Well,
here we are folks. It's looking like this might be it for Zeb's Den. I have been offered a similiar position at a different website, one that pays, and I will be posting my reviews there. I would gladly have posted them here as well but the site I will be working for owns the exclusive first years rights to any work I produce for it.
I would like to thank anyone and everyone who took the time to stop by and read my work. I appreciate your time and suggestions.
You can find me at my new workplace, suite101.com, under my real name Bryce Zubriski. The first review I hope to post is Red Dead Redemption but everything I write needs to be approved by my editor now before it posts so we'll see.
Thank you,
Zeb364 (Bryce Zubriski)
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Iron Man 2 is a great way to kick the summer movie season off with a bang. It’s full of some great action scenes, impressive visual effects, and snappy one-liners. Unfortunately, it’s these very same things that make it an unworthy successor to the original Iron Man from 2008.
Whereas the original focused more on the characters and how they developed as three dimensional people, the second provides them with quick quips and proceeds with the action sequences. This style of film doesn’t lend itself well to the quality of actor which appears in Iron Man 2. Only three cast members seemed at home in this more low brow setting (Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sam Rockwell) whereas the rest came across as wanting to do more but not having permission, with the exception of Mickey Rourke and Jon Favreau who just appeared incapable of anything more. In fact, Favreau’s character was completely unnecessary and Favreau himself should have just remained behind the camera.
So ultimately, Iron Man 2 is a great summer action movie full of everything you would expect from a film of that genre. Had this been the first and only Iron Man film so far it would have stood up fine on it’s own but since it is the second in the series you are forced to look at how it relates to it’s predecessor, not only via the plot but in overall quality. In those regards, it fails on every level and it’s those failures that hurt the final experience.
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Ok everybody,
I know I'm late on the delivery of my Iron Man 2 review but there's a good reason for the wait. I was assigned a bullet review (essentially a very small review) of Iron Man 2 by my editor at the Penticton Herald and I didn't want to run it on my blog before it ran in the paper. That does mean that this will be a very short review though as that's what was requested of me for work.
As for what's coming in the future, I just got Red Dead Redemption today so that will be the next game to be featured here. I am going to tell you up front though, it will probably take a bit longer than usual as I am swamped at work and Red Dead is a massive open world game and as you might have noticed, I'm very thorough with my reviews.
Thanks for sticking with me and I hope you've been enjoying my reviews,
Zeb364
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Hi folks!
My life gonna be pretty hectic for the month of May, thanks in no small part to an internship at The Penticton Herald, but I do intend to continue posting reviews. Now I won't be posting as many as be for, at maximum I'll be posting one a week, but they are coming. As for this week, I'm planning on seeing Iron Man this weekend and then posting a review on it. After that I think I'll review the Halo Reach Beta but I'm not certain.
Thanks for sticking with me,
Zeb364
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