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Iron Man 3: 3rd Time’s the Charm?
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Iron Man 3. ©Marvel Entertainment

The Iron Man 3 trailer was released this week.
Looks like we’re in for a ride.

Not sure Marvel is going for “Third time’s the charm”.
No warm fuzzies here. Looks like this one might be darker than the other 2 combined.

On a side note, thanks to many of you for letting us know that you didn’t get yesterday’s blog. Guess what? I didn’t either. I sent an INVITE with a huge picture, so most email clients junked it. Please take a second and check it out now: You’re Invited! Thanks!

Back to the trilogy…
What do you think?

Is it me or does every series seem to go all ‘end of the world’ by the 3rd movie?

The Dark Knight Rises pulled out all the stops with Bane. By the way, I saw Bane’s replica on Sunset Blvd yesterday hocking his signature for tourists’ tips. Times are hard. Just saying.

Transformers 3 transported hundreds of evil Decepticons from the Moon to Earth and it appeared Optimus Prime & the Autobots were blasted in a space shuttle.

Remember Spider-Man 3? I looked up and Spidey was fighting like 3 different villains. I was like, “Wait, who are we fighting? Sandman? Venom? Harry, son of Green Goblin?” Why does 1 hero need 3 villains? Only 1 super villain is needed. Thank you, Sir!

Iron Man 3 has that 1 villain: Mandarin, played by Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley himself. Who says Oscar winners can’t do blockbuster films?

Another side note, (indulge me today, Fam!), I had the awesome privilege of taking a master class with Sir Ben when I studied classical theatre one summer at Oxford in England. He’s phenomenal and truly committed to our craft, in every since of the word. Just thought you should know that.

I do, however, wish the Iron III team would’ve left Sir Ben bald though. He seems more menacing bald. I’m not feeling his Mandarin hairpiece. Look, we all know he’s English, not Chinese (as Mandarin would suggest). Ethnically-ambiguous, colorblind casting, right?! Actually, Mandarin may be biracial in the comic books, but he sure did look Asian . Either way, note to all our producer fam, great hair adds without distraction. Throwing that one in for free.

So, what do you think?
Is the trailer too dark?

And why is the Iron Man suit going rogue and operating without Tony Starks? Even accosting its own creator?

You know what it made me think of? How we, God’s creation, go rogue and operate without Him. So many times, we think we’ve “got this” and we “don’t need Him”. That’s understandable, if we’ve never known God. But what about those of us who know we’re His children. Why in the world would we offend our own Creator?

Paul attributes much of our rebellion to the two natures warring within us – the part of us that wants to follow God and the part that wants to wreak havoc. In Romans 7:14-25, the apostle describes this conflict in great detail:

“For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate… Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.”

Does this feel familiar?
It does, right?!

Difference Between us and Iron Man

The difference between us and Iron Man though is that (it appears in the trailer, anyway) his battle is external. We can see his rebellion attacking him in the form of his computerized armour. Ours is internal, and works it way to external. Good thing we don’t have to try to save ourselves, as no doubt, Iron Man will have to do. Just as Paul did, we can thank God through Jesus Christ who took our rebellion upon Himself so that we could be reconciled back to God.

Does that mean we instantly ‘have it all together’? Absolutely not. But it does mean that we know Who to turn to in the midst of our ongoing battle. For that, I’m eternally grateful.

Alright, Fam.
Iron Man 3 flies into an IMAX theater near you May 3, 2013. I’m sure, between now and then, we’ll get more trailers, more darker Starks and more views of Sir Ben’s hairpiece.

All of which, I will do my best to enjoy,

Naima
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