It's never too early to anticipate IRON MAN 2

"if you had told oscar winner kevin spacey that he would one day have the chance to play lex luthor, he'd have pinched himself"

Liked this much more than the original.

The cast of smart alecks was a blessing.

Finally saw this. Original was wayyyy better but this at least avoided the huge dropoff where in the first one it was spectacular up until the final fight when it just became really dumb. Here the dumbness was a little more evenly spread out and the final fight, while pointless (those drones sure seem to go down easy, why doesn't he just shoot them all in the first place?) at least looked better and kept moving. Definitely wanted Rourke to get to do more, or alternately for his original plan (show Stark's vulnerability so other people finish his revenge for him) to actually go somewhere. Rockwell did a great job with his character but I wish that character had been on-screen less; he was SO annoying that the joy of watching the annoying guy get his take-down was sort of reduced. And he just gets led away by the cops? That's it?

Don't know what they're doing for the third one but I sort of hope this isn't the end of the alcohol storyline, which didn't really feel like a story in this one. It's less about Iron Man getting drunk and being a jackass once when he thinks he's gonna die, more about him being, you know, an alcoholic.

Overall, okay.

for some reason I really like impersonating Rourke's "I want my bird" line with that ridiculous accent

"my bird! I want my bird."

ROBOT ROCK

oh god, I think I blocked out that scene

I can't wait until Iron Man 2 comes out!

my bird