Akira Kurosawa films from the Criterion Collection free on Hulu all weekend:
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Fiona - Mar 23, 2013 9:38:02 am PDT #23907 of 30000
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 24, 2013 1:13:37 pm PDT #23916 of 30000
brillig
Elijah Woods is just a pretty, pretty young man.