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We cannot allow a mineshaft gap!

FWIW, GOTG2 just scored a 100 in a test screening: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... ing-974277

At a friends & family screening. Not that test scores mean anything anyway (eg. high 90s for Iron Man 3, one of the worst films ever made). Looks fun though.

klimov wrote:(eg. high 90s for Iron Man 3, one of the worst films ever made).

But Iron Man 3 is also the top grossing Marvel film that's not a full Avengers film. So this certainly bodes well for the box office at least.

IM3 is easily the best of that series, Shane Black hijacks a comic book franchise to make a Shane Black movie. Surprised if you liked The Nice Guys you wouldn't appreciate this.

Iron Man 3 is fascist.

I don't know about fascist, but Iron Man 3 is certainly the worst of the three. Not that any of them are that great. They're probably the weakest of the Marvel films.

I personally find Iron Man 2 the worst of that trilogy, but for what it's worth I frankly don't care to watch any of them again.

O-dot wrote:I personally find Iron Man 2 the worst of that trilogy, but for what it's worth I frankly don't care to watch any of them again.

2's biggest sin is that it's just a re-tread of 1. But yeah, I don't really see much need to re-visit any of the Iron Man films.

if the avengers films didn't exist, i'd watch the iron man films again. while i need iron man in my life, they haven't nailed a stand-alone of his yet. or, as i've said many times here, he's just not a great character.

If you feel the need, which I don't, you can call most superhero films fascist. Whatever. Great work from Black in my book. Much more fun than the faithful but tentative first and Writer's Strike wounded second.

fantastic use of fleetwood mac.

No-one has any thoughts on this? FWIW, very disappointed.

UK got it a week before the US.

Per usual with Marvel, I'm not too fired up about this, even though the first is one of the better titles in the franchise. The fact it worked as well as it did seemed more of a fluke than anything and unlikely to be duplicated.

Seeing it Thursday, should be fun. Sounds like a competent sequel from all I've read.

saturday!

Where the original felt fresh and light-footed, this one feels laboured and yet self-satisfied. Little more than a string of smug one-liners, most of which miss the mark. There's a nice scene at the end, otherwise you've seen the best of it in the trailer. I guess that's why they opened it at this rather flat time of year... Quite the missed opportunity.

couldn't disagree more. i thought this was great! my 15 yo said it was better than the first. i haven't seen the first in a while so won't say that, but it was definitely awesome. can't wait to see it again actually, but probably will wait until i see it at home. there were a couple things that were odd, but they're spoilery so i'll save it for a bit.