Hee. Sorry, Anne, I couldn't warn you. I enjoyed it.
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
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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.
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2004 5:27:59 pm PST #6050 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Nov 19, 2004 5:59:37 pm PST #6051 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I kind of did too. Low expectations can be a good thing.
Alibelle - Nov 19, 2004 6:23:49 pm PST #6052 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
'Cause Alexander's hair as it appears in the film? FUGLY.
I totally agree.
Hee. Sorry, Anne, I couldn't warn you. I enjoyed it.
Me too. Like a lot. I haven't had that much fun at a movie in a while.
tiggy - Nov 19, 2004 6:59:55 pm PST #6053 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Van Helsing
Why did no one warn me that this movie was so, so awful?
ugh. i profusely apologize. that movie was awful. Hugh Jackman couldn't even save it for me and i adore him.
what i did watch tonight was I Am Sam for the first time. what a wonderful movie. Dakota Fanning is my favorite little girl ever.
Alibelle - Nov 19, 2004 7:16:05 pm PST #6054 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
When my brother saw Van Helsing, he hated it because it was so cheesy. I think you have to watch it, embracing the cheese, and that's when you realize that the cast and crew are embracing the cheese as well. Because it is cheesy. So cheesy it's silly. It's a silly, cheesy, funny movie.
Dakota Fanning is the adorablest.
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2004 8:00:16 pm PST #6055 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you're not expecting a cheesy movie, yeah, ouch.
But didn't they say? Obviously not clearly.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 19, 2004 8:28:37 pm PST #6056 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
On the ORCA question, I can only assume pre-chomp Bo, no?
Eh, Charlotte was queen of pretentious early 70s films with lots of sex and nudity, and, on several occasions, Nazis. She was in ZARDOZ, for frell's sake, and, like Connery, she managed to move past it. She is the BOMB!
Granted, I get a lot of guilty pleasure out of pretentious early 70's movies with lots of sex and nudity. The Nazis I can take or leave.
Alibelle - Nov 19, 2004 8:30:17 pm PST #6057 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
But didn't they say? Obviously not clearly.
Well, at the beginning, it wasn't terribly clear that the over the top cheese was on purpose. I distinctly remember, because I couldn't stop laughing at it, and you kept telling me to be quiet. And then once the audience realized that it was really going to be that cheesy all the way through, on purpose, and Richard Roxburgh gets the gold star for making that clear, then everyone in the audience was giggling. Until everyone in the audience was like, wait, what? She's dead? How? When? Did he squish her? What? And then Kate's face was in the clouds, and everyone went back to giggling.
Sean K - Nov 19, 2004 9:35:31 pm PST #6058 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I've alwqays thought Bo Derek had a square, mannish face that I found unattractive. Charlotte Rampling is all woman, baby.
I could not have possibly set my expectations low enough for Van Helsing. Just... No.
Lee - Nov 19, 2004 9:41:31 pm PST #6059 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh sure you could, Sean. I have faith in you.