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I just went to see the Green Hornet with my parents. It was quite good! Seth Rogen is so much better when he's not near women all the time. Or not near women he definitely has to end up with. I was so worried about how they would treat Cameron Diaz, I really like her and the way she is seen in Hollywood does not always seem to be awesome. But I quite liked her role, she was a secondary character but it's nice that she knew stuff, knew more stuff than the guys did, and got to do that right away, she just have to do 'serving Britt Reid' stuff and then suddenly turn out to be awesome at some dramatic moment and do some research then. And I like that she is in her 30s, I know Britt Reid was kind of a dick about it, but he was at least shown to be being a dick, and I don't know, I like she's in her 30s and not a teenager or in her early 20s. She was just sort of adult and capable. And she didn't end up with either of the guys, because they were both jerks. And hurrah.

Anyway. I basically went to see it because of Kato and it had Cristoph Waltz and it looked quite good. And Kato was great, and not perfect or just a plot point to make Britt awesome, and oh God I felt so sorry for Chudnovsky, it's a shame other bad guys and the Green Hornet made him go MAD. When he was PROPERLY SCARY on his own. And I liked Seth Rogen better than I usually do, probably because as I say he was mostly not near women and didn't have to end up with Lenore, and his inept slight-egomania really worked for this character. And I ended up liking the film a lot better than I thought I would. I didn't realise it was going to be as much of a deconstruction of the superhero film/concept as it was, but as I say the fact that most of the characters didn't really know what they were doing and they were largely just winging it but they meant well was sort of what made it good. Anyway. I really did enjoy it.

Other things: there was a henchman guy in it who I quite liked, and then during probably his last scene I realised it was Fernald from the A Series Of Unfortunate Events film! And apparently Edward Furlong was in it, I think as the drug dealer guy whose building Britt and Kato drove through the wall of. So it was interesting to see John Connor again.

And so much of it was ridiculous. Britt and Kato were always celebrating wrecking cop cars WITHOUT KNOWING IF THEY HAD KILLED POLICE OFFICERS. And I don't know why people who are ordinary and want to be superheroes don't just wear kevlar all the time. I know it might make you feel a bit wimpy and you can still get shot in the head or the leg or arm or something, but OH MY GOD, DUDES. JUST WEAR KEVLAR. And the plan at the end seemed okay, but I really think doctors would be able to tell if a bullet wound was from a few hours before or from the night before. Unless Britt had just been to the hospital the night before, and they just needed a cover story for when he'd been shot in the shoulder. Even so, it wouldn't take much digging would it? Hmm, anyway, I don't think it was any more ridiculous than Britt and Kato running round probably accidentally killing a ton of drug dealers or innocent bystanders or cops, so I didn't mind it too much.

And I kind of slash Britt and Kato, which is unusual for me because they're kind of a friendship pairing. But they did spend most of the movie arguing and being jealous of each other, so it's probably more my kind of pairing than I think it is. I slash them, anyway.

Oh God, Tom Stade, why? For those who don't know, Tom Stade is a fairly little-known comedian who I love. I saw him a couple of years ago on Michael Macintyre's Comedy Roadshow, and then I saw a live show of his in Nottingham, and then I saw a show of his with Cakesy in London. And he's always had some jokes that I'm not completely comfortable with, but I really do find him funny a lot of the time. But I just today got an email from a comedy mailing list I'm on about a secret gig of his, and they called him "Frankie Boyle's right hand man". I have looked into it. Apparently he co-wrote and appeared in Frankie Boyle's recent TV show Tramadol Nights, which I avoided. And, I just. Why? Except that now I feel like I can't really be angry with him for it or judge him for it, because I haven't seen the show, so I don't know exactly what was on it. But I do know he was writing a thing with Frankie Boyle, and apparently they and the other writers would sometimes sit down and think things like "'What the fuck we can write that will piss absolutely everyone off?'" Which doesn't really tally with his earlier claim that nothing they say is an attack, because it's not an attack, is just an idea they talk about. Whatever Tom Stade. God. I do really like a lot of his stand up, and his delivery and stuff. There's another article where he says that "Guys like [Michael Macintyre], they all take the road of not offending one person...I like to tread the line, sometimes...it's good to challenge people's perceptions.", which at least sounds at lot less wanky than the other stuff he was saying about writing with Frankie Boyle. I just. God, I really like him. I don't know why he has to keep hurting me.

I'm sure he's actually funny, and not just a wanker. I'm sure he's a bit of a wanker, in previous things I've seen, but wasn't just a wanker. Oh my God.

In other, happier news, I got my period yesterday, so it really is a good thing I got my prescription of Mefenamic Acid. And it even came in weird, funky hot pink boxes. None of that was a bad thing.

Also, I have been using the Lush solid deodorant lately. Between my mum telling me using aerosol deodorants too much can cause breast cancer, apparently, and worrying about CFCs, and not really knowing how to recycle empty aerosol cans properly, I kind of gave up using it a few months or so ago. To my parents' distaste. But I asked for some Lush stuff for Christmas, and my mum said she got a free sample of their deodorant with it, so put that in with them. And I have been using it, and it totally works! Apparently it is made with bicarbonate of soda, which is a smell that makes me want to throw up if I smell it too much, but if I only use a bit of it, it's not too bad. So. It's a recommendation from me, if anyone else was interested in changing deodorant for whatever reason. It's probably ridiculously expensive. But it does work.