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Work went ridiculously slowly today. A large portion of this is because I forgot my ipod (selfishly as Rachel informed me) meaning that the musical accompaniment of the day was a 6 track CD on a constant loop featuring some horrendously boring music. It seems yesterday was a blip as all the customers I dealt with today were very nice which made the day much more bearable.

After work I went to see Iron Man 2 with various humans. At the time I enjoyed the movie and I have no real complaint with it but looking back I am somewhat apathetic about it. It misses something from the original; something I can't put my finger on but makes it lack the lasting appeal. My only thought could be that the pacing is a bit off, becoming quite slow in the second third. Having said that it is a good film with a good character arc for Tony Stark: whereas a lot of superhero movies see this as an underlying device, it is the arc that drives this movie, a factor that I was impressed by as it would have been easier for the director to just do a simple exciting sequel. As with the original the effects are incredible. The best part is the cast: Robert Downey Jr is awesome as always, with Mickey Rourke playing the Russian villain very well; he gives a more realistic spin on the comic book villain, not overplaying it. Samuel L Jackson is in it, further setting up the Avengers movie Marvel are planning which if and when it comes together should be very exciting. All this positivity makes it seem unfair to give it a mediocre rating but the first point of something being missing from it did mean I left without the buzz you usually get from a great film. On analysing it, it is a good film but for a superhero movie I did expect it to be a bit more gripping. 7/10

Somewhat short post tonight: lack of sleep the past week or so has meant that once I get round to writing these I am practically falling asleep on the keyboard meaning what is here takes twice as long to type as I keep making foolish mistakes.