Simon: The decision saved your life. Zoe: Won't happen again, sir. Mal: Good. And thanks. I'm grateful. Zoe: It was my pleasure, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 15, 2005 4:45:30 pm PST #4797 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I loved, TP, and was horribly, tragically disappointed by Fire Walk with Me.

If you were expecting a Twin Peaks movie, I totally understand how you'd feel this way, but I absolutely adore FWWM as a David Lynch movie.

Hella disturbing, and Sheryl Lee was absolutely amazing. But decidedly not the fun ride (no matter the occasional odd digression) that Twin Peaks was overall.


JenP - Feb 15, 2005 4:47:20 pm PST #4798 of 10001

Plus Profit. Which is now also coming out on DVD.

Awesome.

Caroline and DB in a movie. Neat.

I finished the WF DVDs over the weekend. Awww. The shot of Caroline Tim talked about... yeah.

Are your copies of animated Tick decent, Hec? That is, do I have a decent shot at getting watchable stuff from e-bay? I mean, I know it's a crap shoot, but that's something I'd risk it for.


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 5:36:37 pm PST #4799 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Jen, the copies are decent. I think everybody's pulling from the same source pool anyway, and once it's digitized there's not much degradation. Most are at the level of a second generation video dub. Completely watchable.

If you were expecting a Twin Peaks movie, I totally understand how you'd feel this way, but I absolutely adore FWWM as a David Lynch movie.

Hella disturbing, and Sheryl Lee was absolutely amazing. But decidedly not the fun ride (no matter the occasional odd digression) that Twin Peaks was overall.

As with most movie opinions, Frank and I are in agreement.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 15, 2005 5:46:34 pm PST #4800 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

As with most movie opinions, Frank and I are in agreement.

Ah, I discovered one big area here of disagreement - I adore LAST TANGO, and admire a lot of the Cassavettes, although I prefer his more genre oriented movies, like GLORIA and CHINESE BOOKIE (and MIKEY AND NICKY which is Elaine May channelling Cassavettes for all she's worth), to his suburban/domestic dramas.


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 5:51:04 pm PST #4801 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yeah, I've been meaning to watch Chinese Bookie. I did like Gloria a lot. Enough to understand what Mark Eitzel was singing about when he sang "The thing that holds the world together / is the wind in Gena Rowlands hair."

I had a copy of Too Late Blues that I loaned to Scrappy (and never saw again....tap tap tap). He sort of disavowed it, but it's still his second movie. And it's got Bobby Darin, Connie Stevens, Seymour Cassell and a cameo by Slim Gaillard.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 15, 2005 5:56:39 pm PST #4802 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I will admit I love Cassavettes as an actor more than a director. And his really love his more disreputable films at that: ROSEMARY'S BABY (a classic, I know, but still), THE DIRTY DOZEN, THE FURY.


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 6:05:08 pm PST #4803 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I will admit I love Cassavettes as an actor more than a director.

Which is why I own two tape collections of his detective/jazz pianist TV show Staccato.

Also, my dislike of Last Tango is probably driven (in part) by my having seen it when I was 20. I suspect it would have much more resonance for me now in my 40s.

However, my deep annoyance with Actor Improv Movies is a constant.

(Also, Scrappy, I'm just teasing. I know I foisted that tape on you.)


JenP - Feb 15, 2005 6:06:12 pm PST #4804 of 10001

Thanks, Hec.

(ETA: OK, so we've moved on from TP. Still.) Twin Peaks. We used to have viewing parties. I remember the ep I watched alone had the most disturbingly violent scene that I'd seen on TV up to that point... where whosit gets beaten to death by possessed father-guy, smashed into mirrors (I particularly remember that), dragged and slammed from wall to wall. God. Still gives me shivers. It was so viscerally evil. Man, it's been so long since the series, I can't even remember what the scene was... was that a flashback to the original murder, or is that what happened to the cousin by her possessed uncle, who was the father of the original murdered girl? I can't even remember names now. Laura?

Ahem, but... loved the show!


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 6:08:22 pm PST #4805 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Man, it's been so long since the series, I can't even remember what the the scene was... was that a flashback to the original murder, or is that what happened to the cousin by her possessed uncle, who was the father of the original murdered girl? I can't even remember names now. Laura?

Oh yeah. I think Matt has cited this scene as one of the scariest in TV history.

Loved Twin Peaks - so many incredible scenes. My most disturbing was the one when Rhonda Pulasaki (I think that's her character's name - the other girl that survived from the freight car) came back to consciousness.


JenP - Feb 15, 2005 6:14:47 pm PST #4806 of 10001

Matt and I are one on that, for sure. Hmm. I think maybe I'll add TP to the Netflix queue. It'd almost be like new again. Heh, my roomate from those days still occasionally asks for her coffee "...black as midnight on a moonless night," even though, yeah, I know how she takes her coffee.