Why the hell nobody allowed Downey Jr to play an alcoholic Tony Stark in any of the movies? Watching this movie made me totally believe that he can pull off a dark, miserable, mentally broken Tony Stark from the comics. Marvel are wasting him as an actor by not allowing him to portray the most fundamental personal conflict that character ever had.
shareI agree. Those Iron Man comics where he is in the depths of the bottle and all of that were some of the best. They must not want to go that dark.
shareI'd say more like Iron Man 3, but yea, I agree. Huge missed opportunity as watching this and reading The Power of Iron Man will attest to. They gave him PTSD instead. Probably a smarter move commercially.
We’re trying to pretend as if these comic books don’t exist. - David Goyer on the DCEU
O God, yes, that would be brilliant. But I have problems to imagine that it would've attracted the crowds as much as a quirky, sarcastic, halfways stable Tony Stark does. The Marvel fans would even enjoy some added depths probably, real RDJ fans anyway, but the masses? All those oh-so-entertaining endless fights would have to be cut, as a depressive Tony simply wouldn't have the power to do it. Maybe they could do Iron Man 4 this way. For superficial Bambi eyes to express sadness we still got Chris Evans.
There's one thing I just had to think of: Yet Robert was addicted to drugs already before "Less Than Zero", but he mentioned in an interview that, after this movie, he seemed to not be able anymore to get out of character and became the pathetic and unreliable junkie we know from the 90s. That price would be way too high, though I'd hope, he could separate it better this time.
has a thing for the dude portraying the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Such a lost opportunity. A superhero being a burned out alcoholic Nam vet totally blew my young mind when I first started reading Iron Man circa 1975. He was always my favorite because of that, it was just so different and edgy... back then. So lame the way they sanitized him in the movies. Not like I was really surprised though. It figures.
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