Iron Man 2

And, because I know not everyone leapt to see this at the first possible opportunity, this is a spoiler free zone.

I really did see Iron Man 2 at the first opportunity: I woke up early on Thursday morning when we didn't have class to see the first preview at 10am. Flick? Voluntarily giving up morning sleep? It must be serious. I was surprised to find a queue outside the cinema, and so was an ordinary member of the public who just wanted to see The Blind Side and found themselves surrounded by disreputable geeky types.

The problem with any film you're looking forward to is that it can let you down painfully, so I'm very glad to report that I enjoyed it. Very much. In fact, I had a fixed grin throughout the whole, only excepting the sad bit which I won't elaborate on but which is heartbreaking, mainly because of what a genius performer Robert Downey Jr is. Yet again he balances the inherent arrogant bastardness of Tony Stark with his heroism. The action scenes were very good, there was sufficient Tony-inventing-stuff and I continue to hope that someone will invent a computer like the one he has because wow, that is cool. Almost as cool as the suitcase armour.

On thing which irritated me was that Jon Favreau gave himself a bigger role in 2 than in the first, because while I adore him as a director (Iron Man and Elf? What's not to love?) as an actor he gets on my nerves for some indefinable reason. Still, it's a very little thing.

It made me very happy that every single person in the cinema stayed during the credits expecting a bonus scene and that there was a cheer when you saw the SPOILER GOES HERE.

On Saturday me and Harry went to see it in the imax and while I still enjoyed the film, I wasn't particularly blown away by the cinema experience. It was big, yeah, but not all that much bigger than cineworld's screen 3 (where it's screening anyway) and it's a whole lot more inconvenient. So, not really sold on imax.