(I've backdated a few posts to make up for missed days. It's like my keyboard was pinched and now that I let it go, you get a whole lot of posts at once.)

From 1996 to 2001 Robert Downey Jr. was arrested numerous times for drug related charges and violating parole. In 1999, he went on record telling a judge, "It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger's on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gunmetal." If that didn't foreshadow his triumphant return to the silver screen as weapons manufacturer turned Iron Man, Tony Stark, I don't know what did. Anyways...

Last night, I finally saw Iron Man. It's probably the best comic book movie I've seen since Spiderman (not to be confused with Spiderman 3, which simultaneously ruined the franchise and weirded out millions of little kids). Not only are the special effects awesome, but Downey Jr. is actually pretty funny.

However, this post isn't about Iron Man, not really anyway. It's about that feeling you get when you've known something all along and then been proven right. This post is about vindication. See at the end of Iron Man most people got up and left the theater as the credits started to roll, but oddly, some people remained seated. These were the people in Marvel Comics t-shirts who you heard clapping when Stan Lee made his mandatory cameo in the film (as Hugh Heffner). These people obviously knew something I didn't, and I assumed it was that there was a scene at the end of the movie, after the credits.

After 10 minutes of sitting through "Mr. Downey's Assistant" and "3rd Gaffer" credits, it finally came on. It was all I could do to bite my tongue and not yell out "Holy Shit!!!" Why? Because 30 seconds into the clip, none other than Samuel L. Jackson walks out of the shadows as gruff, eye-patch wearing, Nick Fury, head of S.H.I.E.L.D. He wasn't even in the movie!! He was in the movie for literally 2 minutes and had one line of dialogue! ONE LINE! It's absurd! They probably didn't even pay him. The guy is literally in every single movie ever made, a point which I made abundantly clear with April 8th post entitled My Brother From Another Mother...(f*cker).

I found the clip on YouTube and embedded it for your viewing pleasure.




Looks like Morgan Freeman is out another $100.
-Adam