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I equally liked and disliked the sudden character change of The Mandarin. I'm not at all invested in the Iron Man comics so I didn't care on that front, it was a cool little twist and the goofy character was fun.
However, Kingsley also did such an amazingly intimidating and fearful character I would love to have seen how it would've played out without putting in the twist.

Overall Iron Man 3 sucked, too much unnecessary plot complexity. Sometimes (more often than not, actually) a simple, straight forward plot works best for these sorts of films. Here is the bad guy, here is the good guy, have at it! I'm disappointed and surprised, I had much more faith in Shane Black.

yes and no, yeah I completely agree that Iron Man's rogues gallery is dated, but as I said in Honest Trailers, Mandarin deserved better. While I understand why they did it, to avoid the obvious racial stereotype. It was just stupid. Kingsley was so annoying. The whole Mandarin thing should have been scrapped.

You really aught to read the Extremis comic, they even made a motion comic of it. At one point, it was on Netflix.(sadly looks like it was removed, boo).

It posed some serious questions about where technology (and biotechnology) is heading. But that's probably why it was bastardized in the movie. No one cares about serious shit in a summer blockbuster, they just want pew pew pew. Which again, yeah, I understand.

You're right though, @ChaosEngine my foreknowledge of Extremis and my fandom of Iron Man since I was...13?? definitely colors my opinions. Had I not known about those stories, I probably would have enjoyed it more.

Still, even despite all that, movie still was grasping hard by putting in the kid sidekick and yeah, as the Honest Trailers pointed out, for some reason, the Iron Man suits were particularly crappy this time around among other really stupid choices the movie made.

Fair warning, this video spoils the big plot twist.

I have to say, I actually really enjoyed that twist. I loved the fact that it was just fun. Ben Kingsley was awesome in it.

kingsleys henna work is worth the price

yeah, Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin is just....wrong. His accent is just....wrong too.

Hate to say it but 2 really wasn't that good so I'm not really expecting 3 to be that great.

That was actually my complaint about Iron Man 2....too many jokes. Tony Stark really isn't that much of a jokester. I don't mind the wisecracks, but there's a limit. So I don't mind that 3 will be a bit more serious. My main concern is going to be the Mandarin. I've just never got into the whole east vs west conflict between the two as that was mainly a throwback to the vietnam era and the early 80's. That and Ben Kingsley is clearly not chinese. The accent he uses in the trailer is just...weird

The problem with some of the non-cgi shots of the armor is that it's hard to fake that the suit is not metal. It's hard to fake that something is pretty heavy or unyielding when it actually isn't

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He can play Gandhi and Don Logan. Now thats range!


And a stoner psychotherapist in The Wackness!

All I can say is, I never knew how flexible (& jaw-droppingly BRILLIANT) Ben Kingsley was as an actor 'till I saw him play Don Logan (NSFW)

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I was born between the release of the original Gershon Kingsley version and the release of the the Hot Butter version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_%28instrumental%29, so I think there's a very good chance I heard one of them as a child.

I can say though that I only thought of posting that video because of this one - http://videosift.com/video/Stop-Motion-Animation-Using-500-Ping-Pong-Balls - an excellent stop motion video made at film school, by Victoria Foroponova.
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I'm trying to figure out right now, where and when I first heard that tune. It seems impossible!!
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I'm trying to figure out right now, where and when I first heard that tune. It seems impossible!!
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That's "Sir" Ben Fucking Kingsley.>> ^RhesusMonk:

Oh my god, Ben fucking Kingsley! All you haters out there might recall that Sacha Baron Cohen is kind of a genius. Not saying for sure, but this movie may have a shot.

ben kingsley was also in bloodrayne, dude.