OMGods… CRUNCHY PANTS! AIEEEEEEEEEEEE… Holy FRAK… Iron Man ROCKS SO HARD!
And I think it was pretty cool that Tony Stark was kind of a fucked-up but driven person.
They overdid it with Peter Parker in SM 3, actually “overdid it” pretty much defined that movie.

I’m kind of in love with Pepper Potts. Thought she was pretty kick-ass. But yeah, it WAS pretty much kind of a guy, geek, gearhead flick. Wife didn’t just demure, she plain REFUSED to go with us. Sorry, no Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom.. but Indy IV is coming. I still love you, Princess.

Caught FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer that night on FIOS on Demand… glad I waited. Ffff… pretty, and Surfer was cool.. DIDN’T need Victor Von Doom being an ASSHOLE. All that heavy lead-in and CG to DEATH.. and in the end Galactus gets CHUMPED. Please… WAY TOO PAT ENDING. And Sue Storm - (Jessica Alba) still looks like total jailbait. Totally Yummy, yes.. but still NOT credible as Reed’s Richard’s soul mate.

Iron Man for teh Winz! Tech glory aside, the frakkin’ thing actually holds together!

BANZAI!

On the terrorists, I have to ask - who would you have chosen as the group that captured Tony initially? I’ve been thinking about it myself, and I don’t know if most any other group would make sense and still stick fairly close to the original origin.

As for Pepper, I felt that she was more ‘the power behind the power’ than just a ’super secretary’. And I think she was a very strong character; personal assistants are actually more powerful than most people think. >.>

In any case, I don’t think that every major character in a movie has to be a role-model of any type; if they were, they would be less realistic, in my opinion. *shrug*

I can’t say I’m entirely excited for the avengers. I’ve never liked the whole crossover gatherings of super heroes. Superfriends, etc. But that’s not to say I won’t give avengers a shot.

Haven’t seen it yet, really want to. Need to see if its on the local Imax theatres here.

And Happy Birthday, Jami.

Tony does indeed show up in hulk, he sits down at a bar the Gen. Thunderbolt is at and brings up something about “So i heard about your problem” to which T-bolt replies “MY problem, what about YOUR problem.” (implying what happened at the end of Iron man)

Also, Iron man 2 will serve as a intro for Thor (S.H.I.E.L.D. may have tony scan a recently unearthed Mjolnir some are speculating)

all this aside, im still psyched about Dark knight, buyt imk more amped for 2010-2011’s marvels cirque du asskickin’.

I think the awesomeness is largely to do with Marvel releasing it through their own studio, so they can include all the tie-ins and universe building they want, ’cause anything it leads to is just more money in their pockets.