I think me liking Rhodes/WM over Stark/IM is a matter of how the armor looked... War Machine just looked more bad-ass, and being a teen boy who was into military stuff, I guess I just preferred the look of the WM armor over the regular armor.
On the tangent of Spiderman 3 - What I think pissed me off even more than the shitty venom (dont get me wrong, I did like Topher) is the MAJOR ret-con of the absolute single most defining moment in Spider-mans life. Spider-Man is probably my favorite super hero of all time (not my favorite comic character) and I bought damn near every Spider-Man comic (yes, all 4, "Plain", Amazing, Spectactular, Web of) for many years. I wouldve preferred them to pick one villan, either do Sandman, or do Venom, but not both. Especially when the Spider-Man movies seem to be suffering from Batman syndrome, the inclusion of too many god damn villans. A movie just dealing with the new Green Goblin, and the suit transition from Peter to Brock (and a fight between the new Venom and Spidey, possibly with Goblin thrown in wouldve been fine). An idea I had before anything had been announced about Spidey3, except for Venoms inclusion was that, they kind of do something similar to the comic. Rather than John Jameson be an astronaut, hes just a test pilot, gets hit by falling space junk (the suit), spidey of course rescues him, burns up part of his suit, and gets the symbiote in the process.
Anyway, sorry, not trying to hijack the thread.