I thought a lot of unique things about Ivan Vanko came through with Mickey's performance. What does he care anyway; his character won't return. He should be careful about criticizing too much; that helped him get marginalized the last time.
Or does Marvel Studios act too heavy handed? How some directors and actors have departed through this quest for the Avengers...
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Ultron would also be a great villain for IM3.. Blizzard? Fing Fang Foom?
He's got plenty of great villains to chose from if done right. Look at IM Armoured adventures. All Im's villains have been updated in a really cool way.
So im not sure how much faith to put in a guy who thinks IM has no good villains.
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I actually would agree Ironman never really had any incredibly impressive villains. Allot of great characters are defined by their villains but Ironman isn't one of them. Don't get me wrong I love Ironman but what makes him great isn't his rogues gallery. Tony's best enemy has always been himself. That's what's always made his story compelling. Not his epic battles with ghost or crimson D but his battles with himself n his internal struggles.
Stories like demon in a bottle are the best with Tony. That or his butting heads with fellow heroes like civil war.
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Ah yes Ghost! Another good villain they could use..
But yeah your right Iron Man's best story was when he was an alcoholic.. I was quite disappointed they didn't go there for the sequel, as thats what I was expecting tbh..
Mickey Rourke once warned the public that Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing will start race riots in the streets, back in 1989. He should stick to acting and not comment on other things.
Shane Black has a point about Mandarin being a racist caricature; not as bad as Yellow Claw, but still. Jon Favreau admitted a lot would have to be changed about him before he got to being filmed. And I don't think they want an Iron Man movie banned in China, losing out on the big box office there.
(Even though Mandarin was a Nationalist, and so technically no communist sympathizer...)
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Well IM1 was hardly a screw up.. In fact its one of the very few superhero movies which will go down in movie history as a classic.
But yeah IM2 was a big disappointment. And my guess would be thats more down to Marvel than Favreau. But no fault of Downey's at all. He saved that movie.
I'm hearing a lot from Mickey Rourke about what Marvel Studios put Jon Favreau through...but what I'm not hearing is this from Jon Favreau himself. Or from Robert Downey Jr.
I'll say again: Rourke should quit with the sulky act and be a professional. Favreau has acted like that even though he's departed from the franchise. You can have creative differences with people and still be a professional. Rourke is upset every single thing he wanted to be in the film isn't there? Get over it. Marvel Studios is trying to organize a giant franchise tie-in never before attempted. They have bigger things to worry about with their films than how many scenes Rourke has with his cockatoo.
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