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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 11:42:53 AM »
hahhahaa. yes, indeed you are! :P

okay, in the comics it says:
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Valhalla - Realm of the honored dead and is a distinct region on the Asgard planetoid.
which leads to two very interesting facts about the comics.
1) these gods are still "in progress" and their stories are not yet over. so odin isn't dead yet... but once he will die, and thor (and they have, but it's comics so they always come back) they wind up in the Valhalla section of Asgard where they can act like it's a 24 hour fightclub/buffet/bar. ie where i wanna go when i die.
2) these gods aren't so much gods... as they are alien creatures which resemble the traditional norse gods...

so yes, norse mythology and marvel mythology can co-exist if you think of it that way. : p



and i wanna go again and see it next week because i loved it that much.
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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 01:25:36 PM »
1) Valhöll is a house, not a section of Ásgarður per se so that makes no sense.  It is where Odin lives and rules Ásgarður, like Thor's house is called Bilskirnir.  I can't remember if there are any other gods that live in Valhalla besides Odin and Frigg, his wife. A large part of it is a big party/dining hall for the Einherjar (dead warrior vikings).

2) I find that easier to accept that the first part, an alien race that stole their looks and names from the norse gods. :p

The movie itself was good, like I said earlier, once I got past the "what the fuck are they doing" part.

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 01:39:25 PM »
1) my hammer makes me fly doesn't make sense either

2) exactly, and i still think you're a sexy frost giant
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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 02:25:27 PM »
1) The hammer fly thing is marvel mythology. In norse mythology Thor flies in a chariot pulled by two goats that he eats occasionally when he is hungry.  I don't think mythology is supposed to make much sense anyway.

2)  :wub:

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 11:27:10 PM »
A.) With all this Thor talk, all I'm thinking about is Tales of Symphonia and the Norse mythology contained in said game. In which case I want to scream "Yggdrassill" and run away.

2.) I'm drunk and should get off the internetz.

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2011, 04:43:43 AM »
Drunk PI: WAAAAAAAY better than drunk dialing  ;)
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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2011, 10:08:33 AM »
Or drunk Facebooking. ;p

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2011, 10:19:44 AM »
i dunno, drunk dials from are fuckin epic.
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« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2011, 02:36:41 PM »
Saw Brides Maids with the Farrier last night. It's actually INCREDIBLY good -- and barely even a chick flick.

In fact, it was so hilarious, I literally slapped my knee a few times while watching.

Go see it.

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2011, 05:20:04 PM »
Tim Heidecker's presence alone makes me want to go see it.
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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2011, 12:41:48 PM »
I just got around to watching Exit Through the Gift Shop- very enjoyable!
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« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2011, 09:53:58 AM »
did you see the pi cameo?
hahaha.
i was like "ooooh yea, i forgot tae was in this!"
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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2011, 12:13:14 PM »
I haven't seen Thor yet, but I am concerned by reports that it isn't historically accurate.

Did watch Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, The Beast in Heat, and Deja Vu recently.

Ilsa was self-aware, witty and entertaining. Thoroughly recommend to anyone who's even just a little bit twisted.

The Beast in Heat was just unpleasant (and for the most part, not in a good way), with only two laugh-out-loud moments. I was however impressed with the lack of budget, with old black and white war stock film interspersed with newly-shot colour footage, so you would see a grenade thrown in colour, then the scene would cut away and you would see the resultant explosion in black and white. The film was dubbed into English then overdubbed back into Italian, for seemingly no good reason, meaning it was very difficult to understand anything any of the characters said. Fortunately dialogue wasn't essential to the plot.

Deja Vu was only redeemed by the ever-reliable and watchable Denzel Washington. The first 45 minutes was badly paced, boring, and the director's habit of using shots and camera movements that were supposed to be cool distracted from anything good that might have been happening. Then in the space of two minutes, an utterly unbelievable (I tried really hard to suspend disbelief, but it didn't work) twist based on science more obviously phoney than the "science bits" in shampoo commercials lurched the film into some kind of belated momentum, at the cost of all credibility. Then we were supposed to believe Denzel fell in love with someone by watching video of someone who was already dead go about their everyday business, and see it as sweet and romantic rather than as creepy stalkerish voyeuristic necrophilia. The product of all that is a film that can only be described as woeful.

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2011, 12:23:35 PM »
I've missed posting movie reviews like these ones. Hurrah for PI.

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Re: MOVIES
« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2011, 05:35:44 PM »
Ilsa is great. Watched that a few years ago.
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