I loved loved loved Iron Man, glad you dug it too! I agree that it's not feminist, but Pepper is certainly a lot closer to feminist than most comic-book ladies. :) Paltrow did a great job with her.

I reacted very differently to the pacing - found the first act (especially Tony in captivity) a bit slow but loved the rest. Wish we could have had Iron Man kicking butt a bit more, even. The sequence with him taking out the weapons depot rocked my socks, and I wanted more.

Potential TMI aside: RDJ in this movie is threatening to turn my fascination with peculiar medical stuff into a downright fetish. Hot guy with gnarly mechano-medical implant = hawt. Even if the science of it is totally stupid.