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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.

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Stephanie - Jul 11, 2004 6:28:12 pm PDT #153 of 10001

Trust my rage

I know everyone else saw Eternal Sunshine ages ago, but I just saw it tonight. Overall, I liked it, but I had been told to expect something great. After the movie, I started talking about it with my friend who saw it with me. I was saying that, while I liked the movie, I was unable to find its theme. She said she thought it was just supposed to be about memory. I wanted it to say something about memory.

I guess my thought was that if I was going to make a giant movie, I would want it to be a) entertaining, b) meaningful, or ideally c) both. I thought ES was entertaining and meaningful, but not as much as I expected.

Mikey - Jul 11, 2004 6:47:31 pm PDT #154 of 10001

All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.

"Millenium Falcon, yes. Stagecoach better."

-Joss Whedon

Just got it from my local public library, and had no trouble at all watching it. Stagecoach that is. Gorgeous photography, a big damn movie star, and a great ensemble--esp. Claire Trevor and Thomas Mitchell. Conflict from within, Apache threat hanging over all.

I would so like to see this in a proper movie theatre with a balcony and a live organist between features.

Gris - Jul 11, 2004 7:12:07 pm PDT #155 of 10001

Hey. New board.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit has horrible pan-and-scanning, noticed by me who never saw the original. Then again, the movie began with a "Filmed in Cinemascope!" thing, so maybe that's why I noticed it. However, it was bad enough to merit discussion as we talked about the film in the class I watched it in.

(Don't see the movie. It's pretty dumb.)

§ ita § - Jul 11, 2004 7:17:26 pm PDT #156 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My TiVo keeps telling me to see it. It must hate me.

Gris - Jul 11, 2004 7:20:16 pm PDT #157 of 10001

Hey. New board.

Well, if you like Gregory Peck...and the post-war fifties... and movies that seem to make three contradicting points... and very bad pan-and-scanning... then see it. It's not painful to watch or anything, and I got into it a little. But it's not the best film ever.

Aims - Jul 11, 2004 8:36:41 pm PDT #158 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Saw Spidey 2.

I'll be in my bunk.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 3:58:02 am PDT #159 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Yeah! Whatever happened to equal-opportunity gratuitous nudity?

I guess they thought the shot with Kevin's Bacon would suffice.

I wonder if McNaughton put the gratuitous shower scene back in for his director's cut.

Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 4:52:23 am PDT #160 of 10001

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Saw Spidey 2.

I'll be in my bunk.

James Franco?

Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 4:58:21 am PDT #161 of 10001

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I so do not get the James Franco thing. I see him, and I just want to smack that ridiculous pout off his face.

sumi - Jul 12, 2004 5:06:06 am PDT #162 of 10001

Art Crawl!!!

Obiwan is actually Henri Ducard. Now I must go google to figure out who the heck that is.

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