In our collective race (the blog race) to track the minutia of projects like “Iron Man 2,” we feel more and more like what the studios would have us be — an unpaid marketing wing/street team for every silly little whiff or metallic “Iron Man” newness (the blogs that live in a world where this dilemma never even occurs to them is surely a blissfully ignorant land we secretly wish we lived in).
Still, while the launch of a new “Iron Man 2” website isn’t much of any kind of story, it does provide some new semi-interesting ephemera surrounding the film. One, the entire score written by John Debney (featuring guitar playing by Ex-Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello) can be heard on the website, so that’s something for those that want to hear the original music early. It’s… very “Iron Man”-y, not radically different from the score composed by Ramin Djawadi for the first installment. That’s not to say it’s bad, it’s just that scores like these work much better within the context of the actual movie with pounding sound effects, thrilling editing, etc.
Secondly, and we suppose less interesting since everyone’s already seen photos of the entire cast are… more new photos of the entire cast. Tah dah! We’re obviously fond of any Mickey Rourke shots with cockatoos (his character will either be a trainwreck or genius we’re sure) and there is one important interesting revelation in all these photos. Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff character straightens during her civilian mornings, but curls at night during her super heroine evening jaunts. Who knew?
We’ve obviously written enough about “Iron Man 2” that we must have “Paramount suckers hook line and sinker” written on our foreheads in attempt to stay relevant with what’s out there, so if the film isn’t excellent, we’re going to be pissed (for our U.K. readers that means angry).
