Comments on: Iron Man 3 Breaks Records In China, But Has All The Pockmarks Of Corporate Hollywood

By: SeaHorse

SeaHorse — Sun, 05 May 2013 01:26:44 +0000

““I just want to see Robert,” Stephen Qin, 25, told Los Angeles Times”

As someone with a vagina, I only went to see the Sherlock movies and Ironman for Robert. The movies were just okay. It’s not capitalism or orientalism guys, it’s the power of Robert Downey Jr.

By: icky

icky — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:47:37 +0000

How much do you think has this to do with the movie goer and how much to do with goverment organs such as saft?

By: snoopfrog

snoopfrog — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:48:39 +0000

I saw this movie in shanghai. Ticket rmb 40 so ok. The last couple of minutes with fan binbing were indeed superfluous but overall i enjoyed this film as my wife and my kids did. And to those wo think tis cut has anything to with china…. what to say. The cars are audi because audi pays for this so i think they thought they could appeal more to a chinese audience. And most people leaving the cathay cinema seemed to have rather enjoyed this film…. and the 3d actually made sense.

By: Anthony Tao

Anthony Tao — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:45:45 +0000

I can definitely get onboard with fucking SARFT.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:33:20 +0000

Please note that Brian didn’t actually see the movie. He’s in Japan. I saw the movie. The Chinese additions were terrible.

What was most appalling is that this is example of a “Co-production” that SARFT had approved. I mean, when Looper was released Chinese bloggers were upset. Officials were upset. They claimed that they would crack down on “so-so” co-productions that didn’t have anything really Chinese in them. Yet after all that commotion, they allowed Iron Man 3.

On top of that, the movie doesn’t make sense because they removed the post credits teaser/easter egg. The whole movie has Tony narrating. Iron Man isn’t a meta-film, it’s not a self referential film, so who the F is Tony regaling his story to? The International version has this, why doesn’t the Chinese version have it? Is it because of Run times and the stupid extra china scenes bumped it out? Or is it because Marvel/Disney couldn’t guarantee future movies in China? If it’s the latter, the easter egg at the end of Iron Man 3 has nothing to do with Marvel Phase 2.

Fucking SARFT man, Fucking SARFT.

By: Chackie Jan

Chackie Jan — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:39:35 +0000

It is an embarrassment to everyone and a kowtow to wild west capitalism. I was planning to go watch this in cinema but will download instead. Thanks for the warning and here’s to hoping something horrible happens to the colon of the marketing mong who thought this was a good idea.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:56:53 +0000

Saw it today. It was… embarrassing. Especially embarrassing for China’s A-list actress who is just an extra here.

By: Andao

Andao — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:40:44 +0000

I was pretty surprised at the awfulness of the extra 2 minutes at the end. There’s a bazillion more interesting things they could have done, and didn’t.