Playhouse

I think he'll do okay, but Noah Wyle completely owns the role. Outside, y'know, the late Jobs himself.

@shuabert That's not to say they can't use the Mandarin. His rings were tech-based, though alien. And Mandarin was a scientific genius on par with Tony. Plus, they established a "real world" presence with the Ten Rings group in the first movie. It's not a significant stretch to see them possibly including the character in the movie.

The one cat does a dead-on Bale but the Freeman voice is lacking.

Kudos to Whedon for recognizing the problem with so many sequels. The focus should be on enriching the story and the characters not worrying how much bigger the explosions need to be.

@thedude-abides Right there with you. This looks like the cover to some rank DTV you find on the bottom rack of the "video" section at a local gas station.

Yeah, didn't care for it. Appreciate the time and effort that went into it, but it was a bit too derivative.

I remember hearing something about the briefcase a few months ago but it's nice to get a lot more context about everything.

Look like those might be the same shorts he wore in 'Casino Royale'.

He's always had a love-hate relationship with the movie because of the enormous thrust into the limelight he got at the time. I bet if it was 'Gilbert Grape' or 'The Basketball Diaries' or 'This Boy's Life', he'd probably be more amenable to helping promote those again.

Someone who doesn't understand the art, artistry, and hard work of acting.

Have to be honest, while I like the individual actors, I don't care for any of the casting of this film so far.

I like Cooper but he is no Lex Luthor.

Awful.

"The Redacted" sounds like tongue-in-cheek production speak. It's too bad Marvel whor*d out some of their properties and are left with a situation like this where they aren't able to use names from their own material.

@slysnide @ROFLitschristian They had a press release this morning with the updated title ("3D"). Though, they've been referring to it as 'Marvel's The Avengers' in the trades and industry correspondence for a few months now.

Then why not film in 3D, Joss? Absolutely no reason to convert this, especially when the format is still trending downward in comparison to simultaneous 2D releases.

Never gonna happen.

Hey, they finally released the 'V' commemorative PEZ from 1984. Rad!

Good.

Gritty feel is what the first movie was sadly lacking. Unfortunately, Neveldine/Taylor's pure insistence on consumer HD video rather professional gives this thing a cheap look not a gritty one. Might actually turn out to be worse than MSJ's misfire.