Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

I love Iron Man quite a bit, and most of the DiF crew really like Iron Man 2 last night.

a thought just occurred to me: are we going to hear commentary for Spider-Man 2 and 3?

Everyone liked it a lot, and most of us loved it.  There was only 1 person in our group who was slightly less then love.

I'm guessing Dorkman?

And Teague why did you only see half of it?

And for the record, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

We've already started on Die Hard and Terminator and the Star Wars OT and Alien and Gremlins and Jurassic Park and Men In Black... heck, even 2001 has a sequel.   

We're swamped!

/Humperdinck

/goes home

Just for the record, I was only being a wiseass.

Baaaaaaaaaaa.

The positive feelings from DIFers whose opinions I respect (except when they're stupid and wrong) have convinced me to make my annual pilgrimage to a cinemahouse and see this "Iron Man Two" in person.

If I hate it, you guys are totally gonna owe me eleven bucks. I'll pay for my own popcorn. Unless the popcorn sucks, in which case you'll owe me for the popcorn too.

If I like the movie but hate the popcorn … we'll have to get the lawyers involved, 'cause I can't do the math on that in my head.

I'd love to hear your opinions on the 'Kill Bill' films. I consider them to be two of the best film of the 00's, or whatever we're calling them. I refuse to use the term "oughts".

Ouch!

Well, you see! That kind of opinion would make for an interesting episode.

I think that, when watched together, the change from Vol. 1 to Vol. 2 can be jarring. Where 1 was more about introducing the plot, and having flashy fight scenes, 2 was more of Tarantino doing what he does best, writing dialogue for the sake of writing dialogue. The ONLY reason that it works is because, well, he's Quentin motherfuckin' Tarantino, and he's a great writer. Bill's monologue about superheroes near the end of the second film? Brilliant.

KILL BILL vol. 1 is one of my favs. I watched it three times on opening weekend, I loved it so much, and seen it a few times since then.

Vol. 2 I think I've seen once all the way through, though I've revisited the Pai Mei sequence a couple times. But overall just didn't do it for me.

I'm kind of over the "every word Tarantino writes is dipped in fucking gold" Kool-Aid that most everyone else is content to keep drinking (not the least of whom being QT himself), which is why the best part of DEATH PROOF is when everyone shut the fuck up at the end and drove some goddamn cars, and why INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS didn't do much for me at all.