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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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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 18, 2004 1:53:36 pm PDT #4705 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 Stigmata in the midst of a reading project that had me working 70 hours a week (oh, for the innocent days when working til 10pm seemed the upper limit of unreasonable job requirements!) doing both my own work and that of a co-worker whose mother had just passed away. In a three-month span I had one Sunday night off and decided to blow off steam by going to see my first movie in that timeframe. This made me stubbornly reluctant to walk out of the movie after the first 30 minutes, as all my instincts were screaming at me to do. When it was done, I wished that I had just stayed at work instead.

In a more positive moviegoing note, I saw Taxi this weekend. Well worth seeing for Queen Latifah, although I wished Christian Kane weren't so unmemorable in it. Even Jimmy Fallon was at times likeable.

Betsy HP - Oct 18, 2004 1:54:56 pm PDT #4706 of 10001

If I only had a brain...

Yup, it was Lisa de Moraes. If it was intentional, I feel better now.

Scrappy - Oct 18, 2004 2:24:10 pm PDT #4707 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I bet you meant Lebowski.

I totally did. Thanks, sweetie pie.

DebetEsse - Oct 18, 2004 4:38:20 pm PDT #4708 of 10001

Woe to the fucking wicked.

t sits by Aimee and Kate P

I kinda liked Stigmata. Didn't think it sucked, haven't watched it again.

Anybody know if the Scary Movie Marathon channel is one that airs original or tv versions?

Mr. Broom - Oct 18, 2004 4:47:47 pm PDT #4709 of 10001

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

The only question to which the correct answer is Stigmata is "What was the worst movie of 1999?"

Honorable mention goes to its sister film, End of Days. What is it with movies of ridiculously similar premises being released within a couple months of each other? Happens every year.

Gris - Oct 18, 2004 4:49:12 pm PDT #4710 of 10001

Hey. New board.

Yeah, that's crazy. I first noticed it with Armageddon and Deep Impact, and then the next year there was Volcano, and Dante's Peak, neither of which I saw.

§ ita § - Oct 18, 2004 4:50:12 pm PDT #4711 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Triple threat: Matrix, Existenz and The Thirteenth Floor.

Mr. Broom - Oct 18, 2004 4:58:24 pm PDT #4712 of 10001

Secret: "The Thirteenth Floor" was better. Without the non-story-developing fight scenes, "The Matrix" has nothing on the story in "The Thirteenth Floor," and I'm saying this as a big fan of "The Matrix".

Dana - Oct 18, 2004 4:59:15 pm PDT #4713 of 10001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

End of Days was totally worse than Stigmata, which, as noted, has the hotness as Gabriel Byrnes as a hottie priest who's hot.

Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2004 5:00:08 pm PDT #4714 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I preferred EXISTENZ to both (although I loved the Matrix on sheer kinectics), but I'm a massive Cronenberg fan.

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