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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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Vonnie K - Oct 18, 2004 12:02:50 pm PDT #4667 of 10001

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Fargo and A Simple Plan have some similarities. Seemingly regular people getting corrupted by greed. Violence and all that snow. Easy enough for a mix-up.

I love Fargo and Big Lebowski, but I couldn't finish Barton Fink, despite the fact that I love Judy Davis. For some reason, I seem to have poor tolerance for overwrought display of writerly neuroses. Throughout the movie, I was just overwhelmed with an impluse to bitchslap the whiny-ass John Turturro character until Sunday. And despite liking the movie a lot better, I felt the same way about Nick Cage character in Adaptation. Don't know what this says about me.

Sean K - Oct 18, 2004 12:05:02 pm PDT #4668 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Among the deleted scenes on the IT DVD is a collection of something like thirty or so takes of Clooney's dorky partner saying "Everybody loves berries," to him at the wedding.

It's very surreal. The words begin to lose all meaning.

Sean K - Oct 18, 2004 12:07:38 pm PDT #4669 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Throughout the movie, I was just overwhelmed with an impluse to bitchslap the whiny-ass John Turturro character until Sunday. And despite liking the movie a lot better, I felt the same way about Nick Cage character in Adaptation. Don't know what this says about me.

Writers tend to make for main characters that engender a burning desire to bitch-slap the hell out of them. It's a thing.

Nutty - Oct 18, 2004 12:07:52 pm PDT #4670 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Okay, wait, we have a rapture about the Coen brothers and nobody mentions Miller's Crossing?

Because it's my favorite hands-down (seconds are Lebowski and Raising Arizona ) and I would say probably their most complex. They cribbed the plot of it from a Dashiell Hammett novel, but made it their own with a particularly sour interpretation.

Sean K - Oct 18, 2004 12:09:35 pm PDT #4671 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I heart Miller's Crossing very, very much.

Sue - Oct 18, 2004 12:11:12 pm PDT #4672 of 10001

hip deep in pie

Okay, wait, we have a rapture about the Coen brothers and nobody mentions Miller's Crossing?

Nutty just said what I was thinking all through this conversation.

DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 12:11:59 pm PDT #4673 of 10001

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

Okay, wait, we have a rapture about the Coen brothers and nobody mentions Miller's Crossing?

A lapse on my part. I love it. Best use of Gabriel Byrne ever.

Sean K - Oct 18, 2004 12:14:06 pm PDT #4674 of 10001

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Best use of Gabriel Byrne ever.

Pretty damned good use of Albert Finney, too.

Aims - Oct 18, 2004 12:14:27 pm PDT #4675 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

t adds Miller's Crossing to list

DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 12:15:45 pm PDT #4676 of 10001

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

adds Miller's Crossing to list

This one's not a comedy, btw. But it is pretty freakin' great.

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