When it comes to Iron Man, we’ve gone from an absolute dearth of visual info to near overload. Months ago we raced to post any single image from the film, even when one was basically the same as the last. Now it seems like a new gallery hits the web every other day. There’s even a bloody Facebook/MySpace widget, if you care about that sort of thing.
I’ve moved to a point where I don’t even think about pointing them all out. Like most people I’m really looking forward to the film, but at this point I’m beyond convinced. I don’t need to see any more, and I worry about overselling the thing.
So the most recent clip, which shows fifty seconds of Iron Man’s first flight, is something you should only watch if you’re not near supersaturation with Iron Man pre-sale info. Yes, it’s great. I love the in-helmet shots of Stark, since they give Robert Downey, Jr. the opportunity to enhance what could be a straight effects scene. Several people have pointed out the vague Battlestar Galactica influence on the actual flight shots, and I agree — they look a little shaky and very detailed and, even pushed up to 1080p, more realistic than most superhero movies.
Hit the skies with Iron Man at Apple. (It’s the ‘Run Before You Can Walk’ clip.) Or wait to see it gloriously projected in May.
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Man, I only had 28 pop ups when I clicked on this page! Tell me, is CHUD doing that bad, or are you just a buncha greedy fucks, cause that shit is terribly annoying. Oh, and Iron Man looks dope.
Shouldn't his voice be "distorted" when the camera is outside the armor? Other than that, looks pretty good.
Chud's always done the advertising wrong in a lot of ways. I actually stopped coming for a while because the Rich Media banners they ran would constantly crash Firefox. At least those problems have been sorted with the redesign I guess…
This looks so dumb.
"…and I worry about overselling the thing." Woah, woah, woah, now don't start any of that crazy talk! Overselling movies is CHUD's bread and butter. How will I know to love a movie before I see it (or without even seeing it) unless I'm told months ahead of time that it's the second coming of Christ? In POG form.
No other website hates their readers more than chud. Logistically speaking it would be very difficult for chud to ass rape every reader of their site. The popups, while not nearly as painful as ass rape, at least annoy anyone who surfs the site. Next on chud, the bitter end 12 and fourteen more reviews of childrens cartoons from the 70s! Maybe the ass rape is actually kinder than the alternative.
"Smokin� Aces is the movie that Narc director Joe Carnahan made after exiting Mission Impossible 3, and thank a god other than Xenu that he did. All I knew was that the flick was a casino crime tale, but I certainly didn�t expect it to resemble Guy Ritchie by way of Road Warrior and a giant stack of comic books. It looks utterly insane. But honestly� I love it.
The movie stars Jeremy Piven, who apparently has the Bullseye-like (or maybe Ricky Jay-like) ability to hurl playing cards into people, as a sleazy Vegas magician/gangster on the run from the mob. There�s also Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta (who�s contractually obligated to appear in all mobster movies), songstress Alicia Keys with a high-powered sniper rifle, and dozens of people striking cool poses and firing preposterous quantities of ammunition."
Talk about overselling something.All that bullshit you spewed leading up to this horrible piece of cinema.did you negatively review smokin aces?Are you still blowing smokin joe?Are you going to bring him back to answer more questions in retaliation to aintitcool grabbing Stallone?Please.
Does no one have pop-up blockers? Are all the complainers not Internet Explorer or Safari users? I browse CHUD from three different computers and have not encountered any pop-ups, just an occasional rollover.
Iron Man is starting to reach saturation point though.
The reason the flight shots look realistic is because they're actual aerial shots and not CGI like most recent films. Favreau said he watched Top Gun to get the feel for how to do it.
Not a single popup for me… you guys should get some kind of filter, or quit looking at all that porn. And this movie's gonna be badass…BADASS!
"No other website hates their readers more than chud. " New masthead perhaps?
(SPOILER) I loved the in-helmet shots, particularly liked the airplane locations in the sky and airport 'LAX' notification and 'Horizon Lock' so he doesn't fly into the sea and drown! I hope Favreau includes a nod to his past by someone telling Tony he's 'money' and that he 'cannot stop….until he becomes the ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPION!!'
These comments were a mistake. I don't know why you whining cocks bother reading the site if it so shit.
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