“Getting Iron-Manned” = Having all of your friends somehow see a movie the instant it comes out, so you never end up seeing it until months later, despite your best efforts.

I still haven’t seen Inglourious Basterds, mostly because half my friends wentand saw the Thursday midnight show when it came out, and the other half saw it while I was out of town this past weekend, and now I’m basically stuck between either seeing the movie myself, forcing a friend to see it a second time, finding a new friend and convincing them to go (the most likely option), or waiting and just Netflixing it. Given my prior experience with these situations, the last option is what will happen.

The same thing happened to me when Iron Man came out — definitely wanted to see it, but somehow my entire friend contingent managed to go within like 4 seconds of it coming out, and I was left to watch it on DVD months later, only then realizing that it was pretty cool.

Getting Iron-Manned: Has it ever happened to you? Kind of annoying, isn’t it? Feel free to leave any stories of Iron-Manning in the comments. Consider it your weekend assignment.