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			<title><![CDATA[Feel like I'm in a cage.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:01:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I honestly feel like with the sobriety issue that I'm being confined in a prison of sorts but am still able to walk around etc. But I just feel like...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I honestly feel like with the sobriety issue that I'm being confined in a prison of sorts but am still able to walk around etc. But I just feel like everyone is holding it up to me like it's my fault or whatever. I'm sick of it just fucking sick and tired of everyone treating me like I'm a fucking criminal.</div>

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			<dc:creator>filthytothecore</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Masters of Madness [19]: Jun 27 2013 - Cricket Wireless Amphitheater - Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:54:47 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>*Thursday 27 June 2013* 
*Masters of Madness - Shock Therapy Tour* 
*Venue:* Cricket Wireless Amphitheater  
*Location:* Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"><font size="5"><b>Thursday 27 June 2013</b></font><br />
<font size="3"><b>Masters of Madness - Shock Therapy Tour</b></font><br />
<b>Venue:</b> Cricket Wireless Amphitheater <br />
<b>Location:</b> Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA<br />
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Ticket Presale starts May 22, details available at <a href="http://cricketwirelessamp.com/events/single/marilyn-manson-and-alice-cooper/" target="_blank">cricketwirelessamp.com</a>.<br />
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Tickets go on sale to the public on May 25 available at <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/masters-of-madness-tour-marilyn-manson-bonner-springs-kansas-06-27-2013/event/06004AB1E927AEA8?artistid=766825&amp;majorcatid=10001&amp;minorcatid=60" target="_blank">Ticketmaster</a>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"><b>Members Attending:</b></span><br />
<ul><li style=""><b>Hazekiah</b><br />
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			<dc:creator>Norsefire</dc:creator>
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			<title>Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 from cancer</title>
			<link>http://www.providermodule.com/forum/showthread.php/5957-Ray-Manzarek-founding-member-of-The-Doors-dies-at-74-from-cancer?goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:04:20 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/publicist-ray-manzarek-founding-member-of-the-doors-dies-at-74-from-cancer/2013/05/20/2dec0d86-c193-...</description>
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			<dc:creator>AssetReign</dc:creator>
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			<title>Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd Cover (work in progress)</title>
			<link>http://www.providermodule.com/forum/showthread.php/5956-Have-A-Cigar-Pink-Floyd-Cover-(work-in-progress)?goto=newpost</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:41:47 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I've always wanted to cover a Pink Floyd song. This is just a sliver of the song. Trying to get some feedback/opinions on how it's coming along. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I've always wanted to cover a Pink Floyd song. This is just a sliver of the song. Trying to get some feedback/opinions on how it's coming along.<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/stat1stick/have-a-cigar-pink-floyd-cover" target="_blank">Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd Cover by STAT1STICK</a></div>

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			<dc:creator>stat1stick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA["Black Skinhead" Kanye West, features TBP]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:22:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>http://rapfix.mtv.com/2013/05/19/kanye-west-yeezus-black-skinhead-snl/ 
 
Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning (May 19) West took the stage in a...</description>
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Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning (May 19) West took the stage in a black leather motorcycle jacket to debut &quot;Black Skinhead,&quot; a punk rock-soaked thump seemingly drawn from Marilyn Manson’s 1996 hit &quot;The Beautiful People.&quot;</div>

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			<category domain="http://www.providermodule.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/37-Marilyn-Manson-News">Marilyn Manson News</category>
			<dc:creator>AssetReign</dc:creator>
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			<title>New Jodorowski film: The Dance of Reality</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:35:49 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Not 'King Shot'... snark. 
 
Image:...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Not 'King Shot'... snark.<br />
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			<dc:creator>necrospasms</dc:creator>
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			<title>The Frack</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 09:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Does no one write on here? I haven't been on here in at least two months and still no one has written anything. I don't know how my writings get...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Does no one write on here? I haven't been on here in at least two months and still no one has written anything. I don't know how my writings get bumped on this section anyways. I rarely have written on here, and those are on rare occasions when I feel inspired. But NO ONE writes on this forum nor comments. I think it's stupid to even have this section if no one contributes.</div>

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			<dc:creator>crazybitch</dc:creator>
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			<title>Does anyone else believe that reptilians are the REAL government?</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 04:10:07 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>For decades, since ancient Egypt, society was ruled by half human half animal princes and kings. Now, in our own countries, most of our politicians...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>For decades, since ancient Egypt, society was ruled by half human half animal princes and kings. Now, in our own countries, most of our politicians look like humanoids. UFO sightings are on the rise. The weather is more violent than it has ever been in the planets history. Even in the Bible it warns us of serpents. So, are our governments run by human beings, or do you believe that we are being controlled by reptilian overlords who live underground and that also Alien Greys are the REAL FBI?</div>

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			<dc:creator>Dv5</dc:creator>
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			<title>What song off Born Villain did you not like but do now?</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:37:40 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>When I first heard the album I did not really care for Hey Cruel World.. The Gardener and Disengaged. Now a year later I can say I love all 3 songs...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>When I first heard the album I did not really care for Hey Cruel World.. The Gardener and Disengaged. Now a year later I can say I love all 3 songs and one song on the album that I really liked (Pistol Whipped) is now my least favorite on the album. I love this album and so glad I stuck it through all these years to finally get a great Manson album again. Not that the past 3 were bad they were just not close to the albums that led up to Golden Age. I even love all of those albums in their own way. My life really reflects the high and lows of his albums and my life was kinda of in a bad place from 2003 - 2009.</div>

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			<dc:creator>EvilDead</dc:creator>
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			<title>Sobriety and Being a fan</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:08:19 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Can you still be a fan of Manson's music and be sober from all drugs alcohol etc? or would it not make sense. Not trying to be quacky acting but the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Can you still be a fan of Manson's music and be sober from all drugs alcohol etc? or would it not make sense. Not trying to be quacky acting but the truth is some things are just different feeling.</div>

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			<dc:creator>filthytothecore</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA['ghetto' names]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:44:22 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Man, I sure hear some odd names these days. I live in  de ghet-to and hear some real beauts. Of course, I can't remember most of them. But one that...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Man, I sure hear some odd names these days. I live in  de ghet-to and hear some real beauts. Of course, I can't remember most of them. But one that stands out is 'Justice'. <br />
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I'm betting that people here could contribute some funny names they've heard!</div>

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			<dc:creator>Allycat</dc:creator>
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			<title>Gay Pride?</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:53:57 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I am not proud to be a heterosexual. So why are gay people so proud? What have they accomplished? All us fuckin' hetero's do is reproduce dumb asses...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I am not proud to be a heterosexual. So why are gay people so proud? What have they accomplished? All us fuckin' hetero's do is reproduce dumb asses who kill the planet. I can understand gays wanting rights, or the illusion of rights, but I don't see where the pride comes in because at the same time they aren't procreating which is nihilistic and will someday make our species extinct as more and more people are deciding to become homosexuals. Either way we're all screwed...in one way or another.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Dv5</dc:creator>
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			<title>Great Big White World Fan Made Music Video</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:47:26 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[My fourth fan made music video made by Villainfilms24 
I hope you enjoy this video, I had a lot of fun making it! 
Long Live Marilyn Manson I'll see...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>My fourth fan made music video made by Villainfilms24<br />
I hope you enjoy this video, I had a lot of fun making it!<br />
Long Live Marilyn Manson I'll see you all at Masters of Madness!<br />
Subscribe!<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5qEhpjngQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5qEhpjngQ</a></div>

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			<dc:creator>Villainfilms24</dc:creator>
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			<title>How to win an internet argument</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:29:01 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[What are your methods? Here are a couple, (well more than a couple), of suggestions that I've come up with. Now, these are sure fire ways to defeat...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>What are your methods? Here are a couple, (well more than a couple), of suggestions that I've come up with. Now, these are sure fire ways to defeat your cyber turf nemesis in any flaming war.<br />
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Read their comments. Nod off for a few minutes, begin slowly jerking off, and then just turn your computer off for a few days. <br />
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When you know that they are using actual facts against you, use &quot;that's fascinating tell me more&quot; memes as your only responses. There is no end all answer to anything because no one listens and deliberates an answer before saying something or adding a reply. Nod off, begin slowly jerking off, and then send them a video of yourself doing so as you repeat back to them what they have said. <br />
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Lastly, when people are mean to you for being stupid, issue a 10 paragraph apology with a video embedded at the end of you slowly jerking off, repeating what they've said, crying, and then turn your computer off for a few days. Now here is where you claim victory...<br />
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Turn your computer back on. You'll notice that tons of girls who love sensitive men who are passionate and take their time have messaged you, (because your enemy has distributed your videos all over the web) asking if you want to hook up. Screen cap the messages. Make another video of yourself violently masturbating and reading those messages while laughing hysterically. Also include the hidden sex tapes of you nailing tons of hot random girls leaving your opponent feeling like a lonely asshole who will then proceed to slowly masturbate while crying alone at his or her computer and hopefully...hopefully they will never turn it back on.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Dv5</dc:creator>
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			<title>Iron Man 3</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:25:49 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[**SPOILERS!!!* 
 
* 
Okay, now that that's out of the way... 
 
I'd planned on going to the midnight premiere with a buddy, but I had no idea at the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="7"><b>*SPOILERS!!!*<br />
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</b></font></div><font size="2">Okay, now that <i>that's</i> out of the way...<br />
<br />
</font>I'd planned on going to the midnight premiere with a buddy, but I had no idea at the time that I'd be doing so after a 14 hour workday of backbreaking manual labor.  So I zonked out after about the first 20 minutes and mostly only caught a minute or two of each quiet interlude following a loud action scene before passing back out.  So, yeah, FAIL for me!  And that's NOT a bad review of the movie, btw.  It's just a really GOOD review of the Glenlivet we were drinking during the previews, lol.<br />
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So I was REALLY excited to <i>finally</i> see the movie &quot;again&quot; yesterday.  Even though I managed to catch some MAJOR spoilers the first time around, I had <i>no idea what happened</i> for probably about 85% of the movie and was <i>really</i> curious about how they tied it all together and wrapped it up.  From Tony storming the Mandarin's palace to the end credits was just a <i>complete</i> blank for me, so I basically had no clue wtf happened in the movie beyond the beginning and a few brief fragments of the middle.<br />
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Finally saw the whole thing, though.  <br />
<b><br />
CAN'T WAIT TO GO AGAIN!</b><br />
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The movie was GREAT.  Very, <i>very</i> entertaining. <br />
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I guess a lot of people are bugged about Shane Black basically turning it into one of his buddy-cop movies and Tony being out of the suit so much and the Mandarin's big reveal, but personally I thought all that stuff was fuckin' awesome.<br />
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So I guess now I have to defend each.<br />
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The in-joke homage/motifs that Shane Black wrote in <i>kicked ass</i>.  It was pretty easy to see RDJ/Cheadle as Gibson/Glover through most of their back-and-forths.  Which I thought was truly inspired, with the Iron Patriot basically being the black lawman who's trying to help straighten out the white PTSD-afflicted loose cannon, who's constantly giving his buddy shit, just like Murtaugh and Riggs in <u>Lethal Weapon</u>.  <i>LOVE IT.</i>  We even had a scene with a Christmas tree lot, reminiscent of Riggs' epic introduction in his coke-bust scene.  Also reminiscent of the whole Christmas thing in <u>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</u>, <u>Last Action Hero</u>, and <u>The Last Boy Scout</u>, for that matter!  And speaking of <u>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</u>...oh, look.  RDJ loses a finger again!  Well, sort of.  But don't worry, he can put it back on, lol.<br />
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Not to mention the destruction of Stark's mansion!  It took me a minute to realize why it was so familiar, but then it hit me.  Michael Hunsaker from <u>Lethal Weapon</u>!  Yeah, right when our protagonist is about to unravel the whole thing and find out what's <i>really</i> going on...NOPE.  Helicopter assault on a beachfront/cliff-face mansion instead!  <br />
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Hahaha, good stuff.  None of which takes away from the movie, of course.  You either notice it or you don't.  If anything it <i>improves</i> the movie by making it play to his strengths as a writer/director, and I thought it was really cool to put a comic book movie like <u>Iron Man 3</u> in such good cinematic company.  Whether you like his stuff or not, he <i>indisputably</i> made <u>Iron Man 3</u> a <i>Shane Black</i> movie, which is something of a feat in and of itself.  And he did so rather subtly, really.<br />
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And why NOT have Tony out of the suit so much?  All it does is hide RDJ's awesomeness and they did a GREAT job of making Tony-out-of-his-suit absolutely <i>central</i> to the story, so it made perfect sense.  And, of course, there are obvious comparisons to be made between that aspect of THIS movie versus that aspect of <u>The Dark Knight Rises</u> -- especially with both being big, superhero, tentpole sequel Summer movies featuring red herring, terrorist villains -- but since they BOTH dealt with billionaire industrialists as protagonists and handled it so differently I don't really feel like its an issue.  (Tony actually having a &quot;Clean Slate&quot; program and explicitly <i>calling it that</i> was maybe laying it on a bit thick and rather unfortunate after Selina Kyle dealt so much with it last Summer, but oh well.)  Plus, keeping Tony out of the suit made for some KILLER action setpieces that might not have been so interesting otherwise.  The choreography and suit-hopping of the movie's climax is justification enough, really.  That shit was AMAZING!  I wasn't sure how well Shane Black would handle the more action-oriented CGI stuff, but <i>damn</i>.  No complaints here!<br />
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And then there's the Mandarin.  He was ALWAYS a manufactured &quot;Yellow Peril&quot; villain anyway so I guess I didn't really see it as much of a switch and just thought of it as a brilliant modernization of the same concept.  And tying all that into the whole video-savvy-bin-Laden/war-for-oil/amputee-vets/crooked-VP/Roxxon/BP-Gulf-spill/etc. thing was pretty sweet, topical, and ballsy, too.<br />
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And, speaking of the Vice President, as an '80s action movie fan I was silently cheering on the presence of Miguel Ferrar as the Veep.  They didn't really give him too much to do, but c'mon!  He's back in the field of man-in-robosuit movies!  Sure, I'd rather he were in next year's <u>RoboCop</u> remake instead, but either way it's a WIN.<br />
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On the subject of men-in-robosuits, I also thought it was pretty cool to see the President of the United States in the Iron Patriot armor, lol.  Nice little wink-and-nod to the whole thing from the comics, where the Iron Patriot is really President Norman Osborne, formerly the Green Goblin.  And of course it was cool of them to make the President's name be Ellis, after Warren Ellis, the sci-fi mastermind behind the &quot;Extremis&quot; storyline from the Iron Man comics.  I know Marvel owns all that stuff and they didn't HAVE to give him credit, but considering that the first and third films of this trilogy drew SO MUCH from that <i>one</i> storyline, it's only fair.<br />
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All in all, I thought this movie wrapped up the trilogy really well.  Taking us back to Switzerland during the opening to meet the guy who saved Tony's life in captivity and to see Tony blowing him off was a nice little treat which really helped bring things full-circle, just like the closing credits montage using footage from all three films.  Definitely a sense of completion and closure there.  Which naturally doubles nicely as a negotiation tool for RDJ to make another hundred million or so in exchange for <u>The Avengers II</u> now that his contract is over and the trilogy is complete, but whatever.  He's worth it.  I hope we'll continue to see more of Pepper Potts, too!  Seeing her kick ass as Iron Potts or w/e was <i>fantastic</i>.  Never been too big a fan of Paltrow's movies, but she's been GREAT in these.  Hopefully they'll keep finding excuses to get her on film in her cutoffs and underwear too, lol.  Mmm. <br />
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My only <i>real</i> disappointment with <u>Iron Man 3</u> was the <i>complete</i> lack of AC/DC and Black Sabbath.  WTF.  Not even a <i>t-shirt</i>, ffs?  They were <i>clearly</i> trying to tie things up in a neat little bow, but NOT using ANY music from those two bands totally drops the ball on that point.  Anyone know what's up with that?  Marvel Studios being cheap again?  Shane Black just hates classic rock?  Opportunistic band reps shitting the bed?  Had to be <i>something</i> going on there, that music is pretty much part of the Iron Man brand by now.<br />
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Oh, and the end-credits scene.<br />
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Minimalist and goofy and kind of a letdown since it doesn't really lead anywhere and wasn't even as funny as the shwarma scene to make up for it, but it was still cool.  Ruffalo and all the double-entendres MORE than make up for it, lol.  Banner doesn't have the &quot;temperament,&quot; and Tony-minus-the-ARC-reactor says he just had to &quot;get that off my chest and put that out there.&quot; <br />
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Haha, nice.</div>

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