The new poster for Iron Man 2 (launched on Yahoo Movies) prominently features War Machine, Iron Man’s partner-in-Armor. This has me incredibly excited. Read the full post.
Dec 1
2009
01:40 PM ET
'Iron Man 2': A brief history of War Machine
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A bigger question: Will they play Kiss over the end credits, like they did with Black Sabbath in the first one? (Beavis and Butthead also do a mean rendition of War Machine.)
Favreau showed some IM2 footage at Comic-Con, and the War Machine combat scene was INSANE. It was only a few seconds long, but literally, all guns blazing.
I find War Machine a way more compelling and interesting character than Iron Man, at least in the comics. I 100% agree with the writer here. I like Rhodey for his decency and his everyman appeal, and for just how hilarious and nineties-tastic his original “War Machine” solo series is. It was worth every penny of what I shelled out for it on eBay. If you can find it, read it. It’s utterly bizarre and features time-traveling and killing Nazis.
Darren Franich, you’ve already wowed me with your “Heroes” recaps and your name-dropping of old school filmmakers like Ub Iwers and Federico Fellini, and now you’re proving to be a worthy replacement for Marc Bernardin in the ‘writing about comic books’ department. It’s also great to see a PopWatch post with some real length. Congrats, man! Hope you’re around for a good long while.
I love it! I too grew up on the Jim Rhodes version of Iron-Man. I thought he was great. Through an appalling lack of multicultural forsight the African American hero stood out like a christmas tree with Marvel in those days–the supposedly more “progressive” company. Only Storm and a re-imagined Captain Marvel(now called Photon)were among the people of color–unless you count the Hulk, She-Hulk, Nightcrawler, and the Beast who are caucasian but GREEN and BLUE respectively. I was glad somebody at Marvel gave the character his own gig but typically his latest version all but strips him of functional humanity–he’s a cyborg now. I certainly hope our friends in Hollywood won’t take the emasculating tone the progressive marvelites have taken. My philosophy is this; “if you wouldn’t do it for the original why do it to the sequel?” No pun intended.
I’m excited! Iron-Man was one of the few comic book properties that wouldn’t make the general audience giggle because of costuming. War Machine’s overall look is fierce. It probably looks better because you can imagine some R&D person actually creating something like that for war–not that war is a good thing mind you. I can’t wait to see it in motion. Now I’m wondering who will be the bad guy in this one; Titanium Man?, Crimson Dynamo?, Mandarin?. The only drawback to Iron-Man has been his lame “rogue’s gallery”. The only villain that makes since belongs to the Fantastic Four–Dr.Doom.
Great article, and I especially love the reference to “James Bond, Jr.” Would love to hear your perspective on that regrettable series some time.
holy snikes! that video requires glasses big time..very cool post.
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