The Glade 4.0

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yes.

Yay for the Mandarin. Still not in love with the super-golden suit, or the Iron Patriot paint scheme on what is, I assume, War Machine?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Damn. Looks good.

I like the Iron Patriot look, not so much the gold Iron Man suit.

arent they doing the Extremis plot?

Hard to tell from that ad.

well Casting has Guy Pierce as Aldrich Killian and Rebecca Hall as Maya Hansen.
I'm fuzzy on the plot but doesnt part of the Extremis treatment allow him remote control of the suit--which would make sense if the suit is hanging over him while he's sleeping.

As Marvel's comics have now completely and totally turned me off (why hello thar, DC), I was prepared to be underwhelmed by this as well. I was not.

Holy hell, that looks amazing.

Seems out of Character with the other of the films and the Avengers. I don't get the whole EMO Tony.

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Still hate the red and light gold armor, though.

Wait what?

You were turned off by The Avengers? Iron Man 1 and 2? Thor? Captain Amer... Ok yeah, that wasn't the best.

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Holy shitsnacks!

No, the movies have been good (aside from Iron Man 2, which stunk). Marvel Comics have lost their gorram minds.

Supposedly the footage they showed at Comicon had a lot more humor in it.

What have they done recently that is worse then their normal fare? I gave up on the Ultimate's setting a while back, and have not payed too much attention to the 616 universe since Fear itself arc?

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— Alan Moore

Yes.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Word to my mother.

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What's the deal with the 80 Iron Man suits?

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Holy shitsnacks!

He needed backup. Duh.

Heh.

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Holy shitsnacks!

More than a few times in the past, Müs, Tony's slaved remote control of old suits to his current one. As he's upgraded his systems, the sophistication and granular level of control he was able to exert while doing so has escalated, generally.

I think he did it once in the last few years (during his Extremis phase) where he used half a dozen or so independently at different sites around the globe, but that's pretty hard-core extreme and was only possible because of the very core level of integration with his systems and nervous system Extremis facilitated.

I love the Extremis arc, and what it represents thematically for Tony's ever-evolving reinvention and augmentation of his himself. It was a great distillation of the very transhumanistic nature of Tony Stark's quest for innovation in the Marvel Universe.

But I'm glad World's Most Wanted came along and took it away from him. Extremis got to be way too much power-creep as the writers ran with it.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Since I live functionally in Hollywood (for you folks not from CA) ... I have a friend who worked as a cameraman on this. Spoilered, just in case.


That being said, this trailer doesn't turn my crank so much, not sure why.

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Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

They also apparently retrofitted a city in...North Carolina, I think? as Chattanooga and shot there for a while...living in Chattanooga, I'm curious to see what part of the film takes place here (there?).