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Originally Posted by Augi
Did too difficult stop Stuart Gordon with Robot Jox?
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You're using Robot Jox as an example of special effects that don't look hokey? Dude, have you actually
seen Robot Jox? If there's a film that would have benefitted from CGI, that's the one. The original Terminator would've been a much better example.
I have no issue with CG effects as such; I understand that it allows filmmakers to do crazy cool things without having to resort to time consuming and relatively expensive techniques like stop motion or miniatures or whatever else. Creating an Iron Man that can fly and actually look like Iron Man flying and not a model on a string (or a dude on wires) almost demands CGI. Creating armour that does the crazy stuff Iron Man's armour does, same deal.
That said, my primary concern is that they give the suit the appearance of mass. 616 Iron Man's original suits were so heavy that if they lost power he was completely unable to move. His new armour has crazy force fields and quantum mechanic stuff to make it lighter and more flexible, but I doubt they'll incorporate that into the film. For a good idea of how I imagine his final armour will be portrayed check out Ultimate Iron Man.
At any rate, this is a suit of armour that smashes through walls and stands up to blows from the Incredible Hulk (as well as anything does, anyway). It's not light, it's not flimsy. There's a sheer mass to it that needs to come across and I'm not sure from the glimpses we've gotten in the trailers that it's really there. Iron Man is not a red and gold version of Batman.