Archive for May, 2008
Entry 0054
Friday, May 9th, 2008Entry 0053
Friday, May 9th, 2008Has it really been a week since my last entry?
Damn.
Lets do the recap mambo!
Nothing!
Dear god I’m living a quiet, boring life.
Entry 0052
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Well, this is some sad shit right here:
According to TrekMovie.com, the future for the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is rather dark and bleak… Currently, there are no plans to renew the contract, and as such it’ll be gone no later than December 31 of this year… Meaning that, if they do close it, the doors will close for good some time in October.
This is really fucking sad as far as I’m concerned: The Experience is my favorite fucking place in all of Las Vegas. It’s like my second home, and frankly I don’t give a shit how much of a fucking pathetic loser that makes me. I love me some Trek, I love me some folks in costumes, I loves me some Warp Core Breaches, and I loves me some Talaxian Turkey Wraps.
I’ve been going there for the past ten years – I went for the first time shortly after it opened, and I’ve managed to make a trek (heh) to it at least once a year since then, usually far more often than that. I’ve had no end of really good times there, and if it goes a part of me dies.
Yeah, I said it.
*sigh* 
Entry 0051
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Just got home from watching Iron Man, and I have got to say that I absolutely loved the movie.
The pacing was perfect – not so fast that you’re left wondering what the hell is going on, but not so slow that you’re wishing it would get to the good bits. The story is pretty solid, doing a good job of setting up Tony Stark, his world, and then bringing about the changes that cause him to become Iron Man – all in a rather believable way.
The acting is pretty darn good, although not entirely perfect. I wasn’t too fond of one or two side characters, but all said it works very well.
All told, there are six characters in the movie. That’s not a whole lot, but that’s fine since the majority of the time it’s focused tightly on Tony “Iron Man” Stark, and how he’s reacting to his environment. Although the final fight between him and the baddie – no spoilers – is fucking awesome. Not quite epic, but still damn awesome.
I can easily recommend this to any fan of action films, comic-book movies or just good films in general. It’s good fun for pretty much everyone.
Oh, and do yourself a favor when you go: Sit through the credits.
All of them. It’s worth it.
It’s EPIC.
