i liked it but fuck do i hate people in movie theaters

exactly this

jesuschrist the people in front of me were so fucking annoying, especially during the previews

I didn't know ANYTHING about the comic or the movie before seeing this, and I was very pleasantly surprised. The dialogue was really interesting and clever, especially at the beginning of the movie. Everything was well made and just FUN to watch. I liked the modernity of everything.

When I saw it at opening, there were beach balls being thrown around and people were laying around in the stairs and aisles. It all calmed down during the movie though.

yeah i liked the humor in this. some of it was predictable (like his robot and the fire extinguisher) but a lot of it is snarky and wittier than what you'd get from a usual superhero flick.

especially the end with pepper where you think she's going to fall heads over heels with him but she throws out that great line.

Yeah, I should've gone earlier, but it takes until late in the day to go anywhere at all.  The show I saw was at around seven and honestly it was just fucking packed.  Not just packed, though, packed with nerds.  They laughed at the dumbest, least funny shit, and not only did they laugh, they CHEERED.  Like when Tony flies back into the wall or whatever during that test, the entire theater erupted into YEAAAAAH WOOOOOO, and they did the same when he felt through the house onto that car and then.... got hosed down (lol finishing touch).  For like 15 seconds they'd just cheer.  Also I stayed after the credits because I knew SOMETHING happened and had to sit through six minutes of credits while hearing a debate between nerds about what rating the Punisher should've gotten, and why there wasn't anything wrong with X-Men 3, until finally the part with Jackson came and as soon as his face came out of the shadows you just heard like two dozen nerds go wild.  Like clearly the type of people you find in WoW making Chuck Norris and Snakes on a Plane jokes.  fkdjsfakjf i hate them so much

The movie ended with him saying something about the Avengers and they didn't even cheer, they just.... all came in their pants.  No yells or claps, just OHHHHHHHH YEAAAAAHs and DUUUUUUUUUUDEs.  Like they were clearly getting physical pleasure from a Samuel L Jackson cameo where he mentions the Avengers.  I hate seeing movies in theaters, but I hate seeing movies in theaters with nerds so so so so so much more.

What gets me about this movie is that Tony Stark makes very mean and inappropriate comments throughout the entire movie, yet you are still pulled to his side. Some things he says aren't even totally mean, but the way he says them just seems offensive, but no one reacts, as if they are used to it maybe?

But maybe it's because the "i finally know what I have to do" speech that turns it around, because I was rooting for him the whole time, no doubt.

yeah when i told my brother he should check it out, he said he'd seen the director doing some interview where he was talking about how it wouldn't just be a light-hearted superhero movie, and instead focus on his alcoholism and shit, so he was disappointed when i told him it didn't take itself very seriously.  that was the first time i'd heard anything about alcoholism or anything like that!

also yeah the guy was a dick.  he disappeared and had that woman escorted out of his house after his personal assistant called her trash instead of saying WELL I GOTTA GO CALL YA like a decent human being.

One night stands are a pretty standard thing, especially if you have to get up in the morning.

I was referring to little comments like "Vacation is over" to Pepper Potts when he returns from Afghanistan. (no spoilers, it's in the trailer) Obviously that's just one instance, but come on, that's kinda harsh to the closest person to him in the world.
Like I said though, at some point he came full circle and had me won over.

ps, they touch on the alcoholism a tad, specifically the scene i mentioned above, but favreau has said himself that he wants to do the demon in a bottle storyline in one of the other two movies.

Also:

Marvel Entertainment released their first quarter report to its shareholders this morning to coincide with the announcement about the success this past weekend of Marvel Studios' first production Iron Man, which grossed an estimated $104.2 million domestically and over $201 million worldwide. The announcement included an update of Marvel Studios' feature film slate with the already-rumored Iron Man 2 announced for a release on April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of '10 and '11. Matthew Vaughn's Thor is set for a release on June 4, 2010, and The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) will kick off the summer of 2011 on May 6, followed by the highly-anticipated and foreshadowed The Avengers scheduled for July 2011. (Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is also listed as being in development with no release date set.)

In a conference call this morning, Marvel Studios' David Maisel said that Iron Man 2 will be used to introduce Thor. Regarding more "Hulk" movies, Maisel said "We definitely plan on continuing." He added that development continues on Spider-Man 4. "I can't give any other updates other than to say it's in development and everybody's excited about 'Spider-Man 4,'" he said.