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I apologize for the posting of incredible seriousness just now. I make it up to you all, okay? Have a new Iron Man trailer!

In the words of a certain Flash animation, "I DECLARE IRON MAN TO BE THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL."

Seriously, great trailer, with even new stuff from the last one! Only concerned that they're giving too much away at this point, but a lot of Robert Downey Jr.'s lines still crack me up and I've watched the trailer a hundred times. I can only imagine the things I'm not seeing will also be awesome. Jon Favreau has proved to be nearly bulletproof with his marketing technique for this. He gives the right amount of suggestion, promise, and awesome in everything he's put out for this so far. His marketing guys better be really, really well paid, too, because their work has been stellar.

Also, how cool is it that on the homepage, they have a section devoted to fan art? That's love, baby. Fan-love. It's an example of what I would call the Rowling Principle--show your fans respect, and they will love you. Mega-love you. I already do. At this point, I'm pretty sure the film could be at least as bad as Spider-Man 3 and I'd still like it.

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Wow, that's pretty awesome, and I know nothing about Iron Man. I hate Gwyneth Pallid (as

gryphonrose is fond of calling her), but the rest of the cast suits me fine. :)

I'm not a fan of hers especially. I did love Sliding Doors, but that's about it. However, I think she's being used pretty well here. From the ONE line she's had in ANY of the trailers, she sounded authentically snarky, which, to be fair, she can do quite well when she wants.

"Well, I've had a dreadful day. I got sacked." ::looks a boyfriend in bed with another woman:: "And so did you it would seem. Cup of tea?"

*dances around like a crazy person in anticipation*

I love Robert Downey Jr. and that looks SO AWESOME.

Well, daaaaaaahling, clearly you need to come to your first MAY MOVIE outing with us. I promise to force some of the cool people we both know to come so it's not just you and the rest of the comic book nerds. Although, honestly, I don't know any who are nerds for Iron Man. He doesn't really have a fanclub that I know of.

Oh, and Robert Downey Jr.? Where has he been? Where have I!? The first thing I saw with him in it ever was Two Girls and a Guy which....erm, yeah. Then in just the past year, I've seen A Scanner Darkly and now I'm jonesing for Iron Man liek woah. Amazing.

Clearly I do. Keep me posted about the event!

Oh my. You can tell she's never been because she has to ask to be kept informed :D

Kidding. It's just that, in the days before I had LJ to tell all the relevant parties, I was rather notorious for sending about thirty billion emails to query, confirm, and then re-confirm and enforce under threats of murder plans for the outing. I could be rather scary, too. If you weren't on time for the meet-up, God help you.

Then I stopped buying all the tickets myself and it became much easier. "Oh, you didn't come? Your loss." I like to think I've mellowed as I've aged. But you'll definitely see at least three-four polls on the subject, and some posts and finally links to fandango (because lots of folk are completely lost STILL unless you hold their hand all the way).

Yay! One of us, one of us!

Wow. This is one of those cases where you can really tell that the people who made this movie were excited about it. Favreau was clearly the perfect choice for it.

I agree. One problem with so many genre movies: Their creators treated the property as a joke, with thinly-veiled contempt. This doesn't seem to be the case here.

It's especially easy with how not-unique Iron Man is to be blase about it. I don't mean that he's bad (I find Tony Stark to be a pretty fascinating guy) or boring, just that it has been done before (one-man wrecking crew in piece of new tech no one else has, etc.). But there is such delight in all the trailers for this that it makes it seem new. Even Tony Stark's less heroic attributes seem fantastic (his alcholism, his assholism). Perhaps that's why it titillates so? Because we're being promised not some Superman golden-boy, but a regular guy? (Albeit a rich, incredibly smart regular guy?)

This is one of those cases where you can really tell that the people who made this movie were excited about it.

This is absolutely what makes this so exciting. This is a fan who has respect for fans who is also at the same time a savvy interpreter for fans to the mainstream. Favreau is able to understand to his core why people have always loved comic book characters because he loves them. But he can also tone down that feverish devotion that comic characters inspire and translate to the screen such that everyone can love them. This is like Sam Raimi and Michael Chambon and Spider-Man 2: "We know you're here for the superhero, so you'll get it, but we're not going to insult your intelligence and pretend reality has no place here."

Our heroes are only as interesting as they are different from reality. The fact that Iron Man seems to focus on a weapons manufacturer repenting when our nation is currently in a war that many perceive was started for profit can't hurt the film's appeal either.

.... and wait, Jeff Bridges is in it?! THE DUDE IS IN IRON MAN?! Whoa!!!

The Dude abides.

Wait, where was Jeff Bridges?

Yep. He's the bald guy with the beard, Stark's deputy. (Not the terrorist, although he seems to working for the terrorist anyway.)

I'll have to look out for him when (not if) I watch this trailer again.

The trailers just get better and better!

Oh God, I cracked up at one of the last parts:

"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've ever caught me doing."

::GLEE::

Awesome. I love the totally shameless, irreverent attitude these trailers are giving off. I hope the movie lives up to them.

Me too ::crosses fingers::

Let's see, the last trailer I got this excited about was 300. Erm. Bad example. Sin City had a good trailer, and I liked that okay! Yay! IT WILL BE GOOD, I SWEARS IT.

It's totally one of those trailers where either the entire movie is going to be awesome or the only awesome part were all shown in the trailer. But my hopes are high. And I like that they have the cohones to use "Iron Man" the song.

I like a lot of the musical choices. And there was some news bit about Jon Favreau asking Sharon Osbourne to let him use the "Iron Man" bit (because she, clearly, is the one in control of those things).

Ok so I finally saw the trailer that you keep splooging over and I'm gonna be straight with you: this movie looks like total crap. Once again I will be missing your May Movie. I can't believe you didn't pick Indiana Jones!!!

Aw c'mon, look at that cast! Couldn't possibly be bad with a cast like that! Uh...

Yeah, try another tack here. Call her a killjoy or something!

Spoil-sport! What part of that looks bad except Gwenyth Paltrow's dye-job? It's HI-LARIOUS! You need to watch the other trailer, too.

"Some people are calling you a modern-day DaVinci."
"That's ridiculous. I don't paint."

FUNNY!

Also, you cah-leer-lee don't get what THE MAY MOVIE is all about. It is not about serious cinema, silly. It's about seeing, come hell or high water, a movie that opens the first weekend in May and loving the cheese factor that oozes out of whatever it is. Indy 4 isn't out until end of May, so :P!!!

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