I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’m angry about it. I might not even see it at all, so I can stay angry. Great foundational myths of Western civilization should not be sullied with stunt casting. Just the thought of it takes me right out of the mood you need to enjoy an escapist epic. I mean. I mean, come on: No one else could play Dr. Doom in the new Avengers movie but Robert Downey Jr.?
Oh, I’m sure there’s some multiverse crossover parallel-world explanation about why the Latverian madman looks exactly like the guy in the Iron Man suit, but we all know it’s for a payday and some sort of meta-meta way to get past Downey dying in Avengers: The Previous One. I just don’t want latter-stage Downey as Doom, all bitchy and quippy when he should be brooding malevolence.
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