I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.

Simon ,'Jaynestown'


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.


Jessica - Jul 26, 2004 8:25:10 am PDT #1385 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

See, I didn't think there was anything to figure out. I know that's how the movie was marketed, which is why I'm whitefonting, but I thought it was clear from the beginning that we were moving back and forth between reality and her headspace. The visual distinctions between the two were subtle, but I never found them confusing. I honestly don't think I would have assumed it was supposed to be a mystery if I hadn't read the back of the DVD case. (Which is why the only part I really disliked was the coda, with the waving. I found it completely unnecessary, and anvilly where the rest of the film had been so elegant.)


Consuela - Jul 26, 2004 9:48:53 am PDT #1386 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I would advise people planning to see it to sit way back.

God, yes. Did I post that here? I was in the third row in the 3 pm showing yesterday, and had to watch the big actiony climactic car chase with my eyes closed, I was so nauseated.

Sigh. The finale of Frequency did that to me too, and that wasn't even a car chase.

I love Nutty's Rules for Film. Even when I don't always agree with her conclusions, I appreciate the thinkiness that goes into them.


Betsy HP - Jul 26, 2004 9:56:02 am PDT #1387 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I had a partial migraine, and Bourne definitely didn't help. I think it must have to do with how car-sickness-prone you naturally are.


Consuela - Jul 26, 2004 9:58:31 am PDT #1388 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think I would have liked the movie more if it weren't for the fact that I felt terrible for the last 20 minutes and a full hour afterward.

Sigh.


Nutty - Jul 26, 2004 10:27:03 am PDT #1389 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Right. I have no carsickness gene, so although I couldn't always see those sequences, because they happened faster than my eyes could focus, they didn't make me sick.

What was it about Frequency that was nauseating? I don't remember the climax having a lot of herky-jerky in it, but then, I wouldn't notice it, I suppose.


Consuela - Jul 26, 2004 10:32:43 am PDT #1390 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think it was the editing. I don't really remember, although I liked the movie in general.

Dennis Quaid. Yum.


Lyra Jane - Jul 26, 2004 12:00:35 pm PDT #1391 of 10001
Up with the sun

Polter-Cow, I didn't find the distinctions as obvious as Jessica did, but it was my interpretation that everything between her train ride to France and the final scene in the publisher's office was fantasy. You can see the publisher's real daughter as she's leaving the office.


Betsy HP - Jul 26, 2004 12:02:42 pm PDT #1392 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I was only able to watch about ten minutes of Blair Witch before I gave up in nausea. (Nothing scary had happened yet.)


DavidS - Jul 26, 2004 12:06:50 pm PDT #1393 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I was only able to watch about ten minutes of Blair Witch before I gave up in nausea. (Nothing scary had happened yet.)

I remember The Perfect Storm also induced a lot of motion sickness nausea.


Steph L. - Jul 26, 2004 1:33:31 pm PDT #1394 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I caught the last 30 minutes of Blue Crush at the gym today, and it gave me motion-woozies. (Not sickness, but the camera work in the water is so fucking amazing that its movement sucked me in the way, say, The Perfect Storm's did.)