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ORIGINAL: aidan
Yeah, this pic goes of it's way to earn that PG-13 rating. I don't know if I'd feel comfortable brining any of the tots I watch over to see it, simply because...yeah, Iron Man kills people.

I really hope that's something that gets touched on in the next few movies. Favreau's said he wants to do at least three Iron Man pictures, and has a character progression already laid out...

I'm thinking that Tony Stark goes on a world-wide terrorist blowey-uppy extraveganza, gets a lot of press being all cool as Iron Man, and really plays up this new dashing hero thing he's got going. But inside, he's starting to go hollow. He's gotta be Tony Stark, party-guy billionaire and Iron Man, being called in to fight "the bad guys" with high-powered explosives a few times a week, and the pressure's starting to get to him. Couple that with a creeping realization that he might not be doing as much good as he thinks (violence does beget more violence, and as we've seen painfully made clear in the last five years sweeping in to someplace, killing a bunch of guys and telling everyone to play nice doesn't work too well most of the time,) and soon those dirty martinis and fingers of Scotch we saw in this flick start piling on.

This opens up for James Rhodes to come in as the hinted-at War Machine to pick up for Iron Man's drunken slack. Much fun is had by nerds everywhere.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Speaking of other superhero films, Iron Man had a teaser for The Spirit. I'm very hopeful.

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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire

  ACCCCCKKK, Level, they're making a Watchmen movie??? I have sooooo got tell Lumus, if He doesn't know already! We love those comics.

As for  Demon In A Bottle, that's part of Tony's appeal. He's human. He has his struggles despite all his money, power and women. That's where the best of the superheros come in, Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man. They have their struggles, they're just regular men (or women) that have an ability to do something that you or I can't but they just try to do their best. Personally, I don't think they could have gotten a better actor than Robert Downey Jr. to play Tony.

They are indeed! And evidently, it's past the "discussion" mode, as they're actually filming scenes. If I remember right, they're aiming for a 2009 release date. Alan Freaking Moore is the man.

I'd also like to see a film version of Garth Ennis' Preacher, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Gaiman's Sandman, and the Avengers Korvac Saga.

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ORIGINAL: Lumus

There's a few characters I'd enjoy seeing gain some focus...unlikely, several of them are now dead:

Marvel - Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil; Magick  [Illyana Rasputin, New Mutants]; Cloak and Dagger; the Beyonder; the Watcher [good television series setting there, especially for those who recall, "What If...?"]

DC - The Phantom; Mxyzptlk [I stand by the cartoon, it's pronounced "Mit-zul-plick", dammit!]; and possibly Aqua-Man [like the Flash, whose TV appearance was yet brief; great potential, though mainly to fuck it up]

Antarctic Press - Warrior Nun Areala

London Night Studios - Razor

*pauses*

Dammit, pizza delivery is late.  How can I be GEEK without my online fast food order?!

*shakes his fist at the uncaring ceiling*

I agree with the Watcher as a tv series, and Cloak and Dagger would do well on the big screen; Aquaman, if done, I would hope not have the hook.....

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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire

  Darn it, it was Ceiling Cat... If You're going to shake Your fist at the ceiling, it's Ceiling Cat sniggering at You, Love... Always making fun of us geeks.

ETA - Aqua-Man, didn't Patrick Duffy do a ripoff in the 70's called Man from Atlantis? And there was the movie The Phantom starring Billy Zane.....

Yes, on Duffy, and a sad yes to Zane.

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ORIGINAL: Lumus

It did have potential, too...

...and then the episode where he played the electric guitar.

*sad*

Yes