I'm always amused by opening weekends like this:
1. Iron Man 3 $175M
2. Pain & Gain $7.6M
I can hurt a demon!! That's right. I'm back. And I'm a BLOODY ANIMAL!
Spike ,'Showtime'
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Polter-Cow - May 06, 2013 5:12:39 am PDT #24281 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2013 5:57:03 am PDT #24282 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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?
billytea - May 07, 2013 5:44:13 am PDT #24283 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Polter-Cow - May 07, 2013 6:31:01 am PDT #24284 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
How is the future, man? Are there jetpacks? Is Justin Bieber still a thing?
chrismg - May 07, 2013 7:25:54 am PDT #24285 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2013 8:02:49 am PDT #24286 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
§ ita § - May 07, 2013 8:23:46 am PDT #24287 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Tom Scola - May 07, 2013 9:22:45 am PDT #24288 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Atropa - May 07, 2013 9:40:27 am PDT #24289 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I hope he and Ray Bradbury are having a great time in the afterlife, playing with toy monsters.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2013 10:10:29 am PDT #24290 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It couldn't have outdone the bad doubling for the Russian mobster in the Avengers scene where Black Widow wrapped the chain around his neck. That stand-in was obviously taller, thinner, and had a wig that looked like someone rubbed an overfull lint trap from a clothes dryer over his head. It was really barely a step up from Princess Vespa's stunt double in Spaceballs.
