Iron Man 3 Fandango TV Spot: What, This IS Cinerama?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by geelw

OK, we get TWO TV ads in one day for this upcoming soon to be blockbuster? Hey, don’t blame me, blame Marvel for posting them so far apart. Anyway, what’s up with the oddball aspect ration? Sure, it looks awesome, but WordPress defaults these videos into such a tiny size that this will look like a Band-Aid in the post. Eh, I’m SURE you all know you can play this full screen so you can see what’s going on, right? Anyway, I wouldn’t mind finding out if anyone out there actually has a working Cinerama screen setup to show off, as I’d love to see some of those old films in that crazy wide view they ran in. I’ve only caught some stuff on TCM, but no TV out there can do the format justice…

Iron Man 3 TV Spot #4: That’s A LOT Of Iron In The Air…

Posted on April 5, 2013 by geelw

One thing that’s going to get a lot of people into those theater seats is all those Iron Man suits zipping around like they’re coming off an assembly line. I can’t imagine this in real life, as all you’d see outside would be Fat Iron Man, Too Low Pants Iron Man, Homeless Iron Man, Slow Old Lady Iron Man (they fly in packs), Letting That Dog Poop On The Street And Not Cleaning It Up Iron Man and a few other annoying and impervious to damage Iron Man suits in action. Bleh. It’s the new Rascal (or Weasel, given that company’s legal woes of late). And THIS, dear reader, is WHY we have movies to watch. You get the hell away from real life for two hours at a time (not counting 20 minutes of trailers)…

Iron Man 3 TV Spot #3: Orange You Glad The Mandarin’s Not Real?

Posted on April 2, 2013 by geelw

OK, OK… that was a REALLY terrible (and way too obvious) pun (and only one of a few too many – collect them all!), but I couldn’t help myself. Hell, Sir Ben is practically twirling his mustache as he chews the scenery up and spits out the seeds. Granted, some of you will find this sort of villainy quite appealing (another pun!), but I can see some more of you thinking this guy and his wacky candy rings is really fruity (*zing!*). Of course, I’d bet if he WERE real and standing within eyeball contact, you’d be hard pressed to say that to his face. More likely than not, he’d freshly squeeze some juice from your melon with a few waves of his fingers. OK, let me shut up before the Pun-isher has to come after me (Bwaa-ha-ha!). Good Night, folks…

Iron Man 3 TV Spot 1: Not Too Early, Never Too Late, Right?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by geelw

IM3_poster Sure, May 3 isn’t exactly THAT far away… then again, it’s not exactly close, is it? Still, this seems to be the sweet spot for these blockbusters where a month or so in advance, the TV commercials start dropping in many varieties. Of course you can expect 30 and 60-second spots, clips scattered around cable and online, the early screening buzz (where the more fortunate press get to show up and blab about positively or otherwise on their sites) and finally, a few premieres of the star-studded variety.

Of course, for most films I eventually choose to see, I just flip a coin and decide whether I catch in a theater with a bunch of annoying people around me and sit through 20 minutes of trailers for stuff I probably won’t see or wait a few more months until it pops up on video. Tick, tick, tick, tick…

Iron Man 3 (Trailer 2): Just In Case You Were Wondering If It Was Going to be Good…

Posted on March 6, 2013 by geelw

Hmm… It seems Marvel Productions is going to be pushing this one much harder than they need to, but that’s fine by me. The multiple TV spots should be fun to watch as they follow the “serious/action/catchy joke finale” thing most of these comic book flicks (and heck, most other movies) get when truncated down to 15 to 30 second spots. I don’t think I’ll run them all or I’d need to change the name of the site to “IRON MAN 3 Trailers!” or something corny like that.

Overkill was never my style (nor was coming up with good alternate site names, as you’ve probably guessed)…

Iron Man 3 Trailer: The Stark Knight Rises? We Shall See…

Posted on March 5, 2013 by geelw

Well, that was pretty cool after all. Darker and adding elements from some of the older comics while tossing in plenty of surprises (and army of Iron Men AND a Hulkbuster at the end? Nice). Of course, under all that sturm und drang it’ll be interesting to see if this third installment can feel as fresh as the first while making sure there’s humor in the right spots AND all that actually fine looking mix of CG and practical effects can get and keep asses dropping into seats for long enough that Marvel is happy-dancing around the room on day one. If that happens, they’ll be bouncing around on Hopptity Hop money sacks within a month’s time, as will anyone who signed up for a percentage of the gross (if that’s even done anymore). I actually like that they took one of the all-time corniest but cool villains (The Mandarin) and actually made him a big menace. Well, the great Gene Colan’s version was always creepy-looking, but that’s the late master at work, I say. Well, May 3 is zipping up soon, so my prediction is a no-brainer that this one will be a big pre-summer smash with legs to keep going worldwide.