Theres got to be someone like how about Chyna(Female wrestler who defeated large men and took their titles and has some acting experience) or Gina Carano(EliteXC MMA fighter but little acting experience)who atleast have the skills to do some of the stunts when I think about how the fight scenes would happen.

Also, I know she hasn’t done action, but Julie Taymor is talented – and who better to direct a WW movie than a woman.

Rose McGowen as Red Soyna(sorry cant spell) WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.
Laura Prepon is a much better choice and actress that Rose.
I’m I wrong in thinking this i hope not

Yeah.. That’s why I made a point of that.
Where in the comics is Iron Man either shuttling mined helium 3 from the moon to earth or diverting a world governments effort to do so? The facts keep getting in the way of the story, the closer you look at the reality of the science.

Of course the concept of the amount of energy required to do the things he does being generated in something as small as that thing in his chest is pretty far fetched to say the least, but then again, it’s not like Tony Stark exists in real life either. At least it was partially explained in a scientific manner and not simply that he got bit by a radioactive spider or something like that and that would somehow cause a change in his genetic make-up as if the spider introduced some kind of crazy super retro-virus or something…

At least with Im, the only things you needed to use your imagination with is the material he uses for the armor, the AI required to design something that complex on such a short time period, and the amount of energy that “arc reactor” is capable of producing. Then everything from there is plausible given those assumptions.

Same thing with the tech behind Batman. The armor he wears was at first described as being woven of Nomex and Kevlar, which would combine bullet resistance and fire resistance, then TDK suit appeared to be made up of sections of ceramic plating woven together with mesh, probably Kevlar and Nomex again. And his “grappling hook” has become a compressed air shot magnetic grapple gun type thing. The wench moved from within the gun itself to a mechanism he built into his belt buckle. One can argue how there can be such a powerful motor to wench someone of his weight so fast and where the power supply for that is kept. But I think that will just take away from the magic of the film. But I do like the attempt, on the part of the filmmakers, to explain some of these things finally. Before it was basically ALL left for your imagination…

I also like their explanation for the gliding with the cape thing. The technology might not be as slick as it is presented in the movie, but it is not at all beyond our capabilities.

There are limits of how much of my imagination I feel like is required to watch a movie, but I’m glad that the last few big comic movies have all kept within those limits. Less distraction from the movie’s plot. Well, minus the whole finding a fingerprint on the bullet thing they did in TDK, that definitely distracted me, lol.

Our gut reactions can be a tender spot and I’m not trying to change any ones, just plead the case for understanding.

If you have read any of the “Iron Man” comics the technology is consistent with, for any particular period with the technology at the time. Whether it’s an advanced turbo jet or what-not. Since repulsion in relation to physics is the force between two bodies of like electrical charge or magnetic force, those forces must be generated. When I say generated its a particular, and I think, peculiar description. You see, energy can neither be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. From a more useful state to a less useful state. Understand too, I’m leaving out a very important component of the definition of repulsion, which is distance between the bodies. I’m surrendering that to the fiction of the story. When you get into the math of the actions for a given distance, and you understand that, it becomes ridiculous at what is proclaimed to be achieved within the story. The best idea I can propose is that a power source equivalent to a fusion power source is used. You can’t get around the laws of thermodynamics. The comics even talk of Stark’s power source as needing recharged. As if it’s a battery or capacitor of some kind. That would be an even greater limited source than using fusion directly at his chest plate. Batteries are a chemical reaction which produce electricity which is even more inefficient than using a nuclear reaction to produce electrical power. A fusion of the light elements Deuterium and Helium 3 has the greatest known efficiency given the quantity of available material. Anti-matter is so hard to produce, and this country has been engaged in producing it for decades, since atomic reactors have been in use. World supply could fit in a teaspoon easy. Notice I said world, that includes other counties supplies as well.

What does all this wrangling prove? That “suspension of disbelief” is just as great, when talking about what is possible, within the boundaries of the conscious exploitation of the science of reality. The process of evolution, irrespective of its source, has been proven. It’s no greater jump, to give it the same consideration, as you would the direct, conscious exploitation of the other rules of reality.

What does corbomite have to do with me making fun of Aeon Flux? And what knowledge did I claim to have on Star Trek??? lol

I’m sure you can understand my utter confusion. I’m tired from working overnight, but not THAT tired… Something is obviously amiss.

Just like your knowledge of Star Trek… (Kevin Smith thread)

You should pick your words semi-better around here,,, lol

I pick my words semi-carefully. That’s why I said his “completely fictional” reactor. It is presumed that the reactor can generate the numbers required to do what it is needed to do. I pointed that out since you were speaking about real jet packs that use liquid fuel, meaning propulsion through a combustion type engine. And my point is that his propulsion is not the result of any kind of burning of any liquid fuel, but by the use of energy generated by a highly improbable (and possibly physically impossible) power source.

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Nope, not a freakin clue! lol