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[froodle]

Two weeks after I returned to the Rock, my multi-region DVD player broke down. My laptop is chipped to play pretty much anything you throw at it, but there are few things more upsetting than sitting in a room with 52 inches of LED heaven staring you in the face and having to watch the first Addams Family movie on a fucking computer.

Anyway, after scouring the island in search of multi-region-capable beauty, and being stared at by various counter jockeys as though I'd shit in their collective handbags when I asked, I finally found a place online that delivered them. They arrived today, and 30 seconds after plugging them in I was enjoying the adventures of Sean, Patrick, Eugene, Phoebe, Fat Kid and the Frankenstein Monster on a screen so big that it's visable from satellite. I believe the technical term for such resounding success is "baddical."

In other news, I just came back from seeing Thor. While I give it two coolness-points for absolutely SHAMELESS incest, having the God of Thunder portrayed by wannabe-Heath-Ledger-circa-a-Knights-Tale seems like bad casting to me, Anthony Hopkins has been on my bad side since Alexander, and pretty much everyone was a useless spacker. Oh, except Idris Elba, who was beautiful and stern like always, but had to hide his lovely face behind a mask in case the rest of the frankly entry-level cast got jealous of his hotness.

In fact, I just reminded myself of how hot Idris Elba is, so I'm going to go watch The Losers now!

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[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

Thor was awesome, because Loki is awesome. It took me two viewings and a dive into fandom to discover this, but it's very true. Watch it again, you'll see what I mean. Or maybe you won't, but it's true. Though Idris Elba was awesome too, I'll give you that. And you get guilt-free incest as they aren't actually related. Awesomeness!

I watched like five minutes of Alexander the other week. Turned it off before I threw something at the TV.

Ha, the Losers = win!

[froodle]

Everyone I talk to seems to love it, which makes me think I am missing something because I completely do not understand this concept! I mean, okay, Loki was slightly more interesting than everyone else, but only because everyone else was about as exciting as boiled cauliflower and a glass of tap water served in a beige room. I mean, why is he a random blue Lorne? What is with Anthony Hopkins and stealing babies? Who even does that?! Why didn't the main Blue Lorne get mad about the baby stealing? This is all so failsome AND it didn't even have Tony Stark and his beard in it.

Alexander is about ninety minutes of pure genius. Unfortunately, it's a three hour movie, and Anthony Hopkins is responsible for a good forty minutes of sucktardery all on his own. If it could just be edited into Colin Farrel wandering around with his "conquerer up front, party in the back" mullet wig, fighting bloody battles and being stared at longingly by Jared Leto, it would have been one of the finest movies ever made. They could also keep drunken Val Kilmer falling off his sofa, because that was awesome.

I love the Losers so much. That whole movie is basically about Daddy Winchester and Idris Elba's tragic breakup. Sob! So tragic!

[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

Laufey was hiding his son away because he was ashamed of him for not being giant enough. I don't know if he was upset that he got stolen, (and I agree its a very weird thing to do!) but I doubt it. He never knew it was Odin that stole him though, so he never realised Loki was actually his son. If he had, I suspect things might have been a little different in relations between Asgard and Jotunheim before the events of the movie.
Whatever he was thinking though, Odin might have saved Loki's life by taking him.

I switched Alexander on 20mins into it, and it must have been during one of the not so good moments. Also, for some reason I couldn't take Colin Farrell seriouly in the role.

[froodle]

Laufey should hide HIMSELF away for a) being a giant with a stupid name like "Laufey" and b) looking like Lorne from Angel, only blue, and not even wearing crazy suits or singing karoke.

Normally I would scold you for disrespecting Colin Farrel, but I just saw the trailer for the new Fright Night movie and I'm not feeling very pleased with him myself, so I shall let it slide.

[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should write a potential sequel involving karaoke singing Frost Giants as the main bad guys. Loki could take over as their leader, and Thor can stand around looking baffled and occasionally beating them up. I'd watch it.

[froodle]

Would it involve Mister T and his van, which of course would transform into a giant ass-kicking robot at some point? Because I feel I could do great things with such a concept.