Iron Man 2 Pics!
Jon Favreau hasn’t been too worried about releasing details surrounding the follow-up to one of the biggest blockbusters of last year - the director has been tweeting consistently from the set of Iron Man 2, and has now released the first image of Mickey Rourke in costume as baddie Whiplash (above) to go with an earlier, albeit more generic pic of Robert Downey Jr. (below). Iron Man was one of 2008’s biggest selling Blu-rays, helping to push the format last Autumn with it’s crisp action and colourful special effects. Can the sequel do likewise following it’s theatrical run next May?
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May 8th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
This is really one of the best movies I’ve watched! It’s slightly better than the first Iron Man movie, but it would be hard to be much better ‘cus the first movie was terrific too!! Iron Man ftw, I’d love to see Tony Stark kicking Hulk’s ass xD
May 12th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Nowhere near as good as the first one, but enjoyable nonetheless. It’s patchy and talky and Tony Stark spends much more time out of the suit than in it, but I still liked it. I can see why it’s getting some poor reviews, it’s all over the place with (too?) many characters and slows down in the middle. I think if you’re not that familiar with the Marvel Universe you could find it confusing and maybe even boring. The thing I really enjoyed about this movie was that all the disparate events and characters go towards starting to define a cohesive movie version of the Marvel Universe. One of the things that has bugged me about superhero films in the past is that they try to occur in ‘the real world’. The Hero is usually the only hero to exist, and only enough super-villains exist for the hero to vanquish in 2 hours. But these stories were never meant to work in the real world, they should be told within the context of a world of Marvels; a world of powers and magic, of super-spies and secret organisations, of advanced technology, miracle elements and mystical weapons. Iron Man 2 attempts this, but arguably at the expense of it’s main character and a tight stand-alone script. The fan-boy in me likes the film for trying.