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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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Hayden - Jul 13, 2004 5:59:21 am PDT #309 of 10001

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

And I've seen La Jetée. It's possible to like both -- they're very different critters.

Sure they're different. But I saw La Jetee so many years after 12 Monkeys (just last year) that it cancelled out the Brad Pitt movie.

I'm really anxious to see The Butterfly Effect, despite its apparent suckage.

I saw a review for it that said it was just like that Simpsons episode where Homer keeps going back in time and inadvertently altering the future by stepping on flowers and lizards and such, but, y'know, in all seriousness.

§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 5:59:22 am PDT #310 of 10001

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

It happens, because it has to happen. Or it all unravels and dissolves.

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:00:37 am PDT #311 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

All these time travel circularity brain-teasers reminds me of Oedipus, what with the hero receiving a horrible prophecy, then taking action to avoid the prophecy which instead brings it about. So if he hadn't received the prophecy it wouldn't have come about.

§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 6:01:11 am PDT #312 of 10001

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

it was just like that Simpsons episode where Homer keeps going back in time and inadvertently altering the future by stepping on flowers and lizards and such, but, y'know, in all seriousness

Wrong butterfly!

I read the spoilers for it, and ... maybe if it was someone other than Ashton. Real actors might have made the difference.

UTTAD - Jul 13, 2004 6:03:26 am PDT #313 of 10001

Strawberry disappointment.

I'm thinking of a film from maybe the late 80's with a battleship and time travel. Philadelphia Experiment maybe?

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:05:32 am PDT #314 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm thinking of a film from maybe the late 80's with a battleship and time travel. Philadelphia Experiment maybe?

Yeah. (But it was a cruiser.)

Also, The Final Countdown in which a modern US Navy aircraft carrier gets sent to Hawaii on Dec 6, 1941. But I didn't see that one.

Jessica - Jul 13, 2004 6:05:46 am PDT #315 of 10001

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

Ah, point. And granted, T3 had a pretty ballsy ending, but it wasn't as great.

T3 was a terrible movie, but I did like how it dealt with the timeline. And I didn't hate Claire Danes, which was a first.

Steph L. - Jul 13, 2004 6:06:52 am PDT #316 of 10001

the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Also, The Final Countdown

Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2004 6:07:53 am PDT #317 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anyone else just get earwormed with Triumph?

Me. But I did it to myself.

Kate P. - Jul 13, 2004 6:08:36 am PDT #318 of 10001

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

12 Monkeys is a great movie, which marked the beginning of my brief fascination with Bruce Willis. Madeleine Stowe is also kickass.

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