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Finally saw "The Dark Knight Rises" last night. I'm ambivalent about the movie, but Bane's voice was great.

my theory behind the bain voice was that he was always slightly choking back on the immeasurable amount of pain that he's constantly experiencing

I want to see a movie where Stroke Guy is the voice of the villain. And I want said villain to tie up hookers and force them to watch bad movies, in which the villain also has the voice of Stroke Guy.

this guy sounds like Carl Sagan after a stroke

who is the villain anyway?

The Mandarin.

I'm trying to place that voice, because I know it's very similar to a character I've heard somewhere else- that very flat, uninflected, robotic kind of total lack of accent. And I can't, and it's driving me fucking nuts.

hahah its Ben Kingsley dope, read the other comments

Weeabos make the most disturbing villains. Didn't you know that?

Damn. Replied to wrong comment. Meant for garcet.

This character, hero, and franchise all fucking suck.

So Christopher Nolan's taking this over, too?

I thought the angst was always a part of the Stark character. Aren't the movies just following the comic's lead?

They already did a fine job of making the franchise boring when they made Iron Man 2.

Sir Ben Kingsley is capable of playing any race, creed, religion, ethnicity, gender or species. This is evidenced by his EVERY FUCKING MOVIE HE HAS EVER BEEN IN.

I can hear the conversation now:
"So, we need a well known Chinese actor to play The Mandarin."
"I don't know, having an evil villain named 'The Mandarin' played by a Chinese actor might make us look racist"
"Then how about we get a well known British actor, dress him in a vaguely Chinese costume and have him talk in a indeterminate accent"
"Ben Kingsley is available, he was great in Ghandi and India is in Asia right?"

Ben Kingsley's a better than all of those guys, though.

(actor, not human being or anything)

They went out of their way to not make the villain Chinese because otherwise China's strict censorship laws would lock them out of that huge market.

Garcet, you left out the rest of the conversation:

"Hmm... Maybe this would be racist. What else can we do?"
"Well, there's always the aping of other popular movies in a flailing attempt to hijack their popularity?"
"What were you thinking?"
"The Hobbit is coming out, and it's about a ring."
"And we've got TEN rings!"
"Right."
"So we make the Mandarin look like one of the dwarfs!"
"Sure, why not?"

When Ben Kingsley acts, he's awesome. The problem is there a lot of films where he just sort of is there and talks in a British accent and wears "evil" costumes, but isn't actually doing much "Acting." If, for this film, he actually decides to BE the character and take on a role, he might be great.

I looked up the Mandarin on wikipedia and evidently his mother was an Englishwoman. So there you shitty racists.

If they don't have him yell "FEEL MAI POWAAAAH!" at least once, then there's no point in making him the villain.

I never got the absurd amount of praise it got. Unless you really REALLY want to see Downey and Paltrow improv off each other for 90 minutes.

And even then you'd have to sit through scenes of a lame villain and the most offensively jingoistic horseshit since Transformers.

yeah, Bronze Dude had it so much easier

You mean Doc Samson, right?

no no, he was the Man of Bronze

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I wish I saved my stars for you sir.

that WAS good!

We all chipped in and got you these stars.

I thought for a second that the Big Bad was going to be Iron Patriot (Norman Osborne in an older model Iron Man suit). I still want them to adapt Dark Reign into a series of movies.

the big gun on the back makes me think that's Warmachine from IM2