Joining the Keanu love fest. So glad some that disparaged him in the past are coming around.
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Not so much. Speed is pretty much the only one of his I can watch.
Love Keanu and ain't no shame in my game. As megan walker knows, I paid folding money to see 47 Ronin in the theater. First run. It's deep between me and Keanu.
Though I absolutely hated where it ended up, While We're Young was quite enjoyable in an ironic hipster Brooklyn kind of way. Of course, given that I am going to the eye doctor tomorrow to finally get progressives, it hit a little too close to home at times.
Actually, I enjoyed 47 Ronin quite a bit. I was really impressed with Hiroyuki Sanada as Ôishi, though; he's what made the movie for me. It was also nice to see Rinko Kikuchi being all badass again.
Keanu - I feel like he's my people. He is even about the same age as my youngest brother.
Also: my experience riding on the local buses as a grayhaired woman with a wonky leg: POC are the ones who will give up their seat to me.
Have no explanation for that.
Sail, Hiroyuki, Shin Koyamada (Katsumoto's son, Nobutada), and Seizô Fukumoto (Bob), and of course, Watanabe, were what made The Last Samurai for me. It was all about the landscape (granted, NZ and second Middle Earth, but also fantasy feudal Japan) and the Japanese actors. Algren didn't even figure into the story, he was just a footnote, at most.
But then I'm a devoted fan of The Scent of Green Papaya, thus capable of eliminating story in favor of sensualism. The Last Samurai improves with that approach, IMO.
Speaking of Keanu, I learned today that Ana Lily Amirpour is making a movie with him. On my blog, I picked her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as my favorite film seen in theaters last year and was already looking forward to what she would do next. But I didn't expect this. I have no words.
On my blog, I picked her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as my favorite film seen in theaters last year
Ooh, me too!
Wild that she's working with Keeanu, but she's got SO much talent.
In a fit of insomnia, my mum watched The Tree of Life. I have never seen it. Now she wants me to explain it to her. From what little I've seen or heard, I doubt I'd be able to do that even with a viewing.