It was some sort of secret preview - we were 7 people in the entire theater. It wasn’t even advertised, and the film doesn’t even open for another week. Very wierd… but perfect for us.
Anyway, good movie. Maybe not as good as the first one, but still very fun. Downey was Downeyriffic, Mickey Rourke was an effective villain (and Sam Rockwell a wonderfly ineffectual one), and Scarlett Johansen looks amazing in a catsuit. The action scenes were good, buty oddly enough, there wasn’t all that much Iron Man in Iron Man 2.
Don’t have much time to write now; I’ll post some more thoughts later.
The hell? Here in the Netherlands it was released on the 29th. Odd, that.
Some wonderful dialogue, and luckily this doesn’t take itself not too seriously. (Samuel L motherfucking Jackson going “I’m going to have to ask you to vacate the donut”. I shit you not.) Tony is wittier than humanly possible. Wonderful details all around.
POSSIBLY TINY SPOILERY THINGS
At some point in the middle of the final fight Tony uses the repulsor under his foot to knee someone in the (robot) crotch. Great touch.
Sadly, it doesn’t have the intro scene from the trailer “You complete me!”
Scarlett indeed looks great. Her intro scene with ‘happy’ wasn’t all too bad either.
The demonstration video of Hammer’s armour got some great responses from the public.
Loved the fakeout with Captain America’s shield. Hated Rockwell’s character, seemed a bit too ineffectual. I thought the line about Rourke’s father during Jackson’s scene with Howard Stark’s trunk was a hamfisted way of justifying Whiplash as a Very Bad Man. Also though the whole boxing scene was solely written so that the Director got to fondle Scarlett Johansson’s legs.
No, really. It opened citywide on Thursday. You can check the times and locations at our Movie Seer website. (The times are almost always wrong, though.)
We’ll wait until next weekend or so to see it ourselves. Will probably be a crunch now.
All kidding aside, maybe that’s the problem? Say they didn’t want Iron Man 2 opening against this week’s new Nightmare on Elm Street debut that’ll suck up the teens looking for a special-effects-laden flick and the Furry Vengeance debut that’ll suck up the families looking to entertain the kids – because it’s easier to give the big-budget comic-book movie a weekend all to itself, increasing the odds of follow-up headlines that read “#1 at the box office” or “record-breaker” while decreasing the odds of, y’know, “underwhelming performance” or “too soon to call it a flop?”
Don’t put opening night up against the first (or even second) week for Kick-Ass. Don’t put it up against the first (or even second) week for The Losers. Let everyone who’ll be waiting in line for those get all of that out of their system, and then bring out the big guns.
That still doesn’t explain why they didn’t wait another week or two to open it in Thailand. It’s not normal for movies like this to open ahead of the US release. Smaller films occasionally, but never the big-budget stuff.
Didn’t mean to suggest you were lying. Just thought it was funny
Especially Thailand, which has a reputation for being the source of a lot of movie piracy. You’d think they’d be worried that showing it there and having a bunch of people in the US end up watching the resulting pirated copies rather then wait a week to see it in theaters.
Yes, this is strange. The movie situation has vastly improved over the years. I remember Forrest Gump and the first Jurassic Park movies showed for six months straight without a change. Lethal Weapon. But nowadays they disappear after a week or two. But appearing before the US debut is definitely odd. This IS a holiday weekend, it being Labor Day, but still.
It opened in Australia on Thursday. Australia! We didn’t even get The Book of Eli until two weeks ago. If someone’s doing something weird this time around it’s the US, not everyone else in the world.
Well, for the other half of such an explanation, which other movies opened when in Thailand? Have either Nightmare on Elm Street or Furry Vengeance shown up yet?
I’ll spoiler this though it isn’t a plot point but something that took me out of the movie. So after you have seen it:
[spoiler]For those that have seen it, was it just my perception or did it appear that when Ivan Vanko is talking to Justin Hammer, Sam Rockwell’s palms look like he has been using self tanning lotion without gloves or handwashing?
The shot at the table is from a low angle, his hands are really prominent and his palms look darker than the backs of his hands. I found it distracting and couldn’t work out how it would have happened. Later his hands look normal.
No, but the posters are up, and previews for the latter have begun. Shutter Island and The Princess and the Frog arrived a month ago, Brooklyn’s Finest maybe a couple of weeks ago.
I can only assume this being a holiday weekend is the reason, but it’s not happened before, nor is it like May is short of holidays here: Besides the present Labor Day weekend, Wednesday is Constitution Day, the 13th is the Royal Plowing Ceremony, and the 28th is Wisakha Bucha Day.
I just came back from seeing it. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, but I loved it. I’d say my favourite parts were Stark making a mockery of the senate inquiry and the supposed urgency caused by the various competing power armour programs, Stark and Rhodey brawling, and Iron Man and War Machine grinding entire squads of drones to scrap.
Apart from that, I was held up by a talkative associate of mine and so arrived at the theatre a little late. Could someone fill me in on what happened up to the “Six Months Later” timeskip?
Singapore got it on 31st April, and I watch it on 1st May. No idea why it is so late in the US…
Anyway, I like the show,though for me it seems to be more of “Tony Stark getting along with his secretary/CEO” plus some Iron Man elements. But the lines are well written enough. It’s all good.
