Same guy, new suit

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Saw Iron Man 2 this afternoon. Enjoyed it. Thumbs up. It was loud, it was flashy, it was comic-booky. Perhaps it didn't quite carry the emotional depth of the first one, but that's because the first one had the origin story, and Iron Man's got a pretty good origin story. I thought the fight scenes were more effective, which is definitely an

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I liked it so much. Thought it was better than the first, which I didn't think was all that great shakes outside of RDJ's performance and "the Avenger Initiative".

I did think Terrance Howard was a bad choice for Rhodey - it's the wimpy voice of his, really - but I can't believe anyone ever had any doubts about Don Cheadle. He's DON CHEADLE. Of course he'll be awesome, even if it wasn't absolutely necessary to recast him.

When the post-credit sequence played you could hear this wave of people catching on and going, "Thor!" "Thor!" "I think that's Thor." It was funny. I, having to be the uber-geek, pumped my fist and stage whispered, "Mjolnir!"

In the final scene of the movie proper, you can see a TV monitor on which they're running the news report of the Hulk's rampage at Culver University from The Incredible Hulk, which means most of this movie is a prequel to that movie. Which also means that in the space of less than a week, New York suffered through the destruction of the Stark Pavilion in Flushing Meadows and the throwdown between Hulk and the Abomination in Harlem.

Yep. It's definitely starting to feel like the Marvel Universe.

Special geek trivia factoid: Black Widow is married to Deadpool. It's such a shame they can't share the same cinematic universe with Fox being such pricks.

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I admit that it's possible that when I saw the crater in the desert, I suspected there was going to be a hammer in it. Furthermore, it's possible that I said, "I knew it!" in a reasonably audible voice when said hammer was revealed.