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I finally got my chance last week to be one of those uber-geeks who shows up for the midnight movie premiere on the day a new movie is released. For me, it was Iron Man 2 at Pasco’s Fairchild Cinemas. I’ll get to the movie in just a second, but I have to talk about the movie theatre and the event itself first.

This photo at right is what it looked like in theater #1 at 10:45 pm. Yes, a full one-hour-and-15-minutes before the movie was due to start, and theater one was already filling up. When I arrived, I expected to find a long line of people snaking through the lobby, waiting to be let in. But nothing. “Am I really the first one here?,” I asked the cashier guy. “Oh no, there are a couple hundred people already in the theaters.”

Theaters? Did he say plural “theaters”? Yep. He explained that they had already opened up three screens for Iron Man 2, and that probably every theater would be showing the movie if they sold enough tickets. He said they’d already sold 623 tickets and expected a lot more walk-up traffic before midnight.

I could choose whichever theater I wanted, and so after being told that screens 1 and 12 were the biggest, I chose #1. By the time midnight rolled around, it was pretty crowded, but it never filled up completely. That’s because, sure enough, Fairchild did ultimately open up every screen to show Iron Man 2. I went to use the men’s room during the previews and looked down the hallway; every marquee said “Iron Man 2.” Crazy. And very cool.

So, two thumbs up to Fairchild Cinemas for how they handled a huge crowd and huge movie event.

Iron Man 2 Review

What about the movie, you ask? Well, it was good. It wasn’t great. It was funny at times and it was exciting at times … but it was also a bit slow at times, and disjointed at others.

Iron Man 2 didn’t have as cohesive a storyline. The plot tried to accomplish too much. There were too many storylines going on at once — Tony Stark’s health, Tony’s troubled relationship with his dad, Tony’s interest in Pepper Potts, Tony’s interest in Scarlett Johansson’s character, Tony’s battle against the government, and Tony’s battle against the Bad Guy. I don’t think any of those storylines was developed enough to keep my interest, and with so much going on, it seemed like the spectacular action scenes were few and far between.

It’s impossible to not compare Iron Man 2 to the original, and I felt the first one was better. It had a much simpler storyline, a clearer sense of what was at stake and why it mattered, plus more and better action scenes. The original was a big surprise for me; I totally didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. With Iron Man 2, though, I went in to the theater with enormous expectations. Maybe that was the biggest problem — Iron Man 2 may not have had a chance to live up to the hype.

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