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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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lisah - Sep 01, 2004 5:55:22 am PDT #3462 of 10001

Punishingly Intricate

This I ended up coming to was that he'd taken it off of the mother before he buried her and sold it to the jewelry dealer, then arranged to get it back as an afterthought. But I'm not sure.

makes the most sense to me. We know Mark was stealing jewelry from the people he was burying. I knew something was up in that regard as soon as I saw him out of his overalls at the party with all the dangly gold jewelry. Something about that struck me as fishy. And then there was that long moment between Mark and Large at the graveyard when they're hanging out with their millionaire friend. That was one of my favorite parts of the movie.

I think the implication was that he either sold it to the guy in the boat or had sold it somewhere else and gotten the guy in the boat, via his porno purveyor hotel friend, to get the necklace back.

Lyra Jane - Sep 01, 2004 5:57:35 am PDT #3463 of 10001

Up with the sun

Oh, okay, I didn't notice the jewelry at the party. Thanks for breaking it down for me, lisah.

lisah - Sep 01, 2004 6:02:01 am PDT #3464 of 10001

Punishingly Intricate

Thanks for breaking it down for me, lisah.

I wanted to talk about it at dinner last night but too much was going on! I just saw the movie last Saturday so I'm all fired up about it. And obsessed with Peter Sarsgaard. yum.

Kate P. - Sep 01, 2004 6:53:21 am PDT #3465 of 10001

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

I just read somewhere that the "gay" line was an improv, which somehow makes it even cooler to me.

Jessica - Sep 01, 2004 7:29:01 am PDT #3466 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

For those who are interested in such things, The Forbidden Zone was released on DVD today.

And in related 1980-movie-musical news, The Apple is now paired with Roller Boogie instead of Freaks, so nobody has any excuses not to buy it.

[eta: Although I did just notice that Forbidden Zone is now paired with Freaks. I think Amazon's just moving it around until someone buys it.]

sumi - Sep 01, 2004 7:39:45 am PDT #3467 of 10001

Art Crawl!!!

The one copy that they have on hand?

DavidS - Sep 01, 2004 9:21:28 am PDT #3468 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For those who are interested in such things, The Forbidden Zone was released on DVD today.

I'm really tempted. Are there good extras? Excellent quote by evil queen of the underwold in The Forbidden Zone: "Why does it feel SO good to be so bad?"

Jessica - Sep 01, 2004 9:27:08 am PDT #3469 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Excellent quote by evil queen of the underwold in The Forbidden Zone: "Why does it feel SO good to be so bad?"

I haven't checked the extras yet. But I do feel I should point out that The Apple contains a power ballad with the line "How can it be wrong / when it feels so right?" Making it EVEN MORE PERFECT a companion movie to The Forbidden Zone.

And if you'd been at Amoeba music last Saturday, you could have asked Richard Elfman yourself. (LA peeps can still catch him at the Amoeba Music there tomorrow night.)

Tom Scola - Sep 01, 2004 12:46:53 pm PDT #3470 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I totally agree with Plei on Harold and Kumar. One of the best movies I've seen all year.

Alicia K - Sep 01, 2004 1:16:24 pm PDT #3471 of 10001

Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

Movies watched lately, all three enjoyed very much: Monsoon Wedding, Bad Santa, and Kill Bill Vol. 2.

Must now seek out this flick called The Apple that keeps popping into your conversations. I sense that I should be very, very askerred.

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