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Last night I had the wildest dream (with spoilers). Baz Luhrmann had delivered a Moulin Rouge! remake with vampire characters set in the world of F Scott's Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". No matter what happened to the characters -- whether they were shot, or run down by custom cars, or what have you -- they just kept getting back up good as new like genetically modified super soldiers or like, well, vampires.
One should never say that 'this = that', emphatically, with dreams since they're often inscrutable but the last three movies I watched were Kiss of the Damned, Iron Man Three and The Great Gatsby so perhaps this nightmare was inevitable.
When I woke up I knew it was only a dream... except for the part about Baz sucking Moulin Rouge!'s blood.
This review was originally posted in my column @ Towleroad
When last we saw Tony Stark he was eating shawarma in New York City with his fellow superheroes in the stinger of Marvel's The Avengers (reviewed). When we last saw Iron Man, minutes before that, he was plummeting from a cosmic wormhole to his near-death having just saved the world from an alien apocalypse. (S.H.I.E.L.D's workman's comp insurance must be pricey.) I mention Tony Stark and Iron Man separately because the franchise's new writer/director Shane Black, who previously worked with Robert Downey Jr on the underappreciated comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, seems more interested in Stark than Iron Man. This is a good sign, especially for a third picture. Time to flip this tin can around.
IRON MAN THREE takes great pains to make a distinction between the impenetrable suit and the man inside it. Tony Stark's first attempt to suit up is a comic misfire since he's engineered an Iron Man suit that comes right to him when he calls. He hasn't quite worked out the speed of his flying wardrobe -imagine a metal codpiece flying 60 mph right at your Andrew Christians. The second time we see Iron Man, if I'm remembering the sequence of events correctly, Tony Stark isn't in the suit at all. He's engaging in some prankster remote control business for girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow, wonderful in this role but haters gonna hate). MORE AFTER THE JUMP
New York Times Deanna Durbin, juvenile Oscar winner and 30s/40s star, has died Rope of Silicon the first suggestive poster for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac ... Nymphomaniac ...which also now has an official website Us Weekly Reese Witherspoon talks about her arrest and taking responsibility for the crazy People Seth Rogen's mancrush on Zac Efron. I'm wondering what the "expletive" was but FWIW Zac is "very veiny" DP/30 David Poland talks to actress Alicia Witt NPR the music from The Great Gatbsy (2013) Empire Logan Lerman joining Brad Pitt in the WW II tank thriller Fury
All Superheroes All The Time. Must Be Summer Vulture a practical guide to not hating Gwyneth Paltrow in Iron Man Three. This is amusing but Gwynnie is actually wonderful in the movie. Take that! YouTube a teaser for The Wolverine that I like more than that big trailer The Playlist Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch confirmed (sort of) for The Avengers 2. I'm confident that Joss Whedon can do right by witches (duh!) so yes, please. Movieline A sweded Iron Man Three parody from Thailand
(Sort of) Off Cinema The Stranger an excellent and funny piece about professional basketball's first coming out by heterosexual filmmaker Sherman Alexie (Smoke Signals, The Business of FancyDancing) ValleyWag an oblivious startup party from AirBnB themed on The Great Gatsby In Contention this is a few days old but fun. President Obama as Daniel Day Lewis as President Obama
How Had I Never Seen This? Meryl Streep with Adam Guettel ("Rain")
As a lifelong Streep fan and also someone who loves Adam Guettel -- some of you may remember I recently saw him do a rare live performance -- how had I never even heard of this collaboration? Or is my memory going already? Thanks to TFE Reader Rene for pointing this out to me in the last Meryl post.
Alexa here. I'm a tad caught up in all the Iron Man 3 anticipation in the air this week, probably because I am a sucker for Robert Downey Jr.'s form of charm, Lederhosen and all. I guess this is why the franchise gets a bit more attention from me than, say, the latest tired Superman reboot might. (Okay, I don't know yet how tired it will be, but aside from Michael Shannon the idea makes me tired.) So here are some curios that celebrate eccentric egomaniac Tony Stark.
Glow-in-the-dark reactor necklaces, available here.
And with Mother's Day close at hand, I'm focusing on the female side of the equation (although Pepper Potts curios are hard to come by, sigh). More after the jump including ...stilettos?
Grantland "look, you didn't hear this from George Lucas..." on the upcoming Star Wars Han/Luke/Leia Reunion i09 Bad Lip Readings take on The Amazing Spider-Man. And things get skanky Hollywood January Jones not one of the cool girls but the Zeéeeee is? My world is crumbling. Comic Book Resources shows mashup illustrations: superhero album covers
Movie|Line ranks the indispensability of the actors in The Avengers for sequels but weirdly states that Scarlett Johansson's part in The Avengers left a lot to be desired. I think that's just Iron Man 2 talking. You can trust Whedon with your female heroes and he gave her a lot to do. DListed Bradley Cooper didn't want that stupid Oscar anyway Vine Naomi Watts does an excellent David Lynch impersonation Boy Culture Jonathan Groff & Zachary Quinto wedding rumors (we live in a whole new better world now - gossip rags now sharing gay marriage rumors instead of "who is secretly gay?!" stupidity) Guardian "bottled by Jolie-Pitt and Perrin" Ultra Culture advertising Disney isn't doing for Oz: The Great and Powerful
Today's Must Watch A home-made Iron Man 3 trailer (no computer fx) alongside the actual one...
I love when creative people meet endless free time on their hands. [via Core 77 and Cinefix]
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 10:01AM 
