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

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

I'm totally there with you on Iron Man 2. Can I assume that will be the May Movie outing?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh HEEEEEEEEELLS YES. I might even make it this time. Are you hearing me, other grandma? You can die the day after the May Movie, but NOT BEFORE!!

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait for Iron Man 2. IRON MAN WAS THE BEST. PEPPER POTTS WAS THE BEST.

And a PP&Z miniseries?! THIS IS A DAY FOR THE NERDS!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe how much fun I had at Iron Man. I was bouncing in my seat excited about it for months ahead of time. Then I saw it and was all WHEEEEE!!!!!!

So, um, yeah. I might be going to sit outside a theater tonight. I'll have to call my loved ones to wish them a Happy Christmas, 'cause I won't be seeing them.

PP&Z will just be so much fun, I can't help but laugh.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I think if you look in the dictionary for the May Movie (*ahem* pardon me, THE MAY MOVIE), you'll find this poster.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I KNO RITE?

I mean, this has everything. Crazy costumes! (Er, cybernetic suits!) Dark skies! Duality! Other film posters/film outings lack such features!!

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I LOVE IT AND I'M ALREADY IN LINE.

That was kind of my exact reaction too.

[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]

It's all like DUUUUUUUUDE and I'm all WHAAAAAAT?

[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!

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

That poster is badass!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sooooooo awesome!!!

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

Haha I fell down your rabbit hole of links to older entries about Marvel movie teaser posters that started with the entry you just posted and ended up here. Great poster though -- I like it more than the one for the first Iron Man.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

See what I mean about their posters? They're crazy dramatic. They need to give the person churning these out a raise. I mean, there are so, so many bad movie posters that a) tell you jack-all about the movie you're going to see, and b) are just horribly styled. Classy goddamned posters out of Marvel ever since they took over making their own material into movies. Although, to be fair, the Spider-Man movies had some pretty good posters--more gleeful and fun than serious like these, but still good.

But you look at posters for, like, Blade or the X-Men movies, and they're so generic. Marvel has stepped it up. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised--they made their living purveying dramatic art, right?

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a good point. And there are some shitty movie posters out there, I know. Especially having worked at three different video stores for a total of five or six years. Haha I still have a bunch I brought home from Blockbuster when I worked there back in the day. I didn't care how well done the poster was -- I'd just grab it if it was a film I liked or had anything to do with an actor I liked. : )