[...] himself it could have been even better. He actually wanted to make the Iron Man sequel in 3D (he had hoped for this almost a year ago), and wants the third one done with the technology if possible. The director spoke to MTV about his [...]

Vic

still think he should have kept in the ghost face killah scene in with the beautiful babys cause that would have been money. lol

Iron Man in IMAX… I won’t miss that for the world!! In 3D? Well, it had better have plenty of cool flying scenes, lots of long-cut wide shots for action scenes, etc. to do justice to high-res and 3D screenings.

But about the 3D thing, you don’t HAVE to do that. You can simply make a great movie… that happens to be in 3D, those are the ones I like, and they do exist even if you naysayers don’t seem to think so.

Iron Man definitely has horrible Villians, they are OUT THERE. I think they used up the most believable one so… dare I say it’s on to the Mandarin? All the remaining villians will be very hard to adapt.

There were no super-powers in IM, it was awsome!

What if they made the Mandarin’s rings technology based in lieu of hocus pocus? Could we accept that?

Ultimo is a freakkin alien right?

So who does that leave? Whirlwind? Grey Gargoyle? That dude with the whip?

I don’t know man… *crosses fingers* Jon Favreu has my faith for this one!

To elablorate on my 3-D point…

IMAX is like: “yeah this movie is so awsome you watch it HUGE!!!”

3-D is like:”Eh… at least thing pop out at you…”

Don’t focus on making a great 3-D film focus on making a great Iron Man film! Again!

But about the darker tone thing, I think they should keep IM slightly light. I don’t want it to be campy or corny, just not the whole try to make the audience so depressed they all want to mass suicide like TDK did toward the end. I loved IM because I was smiling and happy all through the movie. I left the theater in a great mood and felt like I was out doing something fun. Not a feeling I get very often from movies.

What I do hate about the IM franchise is how fantastical the villains are. I’ve always found it weird how IM is one of the more realistic superheros since he depends on technology to get the job done but he’s still just human, yet they have some of the most outrageous villains.

I guess that suit makes him so close to being invincible that the only villains that can last longer than 5 minutes would be something pretty big and incredible…

I think 3-d will ruin the chances of critics taking the film serious. When I hear 3-D, I think ‘for kids.’

I know it isn’t always the case but it usually is…

about the 3d i wouldn’t mind seeing it as just being in imax made little difference in tdk besides the opening scene but switching from full screen to wide screen in the different shots wasn’t greatly different to watching it in normal.

Meh, Ironman is awesome either way

Gotta agree with Ken J on this one. I am NOT a fan of the “poking the audience in the eye” effects of 3D. What I would like to see as it becomes mainstream is for the gimmicky aspects of it to go away, and it being used for the subtlety of bringing us into the movie.

Vic

My point is that if the term 3D is in anyway attached to Iron Man2, I will wait for the dvd…

3D, kills it for me, no matter what movie.

I get plenty of immersion from just being there.

As much as I hate repeating myself, I’ve seen plenty of IMAX 3D films that did not have a single thing jumping out at you. It doesn’t NEED to have that, and it’s better than watching it in 2D since you feel like the characters are out in front of you. Adds a sense of immersion.

We’ll probably see a little more of SHIELD, maybe secondary Avengers characters??? Welcome, Black Widow

Never, have I watched a film and said, “this sucks because its not jumping out at me”.
Its my subjective opinion, obviously…
But yeah I’ve never liked 3D films, and I’m not jumping on the 3D bandwagon ever…
(IMO) the film veiwing experience works best in a 2D medium.

Kofi, I love to read your articles but, Monster House and Beowulf are 2 films that I have no interest in…
I do agree however that 3D works best for animation.
Or what I call, “kid movies”.

I love watching IMAX 3D documentaries. They don’t do the “who, this thing is coming at you” gimmick because most of the time it is just regularly filmed events, not CG. I like it because it feels like you’re there, so you’re not watching the film, you’re in it. I would love to feel like Iron Man was in front of me battling it out with some bad guy with War Machine by his side. Of course I wouldn’t want to REALLY be there because I might end up being collateral damage, but it’ll be nice to see it that way.

So I don’t really understand your whole “anti-3D” attitude, I would understand an anti-gimmick attitude but the format doesn’t mean that it has to be gimmicky.

There are plenty of regular 2D movies that are full of gimmicks, doesn’t mean you have to be against watching all 2D movies…

We all know a movie doesn’t have to be in 3D to be full of gimmicks…

I just can’t come around on 3-D movies. To me, they always come across as over-gimmicky. The last 3-D movie I saw was Superman Returns, and it didn’t do anything for me.

Most 3D films look afflicted without the glasses on…