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True. But it was more of a standard attempt to renegotiated, which happens in sequels, but then they told him to f off. They also low-balled Mickey Rourke coming off of the Wrestler and cut his part to ribbons. Seriously, the guy wanted to give an Oscar worthy performance as villain (he spent a week in a Russian…

Exactly. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if all the stuff about Cruise getting constantly hurt in this movie might have been a calculated choice because audiences responded to it so much in Edge of Tomorrow.

Fuck, the meta aspect of that character just makes his performance so much more electric.

Apparently "the Shaggy Dog" was really helpful in that regard too. I remember in an interview someone joked about how much better it must be to be doing Iron Man, and Downey replied "Actually, that movie was a really great experience and very important for my career" in total earnestness.

Fuck, Rockwell would be an AWESOME Stark.

To be fair, Rhodey has gotten the short end of the stick in every Marvel movie he's been in. IM2 is the closest thing to giving him some real badassery. Otherwise, he's either kidnapped, a gag/side B player for the Avengers in Age of Ultron, and a god damn punching bag in Civil War. Seriously, EVERYONE gets an awesome…

Agreed. He also embodied the aspect of some of the comics/the TV series, as the scientist driven to find a cure/prevent the Hulk technology from falling into the wrong hands.

I think the move will be to retire a few major characters and bring others to the forefront, then recast the ones they retired when the next phase or whatever hits.

I think you're giving them too much credit. There are about a dozen male leads who could do a great Captain America, just not the Chris Evans version. And personally I really liked Norton as Banner- I think he brought an interesting intensity to the role.

He didn't "demand" it, and the way Marvel let him go was kind of dickish (although Terrence Howard would know all about being a dick).

Only if Max Landis writes the script and is on set during every scene involving a helicopter. Ideally he dies midway through a Periscope of how he hates The Last Jedi because Ray is even more of a Mary Sue, and if HE'D written it it would have gone like this…

All joking aside, I genuinely think this is part of it. He straight up thinks he has superpowers.

Yeah— there was definitely an implication that he'd absorbed Zeus' power, what with all the lightning-throwing.

I totally heard this in the narrator's voice from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Except for the videos explicitly featuring underage girls/boys.

Or that painting Burt Cooper had in his office!

And Roman Polanksi

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How do you do spoiler tags here lol?

He's been saying it should win an Oscar, (which is good) like Suicide Squad did (which is bad).