Computer "Issues"

So I'm having fun with my power cable right now, it only seems to want to work when shoved into a particular position, at a certain angle, when attached in a certain way, beneath a certain alignment of the stars, it would appear.

You may have noticed that I'm ridiculously behind on my blogging, mainly due to an overwhelming sense of apathy, lethargy and laziness that has overtaken me in the weeks since the end of university. How monumentally uninspiring those have been.

I keep telling myself that I'm going to do things like tidy my house more often and read more books while I'm waiting in thie limbo-like period between finishing uni and moving back to Newbury, which I'm experiancing some difficulty with house hunting.

Ach... sod it.

YOUR HIGHNESS

So I started off not really liking this movie, I felt that it was kind of poking fun at D&D and Fantasy movies in general, which are of course things that are dear to my heart, but as it went on I actually started to enjoy it, realising that in order to poke fun at such things, the people who made this movie actually have to kind of like them in the first place. The weird slacker/stoner humour that runs through this movie has never really been my thing, since it's very American and thus quite crude to elitist, refined British tastes.

Basically, Danny McBride is a waste of time brother to a heroic prince who gets to do all the real questing and monster-slaying for their little kingdom, and gets drawn into a quest to go retrieve his brother's bride to be before a dark sorcerer uses her to fulfil a run-of-the-mill evil prophecy yadda-yadda-yadda and all that jazz. There's a lot left to be desired in this film, but once you've settled into it, I think it works, although it probably could have been a bit shorter (but then I seem to think that about a lot of films these days).

Featuring an awesome cast with Charles Dance, Damien Lewis, Zooey Deschanel (oh, there needs to be more Zooey in our lives), Toby Jones, Natalie Portman (who apparently hasn't had a day off since 2007) and mo-fo'ing James Franco, there's a lot to enjoy in here as well. And Minotaur penis. All about the Minotaur penis.

Next up: THOR
(Oh HELLS Yes!)