Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.

Glory ,'Potential'


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.


Atropa - Nov 15, 2004 6:08:21 pm PST #5784 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Hee!

Pete is just as enthralled with the movie. He thinks it's the best adventure movie ever made.

And yes, Aimée and MM should go as Bob & Helen next Halloween, with Emma (who will be born on November 17th, trust me) as Jack-Jack.


Vonnie K - Nov 15, 2004 6:09:53 pm PST #5785 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I hear Brad Bird, the writer-director of The Incredibles, also provided the voice for Edna? Can I marry him? Pretty please?


DebetEsse - Nov 15, 2004 6:11:39 pm PST #5786 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

See, I think if you have a quick-release cape (velcro or something), they can work.

Also, monologuing !


Betsy HP - Nov 15, 2004 6:26:43 pm PST #5787 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

HOly COW. Vonnie found the cast for The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Look at that cast. It's insane. It's like a fruitcake or an Altman movie.

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Consuela - Nov 15, 2004 7:04:31 pm PST #5788 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Kathy BATES as the Marquesa? oy.


Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2004 7:12:28 pm PST #5789 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I haven't read the book since tenth grade, but I loved it then. I just loved the whole idea of it. I forget whether that was before or after I read Skin of Our Teeth, which cemented my love of Thornton Wilder for having a dinosaur randomly appear on the lawn.


evil jimi - Nov 15, 2004 7:34:59 pm PST #5790 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Oh, they're never going to recoup that. Slow opening weekends can be overcome by a sleeper hit, but I don't think there's ever been a $270 million sleeper hit. Maybe My Big Fat Greek Wedding, once you factor in foreign grosses, but it made its money over more than a year and the word of mouth wasn't of the "it's the eeriest thing you've ever seen!" variety.

Matt ... MBFGW isn't a good comparison b/c it was actually a monster freak of a hit. IMDB list the budget as an estimated 5 million (that seems a bit low for a US movie, so I'd put the budget nearer to 10 million minimum) but it raked in over 240 million at the US box office alone.

The only computer animated movie I'm waiting to see besides The Incredibles, is the new one by the makers of Ice Age, called, Robots. Saw the trailer over at Apple and it looks great.


Aims - Nov 15, 2004 7:38:22 pm PST #5791 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Aimee, did you know there's an adorable AA Milne poem called Emmeline?

I didn't know!!! Must to find right exactly now!!


Holli - Nov 15, 2004 8:31:31 pm PST #5792 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

Skin of Our Teeth! I only read it because it was in the same volume as Our Town, and the rest of the class was taking too long, but I ended up really enjoying it. Such an odd play-- I can see why Our Town is better known, but they're both very good.


Kathy A - Nov 15, 2004 8:36:03 pm PST #5793 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I recently saw a trailer online for the new Merchant of Venice film, with Pacino as Shylock. Has anyone heard any early news on if this might be any good or not?