Sunday 1 May 2011

May Day! May Day!

Happy May Day, comrades! There's a mart today. Lovely day for it, too. Sadly I will not be in attendance. This pains me but I've got another appointment at 2pm, so any visit I did make would be ridiculously short. Part of me wants to go just to stick my head round the door and take in the bouquet - you know the one, the whiff of acid spewing old comic bags mingled with the sweat of King Stinker and his chums? Mmmmmmm. Breathe it in! I will not let myself be that sad, though. Next one! Yes. Next one!

Not that I need any more tat anyway. I've got humongous amounts of yellowing rubbish to plough my way through as it is. Even though I dropped my weekly comic habit months ago, I'm still faced with piles of unread comics. I have a feeling that I'll never read everything I own.

On a different subject, I went to see Thor the other day. I was meant to be doing the shopping, but there was Thor, looking all lovely and shiny on his poster, so off I went. Enjoyed it quite a bit actually. Saw it in 3D, which was quite odd. Never been to a 3D film before. Those glasses really bring down the brightness, don't they? The stuff with the frost giants looked really dark through my specs. Great special effects though, and lovely costumes. Loved the Destroyer and the Rainbow Bridge. I'm also a fan of black Heimdall - yes. Don't fuck with Stringer! Thought Volstagg was more like Gimli than Volstagg, but that's just a minor gripe really. Overall it was a highly enjoyable romp. I'm ashamed to say that the obligatory Stan Lee cameo made me laugh out loud. I'm too easy. Nice Odin from Hopkins - still think Brian Blessed would've been a braver/funnier choice. Natalie Portman was fairly fit. Loki's helmet was spectacular. And is just me, or does anyone else get an immense feeling of nerdish superiority watching people leave the cinema before the post credits extra scene? "Ha! You're leaving! Don't you know there's a secret bit at the end? You clearly AREN'T a proper comic fan type. Your loss, well adjusted normal people! Your loss!"

6 comments:

eye-melt said...

Yes, the Destroyer was pretty awesome. Nell came to watch it with me, and was actually quite patient when we sat through til the end, although she started to lose interest when I was spouting about the Shaper of Worlds and Project Pegasus. Girls eh?

Also, the shoehorning of Hawkeye in there was a little bit too obvious, and apparently the Infinity Gauntlet and Eye of Agamotto are in Odin's treasure room? Missed that bit.

James Riley said...

sounds pretty good, altho was initially dismayed from watching trailer that Thor looked so clean cut...

Recently trawled cheap DVDs and saw The Punisher with Travolta. Did you see that at all? Bit of a disaster...

Anonymous said...

The Thor film was entertaining even if it was a little cheesy at times. The romance bits got in the way of the action but the humor made up for it. I made the wife stay until the end and she enjoyed being part of the geek elite even if I think she was being a little sarcastic.

I like that they try to add in the random Marvel stuff like the Eye of Agamotto (didn't catch the Gauntlet) but Hawkeye was really random.

On the point of not ever getting to read all the comics you own I'm getting that feeling too. Did some inventory over the week-end and filled nearly two short boxes of unread stuff...

Dex

Tam said...

It was a great mart, lots of cheap 2000 ad collections...

Did you know this isn't (quite) the first time Thor's been on the big screen?
Check out The Parallax View if you haven't seen it.

eye-melt said...

And don't forget his awesome(ly awful) TV appearance on Death of the Incredible Hulk. So, so bad.

James Riley said...

There's also the very odd appearance of Rick Wakeman dressed as Thor in Lisztomania, a film that also features Ringo Starr as the Pope...