Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.
'A Hole in the World'
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.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2004 8:07:10 pm PDT #503 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Beverly - Jul 13, 2004 8:34:34 pm PDT #504 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Michael Madsen narrates the Animal Precinct (New York) show on Animal Planet. I feel perversely comforted knowing that the narrator is going to take those animal neglecters out behind the building and smack them really hard.
YOU! paff DO NOT! paff TIE YOUR DOG TO A HOT RADIATOR! paff WISE UP YOU HEARTLESS TWIT! paff ... I got my eye on you from now on, buddy. Fido and I are real close friends. You mess with Fido, you answer to me.
Yes! Nutty and I are as one in this!
90s fashion--oh how I miss it. My very best kickass outfit was a pair of opaque black leggings, knee-high black leather boots, and a big black sweater (with small shoulder pads--I am broad-hipped and narrow shouldered. Small shoulder pads offset the pearish look for me) that just covered my tush. I was cute!
I will be so relieved when women's fashion once more allows them to look like they're affluent enough to stop wearing their baby sister's garments and can afford clothes of their own.
And Christian Bale? Rrrrowwr. Makes me forget I am a staid old married lady. PLus--he does, or has done, animal rescue, which makes me only more kindly disposed toward him.
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.
Oh, yeah. "Can we go home now?"
It's no Deep Blue Sea, but one of my guilty pleasures is Deep Rising. Famke Jensen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Treat Williams, Wes Studi, and Cliff Curtis . O'Connor's gobsmacked answer to "what was THAT?" "The Girl from Ipenema" and Williams' worldweary, exasperated, "NOW what?" get lots of quotage in our house.
Strega - Jul 13, 2004 9:06:51 pm PDT #505 of 10001
I want my hoverboard, dammit!
I don't remember why I saw this a while ago, but: voila.
I haven't seen it in a long time, but Time After Time is a cheesily fun time travel movie. Mary Steenburgen does the flip side of her role in Back to the Future 3. Plus, David Warner and Malcom McDowell.
Fiona - Jul 13, 2004 9:59:31 pm PDT #506 of 10001
Sorry to come so late to the Time Travel Movies discussion (though perhaps I can go back and fix that...).
I can't believe nobody mentioned Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Gris - Jul 13, 2004 10:40:02 pm PDT #507 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Great movie. Great time travel. Will marry movie.
DXMachina - Jul 14, 2004 3:02:38 am PDT #508 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It's no Deep Blue Sea, but one of my guilty pleasures is Deep Rising. Famke Jensen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Treat Williams, Wes Studi, and Cliff Curtis . O'Connor's gobsmacked answer to "what was THAT?" "The Girl from Ipenema" and Williams' worldweary, exasperated, "NOW what?" get lots of quotage in our house.
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I haven't seen it in a long time, but Time After Time is a cheesily fun time travel movie. Mary Steenburgen does the flip side of her role in Back to the Future 3. Plus, David Warner and Malcom McDowell.
I like that film a lot.
Lilty Cash - Jul 14, 2004 3:13:11 am PDT #509 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Strega found me a hoverboard! Strega found me a hoverboard!!
Hey, wait. ONE inch off the ground? Lawnmower engine? And its not even PINK!
Nutty - Jul 14, 2004 4:09:23 am PDT #510 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think Deep Rising may be one of the few movies Cliff Curtis has made in which he's played his own nationality/accent. That dude has played all over the world, and I think in several languages.
Deep Blue Sea wins points for putting lithe young things in wetsuits, but loses points for being as silly a movie about genius malevolent sharks as one could hope to avoid.
Is it just me, or are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago? It's very strange, that the "my age" actors from when I was an adolescent are still acting and still my age.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 4:21:00 am PDT #511 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago?
How old are you? Would you say that Jodie Foster is too young and too old to be on either side of your divide? I can't remember who was a former child actor 20 years ago -- because I was young myself, and hadn't been paying attention.
Fred Pete - Jul 14, 2004 4:24:29 am PDT #512 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago?
Admittedly, for me it's 30 years ago. But successful child actors of my childhood who are still in the public eye --
Jodie Foster (thanks, ita!)
Brooke Shields
Rick(y) Schroeder (although he disappeared for many years)
Danny Bonaduce (ok, more a celebrity than an actor these days)