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> > I went to the 8 o'clock advanced showing tonight. I don't know how well advertised it was that the movie started playing Thursday night, but the theater wasn't a sell out. It was nearly full, however, and everyone seemed to have a good time.
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> We got there an hour early, and instead of a line we were the first ones there. Not a lot of people seemed to realize there were screenings tonight.
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Yeah, I've heard from a few sources that the early showings in general weren't exactly packed. I wonder if that will hold through the weekend, or if it really was just poorly advertised. (I know I was surprised to find it playing already, and had just looked at the online movie listings out of curiosity to see if it was having midnight showings. I wouldn't have gone to those, having to work today, but 8pm? Why not?)
I know the Hollywood media is asking whether or not Grand Theft Auto 4 will keep a large percentage of would-be Iron Man moviegoers home this weekend. I doubt it, but I'm guessing it won't rocket too high on the all time opening weekend box office charts.
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> > Everyone in it did a great job acting, and the character was really faithful to the days before he became an ass. It might be a little tame for some tastes, as there are only a handful of combat scenes, but I didn't mind personally... it had good pacing throughout.
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> While I could have used one more combat scene, they did such a good job with the character of Tony Stark I didn't mind that it wasn't start-to-finish action.
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Oh, same here. In truth, he's not in the armor all that often, and yet I didn't really find myself dividing the movie into Tony Stark and Iron Man segments... they were so well integrated. I did find his first offensive use of the armor to be a great sequence that really gets you jazzed for sequels, though.
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> I saw a trailer for Dark Knight tonight and it really didn't get me excited for the movie, though I definitely want to see it. I'd love for Iron Man to outperform The Dark Knight.
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Yeah, I felt the same way about the new trailer... I'm looking forward to that movie as well. I wasn't instantly in love with Batman Begins, but it grew on me, especially with second (and more) viewings on cable movie channels.
> > Oh, and the new Hulk trailer with this one actually looked much better than that first trailer.
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> I didn't get the Hulk trailer. I was quite shocked at that actually.
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That actually is surprising... but then, I guess the distributor gets to pick the guaranteed trailer attached to prints, and Paramount released Iron Man, while Universal will release The Incredible Hulk.
