What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!

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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

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Scrappy - Jul 22, 2004 9:06:15 am PDT #1138 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid in The Big Easy. Chemistry to burn.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2004 9:06:19 am PDT #1139 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Peck was lousy casting in Boys from Brazil. And I thought the whole movie was stupid. Bad script, worse casting, just a train wreck through and through.

Oh, I agree whole-heartedly. Peck and Olivier in a scenery-chewing smackdown, poor James Mason just trying to collect his check with a little dignity, and the out-and-out cognitive dissonance of having Steve Guttenberg turn up as the Israeli nazi-hunter/student at the beginning.


Beverly - Jul 22, 2004 9:09:36 am PDT #1140 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid in The Big Easy. Chemistry to burn.

Oh gods yes. This movie and Dirty Dancing usually go along on our vacations. Just, you know... Not that we ever watch them. The heat radiating from them is inspiration enough.


Beverly - Jul 22, 2004 9:11:07 am PDT #1141 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh, I agree whole-heartedly. Peck and Olivier in a scenery-chewing smackdown, poor James Mason just trying to collect his check with a little dignity, and the out-and-out cognitive dissonance of having Steve Guttenberg turn up as the Israeli nazi-hunter/student at the beginning.

Yep. I don't know whether to cringe or laugh. Or both. It's one I've tried hard to forget.


Vonnie K - Jul 22, 2004 9:18:01 am PDT #1142 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Mmm'John Garfield.

Mmmmm.

Oh, where was I?

Garfield and Turner are of the sexy to the power of 10 in The Postman Always Rings Twice.

My favorite clothed-but-sexy-as-hell scene is the cabin scene from The Lady Eve. You know, with the removal of her strappy sandals and Stanwyck playing with Henry Fonda's hair and how you could see Fonda's character going utterly glassy-eyed with lust (but not knowing what the hell to do about it)? Her confident sexuality, the fact that she is in complete control of the situation yet obviously finding him rather adorable--I love it. Barbara Stanwyck was da bomb.


Scrappy - Jul 22, 2004 9:19:21 am PDT #1143 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I LOVE that scene.


Aims - Jul 22, 2004 9:22:47 am PDT #1144 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It's cliche and not the steam comig from them kind of chemistry, but the chemistry between Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant in Philadelphia Story.


erikaj - Jul 22, 2004 10:39:15 am PDT #1145 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Jimmy Stewart was hot in that,too. And that is not a sentence I type every...ever, actually.


Polter-Cow - Jul 22, 2004 10:43:05 am PDT #1146 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Actress Sharon Stone has quit smoking and drinking after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2002. Stone, 46, who's making a come-back as villainess Laurel Hedare in the summer blockbuster Catwoman, had to fight for her life after being rushed to a San Francisco hospital. And she insists the experience changed her: "When my brain exploded, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have such a better life now. I'm at the point in my life where if you don't want my peaches, don't shake my tree. I'm into Happy Town, and if you don't want to live in Happy Town, move, hit the friggin' bricks, baby."

Ah, like Demi Moore's "comeback" in Charlie's Angels 2 ? Also, can you call it a blockbuster before it's actually busted any blocks?


Steph L. - Jul 22, 2004 11:18:16 am PDT #1147 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Maybe it's so obvious as to not need to be said, but Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not. That movie just crackles with the sparks between them. Also The Big Sleep.