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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.


Lyra Jane - Sep 03, 2004 11:46:54 am PDT #3513 of 10001
Up with the sun

I like John Waters a lot better as a personality/public speaker than as a filmmaker.


quester - Sep 03, 2004 6:25:12 pm PDT #3514 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I just got back from seeing Donnie Darko: the Director's Cut. I never saw the original, so I don't know what's different.

Wow, that is one f*ed-up film! And I mean that in a good way.

One question though, are we supposed to believe that everything that transpired was some kind of collective dream?


DebetEsse - Sep 03, 2004 7:12:03 pm PDT #3515 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Not exactly. The dreams (and jet engine) are just what's left of what was real (but untenable) when it collapsed back into tenable Universe (and, therefore, back in time).

At least that's my understanding.


quester - Sep 03, 2004 8:46:49 pm PDT #3516 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Well, since I posed the question I've been reading the IMDB forum on the movie and now kind of get what that was all about. But the nagging question seems to be when and why did the Tangent Universe come into being? Did it start when Donnie woke up on the road? Or at some point after?


DebetEsse - Sep 03, 2004 9:01:03 pm PDT #3517 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Well, it was certainly in place when he saw creepy -bunny-guy. I'm tempted to think that that's where it started, as he woke up from the tangent in bed with the engine about to crash through the roof, and awake.


quester - Sep 03, 2004 9:32:50 pm PDT #3518 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I may have to go and see it again.


Gris - Sep 04, 2004 1:53:56 pm PDT #3519 of 10001
Hey. New board.

I went and saw The Princess Diaries 2 today, finally. I gave up on finding anybody to see it with me (all of my friends who would do so being already in college and, thus, not in this town) and went alone.

To the 2:20 matinee.

Luckily, I like little kids. They completely don't annoy me. So that was good. Though I caught a few suspcious glances from the protective parents. Guess it's weird for a 21-year-old guy to go to that kind of movie by himself on a Saturday afternoon.

I thought the movie was really cute. Completely silly, of course, but silly with heart. I completely enjoyed myself. It made me happy.

Anne Hathaway is gorgeous, and I now want to see Ella Enchanted even more than I did before. Question: does anybody else think she looks like Amber Tamblyn? (or vice versa, I guess). I noticed the Mia/Joan resemblance all the way through this movie.

And it was nice to see Callum Blue as someone respectable, rather than All "Dead Like Me" roguish.

There was also a trailer for First Daughter which looks bad, but in a cute sappy way. I kinda like Katie Holmes, and I kinda like Marc Blucas, so I'm definitely planning on seeing that one because I also kinda like bad teen movies (if you couldn't tell).


Gris - Sep 04, 2004 2:03:46 pm PDT #3520 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Cereal:

"Incredible movie. Feels like you've been mentally fellated."

That is the best IMDB summary review I've EVER SEEN. For an upcoming movie called "Havoc," apparently.


dcp - Sep 04, 2004 2:17:56 pm PDT #3521 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Saw Garden State.

Hated it. I didn't walk out, but I haven't come that close since Howard the Duck.

The first time I saw Home Alone and Office Space I thought they were funny and well done. The second time I saw them I thought they were just sad and mean. Garden State is mostly just sad and mean, with some unconvincing schmaltz at the end.


Polter-Cow - Sep 04, 2004 3:05:28 pm PDT #3522 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I saw Secretary, which was very interesting. It wasn't totally what I expected, because Maggie Gyllenhaal's character wasn't this stereotypical "Ooh, spank me! Yes!" person: the movie was about her discovering this new kink, and how she deals with it. It's very sad at points. It's not the type of relationship that normally gets portrayed in movies, so that was cool, and I really liked how human the main characters felt. The movie doesn't place judgments on their lifestyle. Also, Maggie Gyllenhaal deserves all the accolades she received for her performance. She conveys so much of her character through her face and body language.

I also just finished watching Darkness Falls. There is nothing at all remarkable about Darkness Falls. It doesn't suck enough to be funny; it's merely as mediocre as they come. And Emma Caulfield doesn't get to crack one joke. Actually, I don't think there's a single joke in the entire movie. Unless you count the entire movie, in which the villain is the Tooth Fairy.