Iron Man 3 Discussion Thread

[Kamandi]

Does he save them?

Spoiler

Going by the photos of on set filming I think he does.
He gets them to grab on to one another to distribute the weight so he's carrying 4 but the others are holding on to those 4.
Does he save them all though? Maybe not.

Since this is speculation I don't feel the need to wrap this in a spoiler.

If the group forms a daisy chain and Tony is at the center you have roughly equal weight on each side. Average weight in the US for men is 195 and for women is 166, let's just make the math simple and say 13 people averaging 180 pounds for a total weight for a total of 2340 pounds. Let's say Tony also weighs 180 and the suit 400-600 pounds. A maximum of 3120 pounds.

I think the suit can handle the weight. The problem is the poor SOBs holding onto Tony. When Tony decelerates as he nears the ground the people closest to Tony have to hold 1260 pounds on the arm with 7 people and 1080 pounds on the arm with 6 people.

"So he should wait until he's almost on the ground to decelerate" - wrong, that would create additional g-force and make it that much harder to hold on.

The daisy chain won't work unless Rhodey shows up. That would make ~3 people on each arm, the people holding the most weight have to bear 540 pounds (or in one case 720 pounds). That's still quite a bit, but people full of adrenaline have been able to lift that kind of weight so that's more plausible.

 

[Spartan Rex]

Since this is speculation I don't feel the need to wrap this in a spoiler.

If the group forms a daisy chain and Tony is at the center you have roughly equal weight on each side. Average weight in the US for men is 195 and for women is 166, let's just make the math simple and say 13 people averaging 180 pounds for a total weight for a total of 2340 pounds. Let's say Tony also weighs 180 and the suit 400-600 pounds. A maximum of 3120 pounds.

I think the suit can handle the weight. The problem is the poor SOBs holding onto Tony. When Tony decelerates as he nears the ground the people closest to Tony have to hold 1260 pounds on the arm with 7 people and 1080 pounds on the arm with 6 people.

"So he should wait until he's almost on the ground to decelerate" - wrong, that would create additional g-force and make it that much harder to hold on.

The daisy chain won't work unless Rhodey shows up. That would make ~3 people on each arm, the people holding the most weight have to bear 540 pounds (or in one case 720 pounds). That's still quite a bit, but people full of adrenaline have been able to lift that kind of weight so that's more plausible.

Yeah, we all know how Hollywood slavishly obeys the laws of physics in their comicbook and scifi productions.
Lol

Since it's Air Force 1 War Machine may be on duty and respond in time to help in some capacity.

 

[Kamandi]

Yeah, we all know how Hollywood slavishly obeys the laws of physics in their comicbook and scifi productions.
Lol

True, but Tony and Jarvis started this by discussing limitations.

Since it's Air Force 1 War Machine may be on duty and respond in time to help in some capacity.

It would be a great chance for Rhodey to make a big entrance.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Unless he made a number of stops he wouldn't be able to safely land those people even if the weight is distributed in his favor in-air

 

[DiFabio]

Maybe most of them die.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Rhodey gets sucked out of the plane too. He's in the Superbowl spot in his navy uniform.

 

[Kamandi]

Maybe most of them die.

More realistic if that were the case.

Rhodey gets sucked out of the plane too. He's in the Superbowl spot in his navy uniform.

I didn't see that. Perhaps War Machine can deploy the same way the MK 7 does.

Unless he made a number of stops he wouldn't be able to safely land those people even if the weight is distributed in his favor in-air

When he flies supersonic his suit would weigh 3000 pounds or more easily. His repulsors are capable of holding a few thousand pounds.

But - another problem in addition to the physical strenth of the people in the daisy chain is the injury inflicted by the repulsors. Even if he doesn't use his guantlets ome of these people are going to be hanging pretty low where they'll catch the blast from his boot thrusters.

But as Rex said, this is probably going to come down to Hollywood physics.

 

[CelticPredator]

Do you remember what Iron Man did in the last movie?

 

[Kamandi]

If you're talking about redirecting the path of the missile? SWAG but I bet that took more force than holding onto a few people.

Edit: You're probably thinking of lifting Pepper. He could have done that without his gauntlet repulsors, sparing her injury. Of course the force of acceleration for Pepper was probably greater than being hit by a car...

 

[CelticPredator]

I'm talking about fighting ******* Aliens and space gods....

This isn't a series based in realism, and logic.

 

[Kamandi]

Some people find this stuff interesting.

 

[CelticPredator]

Those people actually prove it. I can't stand when people nitpick a film on details that the film isn't concerned with.

When you throw Aliens and Gods into your franchise, realism is not even an opinion any more.

Meh.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

If all realism is out the window then they should have Iron Man shoot flowers out of his hands that magically turn his enemies into naked supermodels.

 

[Kamandi]

 

[CelticPredator]

You could never imprison Kenny Powers, unless he wants to be imprisoned.

And sure Nova. Why the **** not? We had Alien Gods. We can have anything at this point.

 

[DiFabio]

There's never been a realistic comic book film.

 

[batfan08]

If all realism is out the window then they should have Iron Man shoot flowers out of his hands that magically turn his enemies into naked supermodels.

This could be a really awesome movie, but, what are we talkin' here? PG-13 or R?

 

[CelticPredator]

A simple **** shot equals an R- Rating.

Only a man's butt is allowed in a PG-13.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

There's never been a realistic comic book film.

Kick *** is the only one that comes to mind, but even that had some moments of absurdity

 

[CelticPredator]

Yeah...no. Kick-A-ss isn't realistic.

At all.


Now Super. That is the most realistic superhero film ever made. But it tis not a comic.