When the first Iron Man was released, rumors hit the net that a special Easter Egg for fans was included in the movie. It was reported Samuel L. Jackson was in the film as Nick Fury, but most assumed it was online chatter and wild fanboy speculation.
Obviously the rumors were real, and the secret scene proved to be one of the most popular in the movie, even leading to Samuel L. Jackson signing a huge deal with Marvel for a bunch more films as Nick Fury.
Cut to today. With Iron Man 2 getting ready to get released, a new rumor has hit the net for what Easter Egg might be included. Since some of you might not want to know've posted it after the jump.
Opening tomorrow is director Shawn Levy's Date Night - which stars Tina Fey (Baby Mama, 30 Rock, SNL) and Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office) as a typical suburban couple whose lives have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. Date Night also stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Leighton Meester, James Franco, Ray Liotta, and Mark Ruffalo.
Credit Kristen Bell ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall") for never trying too hard or unduly stressing her cuteness quotient as Beth, a chronically unlucky-in-love Manhattanite. Employed as a junior curator at the Guggenheim Museum, she takes leave on the eve of a major fund-raising exhibition -- much to the displeasure of her haughty boss (Angelina Huston, picking up an easy paycheck) -- to attend the wedding of her sister (Alexis Dziena) in Rome. During the post-wedding festivities, Beth is instantly attracted to a hunky New York Daily News sportswriter, Nick (Josh Duhamel), who just happens to be the former college roommate of her new brother-in-law (Luca Calvani). But when she spots Mr. Dreamboat appearing to set sail with another wedding guest, Beth despondently wanders outside into a plaza, wades into a fountain adorned with a statue of Venus -- and impetuously scoops up coins tossed by tourists seeking romantic assistance from the goddess of love. Among the mesmerized suitors, only DeVito gets a chance to convey something slightly more substantial than ardent wackiness. On the other hand, Duhamel plays Nick with self-effacing charm and an impressive flair for light comedy. Bell also makes a winning impression, and she's very adept at expressing extremely mixed emotions when she comes to suspect that Nick, too, may be under the influence of Venus' magic. Lenser John Bailey makes Rome look every bit as marvelously romantic as it should in this sort of romantic fantasy. For that matter, he also makes the Guggenheim Museum look like a great place to fall in love -- or ward off potential lovers. Other tech credits are pro.
The storyline of She's Out of My League is not a particularly new one. Average boy (with average friends, average job, annoying family and ex-girlfriend) meets Gorgeous Girl with great job, hot friends, perfect parents and a GQ/Fighter Pilot ex-boyfriend. Sparks, amazingly enough, fly. In League, the average guy is Kirk (played by Jay Baruchel, of Tropic Thunder, Knocked Up, and 2010's Sorcerer's Apprentice,) an unassuming "6". who works in airport security and one day, through a series of only slightly unbelievable events, finds himself meeting and dating the aforementioned perfect girl, Molly a "hard 10." Naturally, Kirk can't figure out why Molly is interested, so enter Kirk's knucklehead friends and family who offer no support, ridiculous advice, and eventually beat Kirk's self-confidence to a pulp... so much so that there's nothing left. for Kirk or for Molly. Hilarity ensues.
Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou, a.k.a. The Violator (Rob Corddry) -- who, along with Adam's teenage nephew Jacob (Clark Duke), Borrowing liberally from 1985's Back to the Future, MGM's new time-travel comedy Hot Tub Time Machine follows three old friends, find themselves inexplicably transported back in time to 1986 after spilling a drink on the controls of a hot tub that turns out to be a time machine.
There, trapped in the era of Miami Vice, Reagan, Jheri curl and Poison, the three friends are seen by everyone else as their teenage selves. They must not do anything that could screw-up the space-time continuum and thus change the future, and so are forced to relive the same traumatic events they went through in 1986. Along the way, though, they begin to realize how much better their lives would be in the present if they did alter the course of history.
Hapless bounty hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) jumps for joy at the prospect of tracking down his bail-skipping ex-wife Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston), but gets a hard dose of reality when the job proves tougher than anticipated. Every time Milo gets close to resourceful reporter Nicole, she gives him the slip. A high-profile murder has been committed, and Nicole is determined to stay out of jail long enough to crack the case. And she must be getting close, because now someone is trying to take them both out. They may not have been able to make marriage work, but if Milo and Nicole can just stay alive long enough to solve the murder, they might discover they're not such a bad team after all.
It’s an equally unsurprising showing from either of the stars. If you’ve seen any of her rom-coms you’ll know what’s coming from Aniston. It’s a shame her work in independent film (such as 08’s ‘Management’) is not as prolific as her studio output, as here she’s a feistier version of Rachel, just as she was in ‘Love Happens’ and ‘Marley & Me.’ Similarly, those who didn’t see the trailer may think Butler’s character from ‘The Ugly Truth’ has wandered into another film. His crass-but-charming routine wears thin here as it did then, but at least he’s not in a bath of jelly this time.
Meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big problem: a hero he is not. "How to Train Your Dragon' is the riotous story of Hiccup's quest to hunt down the fiercest dragon, bring it into submission, and-hopefully-pass his initiation. Instead, he ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon-it's even toothless! Thus begins the hijinx of the world's most lovable, unlikely hero and a most reluctant "beast." Packed with energetic drawings and plenty of action, this boisterous tale is just right for fantasy fans or anyone with a spirit of adventure. Based on the book by Cressida Cowell.
