Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.

Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


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.


Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2004 5:53:35 pm PDT #498 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

At least the final death in DBS had some poetic justice attatched to it.

I heard the cast and crew hated Saffron Burrows so much they killed her off to ensure she couldn't be in a sequel.


Kathy A - Jul 13, 2004 6:17:49 pm PDT #499 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I love all the nighttime attacks, from the first one to the two old guys on the dock, sacrificing the wife's Sunday roast for the reward, then getting the shit scared out of them when the shark took them up on the free dinner.

eta: Oooh, shiny round number!