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**HuzzFivvNivv**

Just got back from Iron Man.

I liked it.

What's not to like a billionare in power armor kicking butt to make the world a better place.

And I think the best Stan Lee cameo yet.

**Anung Un Rama**

Yeah, great movie. altough the showdown wasn't that great. but besides that, great fun

edit: those are a lot of "greats"......

**Ahtman**

But did you stay through the credits to catch the extra ending?

**Waaagh_Gonads**

I've heard the acting is pretty good compared to the usual superhero movie.

I'm off to see it next week, tourney this weekend and work next week means limited time for movie watching...

**thesuperiorninja**

I can't wait to see this movie. My girlfriend even wants to see it. Even though Iron Man isn't my favorite hero he's still freakin' sweet.

**DFo**

The preceeding trailer for The Dark Knight is worth the price of admission (this coming from a guy who went to see I Am Legend on opening night in Imax to see the ~6 minutes of Batman... which was awesome).

Iron Man is certainly enjoyable with Robert Downey Jr. being the highlight. My girlfriend liked it more than I did... again... Downey Jr...

**Frazzled**

It was good. not cloverfield good but good. The big fight scene wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be, but a good flick nonetheless.

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The main bad guy doesn't seem to have any motivation to do what he does. Why does he want to kill off his own R&D brain?

**Anung Un Rama**

you defintly should stay after tzhe credits. totally worth it.

**Ahtman**

Well we might as well plan on a sequel. It is the second highest opening weekend for a non-sequel film ever. It made $100.7 mill in the US on Friday and Saturday in the US and $96.7 Worldwide. Adding in the early Thursday showings that puts it's weekend take at $201 million. Not to shabby.

**Viperion**

Ahtman wrote:Well we might as well plan on a sequel.

Captain Rhodes looking at the Mk1 suit and saying "Next Time"? The bit after the credits? I would not want to bet against a sequel already being written

Great movie.

Viperion

**Ahtman**

Those are all in film. The only thing that actually guarantees it is $$$, and it got it.

**thesuperiorninja**

jfrazell wrote:It was good. not cloverfield good but good.

Are you F'ing kidding me? Cloverfield blew a$$! Iron Man is the best Marvel movie I've seen to date. And just as movies in general go, it was very well done.

**Teek**

Definitely a fun movie. I personally boygasm'd more than a few times over Stark's personal fleet. The Shelby, Saleen, Ford High Boy, all the bikes, the Tesla, and the ridiculously sexy Audi R8...

And if you go see this movie, you are wasting your money and time if you don't stay through the credits. Seriously, best post-credits wonderclip of all time.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Grr, H8 you all.

I saw it in Shanghai but didn't know to stay for the credits.

Grr.

Now I must see it again.

Oh and best robot on robot action since Robocop II.

**Frazzled**

thesuperiorninja wrote:
jfrazell wrote:It was good. not cloverfield good but good.

Iron Man is the best Marvel movie I've seen to date.

So is that good or bad?

She Who Must Be Obeyed procured Cloverfield for me last weekend-watched it again yesterday still good. Iron Man good but not great (think Spidiy II was the best or Batman Begins). The "bad guy" didn't do it for me much as I like the actor. The big fight scene was ok.

And they really needed to play "Ironman" in the scene he was breaking out of the warlord's cave. We needed more Black Sabbath songs blasting through whenever Iron Man was flying/banging around.

Edit: ayah every time something dropped on the beautiful Shelby I kept crying "not the Shelby!" SWMBO was perplexed. Its a guy thing.

**Boss Salvage**

Blade II -> Best Marvel flick IMO

Iron Man -> Impressively solid movie, enjoyed all of it, made me remember my fondness for shellhead. Downey was really good as Stark, would never have picked him for it but he's all over that role in a great way. I agree with comments on the final battle, and will also say how much I appreciated the amount of guitar in the soundtrack. Easily #2 best Marvel movie for me.

Also look for Downey's appearance in the new Hulk movie, and for those that stay to the end, yep Avengers is on the horizon, though IMDB lists a LOT of other Marvel flicks before it - Wolverine next year, then Silver Surfer, Ant-Man, Captain American, Nick Fury, etc.

Marvel is doing like DC with the Justice League, giving each character a movie of their own and then doing the Biggest Movie Ever to bring all that star power together.

- Salvage

**thesuperiorninja**

I kinda saw that coming after they started making a bunch of Marvel movies. By the time Fantastic 4 came out it left me thinking "I'd bet everyone of my possessions that there will be a justice league type movie eventually."

**Anung Un Rama**

from Joblo.com
Marvel Entertainment held its shareholder webcast this morning where they announced some pretty interesting information regarding their upcoming slate. Included is confirmation that IRON MAN 2 is on the fast track for an April 30, 2010 release (summer officially begins in April now!) and THE AVENGERS in July, 2011. Also on the release schedule are THOR (June 4, 2010) and THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICAN (May 6, 2011). While Zak Penn is writing THE AVENGERS and Matthew Vaughn is developing THOR, there is no talent attached yet to CAPTAIN AMERICA though you can expect that to change soon enough. The announcement comes just three days after IRON MAN opened and has already pulled in over $200 million worldwide to the 2nd highest non-sequel opening in history. Also came news of plenty of other properties including video games, direct-to-DVD and animated TV series. ANT MAN was also confirmed as being in development (with Edgar Wright attached to write and direct) but no release date was announced.

**Boss Salvage**

Doh! Forgot Thor

- Salvage

**lord_sutekh**

There's a hint of Rhodes' War Machine armor in the wire-frames in the credits: an Iron-Man-style suit with a rotary gun mounted on the shoulder. So, we can probably expect it to appear in IM2.

**Anung Un Rama**

I think we can except that from Rhodes' line "next time...."

also, in the scene when Pepper sees tony taking of the armor, appearently there is a round object in the background on a tabel. a round obejct with blue and red stripes. and a star.

**Frazzled**

Whats that?

**Mannahnin**

Captain America's shield, sounds like. I missed that. But Tony would be a likely developer of that technology for the upcoming Cap movie. Nice connection to build before the Avengers movie.

Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk were the original Avengers lineup. Though Hulk left and Cap joined within the first four issues. I wonder if we'll get to see Nick Fury talking to Bruce after the Hulk credits. Wasp is, I think, probably not a strong enough character to get her own movie, but they might make her a supporting character in the Ant Man movie, and from there in the Avengers movie if people like her.

**VermGho5t**

I heard from the BoD meeting Marvel had, that their plan was to do Avengers first, before the single Captain America movie. This is all 2+ years away mind you

**Sgt_Scruffy**

Pretty good movie all in all. I would say best of the Marvel movies although I liked Batman Begins better (DC I know). Only complaint was that I couldn't grok Jeff Bridges as the bad guy. Come on, Man, he's like, THE DUDE. Maybe the Dudemeister or El Duderino... not some coporate evil henchman with shaky motivations for hating his boss.

**Mannahnin**

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**stonefox**

I haven't gotten to see it yet, but how much "action" does Tony Stark get? I'd hate to see him not hold his title as an awesome womanizer second only to James Bond.

**Mannahnin**

Tony Stark is the most awesome swingin’ bachelor ever. If you enjoy that, you will love the hell out of this movie. Go see it.

**VermGho5t**

Mannahnin wrote:Spoilers:

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I thought his motivations in general were reasonable. Money and control, with a side order of jealousy for his dead partner’s son getting all the glory. Someone questioned his willingness to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, but when the goose makes clear that he’s not going to be laying any more eggs, and starts saying things that cost you literally billions of dollars, it’s not an incomprehensible response to try to kill the guy and stop the hemorrhage of money. What’s a bit more questionable is why he would do it at the BEGINNING, before Tony had his change of heart. Why would he arrange the kidnapping/assassination when Tony was still a team player and source of more wealth? That’s the big plot hole. It would make sense if maybe Tony had come close to catching on recently; if he had good reason to believe Tony would have such a change of heart soon. But no such background information was given in the film, so it’s not reasonable to assume it.

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**Ahtman**

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