I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!

Anya ,'Showtime'


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.


DavidS - Sep 12, 2004 4:14:15 pm PDT #3855 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hey! Stoned Philosophy grad students are people too!

Also a key ingredient in Soylent Green Edge.


DavidS - Sep 12, 2004 4:57:16 pm PDT #3856 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If Buffistas were the kind of people who liked pretty boys tarted up and androgynous they might be interested in this tip:

Well, there is also Pedro Almodóvar, who has been channeling Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk in a really beautiful, interesting way. He captures something that may not be quite glamour, but has an emotional grandeur and dignity that melodrama used to have. He has "Bad Education" coming out this fall, another in his series of brilliant melodramas, with Gael García Bernal, sometimes in drag, as a troubled young man who was molested by a priest as a child.


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 5:03:11 pm PDT #3857 of 10001
Hey. New board.

I'm going to give the Blockbuster online movie rental thing a try, if for no other reason than that it's free for two weeks and the trial comes with two little e-coupons for free in-store rentals RIGHT NOW (and once a month from now on, which is cool.)

I'll let you know how it compares to Netflix. Selection seems just as good, or damned close at least, so service and delivery speed will be the big test.

I think I'm going to go rent the first disc of Six Feet Under Season 2 right now.


Alicia K - Sep 12, 2004 5:41:56 pm PDT #3858 of 10001
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

I have Waking Life somewhere in my queue at Netflix. I have no doubt in my mind that after hearing you guys talk about it, that I will either fall asleep or give up halfway through. I'm okay with that.

Last night I watched Henry: Portrait Of a Serial Killer, which, if nothing else, definitely took my mind off my current emotional state of dumped-ness.


quester - Sep 12, 2004 5:48:07 pm PDT #3859 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I'm watching The Cell on USA. So far the freakiest thing (besides the spider) is Vincent D'nofrio's blonde hair.


Kate P. - Sep 12, 2004 5:50:25 pm PDT #3860 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I fucking hated The Cell.

which, if nothing else, definitely took my mind off my current emotional state of dumped-ness.

Oh, {{{Alicia}}}!


Kathy A - Sep 12, 2004 5:55:47 pm PDT #3861 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

If anyone's interested, there's some excellent footage of Sin City from Comic Con available here. Looks pretty good, although I'm having some problems seeing Josh Hartnett as a film noir anti-hero, no matter how pretty he is in B&W.


tiggy - Sep 12, 2004 6:07:48 pm PDT #3862 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

I saw Jersey Girl last night. first kevin smith movie i've ever liked. that probably makes me a freak. i'm okay with that.


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 6:33:27 pm PDT #3863 of 10001
Hey. New board.

I have concluded that somebody in my town must have the Blockbuster Movie Pass thing (same rules as Netflix, etc, only you get the movies from the store), rented Volume 1 of Six Feet Under Season 2, and has had it for the last month. Because every single time I've gone there since coming home (which has been fairly regularly - this town is really boring), it's not been there.

Oh well.

t trots off to watch 13 Going On 30

ETA: This movie is a continues SQUEE-fest.


evil jimi - Sep 12, 2004 8:34:21 pm PDT #3864 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

There are also some pics of Sin City available here, here, and here.

Looks good.