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Posted: Jun 12 2009 01:49 am

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-06-09-ironman2-rourke_N.htm

Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) sports a power pack on his chest that looks similar to the one that Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) uses.

"The technologies are definitely related," says director Jon Favreau. "That's part of the core theme of the film."

The villain's alter ego, Ivan Vanko, is a Russian who "has constructed his own version of a suit," Favreau says. Among the creative innovations: a pair of whips, powered by the suit's glowing chest piece, that are expected to keep Iron Man cracking.

Whiplash "is going to light them up," Rourke quips.

Posted: Jun 12 2009 06:07 am

So is he the only villain? Or are they using the Mandarin too?

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If they ever use the Mandarin, they're going to have to severely alter him out of fear of being labeled racist.

Posted: Jun 12 2009 11:30 am

Cattivo wrote:

If they ever use the Mandarin, they're going to have to severely alter him out of fear of being labeled racist.

True, but he is a such a classic villian, tampering with him would be tricky.

In other news, I do like Mickey Rourke.

I wish the Iron Man movies followed the Ultimate Iron Man story arc. Its so much more compelling, and much more sci-fi heavy.

Posted: Jun 12 2009 12:02 pm

I was thinking about that the other day for some reason. I think if they were going to do The Mandarin now, he'd be a younger, hipper, Japanese super successful businessman type who is secretly evil as hell.

Posted: Jun 12 2009 02:09 pm

From my understanding, no, the Mandarin won't be in this one. There's another villain, but I don't remember who. The Black Widow's in it, though.

Posted: Jun 12 2009 02:37 pm

Black Zarak wrote:

I was thinking about that the other day for some reason. I think if they were going to do The Mandarin now, he'd be a younger, hipper, Japanese super successful businessman type who is secretly evil as hell.

Based on the name, shouldn't he be CHINESE and not japanese, since "mandarin" is a chinese word?

Posted: Jun 12 2009 09:15 pm

Knyte wrote:

Black Zarak wrote:

I was thinking about that the other day for some reason. I think if they were going to do The Mandarin now, he'd be a younger, hipper, Japanese super successful businessman type who is secretly evil as hell.

Based on the name, shouldn't he be CHINESE and not japanese, since "mandarin" is a chinese word?

Posted: Jun 12 2009 09:33 pm

Knyte wrote:

Black Zarak wrote:

I was thinking about that the other day for some reason. I think if they were going to do The Mandarin now, he'd be a younger, hipper, Japanese super successful businessman type who is secretly evil as hell.

Based on the name, shouldn't he be CHINESE and not japanese, since "mandarin" is a chinese word?

They all look the same to me man Razz

No, I'm just an idiot...

Posted: Jun 12 2009 10:15 pm

Knyte wrote:

CHINESE

Knyte wrote:

japanese

Dirty knees.
Look at these.

Seriously though, Whiplash is kind of a boring choice. Iron Man already fought an evil version of himself, it was called Iron Man 1.

The twist is that this time, the bad guy is so evil that Iron Man can't possibly defeat him without summoning Megazord... I mean War Machine.

Posted: Jun 13 2009 12:43 am

That reminds me, Don Cheadle is taking over the role of War Machine. He's a much better choice than Terrance Howard, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Posted: Jun 13 2009 11:19 am

Cattivo wrote:

If they ever use the Mandarin, they're going to have to severely alter him out of fear of being labeled racist.

The Mandarin was in the first movie. He was also Middle Eastern.

Posted: Jun 13 2009 11:26 am

NereidKnives wrote:

That reminds me, Don Cheadle is taking over the role of War Machine. He's a much better choice than Terrance Howard, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Don Cheadle is a terrible choice for War Machine! He's a great actor, but he looks like he could be blown away by 5 MPH winds. War Machine is a military veteran who, unlike Iron Man, was able to kick a significant amount of ass WITHOUT the use of a big metal suit. I have no idea what the guy's name is, but the black dude who was one of the top henchmen in The Rock would be a much better choice.

Posted: Jun 14 2009 02:02 am

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

NereidKnives wrote:

That reminds me, Don Cheadle is taking over the role of War Machine. He's a much better choice than Terrance Howard, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Don Cheadle is a terrible choice for War Machine! He's a great actor, but he looks like he could be blown away by 5 MPH winds. War Machine is a military veteran who, unlike Iron Man, was able to kick a significant amount of ass WITHOUT the use of a big metal suit. I have no idea what the guy's name is, but the black dude who was one of the top henchmen in The Rock would be a much better choice.

Tony Todd? Who also played in the Candyman movies?

I could see that, yeah.

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Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Cattivo wrote:

If they ever use the Mandarin, they're going to have to severely alter him out of fear of being labeled racist.

The Mandarin was in the first movie. He was also Middle Eastern.

I've never heard that before, and the character is not listed on the imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/fullcredits#cast

Posted: Jun 14 2009 03:22 pm

The Mandarin is NOT in the first movie. The terror cell that captured Stark is called the Ten Rings, which is an homage to the Mandarin, but the terrorist leader is not supposed to be the Mandarin.

Posted: Jun 15 2009 02:31 pm

I like Mickey Rourke and all, but I want Fin Fang Foom god dammit.

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Ba'al wrote:

I like Mickey Rourke and all, but I want Fin Fang Foom god dammit.

No, no god damn it. There is no way that you can a character like that running around the entire movie like villians need to set up a rivalry. You could only MAYBE have him at the end as like some big monster he has to face and destroy in like 10 minutes. But when you do that fanboys bitch and bitch aaaaaand bitch. So no not happening.

Posted: Jun 15 2009 07:21 pm

Okay, I liked the first movie, but never read the comics, so I'm confused. There's like 5 different suits. Now, this war machine dude, is he a different suit, the big one from the end of the first movie, or the junk one from where Tony was trapped in the terrorist place?

Posted: Jun 15 2009 08:03 pm

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

Ba'al wrote:

I like Mickey Rourke and all, but I want Fin Fang Foom god dammit.

No, no god damn it. There is no way that you can a character like that running around the entire movie like villians need to set up a rivalry. You could only MAYBE have him at the end as like some big monster he has to face and destroy in like 10 minutes. But when you do that fanboys bitch and bitch aaaaaand bitch. So no not happening.

You know you want to see it happen though!

Posted: Jun 16 2009 04:09 am

ToGdor wrote:

Okay, I liked the first movie, but never read the comics, so I'm confused. There's like 5 different suits. Now, this war machine dude, is he a different suit, the big one from the end of the first movie, or the junk one from where Tony was trapped in the terrorist place?

War Machine's suit is a black and silver, heavy weapons spec version of the Iron Man armor. In the movie, you even see Rhodey look over at the second suit of armor in Stark's...armory and passes it over saying "Next time...next time."

Posted: Jun 16 2009 08:05 am

ToGdor wrote:

Okay, I liked the first movie, but never read the comics, so I'm confused. There's like 5 different suits. Now, this war machine dude, is he a different suit, the big one from the end of the first movie, or the junk one from where Tony was trapped in the terrorist place?

There have been a LOT of different suits. The most recent one was actually inside Stark's body, and after taking over S.H.I.E.L.D., Normal Osbourne broke into a secret room with like 20 different Iron Man models we'd never seen before.

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Ba'al wrote:

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

Ba'al wrote:

I like Mickey Rourke and all, but I want Fin Fang Foom god dammit.

No, no god damn it. There is no way that you can a character like that running around the entire movie like villians need to set up a rivalry. You could only MAYBE have him at the end as like some big monster he has to face and destroy in like 10 minutes. But when you do that fanboys bitch and bitch aaaaaand bitch. So no not happening.

You know you want to see it happen though!

oh i would love the 10 minute part but Jon Favreau is a smart man and won't do it.