IRON MAN 3 Wrap Poster

Who is the Mandarin?
Not who you're expecting.

That's really cool.

loving the retro feel to that cover.

@cloudrider Lmao! didn't 1 of the henchmen say "Honestly I don't even like working here they r sooo weird" -__-

I'm not a hater, coz I by no means hated the movie, I just can't help feeling like it didn't fit with the overall theme of the MCU movies nor did it open the door for phase 2.. Unless I missed something? It was interesting and different I'll give it that. Love don't hate :-)

@Gus: i know it's from ellis' run. i also know bat-mite exists in comics and superman has a super dog named krypto. do you want to see them on the big screen?

@69ballZ: i agree. ironman 3 just sucked more.

Not really into conspiracies, but can't help noticing some strange things about the tomato-meter on this film.

@cloudrider - Well, as far I know Man of Steel isn't based on the Krypto the Superdog comics. Nor is Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight Rises based on any Bat-Mite story.

@cloudrider
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The main baddie might have similarities to Schumacker's Riddler, but he's better executed and is a character in a good movie, whereas the Riddler was in an all-round bad movie. I don't remember Tony cracking any jokes when his ex died, although if he did it was probably to annoy/confuse the guards (Tony's snark is basically another weapon). Tony didn't crack any jokes when he thought Pepper was dead - in fact, it's one of the few times in the series we see him genuinely angry.

The Mandarin worked fine, but I can understand why some people might not like the changes made. I think the suit falling apart for laughs happened twice, which isn't all that much. Extremis allows people to breathe fire in the comics too, it basically allows the ability to generate/manipulate fire (or become molten), regenerate tissue, enhance strength (in the comics it also allows electrical powers, so it's toned down in this version). Also (admittedly this isn't explained well in the film) Extremis is only compatible with some people - these people get powers, while the incompatible blow up (Killian says this when he tells Tony that he's injected Pepper with it).

Thor never tried to break apart Tony's armour with his hammer - although he does crush one of the arms in their first fight (barehanded), and also rips off his mask at the end.

As for the armours only appearing at the end - you clearly hear and see through the film that the rubble of Tony's house is blocking the exit from the hall of armours. They can't leave until the recovery crew working there clear the debris, which happens toward the end.

The armour Tony wears through most of the film is not only detachable, but when it attaches to someone else it fits itself to their body type as it constructs the joints around them, which is how it fit Pepper, Killian and others as well as Tony. As for Iron Patriot fitting both Rhodey and The President, you can assume something similar, or just leave it to suspension of disbelief.

The reason Tony didn't have the shrapnel removed before is because he felt, ever since he escaped from Afghanistan, that he needed the Iron Man armour, and that the arc reactor was what made him Iron Man. Removing the shrapnel would mean he had no excuse to keep the reactor in his body, and thus he wouldn't think of himself as Iron Man any more. This film was about him realizing that he doesn't need his armour or the arc reactor as he will always be Iron Man.

Tony quit at the end to spend more time with Pepper. Fortunately, if he ever gets into a jam, I'm sure he has a long list of people he can call to save him (War Machine, The Avengers, SHIELD).

It's fine if you don't like the film, you're fully entitled to your opinion, but your list makes it seem like you were hardly paying attention as you watched.

@Lenbert [SPOILERS]
Yes, Black's films usually take place at Christmas. It's his calling card, like all the women in Hitchcock films being blonde, or pop-culture references in Tarantino films, or slow-mo in Zack Snyder movies, or lens flare in JJ Abrams films.

However, Black managed to make the movie in a way that Christmas also held a symbolic meaning. Christmas, obviously, is the most significant part of winter for most countries. Winter is the end of the year. This film dealt with what could have been the end of Tony's time as Iron Man, or at least his anxieties and desires to always be in his armour. Thus, Christmas is symbolic of this film being the winter of Tony's tenure as Iron Man.

Plus, Christmas also has the religious connotations around the birth of Christ. So, Christmas could also be a metaphor for Tony Stark being reborn, without the need for his armour.

35 Cents? Tony Stark will not stand for that. Rack up the price! $24.99 hard cover. $200 for a Stark-signed copy.

@cloudrider - couldn't have said it better myself. I might have also included how the opening of the film is lifted straight from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and doesn't suit this franchise at all. However I personally didn't take the ending to mean Tony had quit, just that he doesn't need the shrapnel excuse to don the suit, much in the same way Rhodey doesn't (although I can't believe Rhodey had ZERO screen time actually fighting in the suit, unbelievable).

@ACira - I stopped reading when you said "just leave it to suspension of disbelief"!!

The artist is Paolo Rivera, it says so on the left of the image itself if you bothered to look. :D

@Fogs:
yeah, the baddie needed tony so bad they even blew up his house while he's in it, and later they dropped a watertank on him, and on purposes too.

as for the mandarin misdirection. shane has a choice to play it straight and serious, but opted to play the twist as a gag. that's the problem with this film. everything is played for cheap laughs.

@Kung[frick]oala:
tony quit. he blew up all of his armors at the end with none left. sure, he could always build another one, and WE KNOW FOR SURE he will build another one, so that makes tony's decision to quit extremely lame and extremely useless.

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