Dolittle Movie

The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (Universal Pictures)

Set Robert Downey Jr. in the middle of a bunch of animals, add a dose of humor and a golden combination has been created! I suppose that might have been a thought from the makers of The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. Smart move because Downey Jr. has a huge fan base and a real fan (like me) shall not skip one of his movies! Do you say Dr. Dolittle, then images of the humorous Eddy Murphy, who has played the role in quite some films, are coming in right away. Now it's up to Robert Downey Jr. to portray the role of Dolittle, the doctor who’s able to communicate with animals. Of course Robert is best known as Tony Stark / Iron Man, a role that in my opinion truly was made for him! But also as detective Sherlock Holmes, he proved that he can be called an actor with the capital letter A. 

In Dolittle, the Avengers actor brings along one of his Marvel colleagues: Tom Holland, the current Spiderman from the MCU. As Jip the dog, he dropped four legs. (Because spiders have 8 legs, I know bad joke..) Bohemian Rhapsody actor Rami Malek also has a role in this film, namely Gorilla Chee-Chee. The female roles in this film are portrayed by (among others) Emma Thompson and Selena Gomez.

If you are following Robert Downey Jr. on social media, you probably have seen some of the promotion that he did for Dolittle. Around the 10th of December, he shared a humorous video in which the animals supposedly did an audition. (Several existing films included, shall add the video below). One thing was Barry the tiger (Ralph Fiennes) roaring like a dinosaur from Jurassic Park. A little later he says: "Put me in the movie or it's Downey for dessert .." I saw that in the morning, so I didn’t wanted a dessert, but it did made me look forward in seeing the film even more!

Also, from the first second, the trailer took me to the adventurous and somewhat fairy-tale world of Dolittle. The film was produced by the makers of Disney's Alice in Wonderland & Maleficent and you can certainly see that in it. Dolittle is set in the Victorian era and based on the equally named children's book series (the first one now is a 100 years old). Eddy Murphy’s version was compared to the books and earlier films quite different in details such as time, story and characters. Dr. John Dolittle, portrayed by Downey Jr. with some traits of characters that can be found on the IMDb list from Johnny Depp, prefers only animals around him. Due a serious illness of the young Queen Victoria, the eccentric doctor is needed, urgent. Together with his faithful parrot Poly and a student (Harry Collett), he’s going on quite the adventurous quest to find an extremely rare medicine for the queen. The rest of the crew includes a polar bear and an ostrich who are constantly arguing, a squirrel with sinister plans and a silly duck. Compared to Dolittle’s animal chaos, Tony Stark was lucky with just one talking raccoon!

Dolittle is a film for the whole family. (Although Dolittle takes his pet gang everywhere, I don’t think the employees at the cinema will appreciate it if you bring your own pets to the film..) Not just among children, but also among grown-ups, animal films are still hugely popular. And obviously the dose of animals and humor are all well present in Dolittle! 

 And no, I’m not Robert Downey Jr. tired yet. Hell no! I’m happy that we will at least see him one more time as Tony Stark in the Black Widow movie & that there’s a Sherlock Holmes film scheduled for 2021!

Have you seen Dolittle? What did you think of it? Feel free to share it in the comments!

Tom Hiddleston at Fallon Tonight + The Avengers Theme Song in the City Hall's building..

Tom Hiddleston at Fallon Tonight

On the 25th of November Tom Hiddleston was a guest of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. It was a delighted, funny interview. Jimmy showed some of Marvel's exclusive footage of when Tom Hiddleston auditioned for the role of Thor in 2009. I had never seen footage of his audition with audio before. Really worth the watch!

Also Jimmy asked Tom to perform a good cry-act live and while the audience in the back were laughing, Tom managed to do so. I mean, I first came across of some screenshots of this on Instagram and I thought Jimmy shot him a question that resulted in him being emotional. Luckily it was an act.

They also mentioned the following, when Tom ran into Avengers cos-players at the Time Square: A adorkable (as one of my Tumblr followers stated) event!

Here's a clip of Tom's visit at the show of Jimmy Fallon:

I love this interview and I hope they'll release more footage of it!

The Avengers Theme Song in the City Hall's building

I've got to share this:

Also an accident/action 'totally me' occurred me today. Let me quote Tony Stark for that: "Guys, I'm bringing the party to you..", because when I accidentally played the Avengers Theme song loudly in the canteen, I brought the party to the colleagues (having lunch) of our City Hall.

I was testing the music, random music I had with me, in the area next to it (It's possible to link the hardware in both the areas) and apparently while testing it a wrong button got pressed (read, Thor: "I'm pressing every button on this thing!") and then... it was like Iron Man, Loki and Thor & Co just flew in because at that very moment I had the Avengers Theme Song playing. I heard no music, but the people in the canteen did. They heard the Avengers VERY LOUD, during lunch..

I'm often talking about that I do not always know how to make myself heard, but apparently I can.. when it accidentally happens.. Now tell me, what's better to be played in a local government building full of officials and people active in politics than the Avengers theme song? I call it: the perfect accident.. 😏

May I end November 26th's blogpost with a photo of my two new Funko members? With his claimy pose that Loki pop just asked for that particular line! Coincidence doesn't exist, these brothers just had to come in together (different orders)!

Love,

Nicole

World Animal Day

World Animal Day

Isn't it animal day all day?

It's World Animal Day. A day that still is a very popular thing among the media, which isn't bad because who doesn't want to see all those cute animal pictures on the internet? I bet for most animal keepers it's animal's day for their pets everyday!

So it is for our dogs as well. I don't think our Labrador nor our old Poodle/Maltese (during times he's awake) will notice any difference today. They are being spoiled with love everyday.

I had already dropped two puppy faces in the picture above, let‘s show a little more of our dogs! The happy faces* we see when coming home now + the faces (in grey) we still see in our memories everyday! 

The picture above is the cover of a photo-book I made a while ago. In the book I had collected almost all photo's I've had of our dogs + I scanned in the photo's of the two dogs I grew up with, who aren't with us anymore. 

I think sometimes we can learn from our pets. It‘s amazing how they are appreciating the small things. A balloon, a ball or even a cloth.. I‘m not saying we should walk around with a cloth all day, but sometimes we should just enjoy the little things in life a bit more.

A thing about animals, they do not ever show us someone they are not. They don‘t pretend to be different so that they can fit it. They are always themselves, no matter how crazy that is. We have a labrador who‘s the sweetest thing but also a big coward haha. He won‘t do what the dog below does, almost touching a cow! 

A few days ago I dreamt that Bonnie was still alive. She would have been 30 by now. There are miracles but not like that haha. In a way the dream is true because in our hearts they remain to stay forever, in there they are still alive. And I also do believe that they will never leave us anyway. In my Loki story I named my lead female character after this sweet guardian Angel of mine. I‘m publishing this story on Wattpad and today I've added a new chapter called: 'The Healing Pool'.

Here‘s a small part of the chapter:

Whole chapter here: Wattpad: A Loki Novel Chapter 3

Avengers + Animals

The person I got this blog dedicated to (You know that‘s Tom Hiddleston) also has a huge heart for animals which he often shows us. I think for Bobby, it‘s Animal Day all year long too! Here are some photo's (no pap pics) of Tom (+ three other Avengers!) with animals:

Let‘s not forget about out favorite animal Avenger! Rocket the Raccoon! (No Thor, it‘s not a rabbit. No Loki, it‘s not a skunk. No Tony, it‘s not a squirrel (refs to a story I‘m writing..) )

& Goose!

‘We should let Rocket run pass him over and over, so Loki starts to feel dizzy and starts counting. Isn‘t that how they get little kids to sleep? By counting rabbits?’ Thor was thinking out loud. 

‘A: Where are you seeing a little kid in Loki?, and B: It‘s counting sheep, not rabbits!’ Tony answered. 

‘Rabbits, sheep.. All the same to me,’ Thor shrug.

Stephen shook his head. ‘I‘m glad the raccoon hasn‘t heard any of this.’

Loki: ‘That alien cat just ate my Tesseract! Why weren‘t you guys paying attention?’ he shouted.

Now all eyes were pointed at the cat. ‘He‘s bluffing to distract us. Probably just an illusion,’ Thor responded but Stephen already had walked towards the cat. Then he picket the meowing cat off the ground, which proved Thor‘s theory wrong. 

‘Its belly is indeed glowing,’ he stated. 

Now Thor saw it too and checked the cat‘s nameplate. ‘Goose. You sweet kitty kitty cat!’ When Thor petted him, the cat started to purr. ‘Tony, did you ever own a cat?’, he asked.

‘No, not that I know of. He could just have brought it here?’ he said while hinting towards Loki.

‘Look at him. He has never seen it before. His face clearly gives that away!’ Thor mentioned. 

Tony dropped a sarcastic little laugh. ‘The guy who, just an hour ago, released an army of unearthly terrifying monsters, now is afraid of a cat? Now, that blows me off my chair!’

‘Now what, wait until he poops it out?’ Thor wondered, frowning. ‘The stone than I mean, the Tesseract- well perhaps is a bit-‘ Thor faced trouble in finishing the sentence, as his mind made the mistake of picturing the event already.

‘Hairball,’ Stephen quickly said. 

* Due privacy reasons I have not added all of my dogs names.

Asgardian Music Band

Asgardian Music Band

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And the music talk goes on, kind of. Who has not seen Thor‘s sad singing video? (This video posted by Chris Hemsworth himself.) Perhaps he‘s not quite the best singer.. and he‘s missing something, rather said: someone! For this moment: Let‘s pretend Adam from Only Lovers Left Alive is Loki. Right.. he‘s not looking so happy either! So who are they missing? Tony? Valkyrie? The Grandmaster? You? If you are able to sing without the cracking the windows and succeed in cheering them up, you've got the job!

Ragna-Rockin‘ Revengers

To relive some funny memories :).

Credits: see photo.

So because of a the Revengers being an 70 rockband meme that hit the internet like 1,5 year ago, I wrote this piece that was meant to be an interview with band members Thor, Loki, Tony & Bruce.. (I turned it into a 80/90s band though)

First let‘s check out their tracklist of the debut album:

Any suggestion for the next album?

My favorite bandmembers:

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Before the interview took place the interviewer took a picture of the present band members. Apparently Tony & Bruce were jealous of Thor and Loki‘s long hair so they decided to wear a wig.. (Tony‘s face wasn‘t easy!)

And here comes the interview I wrote: (If you want to share it, please mention this blogspot page or my IG/Wattpad name: @Goddess_of_Loki)

Please, don't take my made up interview to seriously ..

Interviewer: “I‘m here with Loki, Thor, Bruce and Tony Stark from the band Ragna-Rockin‘ Revengers to talk about their new album. Why doesn't the album have a name?”

Loki: “Because every one kept turning down the names I came up with!”

Thor: “Those names were all about you!”

Bruce: “Let‘s just say we couldn't get to a agree..” 

Interviewer: “Perhaps you should create a contest and let the fans decide, just saying.. Loki, did you wrote all of the songs?”
Loki: “Not all of them but Mischief & Thunder, Burdened with Glorious Purpose,  I Do What I Want, Little Blue Box and Kneel or I Stab You are definitely mine!”

Interviewer: “Yes about that last one you named. I heard that in some countries they forbid you guys to play that song.”
Loki: “You heard that right. I don‘t get all the commotion about it..”
Thor: “At one place we were sent away before we could play, because when they searched us they found out Loki actually had knives with him.”
Loki: “I always carry them around with me!”
Thor: “It‘s not like you were planning on tossing them into the public..”
Loki: “Hell no! They are mine, I‘m not giving them away!”

Interviewer: “Thor, have you written some songs too?”
Thor: “Yes, however Loki tens to edit my songs. For example Ride Your Hammer is mine, but it originally was called: Ride My Hammer but Loki refused to sing that..”
Tony: “Brothers..”

Thor: “Also Get Help is mine obviously. It‘s kind of a duet between me and Loki. You hear me say ‘Get Help?’ basically the whole time and then Loki reacts: ‘I‘m not doing!’
Tony: “Most annoying and ridiculous song I've ever heard or played!”

Interviewer: “But you do sing in another song too, right Thor?”
Thor: “Yes, I‘m doing the ‘Ah-ah, ah‘s’ and the ‘Ooh-ooh‘s’ in Immigrant Song. We covered that song from Led Zeppelin. We already gave them credits by using the original version in our epic battle video‘s, so they have no reason to sue us or anything..”

Loki: “I must confess I did stole a part of the lyrics of The Rainbow Bridge too. I just searched stuff about rainbows on the internet. The couplet is from a really cool TV-show!”
Tony: “It‘s from My Little Pony..”

*Manager Taika Waititi walks in* 

Tony: “Oh thank God Taika, those damn Shakespeare sisters are exposing all our secrets!”
Loki: “SHUT UP, you mewling-“ Tony: “Language!” *lowers his voice:* “I can‘t believe I just said that!”

Taika: “Boys, you haven‘t used anything again right?”
Loki: “Well, yesterday when we met Guns n‘ Roses at that festival their singer, what‘s his name again, Axl Flower gave us some really cool stuff!”
Thor: “Axl Rose you mean! And I think it wasn't him, but some other dude.”
Taika: “Please, don‘t accept anything from other rockers, okay?” *Lowers his volume:* “Lord, what‘s the point of managing Thor and Loki‘s pay checks anyway, if people just give them the stuff for free..”

Thor: “When will you give us our money? I want to buy a pet, a lion or something!”
Loki: “Why? We already have a Black Panther, what about a wolf?”
Taika: “Ah I remember, that‘s why. Your last pay checks are used for the insurance and damages costs of the incident at last week’s gig remember? By the way, why isn't the band completed?”
Thor: “T'Challa has gotten the flu last night and Loki had a fight with Valkyrie, that‘s why she isn‘t here.”

Loki: “Why can‘t we just replace her for the Grandmaster?”
Tony: “Hell no! Not another whack job! If she leaves I‘m going solo!”
Loki: “You threaten about going solo all the time..”

Interviewer: “Can we proceed the interview? I've read about that incident from last week, I‘d like to discuss that with you.”
Loki: “Yes!”
Taika: “All right then.”

Interviewer: “Bruce, can you tell me more about what happened last week?”
Bruce: “Well, we played the song I wrote, -not Hulk, he can‘t write- City Smash, god this is embarrassed.. The green guy showed up and smashed everything on stage.”
Interviewer: “Sounds terrible!” Bruce: “Yes, it was. Subject change please!”

Interviewer: “All right. If you look on the internet it‘s obvious you, Thor and Loki are the most popular ones. Which one of you do you think the fans find more attractive?”
Thor: “Me, of course!”
Loki: “I have more fan-girls!”
Thor: “For how long? If you keep playing with their hearts soon they will all hate you! You kind of wrote it in your own song: Madness Over Few Wasted Roses. For example: You give a rose to girl 1, then see girl 2 and give her a rose too. When they meet and find out you‘ll get the madness..”
Tony: “Another example of one of your idiotic songs..”

Interviewer: “I actually am a bit curious to hear your opinion about the fact that most of the songs are related to Thor and Loki.”
Tony:  “I‘m glad my song Always an Avenger (Nicole: idk why I didn't come up with a better title) wasn't cut, otherwise I would have gone solo.”
Loki: “Actually Smells Like Iron On Fire is about you too. I assume you would smell even worse if you‘re on fire!”
Tony: “That‘s it! Screw you guys, I‘m going home!”

Interviewer: “Time to wrap this up. Any last words?”
Loki: “Kneel!”
Thor: “Come on, brother! Thank you for having us!”
Loki: “Hey, last words are always mine! Buy our album guys and buy tickets for our shows!”

Tony‘s solo album is called: I Love You 3000!

The Marvel Bunch as extra bonus track?

If I got some more inspiration about an new tracklist + interview based on Endgame (with assuming they all live), you‘ll hear from me.