The Full Monty

A little less than fifteen years ago, my mom fell hard for a little British film, The Full Monty. It wasn't hard to see why. It had a very funny, terrific script of likable, realistic characters played by the then unknowns of Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson. Luckily, all these years later, they have finally come to be recognized and be cast in huge hits with international acclaim.

Still, you have to see this because it's so wonderful. Here's one of my favorite scenes:

Here's the trailer:
http://youtu.be/nA3W36JVnRc

Especially for you Robert Carlyle fans, I'm sorry but I lose a little bit of respect for you when you admit to never having seen it...

An ant has no quarrel with a boot...

Every single time I watch the scene with Loki and Fury, I take it the wrong way. Fury always assumes that we're the ants but I always think we're the boot. Even the very first time when I didn't know Fury was building weapons especially for Asgardians like Loki and other trouble makers, I assumed humans were the boot. It's like how Thor describes the Bilgesnipe. We come in and trample everything in our path, trying to remake everyone into what we think they should be like...

When I worked at the restaurant, we had a group come in about every week...very, very Creationist. One Sunday afternoon, I said how I believed we were genetically pre-disposed to violence because if we look at animals, they all use violence as a viable option.

You should have seen his face, he was so pissed. He told me how we were NOTHING like animals.

I got the soundtrack for The Avengers. I don't know if you're familiar with the tracks. There's one called "The Promise". It starts either when Tony wakes up or when the news footage starts and covers the rest of the film. My mom was very struck by how sad it is and she's right. It's like Steve says in the beginning, "I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we'd lost."

The Avengers were finally able to work together as a team, they saved Manhattan, avenged Phil and for some of them, proved their worth but there were a lot of lives lost in New York, on the Helicarrier and the 80 people before that. Manhattan was almost nuked by a nuclear bomb. There's billions of dollars worth of damage. Other than the Hulk beating, we aren't even encouraged to be that gleeful about Loki's defeat. He's literally broken and since he reneged on his deal with Thanos, we learned earlier that retribution will be waiting for him so excruciating that "He will make you long for something as sweet as pain." Plus, Thanos is now encouraged to come to Earth himself...