That's fantastic.

Cleaning off my dvr today--just saw My Darling Clementine for the first time (except for bits I've seen while watching the classic M*A*S*H episode where the camp watches the film).

Excellent movie! Henry Fonda is terrific as Wyatt Earp (probably the best portrayal I've seen of the man), and Victor Mature is suitably dour as Doc Holliday. But, the whole Doc/Chihuahua (and WTF is up with that name for the Linda Darnell character?!? So earwincing!) storyline suffers from the Production Code dictate that bad boys (and girls) must suffer and die in the end, and it ends up just being turgid melodrama instead of interesting to watch.

Also, Walter Brennan is very powerful as Clanton--you can see why he's such a highly regarded character actor.

Iron Man 2: AWESOME.

The only part of the movie for which I could not suspend my disbelief -- and I say that as someone who willingly believed that Tony Stark could build a particle accelerator by hand (and that scene was stolen straight from Real Genius, BTW), was the part where Mickey Rourke was a fricking PHYSICIST. Just...no.

There was also no reason for Tony Stark to have his shirt off when he was building the particle accelerator, and yet the lack of reason bothers me not at all.

Also? Iron Man and War Machine? Best. Duo. EVAR.

Finally, I didn't expect so much Nick Fury, so I was SUPER happy about that.

I love watching RDJ's face as he reacts to things. I feel like he's almost (BUT NOT QUITE) wasted in a comic-book movie, because he's got such amazing nuance in his facial expressions.

To sum up: I suppose it could have been a little tighter as a movie, but on the whole, it was nicely awesome.

I'm still not sure how I feel about Don Cheadle as Rhodey, though he is quite pleasant to look upon.

ALSO HOWARD STARK

amych, whyfore?

Oh, and Happy is awesome.

The part of Iron Man that I couldn't really suspend my disbelief for was that Scarlett Johansen was necessary. Unfortunately. THe movie would not really have been damaged if she hadn't been in it, and Pepper could have had more to do.

But, you know, RDJ. And shit blew up. I'm a happy girl.

Tep, sheer unadulterated actorlove.

Dana, yeah, I didn't object to Johansen being there, but I really didn't like how they underused and underawesomed Pepper in this one. It was my biggest complaint with the movie.

amych, I had to just look him up on IMDB. No clue who he is, but I liked him.

Notes in Teppy's file: not a Mad Men fan.

I was not a fan of Scarlett. Some of it was the writing: "Ooooh, she's hot! And smart! And can kick ass! And has no other definable character development! Ummmm...

I was a fan of the movie as a whole.

Was the presentation with the Hammerdrones supposed to be unsettling? I'm not sure if that was text or me projecting.

Which reminds me: throughout my entire childhood, my grandfather and uncle worked at the eponymous family company. This is my mother's side of the family (no, I never use it as a security question, so it's safe to tell this story). In fact, there was even a company softball team. I have a hat and everything. How does this relate, you may ask? (Motherfucking) Hammer Industries. Srsly.

Story that might actually be funny to other people. We pointed out to the teenagers getting ready to leave to us that they might want to stay through the credits, and one of them says, "Yeah, my friend told me that," and they sit back down. After said credits, one of the girls says, "There's going to be another one?" As I commented to my BF, I forget that not everyone is like us.