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Oz ,'Chosen'


Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

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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
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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.)


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2004 1:39:27 pm PDT #1395 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That is some amazing camerawork, isn't it? Worth seeing the movie just for that -- the plot's unremarkable, and Kate Bosworth forgettable.

Michelle Rodriguez did all her own jetskiing, I think.


quester - Jul 26, 2004 4:36:36 pm PDT #1396 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I have a friend that I go to movies with who cannot handle watching a lot of things because they make her motion sick. If she wants to see one and knows it will be hard to watch she takes Dramanine and says it helps. I haven't had any problems like that except for the one time I had to sit in the 5th row, in a gigantic theatre in Sacramento to see "The Sound of Music". The opening where the camera is flying over the Alps aggravated my fear of falling.


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2004 4:44:27 pm PDT #1397 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

An IMAX space shuttle movie shown at Disneyland had me reaching for the barf bags. I can handle upside down just fine when I am upside down. Continued moving pictures of the earth hanging up there are more than my inner ear can deal with.


quester - Jul 26, 2004 4:51:43 pm PDT #1398 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Oh, ita! I had totally blocked the memory of IMAX Mission to Mir out of my memory until now. I was very white-knuckley during that one.


Fred Pete - Jul 26, 2004 4:56:09 pm PDT #1399 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Odd that the subject comes up. I saw Safety Last today (famous for the shot of Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock, several stories off the ground). By the end of that sequence, I was sweating buckets.


JohnSweden - Jul 26, 2004 6:05:48 pm PDT #1400 of 10001
I can't even.

I just saw Bourne Supremacy tonight and wanted to chip in with those who liked it. I enjoyed the first one very much, and this one even more, possibly. Fast-paced and exciting, I've been looking forward to this movie and it didn't disappoint.