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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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I can take or leave masks depending on the rest of the costume's design although when I was helping design a superhero recently she looked weird with nothing on her head so I had a domino mask slapped on and it fixed that problem right up.
edited 28th Jun '15 10:22:40 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThat article was stupid. Masks are like capes; some characters have them and others don't. Most Marvel characters spilled their beans. Spider-Man still needs a mask. Batman needs a mask. Most Dc heroes are aliens who don't really need a mask.
Also, Iron Man 3 was shit precisely because Iron Man was hardly in it (and it got destroyed by a fucking 18 wheeler) and almost none of the fight scenes were memorable (except for the end one with a shit ton of Iron Mans).
That movie made me want a child to get eaten by a dinosaurs.
And then when that same child was in Jurassic World, I liked him a whole lot more, because he was a child instead of a smug little twat.
My various fanfics.Wow, I thought the child actor was FAR better in iron Man 3, I also thought the fight scenes in three were the best of the trilogy. I also thought the film benefited greatly from focusing a lot more on Tony. Guys, your complaints are listing all the things I liked most about the film.
Well, I guess the thing I liked most about the film was just HOW SHANE BLACK it was. The character introspection, the kid, the fight scenes, the conspiracy, made for a really strong buddy cop film.
I know Iron Man 3 is a marmite film, but I'm still baffled about what makes it so marmite. People seem to have just wildly contradictory opinions about it.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (And I think it means 'food spread', because that's the only definition I can find for it.)
But yeah, I though Iron Man 3 was alright. It could get kind of stupid, but it was alright. I don't really understand the hate it gets in any case.
edited 28th Jun '15 10:56:45 AM by kkhohoho
I'm actually digging the Cracked masks article so far, only insofar as the fourth point has little to do with masks—kudos to the MCU for putting the emphasis back on the heroes.
Point three, about the expressive mask, could pretty easily be fixed by...y'know...CG'ing expressive masks. I disagree that it'd look especially creepy.
edited 28th Jun '15 11:23:36 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Yeah, I figured that's what that meant. Marmite is, like, the poster child for Love It or Hate It.
I loved Iron Man 3, personally. Not as much as 1 overall, but it had better fight scenes especially the Iron Legion.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!IM 3 is... ehhhhhh. I mean, I love the focus on Tony, and the Iron Legion was cool, and there's actually a justification for the hero doing a bunch of stupid things this time around, but...
Killian ruins the whole thing for me. It doesn't bother me that Trevor Slattery was a fake. That was brilliant. But if you're going to tease Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin and have him be a fake, the real Mandarin has to deliver. And Killian, even if he wasn't the "real" Mandarin, failed as the main villain of the film.
He just struck me as boring, predictable once you've figured out the first part of the twist, and despite the first line of the movie being "we create our own demons", his motivation is so detached from Tony Stark that it kind of makes that whole notion fall apart. Personally, though it would have required some script-tweaking, I think we would've gotten a much better movie if Maya had been the real Fake Mandarin the whole time.
Feige on the Spider-Man reboot's tone
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He also confirms they're looking to use Spider-Man villains who weren't in the previous movies.
I'll be honest "Peter Parker as a John Hughes character" is the most exciting brief I've heard for the character in a long while.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

edited 28th Jun '15 10:23:50 AM by Heatth