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igrab

TROY

Feb 22, 2010 22:22

LOL I'M WATCHING TROY
[don't shoot me if I'm not even remotely historically accurate, I get most of my learnings from fiction.]

( running commentary )

brb going to olympus, sparta cry of glory, general: movies, trojan princes are beastly, + troy, there is plot and gay, + percy jackson and the olympians, + mythology, 'cousin' icwydt, die in a fire, your destiny's calling, rant, + alexander

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xtinethepirate February 23 2010, 03:35:38 UTC

Y HALO THAR NEW BACKGROUND. ;)

Also, your review of this movie is making me BRB LOLLING. Also, making me want to watch it again, kinda. I remember that Sean Bean as Odysseus was hotasfuck. UNF.

igrab February 23 2010, 03:44:19 UTC

oh godddd i'm glad you're lolling, i seriously need to read SOME HISTORY to remind myself that this was a work of fiction, and achilles and patroclus were absolutely lovers, and i have a headache.

speaking of historical fact!lovers, BAGOAS. ♥

xtinethepirate February 23 2010, 03:53:44 UTC

Clearly, the only solution to this headache is to go relax for a bit, and then come back and fic it all better. THIS IS A TRIED AND PROVEN METHOD, RECOMMENDED BY 4 OUT OF 5 XTINES.

igrab February 23 2010, 04:02:59 UTC

sigh i really should. i need to take a chill pill. i might just close the computer and watch alexander for a bit to calm down.

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igrab February 23 2010, 03:59:56 UTC

man, i run commentary on, like, everything. i have a full commentary on all of the first season of merlin and about half of the second (i started getting lazy), for the final cut of alexander, uh... a few press conferences... and a commentary of the commentary of kiss kiss bang bang. generally, if i have a tag for something, i've talked excessively about it. XD

jezzii_alexiel February 23 2010, 03:56:29 UTC

*flails around a lot* Ooooo I hate you for the beautiful new layout. (And this is totally because I fail epically at CSS or whatever the layout style is.)

Totally didn't read this entry at all (Because I still haven't watched Troy...all the way through *coughifellalseepcough*)

So um... yeah... excuse me while I go fume with jealousy over your Alexander layout and steal some of your icons.

PS. Yeah. Still all your fault.

igrab February 23 2010, 04:01:40 UTC

aw, it's easy to learn.

you should totally watch it, it's very worth watching, though it filled me with epic rage at this one character and i want to drag her body behind my chariot around the walls of troy, but everything else is fantastic.

jezzii_alexiel February 23 2010, 04:17:32 UTC

I have to rent it from the library or something. It just comes down to every time I sat down to watch it I got comfy and fell asleep. *shrug* Not even one of my favorite movies can keep me up when I'm tired.

Yeah... I'm gonna screw around with it. The CSS stuff. I'll figure something out to make my journal awesome XD

my running commentary on your running commentary thatsleon February 23 2010, 04:37:25 UTC

SDKfjH YES I SHARE IN ALL YOUR FLAILINGS 100% HOLY SHIT. BRAD PITT WAS THE BEST ACHILLES EVER, DESPITE EVERYTHING. AND PATROCLUS IS SO FUCKING ADORABLE, I FORGET TO CARE THAT HE'S LIKE 20 YEARS TOO YOUNG. AND ERIC BANA & SEAN BEAN ARE GODS. AND MOVIE!BRISEIS NEEDS TO GDIAF.

I love Alexander looking up to Achilles, will never not love that. Me too. THERE ARE NO WORDS for how much I love it. ♥

"I fight for you." THIS KILLS ME. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. I don't care if they want to say they're ~*COUSINS*~, there is some serious manlove in that scene, gay or not ( ... )

Re: my running commentary on your running commentary igrab February 23 2010, 04:53:16 UTC

if you write me achilles/patroclus, right now, even if it's tiny as fuck, i will seriously get down on my knees and kiss the ground you walk on, i am starving for it. (or a good rec, that works too)

i am actually watching random scenes from alexander now to calm down, because oliver stone makes me so happy, oh old men saying that the love between men is pure and wondrous and you can't love women that way and oh yes achilles and his ~lover patroclus. also "if i'm patroclus... i die first" asdhjgh *slain*

but seriously, brad pitt moves like a work of art. and i LOVED how ambiguous his invincibility was. for the sake of percy jackson and, like, my brain, i like to believe that he really was dipped in the styx, because it's such a cool thought - like, being primed from birth to be a great warrior, literallyand i seriously could care less that patroclus is supposed to be older, not when he looks ~so adorable~ and the contrast of achilles being like *nuzzlenuzzle* don't fight today bb and hector being like *wibble face, okay, go fight to ( ... )

Re: my running commentary on your running commentary thatsleon February 23 2010, 05:15:14 UTC

ALAS I HAVE TO GO NOW, but I do have a relevant fic here. And recs that come to mind: this, this, and this. And, if you're craving something longer, this is the only chaptered A/P fic I've seen around the internets.

fff I love that quote about manlove from Alexander. Passionately.

And yeah, I liked how they didn't show any blatantly ~magical~ things but didn't entirely rule out the possibilities. :D (okay, except for Thetis looking pretty human, but we're going to ignore that because she provided the awesome necklace.)

LACK OF PATROCLUS MAKES ME ANGST HARDCORE TO THIS DAY

And oh no, I completely agree, the Greeks were the cunts here, but they made an EFFORT to make the Trojans look incompetent in the movie. "WHAT IS A STRATEGY, WE HAVE BIRD SIGNS LOL."

Re: my running commentary on your running commentary igrab February 23 2010, 18:06:20 UTC

oh god, the third one. the alphabet one. i am dying. just. dying ( ... )

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littlelinor February 23 2010, 04:55:22 UTC

I lol'd sooo much while reading this. And I was gonna make a detailed feedback of it, but...
I need to reread the Iliad.
I squealed and officially loved you. I'm not the only person to have read that.
Ok, it helps that in my young days I was straight for Odysseus