in a'!
 
that iron man footage looked awesome. i didn't watch the entire thing since i don't want to be too spoiled but i was genuinely impressed.
 
I am legitimately impressed by that Iron Man footage. I love the Mark 1 armor, just so slapped together and awesome. I kind of never pictured Stark as an RDJ type, but it works. Nice.
 
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