Things that make Trinity go "EEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

[trinityvixen]

IRON MAN 2 POSTER!!!!!!!!!!!

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I LOVE IT AND I'M ALREADY IN LINE. I'LL SEE YOUR FANNISH DEVOTION, TWI-HARDS, AND RAISE YOU FIFTY MILLION TIMES!

Okay, er, sorry, that got away from me. My friend H recently gave me my months-overdue birthday gift, which was the 2-disc Iron Man DVD set. Which is fucking awesome, in case that squealing above didn't tip you off to how I feel about it.

What helps me to be excited, beyond the fact that Iron Man was pretty much astonishingly perfect for an action/comic book movie, is that everything about it screams quality. Okay, maybe not the poster they went with for the theatrical release. That was crap. But there is so much love everywhere else. I mean, look at the teaser poster for the first movie. I first saw that one of the light boxes at a theater and could not stop staring. (Naturally, I acquired a copy ASAP.) Everything about the movie looked this good, too. It just did.

AND NOW THE SEQUEL POSTER IS OUT AND ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG. I love the contrast, too, between the shadowy-but-squeaky-clean teaser for the first movie and the brazen sturm-and-drang-with-dirty robots of the second one. Pathetic fallacy says what!?

Another thing that makes me want to die for laughing with maniacal glee: they're making a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies miniseries. I think this is the right venue for this degree of silliness. It's not film-quality material. It's SyFy Channel stuff. Although, I doubt anything could compete, silliness-wise, with that That Mitchell and Webb Look P&P parody. Still, eee!

Comments

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

I can't wait. Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark is one of the single greatest casting moves of all time in my opinion. Too bad Terrence Howard won't be returning for the sequel though. Don Cheadle is obviously a formidable replacement, but I don't think he first the role as well as Howard did. Oh well.

On a side note, I love Robert Downey Jr and I look forward to seeing Sherlock Holmes, but I am put off a bit by the fact that it appears to me to be ALL about RDJ's charm and good looks. Like they're relying solely on that to make it a success. It looks more like another chapter in the James Bond saga than anything else, which I guess is what they're going for. I understand how this works, but it's still a little annoying, no matter who the actor/actress is. I believe Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is still my favorite RDJ film and will probably remain so for some time.

I've heard of the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies business and would very much like to see this.

Have you heard about this?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can't say I disagree on any one point. Robert Downey Jr. made Iron Man and did it in such a way that it was both a tribute to the comics and his own thing. I'll miss Terrence Howard, only because he did long-suffering friend really well. I'm pretty sure that Sherlock Holmes is just "Anonymous Steampunk Movie with RDJ Who Just Happens to Be Named Sherlock Holmes" (since it obviously has NOTHING to do with the books).

ANd, no, I hadn't heard about that movie, but now it is saved on my Netflix queue! Cheers!