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Hmm, good point, ita. We don't know how many Extremis people there were. But that's a lot a lot of test subjects, if the fighters Tony & Rhodey were dealing with were only some of them. And I don't see how the NSA didn't know that there was this fairly significant flaw in the program (where they blow up!), if AIM was getting their subjects from the government.
Plot hole, anyway.
Based on the military hardware used to knock Tony's home into the Malibu surf, I'm guessing that the VP was pulling a lot of strings on Killian's behalf. Maybe he was pink-slipping or otherwise dealing with intelligence directors who put the pieces of the puzzle together?
I'm always amused by opening weekends like this:
1. Iron Man 3 $175M
2. Pain & Gain $7.6M
For those interested, this article handily summarizes the Chinese content.
From the sound of it, the Chinese version of Iron Man 3 brings four minutes of film nobody really wants or needs, save the film's producers so they could presumably secure whatever funding was necessary. Shame that they weren't smarter about the deal.
"It literally offends me as an American in China and as an ethnically Chinese person that Hollywood would attempt to sell this to the Chinese audience," says Jou. "It undermines Chinese people's intelligence and movie savvy." But it makes money, no?
Hey Americanistas, when you reach May 8 check out Google's header. They've done an animated tribute to Saul Bass. It's quite excellent.
How is the future, man? Are there jetpacks? Is Justin Bieber still a thing?
Yeah, I saw Warren Ellis' name on a line with a bunch of other comic writers that did significant Iron Man stuff, like Bob Layton and David Micheline.
Ah, imdb is listing Mike Massa as lead stunt double on IM3. The credit may have been on its own line somewhere rather than the big stunt section I was looking through in the theater.
Oh, god, speaking of "doubles" I swear there was an awful Cheadle doubling--you see Rhodey approaching a wall, and what flashed through my head was "who's the new black guy in the polo shirt?" followed by "why are all the black guys in polo shirts?" before realising it was supposed to be him. It was blurry, but it felt like they blurred weirdly.