I thought Iron Man 2 suffered a bit from what made Spider-Man 3 such an awful movie in that it tried to do way too much and was constantly distracting itself. Each of the three story lines were good on their own but when forced to compete for attention were given short shrift.

It delivers entertainment but for me did not rise above the middle of the pack for comic book movies. Though when I got home AMC was showing Superman Returns so I was immediately reminded that it could have been much worse (if they'd been showing Transformers I'd have been reminded of who truly abysmal it could get).

As for the post-credits nugget I'm guessing that only 20% of the people there had even the faintest idea of what they were seeing (it's a set up for the Avengers movie), I know I had to explain it to Lani.

Enjoyed Iron Man 2 alot - entertaining but I agree somewhat with Alex. Its nowhere near as bad as Spider-Man 3 but I think they spent a bit too much setting up future storylines. SPM3 just tried to cram to much in with the storyline contained in that individual film.

"Mother Darling."

Did they really dig up the corpse of Jessica Tandy for that movie? Uh, gross! Those bastard producers...
;) lol :D

Jessica Lange, love.

I loved Grey Gardens the movie and the doco. Little Edie rules.

Avengers? I thought it was for Thor.


Both the Moonielings missed the other reference: They had no idea what the "thing" they used to level out the minicollider was.

How the hell did that wind up in his shop anyway?

And as for the Shield Ninja Girl, is she her own comic/movie? Should I have heard of her or is she new to this telling?

I didn't know they had a Thor movie coming so I didn't get it completely (though I knew what it was I was seeing), but I just assume all of these movies are just to set up Avengers one way or another.

I didn't get the Captain America reference at all, but then I'm not a reader of any comic books.

Thor - 2011

Director: Kenneth Branagh - Interesting.
Natalie Portman
Anthony Hopkins
Rene Russo


Ok, I'm intrigued by this one.

I never got into comics much either, I think we had a discussion here some time back about how they were making individual films for each of the Avengers before making the Avengers movie.

I like Kenneth Branagh as an actor but the films he directed are hot and cold to me. Loved Henry V, Dead Again and Hamlet... but the rest... not so much...

Oops... I typed the wrong Jessica!

I was just kidding, too. It made me laugh because I started envisioning a 'Weekend at Bernies' meets 'Driving Miss Daisy' meets 'Grey Gardens' movie.
:D

JW, did you see the original doco? It's rather good. I bought it long ago when my Barnes & Noble location had all Criterion DVDs on sale.