I've bought it at Blockbuster for those 3 for 15 deals twice now. Usually I do the same. I only have a 40 GB harddrive so I can't usually keep movies for long when I download them so I download them and if I like them I buy them and watch them again like you said.
With Children of Men I had a friend put me on to it, loved it, bought it and then gave it to my brother to watch on his plane ride back. Then just bought it 3 days ago and can't believe I was without it for so long. I'm trying to do a marathon of John Adams watching that every night but Children of Men interrupted that for a night. Let me know what you think of it.
As for the thread topic, another.
Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale both in The Prestige. Another favorite of mine, excellent direction and perfect casting. Had either of these guys performances not been as great as they were, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as good with 1 character lacking. But no, they were both great. Jackman though stood out because I had never seen anything of his past X Men and Van Helsing which were both cool movies but nothing extraordinary in either performance. I knew he was an acclaimed but never knew he was capable of this.
He also did a very good job in The Fountain which is easily the weirdest movie I've ever seen. And not in a Brazil sort of way but in it's own level of weirdness, just a bizarre movie that I have never fully understood because I've been high each time I've seen it. With visuals like that it's to hard to pass up.
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