*bends*

[erastes]

Well, no matter what that reviewer said, I'm giving up with trying to write with an erection. It's messy, you use far too much paper and I have to wait for more spam before I can renew my supply.  I'm going back to using a keyboard. (thank you so much alex_beecroft for the icon - I very much doubt I'll have the nerve to use it again.

Went to see Iron Man which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was predictable as a Super Hero story but it was one of the best of them that I'd seen (even though I'd never heard of Iron Man). Robert Downey was very VERY good, and Paul Bettany's voice is in it as the house computer - but he's not credited for some strange reason.  Mr Downey's body is a thing of beauty and we sat there WOAH-ing at the screen in a disgusting manner. There's something very very hot about grubby sweaty muscly (and not over pumped) men wearing a vest.  I know that there HAD to be a woman, as I'm sure that "Pepper Potts" (i MEAN - wouldn't you change your bloody name?) is in the original comic but BLOODY hell, what a useless flossie. Wobbles around on high heels and presses a button. Yep. That's about all she does. And how much did she get paid for this?

And further moaning. I just ate a roll I bought from the supermarket. £2.19. and it included. One layer of ultra thin turkey, some shredded lettuce, a little butter a little mayo. Guess who will be complaining on my next visit? (and Severus ate most of the turkey)

Comments

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

The thing about the movie Iron Man, Marvel Comics run the whole show this time. They had script control, director control, and casting control. They are doing their own Hulk movie, a Thor movie and possibly an Avengers movie.

You did stay through the credits to see the bit with *squee* Nick Fury? OH and I was bouncing when I found that S.H.E.I.L.D. is on the movie!!

God I want to see this so bad since they nailed the casting when it came to the Alcoholic Rich playboy Tony Stark. Though in the current comic timeline his support of the a Superhuman Registration Act ended up causing Capt. America's death and caused a "Civil War" among all the super heroes in the Marvel Universe.

Ok I will stop being the comic fangirl. lol.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I love it when you turn into Comic-Girl. I don't see her around very much these days and I miss her.

No, of course we didn't sit through the credits, we had no idea there was going to be something at the end. The number of times we DO sit there like lemons and nothing happens!!! Who is Nick Fury? (sorry...) Yes, shield, it started off as a really long name and everyone kept complaining about the mouthful of the name and in the end the agent said "oh just ask for shield"

He's a Playboy, but they've completely glossed over the alcoholism which is a shame - perhaps because it's Downey? I know that they had trouble getting the studio even to take him on. Nice cameo by Stan Lee too. You will no doubt catch a lot of comic in jokes that went RIGHT over my head.

CAPTAIN AMERICA IS DEAD? ARGH!!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Robert did an interview talking about how he had to go to Marvel Comics headquarters and audition for the role for the Editor in Chief.

Nick Fury is the head of SHIELD. He was a solider and spy. He pops up all over the place in different comics in his In the main continuity he is white, in the Ultimate Universe he is black, but they both wear an eye patch. (In the movie, it is Samuel L. Jackson who plays him.) I know he ages very slowly due to this serum that he was injected with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fury

Yeah, Steve Rogers is dead. He was against the whole make Super Heroes register with the Gov't so he became a fugitive and finally turned himself in and then was assassinated at the courthouse.

Steve was the one who went to all the flophouse in New York to help Tony face he had a problem with booze...back in the 80s. :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Gah. Now I wish I had stayed to the end of the credits. Why don't they TELL you this stuff? I'd have loved to have seen SLJ. *grump*

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Nick_Fury

Oh I so want to see him as Nick Fury since the Ultimate version is him basically. :D

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

Uh, how about sitting through the credits just to pay tribute to all the hard-working people who contributed to the film? You know, next time I read an Erastes novel, I just may just skip the title page... if you catch my drift. *laughs at own cleverness*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I would - I used to, but gah, they are so long these days.

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

MY EYES! My virgin eyes. The image... must not visit LJ while trying to write.

;)
Mav

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You should know better. My LJ is often offensive to the senses!!

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

Now you tell me. Here I am with not a lick of sex in Madrigal playing around in your LJ...

I could be corrupted..

Snort.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

If you're not, then Somebody isn't doing their Job, right?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oi!

But, well. True...

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Indeed!
and of course I hate being right, too.
Just so you know.

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

My critique partner writes Bi/erotica... my poor historical mild brain blushes like mad when I have to edit her stuff.

While there ain't no sex in the debut novel... the one I am marketing now has a delightfully yummy mad in tight lederhose...

Yup.
Being corrupted one LJ at a time.

;)

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love the icon. You must use it whenever you're journaling formally, like, after five, or special occasions.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oh no, I'd be far too embarrassed!!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Nice icon, love the font and the sentiment seems pretty accurate to me but then I'm thoroughly corrupted by years of trying to moderate RPG communities.

Use it whenever you're in an Oscar-mood.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*gets out green carnation*

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

BLOODY hell, what a useless flossie. Wobbles around on high heels and presses a button.

And draws in the fanboys with $$ in their jeans, also gives the production team the thrill of being in charge of a female who would probably not give them a second look if they were ordinary working joes. Not that I'm cynical or anything... but comics were originally for the same audience that's now known as 'computer geekboys.' Not that there's anything wrong with pretty, but I prefer pretty with brains.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't know the comic-book character but I was surprised. MJ in Spiderman is at least a little fiesty, Pepper Potts seemed just a waste of space.

off-topic, ape troop dynamics

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I totally adored your phrasing on that "useless flossie", too.
You know, what I completely fail to understand is *why* any guy would prefer to hang out with the universally dim of that type.
I know, I know, they think she'll be easily taken advantage of.
It's the signature of the wimp, the non-dominant, the pathetic rapist, the juvenile ape male, to be always hunting for the girl who's so wibbly and helpless that she sends out floppy-wounded-fish signals to all the sharks.
Yeah, like the alpha males are going to give them the slightest chance of getting at something that's giving out all the signals of near-pubescent female, c'mon.
Why aren't they equally terrified of some huge old silverback bearing down on them without even warning roars??
Why does monkey-brain insist that's a safer trick to attempt than to come up to a senior female who might be in a receptive mood if properly courted?
Are they so fail-certain that they're terrified of what a gorgeous woman with brains would do to them?
(Misapplied Monty Python comment such as, "If you take the bones out, they're crunchy any more, are they?" comes to mind...)

Re: off-topic, ape troop dynamics

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest, Stark himself is a bit of a git - and he's the ultimate geek-got-rich, so he's not out of Ms Flossie's league, they sort of make a good match. I'd like to check the comics, though, to see if Pepper was really as pathetic and inappropriately dressed, although I bet she was, even in the 60's

Re: off-topic, ape troop dynamics

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I bet you're right.
And I'm waaay to fond of mixed metaphors!