Stage Beauty is getting lukewarm-to-bad reviews
Liz Smith seemed to love it in her column this morning. Not that she's a film reviewer or anything...
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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lisah - Oct 07, 2004 10:47:43 am PDT #4415 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Aims - Oct 07, 2004 7:36:24 pm PDT #4416 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Have just finished watching Party Monster.
What a ginormous piece of crap. How they could take such interesting and intriguing material and turn it into complete crap is beyond me. Oh wait - it might have something to do with Macauly Culkin and Seth Green running around acting like giant flaming queers. And I mean that in every horrible, stereotypical sense that there is. Michael Alig and James St James *were* giant flaming queers. They were the Club Kids. It's who they were. But MC and SG aren't and couldn't even pretend halfway decently that they were. I wanted to smack them both. Wilmer Valderama was good and they completely wasted Wilson Cruz-who was the MAIN reason I wanted to see it.
Blech. I am so dissapointed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 07, 2004 7:42:35 pm PDT #4417 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I saw the documentary on that case a few years ago, and so figured I didn't need to see the adapted version. Glad to hear that was a good decision—I'd prefer to avoid anything that would diminish my affection for Seth.
Aims - Oct 07, 2004 7:50:46 pm PDT #4418 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What can I watch to get it back?
I saw the documentary and read the articles and that's why I wanted to see it. I have not read the book by James St James.
But I have to blame this on acting choices and/or direction. It was a cariacature of these people, not a realistic portrayal, which you NEED TO HAVE IF YOU SAY BASED ON A TRUE STORY in the beginning.
Fred Pete - Oct 08, 2004 3:48:23 am PDT #4419 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Aimee, if you haven't seen Rat Race, it's an enjoyable film and Seth contributes his share of the goodness. (Double the "enjoyable" part if It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of your favorites.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 08, 2004 3:49:25 am PDT #4420 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Were there any reviews titled "It's a Rat, Rat, Rat, Rat World"?
Cause there should have been.
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2004 4:06:34 am PDT #4421 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't like Rat Race. Seth and Breckin were amazing, but at least two race threads needed to be dropped, and the one with Cuba Gooding Jr on its head from a great height.
Fred Pete - Oct 08, 2004 4:24:54 am PDT #4422 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
and the one with Cuba Gooding Jr on its head from a great height
I'll half agree. Get rid of the referee-error part, keep the visual image of the Lucy impersonators.
Consuela - Oct 08, 2004 5:41:52 am PDT #4423 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But the Seth parts, especially the business with the cows? Oh, god, I laughed so hard I hurt all the next day.
I can't even say Rat Race was a great movie, but parts of it were hysterically funny.
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2004 5:49:57 am PDT #4424 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Seth as Chris in "Family Guy" is the funniest thing EVAH.