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[erilaz]

Another film at HoleHead tonight: Yamaguchi Yūdai's Deadball!

What's better than an insanely over-the-top Japanese film about a deadly baseball game? An insanely over-the-top Japanese film about a deadly baseball game that includes an idol duo called Poo Poo! And the female students of Saint Black Dahlia High School! And Nazis!

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[questorminator]

I watched Rurouni Kenshin in the cinema (and I got to seat on those premium lazyboy seats too). It was. for me, one the best manga/anime to live movie adaptations ever (the other one is Beck). Japan churns out manga/anime adaptations every year but they don't always hit the jackpot like this one. It has no pretensions about what it is, doesn't try to do too much, and watching it is a great experience.

[Moh]

Finally saw Skyfall. Loved it. That opening sequence was especially great.

[Zunu]

Just saw it myself over the weekend. I like how all kinds of shit was going on around him and he was kinda "no1curr" but, lay a finger on his Astin-Martin and he was suddenly "it's ON son!"

[randompasserby]

Just watched The Hobbit...
I'm kinda still in nerdgasm mode so can't really think properly about the merits of the adaptation at the moment
one thing though ...

Spoiler: show

I hate how they still treat Gwaihir and the eagles as Gandalf's summon spell instead of a neutral, sentient observers who goes out of their way to give them a great favor

... that said, THORIN FUCKNG OAKENSHIELD and Gollum's scenes were awesome
It's definitely not perfect, but close enough that I'm gonna keep throwing my money at it this weekend

[erilaz]

THORIN FUCKNG OAKENSHIELD

Movie-Thorin looks way too young. Thorin's supposed to be the oldest dwarf in the company. According to The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A III, he was born in Third Age 2746, which would make him 195 at the time of this story. That's 17 years older than Balin, who is described in The Hobbit as "a very old-looking dwarf". [/nit-picky Tolkien scholar mode]

I'll probably see the movie sometime this weekend.

[erilaz]

^ And indeed I did. Just got home from seeing it.

I knew what to expect from Jackson's Lord of the Rings, so my general reaction is no surprise. Where the movie stayed true to the source material, I thought it was great, but the greater the deviations from authentic Tolkienian lore, the more I rolled my eyes and shook my head.

And I rolled my eyes and shook my head more than a few times.

The thing that surprised me the most was my realization that the 1977 Rankin-Bass cartoon was a more faithful adaptation of the book.

[erilaz]

My first movie of 2013: Django Unchained.

Loads of blood-spattered fun, and another brilliant performance by Christoph Waltz.

[erilaz]

Red Beard (赤ひげ) (1965) — A snotty intern who aspires to become the shogun's physician gets an education from the director of a clinic for the poor, played by the great Mifune Toshirō, in his last Kurosawa film.

[erilaz]

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (口裂け女) — 2007 J-horror based on the urban legend of the Kuchisake-onna.

The opening scene features three schoolgirls in an otherwise empty classroom. The girls are played by the members of the idol group CHASE: Iguchi Rio, Okada Runa, and Irie Saaya. Satō Eriko, star of the live-action Cutie Honey movie, plays their teacher.