Definitely an interesting list for exploring Asian cinema. Strange that he ranks directors like Eastwood and Chan Wook as best of the decade, but doesn't pick any of their movies in the top 50 of the same period.

I've seen more of his 1999 list than 2009 (didn't get out much), and I disagree strongly with some of it. I thought that The Sixth Sense was such a dumb movie that it almost contaminates the others near it. And I never got the hype about Run Lola Run. I found the characters uninvolving.

No Strider? No Legolas?

I mean - they're totally in Mirkwood - Legolas could certainly be there.

Well, there's some vague talk from Viggo about appearing in Hobbit 2: Halfing Boogaloo.

ita, that really hit my funny bone for some reason.

There's actually very good reason for Legolas to show up in Mirkwood - he's the son of Thranduil, the king of the Mirkwood elves.

Exactly. I wonder if we'll see him in that last battle.

I think Orlando could stand the work.

LeN, I have to say, I have the visuals of hobbits trying to breakdance, and it's not pretty.

I could Google, but wasn't Legolas canonically imprisoned or something while Bilbo & Co were in Mirkwood? And that's why he's not in the book?

He was?

In his father's dungeons?

No, I'm mixed up - I'm thinking of Gloin (Gimli's dad), who Thranduil once had imprisoned, hence the distrust between Gimli and Legolas when they met.

I do vaguely recall that Tolkien retconned why Legolas hadn't appeared in The Hobbit, but now I have no idea what the reason was. He was off somewhere doing something.