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Juliebird - Mar 22, 2013 4:34:01 pm PDT #23906 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I'm now on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick, and so rented The Lookout. For some reason I was afraid of watching that movie. I can't recall if I was afraid of the abuse of memory-loss as a plot point ("we're making him our point man because he'll never remember that he helped us rob a bank!") or because I was afraid of a sad ending (seriously, the trailer is the last half-hour of the movie). I want to rewatch Brick, but am sure that I bought that already, and am hesitant to buy it again because it's no longer on this current iteration of laptop.

But, Lookout was good. I'm not sure it was consistent with the cognitive stuff, and the chicks dropped off the radar fast (but they made that easy to bear by making sure Luvlee got dumber and dumber the more screentime she got).

Fiona - Mar 23, 2013 9:38:02 am PDT #23907 of 30000

Akira Kurosawa films from the Criterion Collection free on Hulu all weekend:

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flea - Mar 24, 2013 6:29:04 am PDT #23908 of 30000

information libertarian

We're watching The Hobbit for the second time in 24 hours, and I am quite glad we didn't take the kids to see it at the theater, because of the length. The only thing that really scared Dillo (6) was the ringwraith bit (not the wargs, which surprised me - those are scary!).

I think Martin Freeman is very, very good. I keep saying, "I love Bilbo." He has such excellent timing.

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 24, 2013 6:31:51 am PDT #23909 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I hope the franchise propels him on to a prominent career.

Scrappy - Mar 24, 2013 7:31:35 am PDT #23910 of 30000

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.

Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2013 9:29:38 am PDT #23911 of 30000

brillig

We went to see the Hobbit again yesterday, too. Bilbo has always been my favorite Hobbit, too, and Martin Freeman just makes him better. The Bilbo-Gollumn scenes are just wonderful, especially when Bilbo decides not to kill him.

Jessica - Mar 24, 2013 9:33:00 am PDT #23912 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Having now played Bilbo, Arthur Dent, and John Watson, I'm more or less convinced that Martin Freeman is the perfect Englishman.

Consuela - Mar 24, 2013 9:41:42 am PDT #23913 of 30000

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.

Oh, really? The review in the SF Chronicle was pretty good. Huh.

Burrell - Mar 24, 2013 1:00:36 pm PDT #23914 of 30000

Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I think Martin Freeman is very, very good. I keep saying, "I love Bilbo." He has such excellent timing.

There's a lot of that thought in our house as well.

Having now played Bilbo, Arthur Dent, and John Watson, I'm more or less convinced that Martin Freeman is the perfect Englishman.

Arthur Dent too? And I thought I couldn't love him more.

beekaytee - Mar 24, 2013 1:10:52 pm PDT #23915 of 30000

Compassionately intolerant

I'm watching the Hobbit for the second time today...with subtitles as the sound is not great in bits.

I like it. And love both Bilbo and Thorin, but it isn't gripping me as much as I thought it might.

The thought of Richard Armitage as a dwarf seemed a complete folly to me beforehand, but I see now exactly what the casters were thinking.

I wish his accent was a bit less distractingly John Thornton though. At one point, I found myself saying, in Chris Eccleston's voice, "Lots of planets have a North."

Martin Freeman really is the best.

eta: I wonder how it was for the company to have Christopher Lee back...after he was such a pill a decade ago.

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