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.
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!
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.
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.
Jon, was the Much Ado screening in MA?
Has anyone seen The Croods? If so, was it any good?
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.
See, I kinda liked The Croods. But I went in with no expectations, so there is that.
Thanks, Hec. The previews did look terrible. I was looking to see something this afternoon that TCG wouldn't want to see.
The Croods doesn't look interesting to me at all, but my favorite 8 year old LOVED it so much that she has seen it twice.
Jon, was the Much Ado screening in MA?
Yes, it was a screening at the Somerville Theater, part of IFFBoston.
