Thor in November.

Man, seeing the trailer on a big screen REALLY made Loki's outfit look like a hoodie.

Personally, I loved the idea that the suits could be remote-controlled. I mean, why not? If the guys on Top Gear can remote-control a full-size car, Stark can remote-control an IM suit through a virtual interface. Plus, all the memory Jarvis had been using to control the Malibu house and all those robots was now available; why not have him* control a small fleet of suits? It's cool.

*Yes, to me Jarvis is a him, not an it.

Yeah, Beau's response is that lessening IM's role in the suits means that anyone theoretically could control the suits. Why is IM necessary? He felt that Stark's persona as being a brilliant inventor should have been more on display than just the function of the suits.

Warren Ellis was in the credits--I'm pretty sure I saw his name there, and I hadn't been prepped by discussion here.

My assumption was that Maya's motive was to kidnap Pepper and use her as leverage to persuade Tony to do what she wanted. Did I misread the explanation to Killian entirely?

I quite enjoyed it, but I do feel they could have shortened the final fight scene and not skimmed over what he narrated afterwards instead. In terms of things happening, and things of import, I felt the it was imbalanced.

LeN--I did drift away during Avengers too, thinking, wow, they're still fighting, and I'm not learning anything new about anyone here.

I just watched Contraband and accept that Mark Wahlberg is a much better actor than I was giving him credit for--the inane guy on talk shows is well-hidden when he dons the garb of working class or lower roughneck.

I give the movie a thumbs up for the Jackson Pollock--I can't not. But, Jesus, talk about erasing all the tension with zero consequence. Yikes. It could have been a kinda dark movie, but it punks out something awful.

I saw IM3 today with amyth and another friend. I loved it on just about every level. I was glad to go into it unspoiled.

I want to see IM3 again just so that I can watch it knowing what movie I'm seeing, if that makes sense. It was quite different from what I was expecting (and I'm not sure what that was) and that can leave me with a bad taste the first time around.

I'm too tired to make any points, but towards the end, things seemed to get . . . derivative? Homages? Rip-offs? There was the Terminator sequence (you know, the scene after Reece climbs out of the dumpster and he and Sarah cling to each other, thinking it's over); it felt a lot like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in some instances, which made me feel a bit awkward about being excited that Shane Black being at the helm, or maybe that was the SB/RDJ combo working against itself. There were a couple of other instances that if felt too much like it was tipping it's hat to other movies instead of trying to be itself, but now I can't recall what.

But I enjoyed it, I just need to watch it again with the correct expectation goggles on.

Once I finally believed that Ben Kingsley really wasn't the villain, I thought it was hilarious, and it all made sense (the bad accent). Maybe if I hadn't read so many stories involving him I wouldn't have had such a hard time believing the fake-out and it would have played better. As it was, watching his explanations seemed like a bunch of hasty lies, so finally accepting it was a bit lame. BK does the best comedy, though.

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I shall see IM3 tomorrow; tonight I saw 42, which although not complicated, was indeed a feel-good movie. Strange to recognize the horribly racist Phillies manager as Alan Tudyk, though. Eww.

My old gym was in IM3! One of the reaction shots where everyone was watching TV, they panned past people on ellipticals and running machines on a mezzanine level, and that was the West LA branch of SportsClub LA.

Ironman rocked. I found the whole film engrossing. RDJ was as charming as only he can be. All the exchanges between Tony and Harley were fantastic--the "Don't be a pussy" line killed me. The CGI was pretty damn seamless and so the action sequences were very exciting. I really loved the Mandarin reveal and how much FUN Ben Kingsley was having. Hell, I just loved the movie.