Luke's Diner is in Thor?

This was made by someone named Yuri, her blog can be found at: http://lawyerupasshole.tumblr.com
and the direct link is here: http://lawyerupasshole.tumblr.com/post/5132695375 For some reason the direct linking is not available, just copy and paste. It's a scene from Thor, in which, thank you someone else for noticing, they are in Luke's Diner.

I went to Thor last night.

For 20 minutes I was pretty entertained. Then for twenty more minutes I began to wonder if it was going to turn out to be even more boring than Universal Soldier - The Return. Then, Chris Hemsworth took his shirt off, and it was all rainbows and unicorns after that.

About half way through the movie the "earth cast" and Thor walk into Luke's Diner from the Gilmore Girls. I haven't decided if it was the Stars Hollow set, or just the corner, but I will, don't you worry. Unfortunately, whatever part of the set they did use was destroyed by a rendition of the Terminator or by the force of the (SPOILER ALERT) hammer returning to Thor, I can't remember exactly. I was too busy mourning the destruction of Thor's face by a massive punch from the Terminator. So, I think that means there will be no Gilmore Girls movie...unless they rebuild, or work a tornado or hurricane into the story.

Natalie Portman was OK, I'm not sure I buy her as a nerdy physicist, but I imagine most women, Natalie Portman or not, would swoon and giggle in a very similar way if Chris Hemsworth swept them up against his armor to fly her to see a bridge.

Kat Dennings was pretty good too, funny, although not in it all that often.

I'm not a fan of Norse mythology, although I'm also not not a fan, if that makes sense. I was hesitant to see this movie, but it turns out the hesitancy was all for naught. I liked it, I liked the 3D, I understood the plot, they give enough of the mythology to allow you to figure out what's going on and what the stakes are, but the rest is all Thor, the character, and his relationship to everything else, and I enjoyed him as a character. There was no one moment in which he goes from (SPOILER ALERT) war monger to hero, it's almost as if he was that way all along, but having been allowed to thrive in his macho-ism, he just didn't remember anything else...until Natalie Portman, which again, I don't know about that.

I will say I did find myself on the verge of laughter when I thought about the "reality" of the plot line, but you know, it worked. I recommend seeing it in the theater in 3D, otherwise, wait 'til you can watch it at home and can pause it...every time he's shirtless.

Parenthood Season 2 Finale (The TV Show)

I just watched the season finale of the TV show Parenthood for the second time.

I want to love this show. I wish this was my new favorite show. A new X-Files, a new Gilmore Girls. It has all the makings of a wonderful soapratic dramedy. A Brothers and Sisters with different enough characters that I see no problem watching the drama of another family I can barely relate to, again. Don't get me wrong, I love this kind of show, and I so rarely find a good one, that when I do I'm just thrilled and will tell everyone about it, even though I'm usually a little embarrassed.

As an avid Gilmore Girls fan, Parenthood was on my radar right from the beginning. I'm pretty convinced Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland and Rosalind Russell all dropped the best of themselves on the soul of Lauren Graham as they left the earth, but I digress.

Here's the problem. The show spends so much time watching itself, that the audience doesn't ever get a chance to actually see anything. What the hell am I talking about, right? Well, for instance, in a scene in which two people are looking at each other and talking, the camera will bounce back and fourth between the two characters, and often so quickly that by the time your eyes focus on a face, the camera is moving back to the other face.

It's really frustrating. I want to see the whole picture. I want to see the subtle facial expression that occur while the other person is talking. I don't want to have to work so hard to see what's going on in a frame.

The last two episodes were really filled with emotion, but so much of it was lost in the attempt to direct our focus to the speaker. I want to control where my eyes look. It's not a documentary, it's not The Office or Modern Family or Parks and Rec. Parenthood doesn't need the camera to be a character - no one responds to the camera in anyway, but we're forced to follow the supposed eye movements of some random cameraman? I can't stand it. Seriously. It greatly decreased the ability to transmit the raw emotion that the episode had been building up to. I should have cried. I should have cried a lot, but nothing.

So, I'm a little disappointed. It's still a pretty good show, though. I see a lot of potential in it, a lot, and I legitimately want it to be my favorite.

As soon as they start utilizing the full range of actors on that show, and focus a little more on the unspoken, it'll be through the roof.