Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.


erikaj - Jul 22, 2004 3:52:34 pm PDT #1163 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't remember that. Maybe I've seen a cut version, or maybe I just scanned past it mentally.


Consuela - Jul 22, 2004 4:08:04 pm PDT #1164 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Ciaran Hinds is totally one of my Sekrit Boyfriends. He's even in that Minnie Driver movie as one of the professors. A Circle of Friends?


Jesse - Jul 22, 2004 4:56:20 pm PDT #1165 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So, I just saw the Bourne Supremacy. It was OK. My real question is, why do studios do screenings like this? Is it because they think regular people will like it more than critics and are hoping for good word of mouth?


Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2004 5:06:27 pm PDT #1166 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Now I'm wondering about the Edward Rochester taste test? Who is dreamier? Timothy Dalton or my new secret lover, Ciaran?

What, not Orson Welles? runs away


Fred Pete - Jul 23, 2004 3:28:59 am PDT #1167 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Mmmmm. Holiday. Now Voyager. Both wonderful movies, each in its own way.

What, not Orson Welles?

TCM is showing The Magnificent Ambersons tomorrow at midnight. My TiVo is set.


Jim - Jul 23, 2004 3:57:17 am PDT #1168 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

OK, I've just found out the twist in The Village and laughed until I hurt myself.


askye - Jul 23, 2004 4:05:18 am PDT #1169 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I wanna know!


Nutty - Jul 23, 2004 4:14:05 am PDT #1170 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Do link or whitefont, Jim. Anything for the greater gigglement of all.


Jim - Jul 23, 2004 4:17:18 am PDT #1171 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Setup (not twist):

A village of 17th-century folk live in a secluded valley, afraid of terrible monsters who roam the surrounding woods.

Twist (I'm serious):

They live in a NATURE RESERVE! It's set in the present, and the founders of the Village have basically hidden for X years in this nature reserve and told their kids it's the past to stop them leaving. The monsters are....Modern people!!!!


Nutty - Jul 23, 2004 4:21:11 am PDT #1172 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Ha ha ha ha ha! Somebody speculated as much (I think on this thread) some time ago, and it was like, Well, it can't be any sillier than Signs.

Although, your spoilage given, where do they get the dye that can make that color yellow for their Safety Capes, and for that matter, if they are felting their wool, doesn't that mean they are poisoning themselves with arsenic and are thus all quite mad??

Got to love a movie where the villains are park rangers.