Some more Iron Man geeking out

I think Jon Favreau is a-dork-able. (Spoilers if you haven't seen the movie.) Loved this:

It's very difficult to keep these franchises from running out of gas after two [movies]. The high point seems to be the second one, judging by history: If you just look at the consensus in the reviews, you see that X-Men 2 and Spider-Man 2 are sort of seen by the fans as the sort of high point of both franchises, though I don't necessarily agree with that.

I don't necessarily agree with him (in fact, I agree with the consensus that the second film in both the X-Men and Spider-Man film franchises were the strongest), but I like that he's keeping in mind the attack of the fatal death that is the last film in a trilogy.

Why trilogies? Is it a beginning/middle/end thing? ( Some meta on story structure and the problems of serialization )

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Mr. Eko is ready for his rematch with the island monster.

Still, better than the picture of Scarlett. Or Snake Eyes, for that matter.

::SNORT::

This is the first question asked and answered about any superhero movie shoot. I'm not even kidding.