Spencer Tracy is a war vet with one arm - but he knows karate so don't fuck with him!
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The town is corrupt - somebody got lynched? - something like that and he goes to investigate.
Actually he innocently comes to town to find the father of a war buddy and give him his son's medal (I think the father is Japanese-American or an immigrant). The townspeople,
who essentially killed the dude, think he is there to investigate so they try to run him out of town.
But he has karate and chops people left and right. With his one arm.
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he innocently comes to town to find the father of a war buddy and give him his son's medal
And that's not one of the plots of a Kurosawa/spaghetti western? Heck, maybe it was a play by Euripides, all the greats "borrow" ideas from each other.
Yay, my DVR is happy to record all the Kurosawa it can find! I think I've only actually seen Ran all the way through - on the big screen, even, so wonderful. Maybe Yojimbo but under distracting circumstances so I don't really remember it.
As much as I loved the Iron Man 2 full trailer - and I did love it Steph, don't kill me - I wish they'd left the last shot out as they had done such a fabulous job in both the teaser and the trailer of setting up the racetrack scene's seemingly inescapable jeopardy. It would have been a great surprise in the movie.
Still I'm sure there'll be plenty others.
And yet, the Tron Legacy trailer got my blood pumping even more than IM2 and I really wasn't expecting that. Certainly helped that the music was brilliant.
eta: Also, holy shit! Jeremy Sumpter is on FNL? That's exactly the last nudge I needed to get me over my don't-like-football-stories block and dig into the DVDs Perkins lent me so tragically long ago.
?? Did I lend someone else my FNL Season 1 DVDs, then?
I am PSYCHED for Iron Man. Whoo!
?? Did I lend someone else my FNL Season 1 DVDs, then?
I... don't know? Maybe S1 are yours and S2 are hers?
I am ashamed of my hideous unwatched backlog. Anyhow, I know we have S1 and possibly S2 at our place, not yet watched (though now rocketing to the top of the list), and definitely belonging to someone else.
I have some Supernatural I need to give back to one or both of you, too. Loved S1 but kind of skeered of plunging forward and getting all emotionally invested, since my LJ flist has been rampant with sore feelings and disappointment and ire at the most recent season.
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Loved S1 but kind of skeered of plunging forward and getting all emotionally invested, since my LJ flist has been rampant with sore feelings and disappointment and ire at the most recent season.
The last few episodes of the season have been emotionally taxing the good-pain way.
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I Netflixed "High and Low"...and found myself falling asleep during it. Guess it wasn't for me.
(I seem to be an outlier here, as I also saw "The Lady Eve", which lots of people here love, and found it kind of watch-from-the-hall. Oh,well.)
Loved S1 but kind of skeered of plunging forward and getting all emotionally invested, since my LJ flist has been rampant with sore feelings and disappointment and ire at the most recent season.
Eh, I think they're being Wrong On the Internet, but that's me. (I think 5 has been their best season since 2.)
