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Just like every man under the age of 30 still believes that with enough discipline, training, and working out there's the possibility that he could in fact become the Batman, every man thinks that with the right suit he could fly up and shoot rockets at tanks.
Just like every man under the age of 30 still believes that with enough discipline, training, and working out there's the possibility that he could in fact become the Batman, every man thinks that with the right suit he could fly up and shoot rockets at tanks.There's a certain truth to that, as evidenced by this clip from the Iron Man movie where Tony takes his first flight in a medieval knight-inspired suit. However, if you look at the HUD that the suit throws in his face, you can tell that flying around isn't quite as simple as pointing your hands and feet in the same direction and praying you don't poop your pants this time. You'll have to have at least played Microsoft Flight Simulator or Ace Combat 6. [Apple Trailers]
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Oh my...this just made me orgasm.
Iron Man sucks. He just spends a gazillion dollars on a suit and goes fighting crime. Why isn't Bill Gates a superhero yet?
@PenitentPenguin: Tissue?
I pooped my pants just watching this clip. I'd guess full blown explosive diarrhea if I strapped on that suit.
@Basman: Where's Bill's suit?
yes please, Thank you.
@Basman: Stephen Hawking beat him to it?
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@Basman: Bill Gates is all about the software. This man is clearly all about the weaponry. If Bill Gates were to build something like this, it would most likely be meant to "accidentally" catapult Ballmer into lower orbit.
@vertigo: Yes please, thanks.
How do you know he's not? I'm sure all of those people that are helped by his foundation see him as more than your average Joe.
hellz yes!
What's he do when he has to pee? Or pooh? Is there one of those long john flaps on his butt?
"Terabytes of calculations" eh? ;)
Who pulls more wool? Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne?
Now that modern CGI has pretty much enabled perfectly life-like special effects for all of our wildest comic book and fantasy plot lines, what will movie studios do after they've gone through and produced every previously unattainable storyline through their newfound technical ability. After every comic book, major fantasy novel, and child hood cartoon/anime has been produced, all with stunning visual special effects, where will they go next? Story? ...I can't imagine that! Movies have already progressed to the point where 85% of your average "summer blockbuster" is filled with heart pounding, visually amazingly perfect, action sequences, leaving only a small smiggin of the story available to character/plot development and "comic relief". I predict a point where movie go'ers have "seen it all" special effects wise. What will producers do then?
How bout every boy under 32?
@Samifumi:
Boy, that's a pretty good question. Both companies produce weapons, but you never see much of what Wayne Corp. actually manufactures, except for the reject projects that Wayne takes home with him.
I don't think it's possible to use a thrust propulsion system on a suit that heavy. The power-to-weight ratio would be impossible to attain. Not to mention the fact that there's no way to run the thrust through the hands and feet like that.
I think it has to be some kind of anti-gravity or anti-matter propulsion.
But that's just my guess.
@newgalactic: You're absolutely correct, and it will only get worse. After the more memorable comics, eventually they'll sift their way down to the lesser knowns, and possibly bring back old cartoon shows, much like the Wackowskis have done with Speed Racer, and others have done with Garfield and Scooby Doo. All of our old pop culture is going to be regurgitated at us in HD and there's nothing we can do about it.
I think after every possible spectacle is done with, I'm going to just go back in time to the non-CGI works and feel like a whole person again.
@newgalactic: Why repackage it of course, i.e. Batman, Superman, Spiderman, etc..
HOLY CRAP....
iron man will rock next years oscar =o
@jetexas: I was thinking about that too....but then I figured "fuck it. it's from a comic book"
@newgalactic:
There is no such thing as too much...
I said it before and I'll say it again....this movie is going to WTFPWN 2008. No movie will come close.
@newgalactic: What Else???
All I'm gonna say is... "Smokey & The Bandit 4"
@plankbr: How bout every boy under 32?
Try 42. At least in my case.
Hey Chen, Neal Stephenson wants his $0.18.
I wonder if his ears popped during the climbout?
Why bitch about comic book movies and running through story lines and just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Jease people chill out and enjoy the fun instead of picking everything a part.
So many glass half empty people in the world now a days.
It's a movie based on a comic book, you gotta suspend your disbelief at some point gentle-people otherwise why bother watching movies or reading a comic book? Don't let your common sense or massive throbbing IQs in the way.
Being way over 30 I guess I'm destined to be a butler or some engineer who thinks up this stuff.
This is the only movie I am looking forward to seeing the near future. I really should start on the Halloween costume too, although with my body shape it would be the Franklin Stove Man...
@newgalactic: People have been saying that since the 90's. As the technology gets better, the CGI gets more convincing, the masses will continue to be stunned. These movies target a demographic that is constantly being refreshed, and will always be looking for that next big CGI blockbuster.
Exhibit A: JuiceDaddy.
I feel like I've already seen the movie by the amount of news and clips Giz has posted since the film's inception. Still, flying suits are sweet and I want one... or ten.
@newgalactic: "After every comic book, major fantasy novel, and child hood cartoon/anime has been produced...What will producers do then?"
What they've already been doing for the last three decades: remakes.
*lifts jaw off of chest*
*blinks*
*wipes away tears of joy*
Um, HELLO, how about "and some girls under 30"!?!?!?
@jetexas:
I would think a nuclear-heat based propulsion would be dense and light enough, especially if you harvested ambient nitrogen as-needed for your propellant.
But Kaiser-Machead is right - It's a comic book. :P
@Basman: Because even when he runs into a phone booth, takes off his glasses and emerges triumphantly, he still looks like a dweeb. No evil doer is afraid of a dweeb.
Seems like his voice should sound different when we the camera is showing the outside of the armor. Maybe a "voice in a can" or slightly digitized voice or something...
@Basman:
Maybe Bill is a superhero. After all the people of Gotham don't know that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Though it's far more likely that he is a Bond Villan
I gotta admit, this flick looks good. Even more impressive is that the suit is not all cgi. They had to build a costume for certain scenes, and that, in itself, is impressive. Least for me it is.
I would think that Tony has equipped his suit with some form of navigation control rather than just "wingin' it".
Me so horny! Iron man, me love you long time.
Good thing I'm young at heart. (41) ;)
I'm SO there.
I'll take two, please!
I'LL BE WATCHING THIS WHEN IT COMES OUT, BUT I CANT HELP TO THINK THAT IT IS GOING TO BE SLOW LEADING UP TO THE PLOT LIKE X-MEN OR FANTASTIC 4. I'M WAITIN FOR SPEED RACER MYSELF!
@plankbr: Under 33...
Ah to hell with it. go with under 80.
@bosskev: Past three decades? Try, since the inception of motion pictures.
The technology was moving so fast back in the 1920s and 30s that they'd remake movies that were only 2 or 3 years old.
Nerdgasm anyone?
I want one.
kp
@newgalactic: "After every comic book, major fantasy novel, and child hood cartoon/anime has been produced, all with stunning visual special effects, where will they go next?"
I'd say there's an overabundance of good material in books alone, starting with the Snow Crash that Jason references. In the time it takes to make all these movies, even more material will be created. I don't think that running out of material is really going to be a problem.
What bothers me is the "replacement effect." How many people will skip the source material for, say, "A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" or "Aeon Flux" because they saw the movie and figured that all that craptasticness came from the original book or show? How many people will ignore William Gibson because of the "Johnny Mnemonic" movie? How many blockbuster consumers (capital or lowercase) have no idea that there's an X-Man named Gambit? These are pressing issues...
I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS MOVIE
OMEFFGEE
SERIOUSLY. I NEED A CAPS LOCK KEY FOR MY CAPS LOCK. AND I'M ACTUALLY HOLDING SHIFT RIGHT NOW. I'M THAT EXCITED.
@Killjoy: Generally, I find that if anything, these movies do more to send people back to the source to learn more. Those that just take them at face value and never look deeper would have never delved into discovering the originals in the first place.
Sorry, "under 30?" We might want to push that to "in the bottom of their hearts completely trust until about 65"
One month to go - or less!
FAWK IT.
@jetexas: You're probably right, I've just met more of the latter than I'd care to.
Generally, I find that if anything, these movies do more to send people back to the source to learn more.
Maybe the good ones do, but there's no way in hell that anyone walked out of Johnny Mnemonic and went looking for some Gibson at the local library.
What about some Hulk v.2 or Punisher v.2 tech?
@nachobel: That was one of the saddest comments i've ever seen....kudos.
Finally, the Silver Centurion!