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Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2


*** SPOILER ALERT*** Just in case ;)

So finally I managed to get around to watching the new Ironman 2 movie.
I have to say I had my doubts. The first Iron Man movie was actually pretty good and I take my hat off to Robert Downey Jnr. for pulling off a wicked cool Tony Stark. However there were few dodgy pieces to the story and there was the problem of the man who was playing James Rhodes…the now infamous (with the comic fans) Terrence Howard. Luckily when things didn’t work out and Terrence was to be replaced, Don Cheadle stepped in and totally owned the role.

Yes indeed the Iron Man 2 movie was in many ways saved by Don Cheadle. I’ve seen Cheadle in various movies and always thought he was pretty talented, but after watching how he took on the role of Rhodey I have a new found respect for the man. Next up is the ever impressive Mickey Rourke who likewise made a pretty awesome villain as Whiplash. The only little issue with the Whiplash character was that it seemed like a hybrid of another character from the Iron man comics, who was like a Russian version of Iron man himself. Even with this small bit of annoyance Mickey did a great job and really pulled off a super cool Whiplash character who gave the “Man of Iron” a good run for his money.

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Advanced Photoshop winner

Quarantine by CHUCKY


Well boys and girls we have another awesome winning design for you.

The winner of the Advanced Photoshop theme competition has been a very long awaited announcement indeed. We have had a myriad of submissions from all across the world and it was undoubtedly a very strongly contested design battle. There is no doubt in my mind however that our winning design is absolutely worthy of the title.
Congratulations go out to CHUCKY for his brilliant dark design entitled Quarantine.

The Quarantine design is easily one of the coolest macabre science fiction inspired design I have seen in ages, not only on Springleap.com, but across the web as a whole. As soon as I saw this design I fell in love and knew it had to go on my Advanced Photoshop Top Choices list…absolutely no doubt! It seems that the voting community also held similar feelings about the design.

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