Why I love the Buffistas: last time I was watching Back to the Future II, and tried to explain to the guy I was watching with why Biff got back to the wrong 2015, he looked at me as if I were insane and said, "It's just a movie. You're not supposed to think about it."
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Hil R. - Jul 13, 2004 3:25:49 pm PDT #488 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2004 4:24:33 pm PDT #489 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I finally saw Jaws.
Dude. That was PG ? That was fucking brutal.
I said I'd never seen it, but I think I'd seen parts near the end, but none of the first hour-and-a-half or so. Which are some of the best parts. Cause you don't see the shark for most of it, and Spielberg does a great job of both not telegraphing the scares and then not making a big deal out of them, which only makes it even more effective. I'm sleep-deprived, so towards the latter half of the Orca section, I had a hard time paying attention (it was a constant repetition of see-shark/attach-barrel-to-shark/let-shark-get-away/wait). But it's a pretty great movie, and I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
And yeah, the head-in-the-boat made me jump. Fucking hell.
Holli - Jul 13, 2004 4:34:59 pm PDT #490 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Okay, I've spent the last ten minutes thinking about the Great Back to the Future III Conundrum, and... my head hurts. Oh, but also I think I have a solution!
See, if The Doc had used the fuel line from the Delorean he took with him to the 1800s, he would be left with a busted car when Marty left, right? So in another hundred years or so, Marty would find the car and be unable to take it back to the past, because it would have a busted fuel line, thus causing a universe-shattering paradox. Or something.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 4:35:02 pm PDT #491 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't see how anything'll ever come close to dethroning its status as The Definitive Shark Movie.
I agree. Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2004 4:37:07 pm PDT #492 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I agree. Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
Totally. That's one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's a slasher movie, with sharks!
Oh, and Hec had that story about how he saw the head-in-the-boat make the entire audience jump out of their seats? Same thing happened with Deep Blue Sea and Sam Jackson. Also, I like Michael Rapaport, and Saffron Burrows is hot.
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2004 4:40:39 pm PDT #493 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Jaws (which my cable system seems to always be running on some channel at every hour of the day and night) is, 27 years later, still a fucking SCARY-ASS movie.
Though I always root for Quint to be first on the shark's menu. He irritates me.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2004 4:43:10 pm PDT #494 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But Holli, if he found in in 1986, with a busted fuel line, that would be a pretty easy fix. It was only a problem in 1886 because they didn't have the equipment to repair it.
Holli - Jul 13, 2004 4:53:58 pm PDT #495 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
...dammit.
Kate P. - Jul 13, 2004 5:18:04 pm PDT #496 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
The first attack scene in Jaws with the girl out swimming late at night, and her boyfriend sitting on the shore, still creeps me the fuck out.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2004 5:46:40 pm PDT #497 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Though I'll always love Deep Blue Sea for the Samuel L. Jackson demise. That was sweet.
That movie is just so wonderfully gleeful about offing most of the cast. And unlike Leviathan they offed someone who wasn't the black guy in the last 5 minutes. I mean, Leviathan was a crap movie anyway, but they let Ernie Hudson get that far and then off him as an afterthought? For shame. At least the final death in DBS had some poetic justice attatched to it.