Iron Man 3 is fantastic. I'm gonna go see it again tomorrow in 3D.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
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Zenkitty - May 02, 2013 8:13:52 pm PDT #24181 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
le nubian - May 02, 2013 8:44:15 pm PDT #24182 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Question: I did not see Iron-Man 2. Will that be a problem?
Polter-Cow - May 02, 2013 10:11:58 pm PDT #24183 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha ha, le nubian, one of the things I was actually coming here to say was that you can totally see it without having seen Iron Man 2. All you need to know is that Don Cheadle is Rhodes is War Machine now. Wait, maybe other important stuff happened in that movie. Like Pepper being in control of Stark Industries, which you already knew from The Avengers. That's really the more important movie to have seen.
Anyway, anything you may need to know is basically the status quo at the beginning of the movie, so no worries on that front.
The movie is great. It's funny and exciting with some AWESOME action sequences and good character stuff for Tony. Well done, Shane Black.
Also, obvs stay till the end of the credits I can't believe a few people actually got up and left have they never seen a Marvel movie before.
Steph L. - May 03, 2013 6:18:24 am PDT #24184 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
All I want out of it is for it to be better than Iron Man 2 (which I neither own nor have seen more than once).
So it sounds like it meets that standard nicely and then blows past it.
10 hours to go!
Jon B. - May 03, 2013 6:20:31 am PDT #24185 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Hey -- I forgot to mention that I saw Whedon's Much Ado last weekend. It was really good! Aside from the modern setting, the script is faithful to the play. But there are some line readings and reaction shots that make it a unique interpretation and make you wonder why no one had thought to do it that way before.
At the screening I went to, Fran Kranz and Jillian Morgese did a Q&A afterwards and were quite charming and down to earth.
Polter-Cow - May 03, 2013 7:10:56 am PDT #24186 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It is absolutely better than Iron Man 2, but they did keep the stuff that movie did well, which was the Tony/Pepper and Tony/Rhodey relationships. I think it probably also helps that Tony's not the huge asshole he was in that movie anymore.
Good to hear about Much Ado, Jon! I have heard good things from my jerk-ass friends who saw it without me and they got Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof.
sj - May 03, 2013 7:54:47 am PDT #24187 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Jon, was the Much Ado screening in MA?
Has anyone seen The Croods? If so, was it any good?
DavidS - May 03, 2013 8:13:33 am PDT #24188 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anyone seen The Croods? If so, was it any good?
My niece saw it with her son. They said it was terrible and he wanted to leave in mid-screening.
SuziQ - May 03, 2013 8:20:47 am PDT #24189 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
See, I kinda liked The Croods. But I went in with no expectations, so there is that.
sj - May 03, 2013 8:21:55 am PDT #24190 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Hec. The previews did look terrible. I was looking to see something this afternoon that TCG wouldn't want to see.