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.
I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?
Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
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Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2010 10:33:30 am PST #7171 of 30000
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-t - Mar 09, 2010 11:05:10 am PST #7172 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Mar 09, 2010 11:15:57 am PST #7173 of 30000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
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.
Polter-Cow - Mar 09, 2010 11:52:45 am PST #7174 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
You make a good point.
Still I'm sure there'll be plenty others.
Here as well.
juliana - Mar 09, 2010 12:03:40 pm PST #7175 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
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!
JZ - Mar 09, 2010 12:57:51 pm PST #7176 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
?? 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.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:10:45 pm PST #7177 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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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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Sheryl - Mar 09, 2010 1:20:33 pm PST #7178 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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.)
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2010 2:57:24 pm PST #7179 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.)
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2010 2:59:01 pm PST #7180 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(Not that the show doesn't still have Issues, but I think S5 has on the whole been better WRT to them than S3 or S4, and has been narratively stronger. Take this as you will, for I loved AtS S4 the best.)