Very likely. IMDb Trivia says it was in his office in the first Iron Man.
But didn’t the Shield agent recognize it? Or maybe not; I can’t remember exactly what he said when he picked it up.
He recognized it. He asked Tony “Do you realize what this is?” and Tony said “Yes… it’s perfect!”. Then the sight gag.
I saw it yesterday with 10 of my geeky friends. I loved it.
All the SHIELD stuff is tie-in for The Avengers movie, and so therefore i didn’t mind it. Plus, Nick Fury provided the trunk to RDJ - so there was inclusion.
I absolutely loved the give-and-take exchanges of Stark & Potts. I just loved it. And I was not at all upset that he had to rescue Pepper at the end - it made sense that she would stay there to oversee things. It’s what she does.
I kept thinking that Rockwell looked like Dana Carvey - which was even funnier.
Did anyone else’s showing have the preview for the remade Karate Kid movie?
Will Smith’s son and Jackie Chan?
It was pretty surreal. I wonder if Macchio will have a cameo.
Also, as anyone who knows anything about Rasputin and Trotsky can attest, Russians are freaking crazy hard to kill. I mean, Trotsky took an axe to the back of the head and it just pissed him off.
Unless they’re fibbing to have it be a surprise, Ralph Macchio and others have said he won’t have a cameo. The article I remember reading had him saying that he wasn’t interested in a face-in-the-crowd cameo and that giving him anything more substantial didn’t make sense for what they were trying to do with the remake.
I didn’t mind it, either, but I was a big Marvel fan back in the day, and Iron Man was one of my favorites.
OTOH, my wife, who loved the first movie, was disappointed by this one. She isn’t a big comic reader, and all the SHIELD/Avengers references were meaningless to her.
I had a lot of fun. Sam Rockwell was great - even as I hated his character. I never liked Gweneth Paltrow until Iron man and she was still adorable in Ironman 2.
Probably the most fun I’ve had a movie all year.
I loved the first movie because of RDJ and the relationship between Tony and Pepper, which basically means this movie rocked my world more than the first one. heart
Also, after the after-credits sequence, this guy in front of me was all matter-of-fact ‘It’s Thor!’. I couldn’t resist yelling ‘No shit!’. It was pretty funny, you could tell most of the theater had no idea what that scene was about.
The hubby and I are not comic book fans. We saw Iron Man last year when we wanted to see a ‘fun’ movie, and nothing else that looked anywhere near promising was playing. We really enjoyed it. So we went to see this one, too (given it’s favorable showing on Rottentomatoes); we enjoyed this one, too. Not quite as good as the first, but still an entertaining, fun, summer popcorn movie.
Sure it required a large suspension of belief, but hey, it’s a comic book. I have a feeling that RDJ plays a narcissist so well because he’s actually a narcissist, but whatever. . .
Am I the only one who thinks Gwyneth Paltrow looks a lot better as a redhead than as a blond?
Re: Captain America’s shield.
Remember, Captain America has already existed. He was a hero in WWII, and, at least in some comic book versions, the super soldier serum and/or the shield was invented by Tony’s father. Somehow, Cap lost it before getting frozen in ice (or whatever method they use to “get rid” of him in the movies) and Howard/Tony got it. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agent knew it was Captain’s shield and was flabbergasted both that Tony had it, and was apparently ripping pieces off of it.
I’m sure when The Avengers movie comes out, there will be some kind of scene where Tony hands Cap back his shield.
And for the record, from what I hear of the upcoming *Captain America[/]i movie:
(not a real spoiler, but spoilered anyway)
It takes place mostly in WWII during Cap’s early days.
They could use some variant of the ‘The power of the Gods has waned in the modern world - somewhat’ explanation. 
Saw the movie earlier today and I loved it. And I say that as someone who’s really not an Iron Man fan. Cheadle was great and really looked like he deserved to belong up there with Downey, something I’m not sure I’d have said about Terrance Howard. Rourke did a lot with a handful of small character moments and was suitably menacing as Vanko. I’ve always liked Gwyneth Paltrow and thought she did a great job as Tony’s voice of reason, much as she was in the first movie.
It should be criminal to be as charismatic and charming as Robert Downey Jr. is, and to do it so effortlessly. He is Tony Stark, I’m starting to wonder if the ‘reformed bad boy with a heart of gold’ is just his natural personality.
Other thoughts…
I trust Branagh a great deal and I still think tapping him for the Thor movie was an inspired choice.
I think people who are concerned about Thor overshadowing the other heroes in the Avengers movie have a valid point. However, it makes me wonder how these people are going to react to the Captain America movie. Cap exists on an entirely different level from just about every other hero in the MU, purely on a cultural level because of the real world longevity and iconic status of the character himself. I think a lot of it may hinge on his portrayal in his own movie and what kind of performance the actor can muster. Cap’s been referred to as the ‘voice that commands gods’, solely because of his friendship with Thor. If people can’t buy his preternatural leadership capabilities, a first among equals, the whole movie may fall apart under it’s own weight.
At the very least audiences are going to need to buy Steve and Tony as equals which will be difficult for any actor to pull off convincingly performing opposite Downey.
I’ve heard the same thing and, if we assume that Tony’s father is still responsible for his shield, does that mean we’ll see the triangular shield in the Cap movie? That would be an interesting choice.
I didn’t notice a Stan Lee cameo in this one. Has he stopped doing cameos for Marvel films?
He was there, Tony called him “Larry King,” similar to in the first movie Tony refers to him as Hugh Hefner. 
Stan was definitely in there. He was singled out in one of the crowd shots near the beginning and the camera lingered on him for a few seconds.
Thor in the comics is not usually up to Thor-the-God level feats. While he is basically Marvell’s Superman figure in terms of power (with Captain America taking the persona of good-guy all-American hero), there are a heckuva lot of villains who can fight him to a standstill. Even Loki, who isn’t really as badass in combat as Thor, is still a major threat. And then there are his other foes like Absorbing Man, all the Norse monsters, Surtur especially.
I remember seeing it. It was pure silver.
That still doesn’t explain why it opened one week before it did in the US. The World Cup is stll a month away. Many films open here at the same time as in the US, and they could have done that this time too. I’m still puzzled why it didn’t.