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I know I owe tons of comments. I'm really rusty, though, so bear with me and I will answer you! I might end up being an iPhone comment douche. Please forgive me in advance.

I like this much much more on review. For some reason I really didn't like it when I first watched it. This was probably due to Sam Rockwell playing Zaphod Beeblebrox (I can spell this off the top of my head and often misspell definite) as a human and my weird feelings about Mickey Rourke's catlady face.

I also have a weird thing about people named Ivan allowing English speakers to call them IH-vahn instead of correcting them. I hate being called Casey, so it's some kind of empathy I have for people whose names are so often mispronounced. Why does Ivan not chain smoke, also?

SLJ has grown on me as Fury. I love the scene with hungover Tony and Fury. They both cracked me up. The comic flare of the donut squatting rang annoying at first but then on reflection--it's a comic panel.

Did Howard Stark get recast because of Mad Men? I figure it must have been a filming conflict, but it could also be so that Howard looks more like Tony.

I don't get why they spike RDL's hair up so much aside from trying to make him look taller as he's super cute with his hair flat and curly.

I will admit that ScraJo is super hot, but she still really can't act. Please don't shun me. I appreciate her silhouette, but she needs some acting lessons. Maybe Tom Hardy can help?

The costumes for the women were amaaaaaaaaazing in this. Damn. I love all the structured shoulders and asymmetrical bodice lines. Very well done. Pepper just looks fantastic all the time.

I like Don Cheadle more than the Hustle and Fl0w guy.

Hats off to people who can write Tony dialogue. Oy.

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Mickey Rourke's catlady face.

Jocelyn Wildenstein, you goon.

Of course you would know her name.

DON'T SAY THAT LIKE IT'S CRAZY.

Do you think you can get sick off of homemade yogurt-sprouted oatcakes?

ALSO. I like the sticky-up hair on RDJ. And I like his little belly. AND. I like his face. SIGH. BUT. HIS FACE.

Ugh, I have been up for three hours and I have nothing more to say.

http://eriksens.tumblr.com/post/23940458563

that macro is a great.

Idk, how old is this yogurt? If it's like a year old, probably.

mm, I tend to think the woodenness of ScarJo in these movies is more due to her playing Natasha as a person who Does Not Emote, and I think the parts of Avengers where she clearly does emote back me up on this - but all that is so much personal perception / interpretation that I wouldn't try to impose my view on anyone, obv.

Catlady face: thank you for putting your finger on something that was nagging me.

I didn't like IM2 on the first watch either, but I haven't rewatched it yet. Perhaps I should.

I agree she does well in the Hulk scene, but my view is more of a perspective based on her other work. However, I agree to disagree as well, so we're solid.

You should totally rewatch it. I was shocked at how much I liked it on second go.

Urg, too much plastic surgery. But in his case I think he had a bad motorcycle accident or something?

He flipped the finger to Hollywood and took up boxing. Not... very successfully. And then a series of plastic surgeries to fix the damage went really, really wrong.

I was going to mildly disagree about Scarlett not being able to act but then you put the image of Tom Hardy with her in my head and my brain shorted out. :(

Full, intense agreement on costuming.

Everyone has That Person they just can't stand. Scarjo is one of mine. I can't help it.

I get that. And I was just going to say that, personal headcanon-wise, I don't think Natasha was supposed to be very emotive there. But when you don't like an actor, you don't like an actor. I'm like that with Nick Cage and I don't even know why.

Randomly, I just watched this one for this first time...and really did not like it. Aside from the costuming. Those dresses were aces, man.

I liked it less on rewatch :( But I still liked it okay. I think I'm just not as sympathetic to Tony Stark's whole deal as I could be, and the movie was ABOUT his whole deal, so Rhodey and Pepper and Black Widow were my favorite parts of it.

I think they used a different Howard because Slattery looks too old to have played papa Stark in the Forties.

Pepper's clothes were awesome in that movie, way better than the bare feet of the avengers, I mean I get that RDJ is a shortie, but Joss is this a tarantino thing? You could put her in flats?