In seems a bunch of people aren’t too pleased that Iron Man 2 isn’t all it cracked up to be, and it seems the super-heroic ire has quickly spread to Stark’s fellow Avengers – news reaching us today that there’s a right mythical kerfuffle being kicked up over some of the casting in Kenneth Brannagh’s Thor film. Surprisingly, fans aren’t up in arms over the giant piece of corn known as Chris Hemsworth appearing as the God of Thunder ( a role surely reserved for Gene Simmons circa 1978), but the casting of The Wire survivor Idris Elba as Heimdall, guardian of the Rainbow Bridge.
What better place than the vast temple of Mammon men refer to as London’s Westfield shopping centre to settle in and check out a movie about a billionaire show-off. Make no mistake, Iron Man 2 is all about the bling.
Unfortunately, it isn’t really about anything else.
Where the first movie gave us a former hellraiser as a cocky, likeable..er..hellraiser, here we get to see all the bits we hate about rich guys like that. All the dazzle, all the showing off -in short, all the style over substance…
With Iron Man 2’s hype machine currently going into Scarlet Johannsen booby-shaped overdrive, it’s easy to think that inventors are a bunch of hyper-intelligent, supercool playboys cobbling together amazing doohickeys for the protection and betterment of mankind.
The movies have a long history of science-types saving the planet and coming up with amazing inventions to win the hearts and minds of us, the lowly viewer. Unfortunately, for every Tony Stark there’s a wet fart, with dozens of films full of half-assed ideas hewn from cardboard and clingfilm. Some are rubbish, some are stupid and others are downright dangerous!
Put on your safety goggles and stand behind the lead sheilding then, while we check out the top ten: Crap Movie Inventions!
In the words of sometime Iron Man helper-outer Luke ‘Power Man’ Cage; “Sweet Christmas!” A couple of lovely new one sheets from the house of ideas just in with the addition of Scarlet Johanssen’s ridiculously sexy Black Widow – and we thought we couldn’t get any more excited about Iron Man 2!
Emerging bleary-eyed from the Mighty Marvel Bullpen today, it’s the new trailer for Iron Man 2, and it’s…fantastic! Geeky nods to 3rd tier Marvel charactors and plot lines abound (Armor Wars anyone?) while the levels of steel-pounding action go through the roof. All that and an AC/DC soundtrack as well -you can’t go wrong! Get your ass over to Apple for more info before the May release.
