James Rhodes Vs Mandarin : What Are The Main Personal Weapons Of Iron Man?

During one of the writing sessions, pearce suggested that the mandarin was a fake, and black agreed by going with making him an actor, which in turn pearce detailed as an overacting british stage performer. black explained: "who would be fool enough to declare that he is an international terrorist? if you're smart, whatever regime you're part of, you'd put a puppet committee and remain your house."

They did recast rhodes in this film substituting don cheadle for terrance howard, but quite frankly i thought it was an improvement. cheadle just has a better presence than howard and though they recast the role because howard wanted more money, i think it worked in favor of the studio because cheadle is a better actor. all the other primary players are accounted for as robert downey jr. is back as tony stark/iron man and gwyneth paltrow is back as pepper potts.

Taylor-johnson had been in negotiations since as early as june, while olsen's potential involvement was first reported in august. by the end of the year, mark ruffalo, chris evans, samuel l. jackson, chris hemsworth, scarlett johansson, jeremy renner, and cobie smulders were confirmed to be returning to their roles from the first film, and don cheadle, who portrayed james rhodes in the iron man films, had committed to a part in the film. in the early months of 2014, thomas kretschmann was cast as baron wolfgang von strucker, claudia kim was cast in an unspecified role, and paul bettany, who voiced j.a.r.v.i.s.

Sadly, the film that surrounds this wonderful piece of cinema is drowned out by a colossal red herring, throw-away characters, and wasted opportunities. special mention should also go to downey jr, because his portrayal of stark in this film is his best yet.one of the biggest gripes about the iron man trilogy to date has been its rather bland villains, especially when compared to the likes of thor or cap, whose respective villains (loki and red skull) were excellent. iron man 3 decided to resolve this problem by doing absolutely nothing to resolve it, by making a hamming-it-up guy pearce as the villain we know next to nothing about, and then by pretending- through trailers, marketing, and the film's plot itself- that the main villain was sir ben kingsley as the mandarin.

Choosing a character to be the villain of the film was difficult, as favreau felt iron man's arch-nemesis the mandarin would not feel realistic, especially after mark millar gave his opinion on the script. the mandarin had originally been envisioned as a rival to tony stark with a building of his own right next to stark industries, with the mandarin eventually drilling a hole underneath stark industries to steal all of stark's technology for himself; associate producer jeremy latchman described such story as "crazy terrible" and "underwhelming". favreau felt only in a sequel, with an altered tone, would the fantasy of the mandarin's rings be appropriate.

We also have terrence howard as james rhodes which looking at it now felt out of place since we have all gotten used to don cheadele. this isn't to say he did a bad job, in fact he did a very good job but it would be nice to know why he didn't appear in any subsequent films after this. a particular scene featured rhodes looking at tony's mark ii suit (war machine prototype) and saying "next time, baby".

This was a good edition to the iron man series but very disappointing, the best thing about the movie was its humor and action, with another excellent performance from robert downey jr. and well guy pearce is brilliant in anything he does. heres the point i want to make, as a major iron man fan i think what they did with the character of the mandarin was literally a jail-able offence (spoiler alert)...marvel built up the character of the mandarin so much with the media and the trailers and of course it was just a ploy so we would be shocked that the mandarin was just a phony a distraction to the real mandarin aldrich killian( who in the comics shoots himself in the head and is just a crazy scientist), when i went into the movie i was expecting a ground breaking villain like the joker and bane in the dk trilogy..but no ironman 3 did not stay true to the comic books and ruined ironmans greatest foe, why?? mandarin is to tony stark what joker is to bruce wayne, what the green goblin is to peter parker, you ruined a great villain, and that ruined the movie for me as a life long iron man fan..

James "rhodey" rhodes is a fictional character initially portrayed by terrence howard, and then by don cheadle, in the marvel cinematic universe (mcu) media franchise, based on the marvel comics character of the same name and sometimes referred to by his alias, war machine. he is depicted as a u.s. air force officer who is the best friend of technological savant tony stark. he becomes involved in stark's heroic efforts, later gaining armor like that of stark's iron man persona, but with heavier weaponry.