There's my boy.
There's my boy.
Originally shared by Russell Holly
Oh hello there, Hulkbuster.
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Wait. The Hulkbuster is an Iron Man suit for an Iron Man suit? o.0
ReplyDeleteYo dawg, I heard you like power armor, so I put power armor in your power armor so you can power your armor with power armor.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like that suit has a zillion arc reactors coming out of its wazoo.
ReplyDeleteDoes Iron Man even have a wazoo?
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of a personal question.
ReplyDeletethis is the moment you should know your franchise has lapsed definitively into self-parody.
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Richard Grenville Why? One of the cool things about Iron Man is that the technology is a toolbox, and Stark builds different suits to take on different challenges. Stealth suits, underwater suits, space suits, and so on. So, if you are taking on the Hulk, you build a bigger tougher suit.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Shields well, two things.
ReplyDelete1. yes I know the argument for building big waldoes to control huge waldoes, or small ones to control tiny ones, but Casey Garske's point stands. What could be better than an Iron Man suit? An Iron Man suit for an Iron Man suit! How else will the dazed popcorn-muncher know that big-as-a-mining-truck is really bigger than big-as-a-truck, if you don't matryoshka them up together?
2. that helmet flip. That goddamn helmet flip that's subtly different from the Guardians of the Galaxy helmet flip is a trade mark. It's part of the property and mythology of the Iron Man franchise. So here it is flipping twice, like a can of coke that opens a can of coke or a lego brick made out of lego bricks or a pro wrestler who becomes a politician. You know what I'd rather see? Tony Stark selling Iron Man pez dispenser tchotchkes that do the trade mark helmet flip. Flipping Iron Man helmet lampshades.
Richard Grenville We are bothered by different things. =)
ReplyDeleteI love it. Popcorn movies in the best sense of the the term. All the action, character, and emotional notes will be hit at the right times according to formula. As opposed to big messy spectacles like the Transformer movies that don't hit anything but shrill off-key tones, hoping the sight of giant robots will distract from the fact nothing makes any sense.
ReplyDeleteI loved playing as the hulk buster suit in the Lego marvel game.
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