MOVIES

[kristin]

Overboard was on TV this morning, I love that movie so much.

[luna]

Speaking of great 80s movies, I watched groundhog day on netflix recently. I love Bill Murray!

[Naylzie]

Finally saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night.  The lit geek in me was fawning over the meta-text the entire time, but I enjoyed it for the story, too.  Moore's portrayal (well, the adaptation, I've never read the graphic novel) of the characters was great.  Casting, too.  Can't imagine anyone but Connery playing Quatermain the way that character is written.

[spade]

You should read the comic books. Now that's meta. Also, awesome. You'll love it.
Seriously, next to the comics, that movie is a piece of shit. It's merely bad, otherwise. : P

[r00]

Good to see you back, spade!  8)

Pasar un porro ahora por favor!

[spade]

Hahahaha.

Un porro para este forro, please.

("Forro" can be used with love, not just for love. Har, har.)

[Naylzie]

It's merely bad, otherwise. : P

But it's the GOOD kind of bad   The kind that's fun to watch just because.  I shall make a note to keep my eyes peeled for the graphic novel in my travels.  Being able to snag it from the library would be a definite plus, but the one closest to me has a pretty poor selection of graphic novels (then again, to my experience, many libraries are still only beginning to carry them, so I should probably shut up).

[Hydra]

I saw Thor the other day.  It was alright once I closed my eyes to how they were butchering the norse mythology and pronunciations of the icelandic words.  It would have been so easy to get someone to teach them to say the words and names properly, it's not that difficult.

~hydra

[kristin]

eXistenZ is one right now, which is giving me a much-needed Cronenber-gasm.

[TPD]

I saw Thor the other day.  It was alright once I closed my eyes to how they were butchering the norse mythology and pronunciations of the icelandic words.  It would have been so easy to get someone to teach them to say the words and names properly, it's not that difficult.

~hydra

but it's not about norse mythology... :p
it's about the comicbook that was loosely based on the norse mythology...
and in terms of how well they adapted the comic, holy fuck did they ever do an amazing job.
totally made up for spiderman 3, ff 1 & 2, and xmen 3.
best marvel film ever.
holy fuck.
so amazingly fanboi friendly. and hot chicks. and wow.
they nailed everything...

having said that, i'm glad i'm not a frost giant like sunna and have any real norse myth knowledge, because that would probably annoy the shit out of me. :p

[Hydra]

I have never read the comics which is probably why the whole butchering bothered me so much.  Like a friend of mine said, once you get used to Valhalla looking like a gay disco dance on steroids the movie is good.

~hydra
better to be a frost giant than a hrímþurs.

[r00]

If TPD is raving about a comic book movie instead of railing it, then I know I have to see it.  Maybe this weekend.

[Naylzie]

I have a friend who is very into the Norse mythology and had also read the comicbook.  She was surprisingly less hostile after seeing it than I ever would have expected, though I'm guessing that comes from the same place as Teeps's glowing review.  Unfortunately for me, I have a greater familiarity with the Norse mythology than with the comicbook, so I don't suspect I'll be seeing the movie til we run out of other things to Netflix if it was as abusive of the root mythos as all that.

The idea of "Valhalla looking like a gay disco dance on steroids," while an incredibly amusing mental image, is pretty disturbing from the whole mythology perspective >.>;

[TPD]

i totally did not get a gay disco vibe.
actually... i don't think valhalla was even in the movie.
isn't valhalla like the norse equivalent of heaven?

asgard on the other hand was in the movie, and that wasn't a gay disco either.
it looked like a less pussified lotr set.
seriously.
the film is so good.
drop your notions of the norse you know and just enjoy one of the best brannagh films in ages.

[Hydra]

Valhalla or Valhöll is the hall of the gods and it is in Asgard or Ásgarður, so you can't really have one without the other.  It is supposed to be Odin's place.  If you die in battle the valkyres come riding down on their horses and get you and you get a resting place in Valhalla where you eat, drink and fight all day.

As for the gay disco thing, my friend isn't exactly known for being subtle.  It was too much glitter and not enough viking.
But hey I'm as biased as you can get on this one.

~hydra