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Variety Says Iron Man Won't Fly; Favreau Says Otherwise

by Jen Yamato | September 15, 2007

Summary

Remember those awesome scenes of Iron Man flying through the air alongside a couple of fighter jets in the crowd-pleasing trailer first unveiled at Comic-Con? Don't count on seeing them in the finished film, Variety says. Back to Article

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aknddon3 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 10:20 PM

It makes perfect sense, Loserman, TobASScoman, Jacog are all the same person, a retarded 12 year old that thinks that radioactive materials do not harm humans yet they ignore the MILLIONS of cases that prove them wrong.

Oh the inbred hicks are having a circle jerk in South Africa.

P.S. What colleges did you guys go to? And is you degree in the top 3 in the country like mine is from my school? Typical internet trolls/nerds.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 10:24 PM

Snorklecat has no clue about genetics and has no understanding of science, according to his logic AIDS is not a disease, Cancer is not a disease, Gay is a mutation, every known disease is not a disease. He has no understanding of traits, he thinks that if a blond son is born to brunette parents that means he is a mutant.

God you are almost as idiotic as the retard from South Africa that has no understanding that Iron Mans suit runs off of nanotech and electricity.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Sep 20 2007 10:27 PM

Once again i have owned TobASScoman, Loserman, Jacog, and zbbrox. It is so easy it is not even funny. You have one guy who thinks that 300 and Spiderman 3 are the worst movies ever, another guy who thinks that the original Halloween is not revolutionary, a dude whos only gripe about Spiderman not being realistic is how he does his laundry, and moron who has no understanding of diseases and genetics and thinks that all gays, all people with AIDS, with cancer, with hemophilia, etc. are not sick but mutants.

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Sep 21 2007 12:28 AM

Dude, Akn, you're through.

You got your *** handed to you a long time ago. You were down back there and back there and back there AND back THERE.

Your insults are perfectly predictable and personal attacks, too.

In fact, everything you said took you four posts to say.

Look, it's not our faults that you can't read facts and go to ASU where you lick your own balls and try to type at the same time. It's not our faults that you don't know what mutation is and repeat high-school insults like, "you're owned" or resort to accusing all of us being the same person because your ego can't admit that more than 2 or 3 people disagree with you and actually know what scientific fact is.

Look, man, just quit when you've lost an argument. You don't get it. You'll never get it. It's okay. We've accepted that you're a complete and total idiot. No problem.

Don't worry.

Move on. I have.

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jacog writes:
on Sep 21 2007 12:33 AM

I haven't... fists still balled.

aknddon3:: What makes you automatically assume I must be white? In South Africa, blacks outnumber the whiteys 9 to 1... that's a 90% chance that I am black, yet you assume I must be white... why? Are you saying you find it unlikely that a black person would be using the internet? You racist bastard.

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Loserman writes:
on Sep 21 2007 12:43 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, and this: "And is you degree in the top 3 in the country like mine is from my school?"
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
And: "Look, it's not our faults that you can't read facts and go to ASU where you lick your own balls and try to type at the same time."
Oh my sides...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Whew. Oh. Ha Ha. Ha.

Too funny.

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SnorkleCat writes:
on Sep 21 2007 01:35 AM

Ha ha.
I think this thread is the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. I am going to copy and paste it so I never forget it. When I feel down, I'm going to look at it and think "Well heck. At least I'm not aknddon3" and feel better no matter what has just occurred.

Any moment now, someone is going to appear and say "You've been punked." I truly cannot believe that anyone with such a meager grasp of science or logic- or even rudimentary debate- graduated from middle school, much less high school...God forbid, college. I don't know whether to laugh or cry or start writing to Congress about the pathetic specimens that the public school system is pooping out these days.

Well aknddon3, I've got my forensic anthropology degree and I didn't get it by being an idiot. I would be very interested to know what you're studying and if you have a hope in hell of passing. I know ASU has the rep of being a party school full of aspiring drinkers, and if your Myspace page is anything to go by, you're no exception- but even party schools have exams.

How do you manage it? Do you perhaps use invisible ink on your exam papers? Or do your professors have some sort of magic decoder ring with which they decipher your drivel, bad grammar, poor spelling, and just plain baffling leaps of logic? Is it perhaps like one of those universal language translators they have on Star Trek? If I buy a box of Froot Loops, will there be one inside? I could really use one right now, because I have no idea what your point is. Ever.

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jacog writes:
on Sep 21 2007 01:56 AM

Not sure why i bother, but anyway... her goes...

akn: "radioactive materials do not harm humans yet they ignore the MILLIONS of cases that prove them wrong."

- Nobody said radioactivity is harmless. We're just not entirely sure if a tiny little spider could carry enough of it (while still being alive) to have much effect on a human.

*sigh*

akn: "And is you degree in the top 3 in the country like mine is from my school?"

- That's really bad grammar, man.

akn: "Snorklecat has no clue about genetics and has no understanding of science"

- Well, I think her abovementioned degree shows otherwise.

And why do you think the existence of mutation means people are mutants? It takes thousands of years for mutations to develop. It's not like someone will just get born all "mutated" one day. And we are evolving... everything is evolving... it hasn't been any different for the past several million years, and won't be any different in the few million to come.

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Sep 21 2007 04:19 AM

Oh my god...THAT is Aknddon's MySpace? I feel SO sorry to be him right now. That's the funniest **** I've ever seen.

Oh, by the way, he lied about his education.

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tabascoman77 writes:
on Sep 21 2007 04:41 AM

This thread IS entertaining.

It cracks me up because, when Idiotddon3 gets involved, you can count on the thread going past 100, easy. His stubborn contrarian and bafflingly ignorant nature (it kills me because he doesn't HAVE to be this stupid if he could just READ) can turn the simplest absolute fact into a oversized, needless debate.

Example:

US: Man, that water we drank sure hit the spot.
AKN: That's not water. That's H20.
US: Yeah, H20 IS water.
AKN: No, it's H20. I own you.
US: Wait...water IS H20.
AKN: HAHAHAHAHA, you must be 12. Don't talk again.
US: What are you talking about?
AKN: You're an idiot if you think water is H20. There's no such thing as water.
US: Then what did we just drink?
AKN: H20.
US: Ok...H20 is water. It's been known as "water" for YEARS.
AKN: No, it hasn't. That's not a fact. I know facts. You're wrong.
US: Here are like, 1,000 pages, that PROVE, scientifically and otherwise, that H20 and WATER are one in the same!
AKN: You didn't cite anything. I'm still right and you're all wrong! I own you.
US: Wait, what? We just DID cite all the info you asked for...
AKN: No, you're still saying that water is H20. It's not. You can't prove it.
US: Akn, we just DID prove it. Did you even READ what we cited for you?
AKN: That's not facts. H20 is not water. So, once again, I own you all.
US: Akn, did you READ anything?
AKN: I don't listen to people from (foreign country here). They're idiots. Never talk again.
US: Wow, so now you're a racist.
AKN: And you're a ***. Never talk again.
US: And you're homophobic. Great. What does this have to do with water?
AKN: No wonder you think water is H20, you're either gay or you're from (foreign country here).
US: Nevermind.
AKN: Yeah, that's right! I've owned EVERYBODY.

And it goes on and on and on...forever.

All because Aknddon3 was born.

*Sigh*...poor guy.

He's kinda like a kid who wants his blankie so he'll finally shut up. Maybe we should let him have his blankie so he finally goes quiet.

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SnorkleCat writes:
on Sep 21 2007 04:59 AM

Heh heh...that was funny.

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zbbrox writes:
on Sep 21 2007 05:42 AM

1: Actually, *everything* is radioactive to one degree or another. All that matters is degree. The human body emits infrared radiation, light itself is a form of radiation, and the frickin' cosmic background radiation permeates the universe. Every household spider has a certain low level of normal background radiation. The question is, *how radioactive was this spider*? You don't know. I don't know. And we don't even know what it had been irradiated with! Was it electro-magnetic radiation or particle radiation? Microwaves? Radio waves? Alpha particles? Gamma particles? All these questions have a huge impact on how dangerous the spider was.
2: Can we at least agree that this spider was probably not poisonous enough to kill a human?
3: The idea that we "haven't evolved in such a long time" is incorrect and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works. Evolution happens because mutation is happening *constantly* among all species. When a mutation greatly affects the ability of the mutated offspring to survive, it can produce a new variation on the species, and in time these new variations compound until a recognizable new species develops. This is a *constant* process, and it affects humans all the time. One of the ways it does so is through disease: humans with mutations that make them more resistant to disease sometimes survive plagues that others don't and so thrive where others fail. Read this, from a Harvard professor:
http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html
4: What don't you understand about the fact that some mutations cause diseases? "Disease" is a very general term: diseases can be caused by bacteria, viruses, toxins, or any number of other things, including genetic mutation. Look, sometimes there are mistakes in the replication of DNA, leading to the offspring having different genetic traits than their parents. Most times this goes completely unnoticed and has no impact on survival. Occasionally, this random error is harmful. And rarely, this random error is actually a benefit. That is mutation. It happens every bloody day.
5: Once again, calling us morons and insulting South Africans doesn't make you look smarter, it just highlights your inability to argue your points.
6: I'm 25, but even when I *was* a little kid I knew more about this subject than you do. Nothing you have said has proven anyone wrong, you just keep insisting on "facts" and "common sense" that are flatly false.

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zbbrox writes:
on Sep 21 2007 05:53 AM

tabascoman77--

That was eerily accurate. Very good.

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jacog writes:
on Sep 21 2007 06:46 AM

zbbrox: One side of me is frustrated and wants to go on trying to reason with this guy, but on the other hand... is such a feat even possible? In a way he HAS owned us all because there's no way I imagine ANY of us can keep this up forever. In the end, nothing changes. We can talk all we want, he will stay stupid. He has no future in the world and will most likely never amount to anything. He's one of those people with a really low self esteem that will sit in his basement one day building a bomb because he hates everyone who he thinks pick on him. Lucky for those people he'll probably blow himself up in the process.

"HAHAHAHA, I am right, they are all wrong... I win, they lose... faaaag nerds... I OWN all those mor.."-FTOOOOOM!

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zbbrox writes:
on Sep 21 2007 07:00 AM

jacog--

Yeah, I was about ready to give up before, because he is obviously incapable of actually understanding the ideas he's throwing around, but I do find it kind of entertaining to watch him try and argue with us. It's kinda like watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead or something. You just have to laugh at how stupid what you're seeing is.

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jacog writes:
on Sep 21 2007 07:21 AM

If aknddon3 speaks in a forest with nobody around to hear him... is he still wrong?

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zbbrox writes:
on Sep 21 2007 08:01 AM

Believe it or not, this is not the most insane discussion I've had on this board. I and several others one got into an argument with a guy who argued that because Michael Bay's movies made money, they must be good. I questioned the validity of box office receipts as a judge of quality, and said that by that logic Titanic was roughly 30 times better than Citizen Kane (inflation adjusted, no less). An equally good judge would be the film's IMDB ratings, where Bay fairs poor-to-middling.

He decried IMDB's validity, as it was just the opinion of "nerds". I said fair enough, but it's at least as valid as boxoffice. So I linked him to the IMDB top 250, then the list of top money-making films of all time, and asked him to decide which list he thought was really better.

He complained about the IMDB top 250. One thing in particular he didn't like was the inclusion of some "no-name" film called "Shichinin no Samurai".

At this point, I and others busted up laughing. When we pointed out that "Shichinin no Samurai" is, of course, "The Seven Samurai", a movie classic, he claimed he knew, but that Seven Samurai really *is* a "no name" movie. He said: "I've only heard of it because my roommate rented it, and I'm a movie fan!" When we pointed out that this is the msot famous film by Akira Kurosawa, one of the most famous, influential, and respected directors of all time, he claimed Kurosawa was a no-name director who made awful films, and that he and his roommate couldn't even finish Seven Samurai 'cause it was so bad. And, he said, it was ridiculous that IMDB users would rank that film above films from "true artists" like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

We were aghast, of course, and quickly pointed out that Lucas has flatly admitted that Star Wars was greatly influenced by Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress, and that modern action movies would hardly exist without Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and other films by Kurosawa. If a "true artist" like Lucas loved and was influenced by Kurosawa's work, how could he possibly be bad and lack influence?

His solution? Well, Lucas and other artists *have* to claim they were influenced by other people so as not to appear arrogant.

"Like presidents today claim to be influenced by Lincoln, even though he was a bad president."

I kid you not.

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zbbrox writes:
on Sep 21 2007 08:06 AM

Holy crap!

I just went back and checked and that dude was aknddon3!

I'm not even kidding, I had no idea when I told that story that it was the same guy.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/1648621/1.php?c_page=1

Check that out. It is *crazy*. It makes what he's saying here look like reasoned discourse.

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knowingtoast85 writes:
on Sep 21 2007 10:46 AM

The formula is too transparent to warrant this much attention.

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SnorkleCat writes:
on Sep 21 2007 11:03 AM

...I went and looked at that Michael Bay/Kurosawa thread. The very best moment was the Ang Lee/ Jackie Chan/ "I don't like Japanese films" moment. Bwahahaa! And the punch line was that he didn't even get it. Now that's true comedy. Seriously, if someone had described these conversations to me, I would never have believed it. Never. It's so over the top.

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