Extremis Style: Sentry, Indication of a Film Debut?

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Surprised there isn't a thread about this yet what with the trailer looking like the best single superhero film since -- well let's not get into that right now. :lol:

I have to say I absolutely love the direction 3 is taking. If you're unfamiliar with what Extremis is I won't spoil it but I will point out that one should pay attention to what happens at 28 seconds into the trailer; cues were also draped across the last two films. I don't know whether I'm more excited about the apparent darker direction the movie is taking (it excites to me the point where I'm convinced Tony might start drinking at the end), the Extremis arc being fleshed out more, or the Mandarin.

Sound off below!
 
I'm not going to lie, I'm a tad skeptical, than again I was also skeptical about The Avengers and that turned out to be great so I'm just going to trust Marvel.
 
I was a little lost watching the trailer, but I haven't seen the Avengers yet. So I'll re-watch it after I see the movie.
 
Terronium-12
What are you skeptical about?
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The general fact that studios can rarely make a trilogy comprised of 3 good movies. The same thing with The Avengers, more often than not movies that try to group various characters usually don't work out that well. Like I said though, Marvel was able to make The Avengers work so I'll just hope they can beat the odds.
 
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I was a little lost watching the trailer, but I haven't seen the Avengers yet. So I'll re-watch it after I see the movie.
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I obviously don't know the lengths of which IM3 refers to what happens in NY in The Avengers, but the main arc is unique to IM.

Justin
The general fact that studios can rarely make a trilogy comprised of 3 good movies. The same thing with The Avengers, more often than not movies that try to group various characters usually don't work out that well. Like I said though, Marvel was able to make The Avengers work so I'll just hope they can beat the odds.
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With all of the source material at their fingertips it would only fail if they bastardized the actual stories.

So far they haven't. 2 was a bit hit or miss for some (I enjoyed it, albeit not as much as 1) but even that was littered with the source material which IM2 focused on.
 
Very nice trailer. I'm hoping that track makes it to the OST.
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I was pretty skeptical prior to the trailer release. I wasn't confident as Favreau isn't leading this one, Iron Patriot is not a character I have any particular connection with (not to mention that massive deviation from the comic version of the character) and the possibility of the Mandarin being the villain in a world where magic/supernatural powers were not really established to exist (well until Avengers pulled the movies together).

Having watched the trailer, I'm feeling very positive about this movie now. Although I still don't like the Iron Patriot, I can see it's more so War Machine repainted as opposed to an entirely new suit which will cut down on having to explain/introduce more characters possibly taking away too much screen time from other new important characters that need to be established ie. the Mandarin.

Ben Kingsley looks like he'll fit the role nicely and looks suitably evil. The 10 rings of power won't be as out of place now that a clear connection has been made with the other movies (Thor, Captain America, Avengers) and it looks like even Tony gets some powers which will probably play out an internal struggle of sorts.

I also noticed a split second shot of Happy looking either severely wounded or dead, not sure which.

I'm excited 👍👍
 
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I was pretty skeptical prior to the trailer release. I wasn't confident as Favreau isn't leading this one, Iron Patriot is not a character I have any particular connection with (not to mention that massive deviation from the comic version of the character) and the possibility of the Mandarin being the villain in a world where magic/supernatural powers were not really established to exist (well until Avengers pulled the movies together).

Having watched the trailer, I'm feeling very positive about this movie now. Although I still don't like the Iron Patriot, I can see it's more so War Machine repainted as opposed to an entirely new suit which will cut down on having to explain/introduce more characters possibly taking away too much screen time from other new important characters that need to be established ie. the Mandarin.

Ben Kingsley looks like he'll fit the role nicely and looks suitably evil. The 10 rings of power won't be as out of place now that a clear connection has been made with the other movies (Thor, Captain America, Avengers) and it looks like even Tony gets some powers which will probably play out an internal struggle of sorts.

I also noticed a split second shot of Happy looking either severely wounded or dead, not sure which.

I'm excited 👍👍
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Wait...

I was also a bit skeptical about Favreau not directing, now that I can remember past the excitement of me seeing the trailer. :lol:

I thought even before The Avengers and the Cosmic Cube/Tesseract Favreau already asserted he didn't want the Mandarin's rings to be as they're supposed to because it wouldn't have meshed very well, therefore leaving them to be tech-based? Or was that only said because the Cube wasn't introduced yet?

Wholeheartedly agreed on the Patriot armor though. That would bring up far too many whats.

I do wonder though, if they continue down this path (and they likely won't because there's little reason to go beyond Extremis) - but if they did, I wonder if they'd introduce Bleeding Edge.
 
Wait-and-see, but the trailer is nice.

Hmmm... I haven't checked till now, but seems Shane Black is directing and co-writing. Interesting pairing. He directed RDJ in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and co-wrote the screenplay... it's a movie that more people should watch.

More people would probably know his other screenwriting credits, like "Monster Squad" (still a favorite), "Lethal Weapon", "The Last Boyscout" and "The Long Kiss Goodnight", which was Geena Davis being 'Bourne' long before they decided to bring him back as a bad-ass assassin. I think having Black on-board is a terrific idea, because I've often had issues with some of Iron Man's clunky dialogue. (Still enjoyed the films, though)

Okay, so he also wrote the script for "The Last Action Hero", but I still maintain that (terrible) movie was better than people give it credit for... :lol:

I think the movie is in good hands.
 
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is one of my favorite movies.

"I don't think you'd know where to feed yourself if you didn't flap your mouth so much. Yes, I think you're stupid." :lol:
 
After thinking over that... totally stoked. :D

Maybe they should work in: "We're not too old for this 🤬" :lol:
 
Terronium-12

I do wonder though, if they continue down this path (and they likely won't because there's little reason to go beyond Extremis) - but if they did, I wonder if they'd introduce Bleeding Edge.
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I kind of feel that Bleeding Edge armour would be asking viewer to suspend disbelief to a point that might be detrimental to part of the formula which has made the movies successful in the past. Even with the introduction of possible super powers, the suit itself lends enough credibility that it almost feels like it could be a real tech, which I think helps make Iron Man such a big success with the general audience (oh course a considerably larger portion of the success will always be attributed to RDJ). That said, personally I'd love to see it on the big screen.
 
Favreau has a cameo role in the movie (happy?)

I'm liked the two past movies.

They hit the nail with Robert as IM 👍

So yeah, excited...
 
prisonermonkeys
Well, they blew it with IRON MAN 2, so this should be okay.
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I agree that they blew it with Iron Man 2. Either make the villain Whiplash or the Crimson Dynamo, but don't put that hybrid 🤬 that made up the final ending villain.
 
The sad thing there is that the casting choices were excellent. Mickey Rourke was great fun in his role... Whatever it was...
 
And that's where the ironic perfection comes in: RDJ is going to know exactly how to act once Tony starts drinking heavily.

If they adopt that arc, which I really hope they do. But I'm glad he's back on his feet having walked into a role that's quite frankly made for him.
 
niky
The sad thing there is that the casting choices were excellent. Mickey Rourke was great fun in his role... Whatever it was...
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The best way I heard his role described was that of Mario = Iron Man, Luigi = War Machine, and Wario = Mickey Rourke.

Wario isn't Bowser.
 
No, that comes in when they get to the Godzilla story arc.

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Come on. You know you want it.
 
Terronium-12
And that's where the ironic perfection comes in: RDJ is going to know exactly how to act once Tony starts drinking heavily.

If they adopt that arc, which I really hope they do. But I'm glad he's back on his feet having walked into a role that's quite frankly made for him.
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They did already. Iron Man 2 was an interpretation on the 'Demon in a Bottle' storyline.
 
Terronium-12
It couldn't have been. It was too downplayed. :grumpy:
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Look at it this way. The Palladium in Stark's chest is poisoning him. This is causing him, after all of the accomplishments that he did as Iron Man, to crawl into the bottle(though one might make the far fetched case that it was at SHIELD's orders), because no matter how great those feats were, they were tiny compared to his legacy.

You see prior to Iron Man 2, he was a weapons merchant. Both sides wanted to have his weapons. 🤬 even the Ten Rings terrorist group even kidnapped Stark, though to kill him, so that they can build the Jericho missile. You don't think that Stark wanted to change that would you? That is why he put on the Stark Expo. To erase his prior legacy, just like Howard Stark did.
 
Ibonibo
They hit the nail with Robert as IM 👍
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I'm pretty sure Downey was one of the driving forces behind the first film. I believe he may be a fan of the comics, and when he heard that Marvel were toying with the idea of an IRON MAN film, he attached himself to it, and that was what gave the project momentum because the studios felt they had to have the right actor if they were going to go ahead with it.
 
My only problem with this is...is seems like it's going to be the same story as the first two movies: someone gets a hold of Iron Man's suit technology, wreaks havoc and then, at the last moment, Iron Man will find someway, and invent some new technology to save the day.
 
SuperShouden
My only problem with this is...is seems like it's going to be the same story as the first two movies: someone gets a hold of Iron Man's suit technology, wreaks havoc and then, at the last moment, Iron Man will find someway, and invent some new technology to save the day.
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And from this I'm going to assume you're unfamiliar with Iron Man and perhaps superhero comic books in general?
 
Why? Is that pretty much the basis of the comics: someone's always stealing his armor tech? You know, you'd think someone who makes weapons would have unhackable security measures on his suit and stuff...but I guess he's not that smart. Which just makes it weird and awkward. "I'm sorry people, I forgot to makes a better security system for my suit tech and everything and, as a result, someone has, once again, stolen my suit technology and nearly destroyed the world."

I guess every comic book universe has to have a genius who's brilliant in some areas, but a complete idiot in others. It does make him human...but...maybe a bit too human. He should at least build in a fail safe into his technology in case someone DOES steal his stuff.
 
The Mandarin, the real Mandarin (I'm unsure what the movie version is like) doesn't rely on technology to make Tony's life hell, he relies entirely on magic via his rings (there are two different retcons for the Mandarin but for all intents we'll focus on the one that uses the rings).

Now if, for whatever reason, the movie combines the two retcons then Mandarin will have both his rings and his superhuman levels of martial art ability, so much so that he could destroy the Iron Man armor with his bare hands by focusing his chi.
 
Magic Rings? I thought that's what gave Juggernaut his powers? That would make two villains with magical rings in the same universe?

Man, the Marvel Universe just makes my head hurt some times.
 

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