I went to see Iron Man 2 over the weekend.  I hadn’t seen it yet simply because I didn’t feel like fighting with a bunch of people opening weekend, and I was out of town for a while.  Anyways I went to see is Sunday night at The Monaco.

First let me say, holy shit Scarlett Johansson hot.  I just couldn’t keep from staring at her.  Then the scene with her changing in the back seat!  Oh man, just awesome.

Anyways, on to the film.  I liked the film but thought the first Iron Man was better.  This one seemed too “comic book like” is the only way I can describe it.   I know that probably doesn’t make sense, but I don’t know how to explain it.  I didn’t like how “I know best for the world” Tony Stark was.  Also I didn’t like how through the entire movie broken glass was treated like confetti!  Everywhere you looked glass was being broken, but not a sole was hurt by falling shards of glass.  How many times do you think you can blow up a bottle of wine at a party before someone gets hurt.  I’m guessing it’s like once.  Not Iron Man, he just keeps blowing shit up.

Now I really dug Samuel L. Jackson. The scene with Samuel L. Jackson and Iron Man sitting having breakfast in a dinner was just awesome.  It was reminiscence of the dinner scenes in Pulp Fiction.

So in conclusion I liked the movie, it was very entertaining but I felt the first one was better.  Not by much mind you, just enough to give this one  a 4.5 instead of 5 like I would have giving the fist one if I had seen it in the theater.

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A couple weeks ago I was finally able to see this movie.  I had seen the previews and heard all the good reviews, so I was very much looking forward to seeing it.  I’m glad I didn’t wait until the DVD for this one.

The movie starts out as a very geeky comedy.  Boy likes comic books a lot and wants to be a super hero.  Then it turned violent.  Boy tries to become a super hero and fails.  After this, the movie kind of turns into a dark comedy.  You start laughing at people getting shot, and how ridiculous some parts of the movie are.  By the end you are laughing your ass off at a dude getting his head blown off by a shot gun.  If you think this is a geeky comedy, then hold on to your seats because it turns dark quickly.

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Our first meeting at the new 2600 location looked to be a hit.  We had a couple talks, good food, and for once real Internet.  Here a couple pictures I took there.

This month we are having the meeting at Newk’s on University.  Stop by the new site and subscribe to the new mailing list.  See you friday.

Thanks
Nathan

Here are a few pictures from my last trip to El Paso for work. Yes those are real coyotes! They came and ate scraps outside of the window at this steak restaurant. I’ll be going back in a few weeks. Hope to go to Roswell NM, and Carlsbad Caverns.