The Mandarin In Iron Man 3...

[Rich Spirit]

Downey and Don Cheadal sell the movie..like they did the last 2...it's good and only good because of them.

Manderin is garbage in the movie though...whenever they venture far from the comic book character it burns my soul just a little bit.

Cheadle wasn't in the first Iron Man

 

[pete clemenza]

Since we talking about Iron Man....

I thought the arc reactor in his chest could power the suits, because I clearly remember that being in a thing in the first movie. But then I see him chilling with a car battery charging the suit.....a car battery. Did that change somewhere and I missed it?

And why was the suits so flimsy and made out of aluminum foil or some shyt in this flick? You put one finger on the suits and they would fall to pieces. And Stark damn near refused to be in the suit damn near the entire movie. "No I'm going to play buddy cop with Don Cheadle and bust guns throughtout the entire movie.. fukk wearing armor"

-And fukk you Shane Black, If I wanted to see this bullshyt I would've rented Lethal Weapon 1&2. We wanted to see Starks in armor fukking some shyt up not The Last Boyscout

 

[ChrisDorner]

The rings aren't even real magic. It's not a huge twist. It could have fit in perfectly since they're exploring the cosmic side of marvel coming up, since the rings are pretty much alien technology. It was a dumb twist. Plain and simple. Simple nikkas are entertained though. Surprise surprise.

Yes, how dare people not give enough a fukk about the comics to get mad about the twist. How dare people spend more time actually enjoying the movie than pick apart small ass shyt

fukk those simple people, enjoying life & shyt

 

[DaylitoJames]

The rings aren't even real magic. It's not a huge twist. It could have fit in perfectly since they're exploring the cosmic side of marvel coming up, since the rings are pretty much alien technology. It was a dumb twist. Plain and simple. Simple nikkas are entertained though. Surprise surprise.

I thought that was the level they were at now, they had Loki running around in the Avengers movie brainwashing nikkas and other magical shyt so some power rings would have made since... but instead they went this route.

 

[The Real]

Movie was ass, but the Mandarin twist was fine. The original Mandarin was a racist ass Fu-Manchu stereotype based on Yellow Peril paranoia. There's no redeeming a character like that without some drastic changes. This was a good way to nod at the original character while also acknowledging the impossibility of portraying him "authentically" and what a joke he actually was.

 

[duncanthetall]

Yes, how dare people not give enough a fukk about the comics to get mad about the twist. How dare people spend more time actually enjoying the movie than pick apart small ass shyt

fukk those simple people, enjoying life & shyt

If you enjoyed this POS, you a simple nikka

 

[ChrisDorner]

If you enjoyed this POS, you a simple nikka

Or a person who went to watch a comic book action movie and wasnt surprised when he ended up watching..









...a comic book action movie

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Movie was ass, but the Mandarin twist was fine. The original Mandarin was a racist ass Fu-Manchu stereotype based on Yellow Peril paranoia. There's no redeeming a character like that without some drastic changes. This was a good way to nod at the original character while also acknowledging the impossibility of portraying him "authentically" and what a joke he actually was.

actually they could've portrayed him authentically because he is currently (or at least the last time I checked) not that far from Guy Pearce's character, they just needed an asian actor and use the rings. Marvel just fukked up plain and simple

 

[Nobuo Uematsu]

Would you take a gamble on taking that Extremis injection?

Whedon could make this work for avengers. He could have Tony take a brutal injury at the hands of Thanos and then take the extremus injection to become stronger. The Extremis story arc is actually in the comics.

Honestly could give two shyts about the mandarin twist, having Kingsley as an Asian terrorist would've had so many people crying racism. So i aint mad at that, it could have played out worse.

I am mad that the extremis part of the storyline was so...overplayed/underplayed at the same time. Mandarin twist stole the show. I think they could've used that part of the story (and Guy Pearce) a lot better.

Plus that whole 'buddy cop no armor whee' thing wasn't interesting to me either, although I support Don Cheadle.

 

[ChrisDorner]

We need don cheadle in the next avengers, they are bullshyttin

 

[Rekkapryde]

Movie was ass, but the Mandarin twist was fine. The original Mandarin was a racist ass Fu-Manchu stereotype based on Yellow Peril paranoia. There's no redeeming a character like that without some drastic changes. This was a good way to nod at the original character while also acknowledging the impossibility of portraying him "authentically" and what a joke he actually was.

They could've gone with the more modern version though of the Mandarin though... It didn't ruin the movie for me but I was definitely hoping for a double twist with Trevor on some Usual Suspects shyt

Sent from my HTCONE Suckaz!!!

 

[Kang Deezy]

The twist was brilliant

 

[iamstr8fire]

Never read iron man comics but I was at the Mandarin in the movie and when I found out who he actually was.

After I read this I understood why they turned the Mandarin into a joke

Defending 'Iron Man 3''s Big Plot Twist | Criticwire

For one thing, "THE Mandarin" is kind of a racist caricature. And that's not me talking; that's Shane Black, the co-writer/director of "Iron Man 3," who described The Mandarin with those very words way back in 2011 at an appearance at Long Beach Comic-Con. The issues around The Mandarin as he was conceived in 1964 are clearly outlined in an article at io9 entitled "How Big is 'Iron Man 3''s 'Fu Manchu' Problem?" Here's comic book writer Marjorie M. Liu succinctly summarizing the character:

"The Mandarin is pretty much a direct descendent of the Fu Manchu yellow peril caricature -- at best Orientalist, at worst, racist. The diabolic Asiatic is a hoary Hollywood staple -- one of many stereotypes that Asian Americana have long had to endure -- whether it's the Fu Manchu, the Kung Fu master, the Dragon Lady, or the bucktooth nerd."

So to make a "faithful" recreation of "THE Mandarin" is to traffic in some really nasty stereotypes. Yes, I know some very talented recent writers have tried to modernize and reinvent the character in the pages of Marvel Comics. Some of have succeeded (others, I'd argue, haven't). But either way, by doing "THE Mandarin" you are courting, if not outright endorsing, cultural insensitivity. I think "Iron Man 3" rather brilliantly evades that minefield by using it as the fuel for satire; revealing the Kingsley Mandarin's mish-mosh of Orientalist imagery as a construction designed to play into ignorant people's fears. Black suggests we should be far more worried about the well-dressed, amoral CEO than the vaguely defined "Other" of so many bad pieces of pop culture.

 

[OmegaK2099]

I thought it was a sattire on how Bane and joker had audiences shook, they took that and flipped it with an out of work actor/drug adict. lets see freaks like the one from aurora copy that sh1t now

 

[Won Won]

just saw it yesterday. I thought the twist was funny personally. why are people mad about this?

Comic nerds are the biggest nit-picking complainers out there

Hugh Jackman's too tall, Ian Mckellan is too old, Heath Ledger is too fruity, the outfits aren't the same as the comic, there's no SHIELD, there's too much SHIELD, blah blah blah