Tonight's the big night. They're going to start showing Iron Man at 8pm tonight. Much as I wanna go, I ain't going. I don't want to see it by myself (at least the first time) and if I take Kathy along, it's just over 2 hours, so we'd be looking at 11pm for getting home, and she has to get up at 3:30am to go to work. I have enough trouble fighting her to get 6 hours' sleep. So it looks like tomorrow afternoon.
But Gordon McAlpin at Multiplex wrote in his "notes from the manager" that the word on the street is when (not if) you go see Iron Man this weekend, stick around 'til after the credits. That's where the title of the post comes from. According to Roger Ebert's movie glossary the Monk's Reward is when you stay through the credits and get a little something extra. The first one I know about (okay, the end gag in Airplane! but this one's cooler) is in Young Sherlock Holmes (highlight to reveal hidden spoiler text) when Young Sherlock Holmes' nemesis in the picture travels to a lodge where he signs with his new alias "Moriarty" . When we go to the movies and the credits starts to roll, Kathy knows me enough to ask "is this one of the movies we should stay through the credits?"