Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

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Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2004 1:07:44 pm PST #5481 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The list has me kind of curious about Audition (at #11), which I've never even heard of before. Netflix has it, but I'm not sure whether I'd have the stomach for the climax, which supposedly contains disturbingly graphic torture scenes. I like non-gory horror and have high tolerance for the creepy, but graphic torture? Dude, I don't know.

You do not want to go there. Takeshi Miike is a madman, and the bits you saw during the show....nothing close to what you're going to get with the real thing. The bit with the leg? Miike showed the whole thing.

The Japanese are strange - no genetalia (at least outside of anime), but the most heinous, sadistic violence (often with a sexual compenent) = fun for the whole family.


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2004 2:05:21 pm PST #5482 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I just got back from seeing The Incredibles.

I cannot describe how much in love I am with this movie. It is easily one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen. I was grinning like an idiot throughout the whole thing, except when I was laughing my ass off.

I cannot wait for more Buffistas to see this, since I wanna discuss.

There are no "out-takes" or anything after the credits, but the closing credits are worth watching in and of themselves.


Betsy HP - Nov 06, 2004 2:32:15 pm PST #5483 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

no genetalia (at least outside of anime)

Literally, in the case of In The Realm Of The Senses.

I love the Incredibles. I had a big happy goofy grin on my face. Nice and funny, funny and nice.


Vonnie K - Nov 06, 2004 3:05:36 pm PST #5484 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

You do not want to go there. Takeshi Miike is a madman, and the bits you saw during the show....nothing close to what you're going to get with the real thing.

Yeah. I read a few reviews and several people were hinting at something about piano wires, and... what was served up by my imagination was horrific enough. I was mainly interested because several reviewers said it had interesting (if extreme) things to say about gender politics, but OK, it sounds like I'd be better off giving it a pass.


justkim - Nov 06, 2004 4:16:37 pm PST #5485 of 10001
Another social casualty...

Just got back from The Incredibles.

Loved it like a crazy person. I want my very own Edna.


Alicia K - Nov 06, 2004 4:33:39 pm PST #5486 of 10001
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.

I saw Audition a few weeks ago. There were a few very brief things I'd classify as "scary," but I wouldn't put the graphic torture in as "scary."

"Gross," "jaw-dropping" and "what the shit IS this," yes.


Betsy HP - Nov 06, 2004 4:51:38 pm PST #5487 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Edna was a dead-on portrait (at least physically) of the legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head.


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2004 4:57:54 pm PST #5488 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Edna is a delight and a wonder. The whole montage on why capes are BAD had me in pain from the funny.


Jessica - Nov 06, 2004 6:48:53 pm PST #5489 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love The Incredibles so so much and I want to watch it again a MILLION times.

I can already tell it's going to be one of those movies where the crypoints are going to bleed into the surrounding scenes until I'm quietly tearing up throughout the entire film. It's going to be Lilo & Stitch all over again. (There was actually a point towards the end where I realized that the giant machine they fight basically IS a mechanical Stitch, the way it tucks in its arms and rolls around destroying stuff.)


Thomash - Nov 06, 2004 7:06:08 pm PST #5490 of 10001
I have a plan.

Pierce Brosnan wants Colin Farrell.