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!
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
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Steph L. - May 03, 2013 6:18:24 am PDT #24184 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
beekaytee - May 03, 2013 8:32:27 am PDT #24191 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
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 B. - May 03, 2013 9:46:08 am PDT #24192 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jon, was the Much Ado screening in MA?
Yes, it was a screening at the Somerville Theater, part of IFFBoston.
sj - May 03, 2013 11:29:58 am PDT #24193 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I wish I had known about that.