The wife and I went to see the first showing of Iron Man at the Cedar Park Cinemark last night (at 12:01a no less). The midnight showing is an old trick to be the first to show the movie, and it’s usually a theater full of losers that can’t wait another day to see it.

So, of course I show up.

Aside from initial difficulties with the nature of having losers in the audience (“I’m drunk! Woo!” “I’m stoned! Yeeeeah!”), everyone settled down for the show, which was good because this is easily the best comic conversion since Superman Returns and Batman Begins. The previews hinted that it would be good, but the general fear with good previews is that all the good bits were used to make the previews. That was decidedly not the case here.

If you’re waiting for Ozzy’s iconic musical appearance, it is, sadly, at the very freaking end as the credits roll. Of course, when you get there, you’ll see that the only better spot for it was when the final version of the suit was finished, and that would have been a little too “expected” to be anything but campy.