Ghostbusters 1984 was about nerdy academics who start a small business, and walk around a populated area wearing highly dangerous, experimental equipment:

He was pretty damn fun in S2!

“The Mandarin was no Joker, or Lex Luthor, or Darkseid. He was a questionable 2nd-3rd teir villain. And as such, he could be developed in modernized in a lot of viable ways. The one they chose for Iron Man 3 just happens to be the most interesting.” I fully agree with you on this. The article’s thrust of “WHAT IF THEY…

I’ll back you with IM3's Mandarin. I never expected a second Iron Man sequel to surprise me the way it did.

Nah, the Trevor twist was awesome.

I’m hoping that 90% of this trailer is some sort of bait and switch, deliberately obfuscating everything, because otherwise it feels a little on the “soft reboot” side, which would be disappointing.

I am so unreasonably hyped for this. Give me ALL the nonsense. Give me on the nose symbolism, 10 min long discussion of philosophy that grinds the movie to a halt, give me everything Jessica Henwick is doing all the Matrix + Inception nonsense in that trailer. I’m all in for me to walk out of this movie and be like…

The further we get away from the original show, I tend to agree. It was a weird alchemical mix of time, place and individual sensibilities.

“it’s about the performers who love each other and have worked together for many years”

That’s exactly how I felt. I was ready to dive into what was marketed as “African Game of Thrones,” but it was decidedly not that. Which is fine, but I also just had a difficult time following along. 

Thank you, you put it into concise words what I couldn’t pin down. “Street level underdog vs well-connected science hero.” 

Yup, like a women can’t raise a young man by himself. He sooooooooooo badly needs a father figure. Fuck off Marvel.

What’s especially ironic is that Otto Octavius was sort of a father figure to Peter Parker in some versions of Spider-Man.

Well prepare to be disappointed when Spiderman 4 has the entire film be about Groot.

On the one hand, I fear they are setting up poor, sweet Happy to get killed in this one.

I kind of know how you feel. Holland hasn’t really gotten a proper “spider-man” movie. Tony was a huge part of the first one. Tony loomed so large over the sequel, and the thing wasn’t in NY, and had the shades/Happy/Beck as angry ex-Stark person.

At least in this it seems like Strange doesn’t exactly help, but makes things worse. 

and hooters for the wings.... a true gentleman here.

And another star in spirit for the name.

Not enough stars.