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.
I hope he and Ray Bradbury are having a great time in the afterlife, playing with toy monsters.
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.
I'm assuming you preferred the suddenly-male Black Widow during her chair flip?
