Much as that certainly interests me, I'm kinda getting sick of all this "dark and gritty" crap. Fantasy bullshit is cool with me as long as the characters are good, and dark does not always equal good.

I thought you guys liked Hellboy 2?

Suit or not, he wouldn't have been fast enough to stop it. He was also chained up at the time.

I was skeptical about DiCaprio, but he's so talented that I'm not surprised he does well with the role.

That said, Michael Fassbender as Jay Gatsby...now I'm disappointed that it's not him.

James McAvoy and JGL are a lot better for Nick, though. Definitely better than Tobey fucking Maguire.

Of course it does! The core of the character is Tony Stark's intellect and resourcefulness. Without those, he never would have built the Mark I in an Afghan cave, and Iron Man wouldn't even exist. Iron Man 3 puts the focus back on those aspects of his character, which was sorely lacking in Iron Man 2. It's spelled out explicitly in The Avengers!

Steve: "Big man in a suit of armor. Take that away, what are you?"

Tony: "Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

But the very end of the film suggests that this is exactly the case. That's the symbolism of him getting the arc reactor removed from his chest while saying "I am Iron Man." That's why he was jumping in and out of suits during the finale. The suits aren't the superheroes, they're just tools that Tony Stark, the real superhero, uses to fight the bad guys.

Now, nothing you've just said is wrong, per se. But ultimately it's Tony's resourcefulness that allows him to get to the bad guy, beat him, and save the day.

I won't be seeing Ender's Game no matter what, because fuck Orson Scott Card, but that trailer wouldn't have persuaded me anyway. The film has a massive lack of personality. It looks like JJ's Star Trek but younger. I'm not seeing a distinct identity anywhere in that trailer. Pass.

I don't watch Spoony ever since his petulant, absurd Cabin In The Woods meltdown. Is this worth watching?

Finished Gatsby. Frankly, I'm baffled as to how anyone could think that it's ripe for cinematic adaptation. It's basically just 9 long scenes of arrogant white people being alternately mopey and despicable. Nick is the only character who isn't completely unlikeable, and Gatsby himself isn't so much "bad" as he is hopelessly naive. Nothing about the book screams "movie." It requires a sense of the characters' inherent awfulness, which most adaptations of it seem to miss in favor of glamorizing their rich and fabulous lifestyle (which, by the way, is why I'll never understand people who throw "Great Gatsby parties.") Baz Lurhmann is a smart guy, so I'm sure he understand what the book is actually about. The book makes it really hard to sympathize with any of the characters, so I hope that the film stays true to that.

Also, finally starting in on A Dance With Dragons. I've been putting it off for months. It's off to a good start, but it needs more Dany and fewer random new POV characters.

The juxtaposition of these two made me laugh out loud.

Finals. Nuff said.