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Saw Iron Man 2 today!

I really really liked it, although not quite as much as I liked the first. There was sort of a bit more heart in the last one, if that makes any sense, this one seemed more flashy and less substantial.

Anyway, the acting was mostly pretty good although I really didn’t like that thing Robert Downey jr and Gwyneth Paltrow do where they keep talking over each other. Which is a very minor quibble, I know. Also, I can’t figure out whether Gwyneth Paltrow can actually act or not, because she does the ‘high-powered CEO’ thing well and…not much else, actually. But she also won an Oscar. So what do I know?

Ooh, also it was good to see a action film with two awesome female characters in it (I don’t much rate Paltrow’s acting but I do like Pepper.) I thought Black Widow/Natasha was going to be a bad guy and I’m actually quite glad she wasn’t, she was a bit one-dimensional but very very cool.

Why isn’t Sam Rockwell a huge huge star?

Samuel L Jackson delivered the best line in the film. (see cut tag)

Am curious about whether the carnage at the end of the film actually killed any of the hundreds of innocent bystanders. (I often think about this: I generally rate my heroes by how much damage they do to the innocent bystanders and whether or not that ever gets remarked upon). Also the ‘Hammeroids’ despite the hilarious name which took me several minutes to get, were geniunely scary. Or I thought so. But I’m not fond of killer robots…