Hey sexy mama...you wanna kill all humans?
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
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.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2004 12:24:17 pm PDT #723 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 2:29:12 pm PDT #724 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So Ginger Snaps 2, as expected, is not as good as the first one. Pretty much all the complaints I've heard about it are valid. There's really no clever metaphor anymore; it's a straight-up horror flick now. That being said, it's still a fairly good horror flick, because rather than having a token main character surrounded by monster fodder, it has a bona fide protagonist who experiences such things as internal conflict and character development, and the supporting cast is not focused enough on so as to mark them as obvious monster fodder. But, as many have said, the ending...Christ. What. The fuck. Ever. I don't even want to whitefont an analysis of it; it's just so annoying. Regardless, the whole endeavor is almost worth it for this kickass exchange:
Brigitte: "I'm stronger."
Ginger: "Oh, really? That's not how I remember the last fifteen years of your life."
Brigitte: "That's how I remember the last fifteen minutes of yours."
Basically, I agree with what everyone told me: watch it to continue the story, but don't expect the quality of the original.
beekaytee - Jul 16, 2004 2:51:38 pm PDT #725 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
That was, indeed, the very best bit in GSII P-C.
Wanted to love the film. Couldn't.
On a different note. My best bud has an unwholesome love for Reign of Fire. I'm trying to develop a crush, but except for the pretty good cgi dragons, Gerard Butler's smile and Matthew Mc's WTF quotient, I'm not feeling it.
Besides the woobie love of Pete's Dragon, are there any other good dragon flicks out there? I'm in a medieval state of mind.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 2:54:15 pm PDT #726 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dude, I've been wanting to see Reign of Fire forever. Cause, dragons.
Dragonheart isn't too bad.
And, um, I can't think of any other dragon movies, period, let alone good ones.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2004 2:55:02 pm PDT #727 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Random movie question: I just got two movies out of the library, one of which I think I'll watch tonight. I can't tell what kind of mood I'm in. So, Chinatown or Desk Set?
Aims - Jul 16, 2004 2:55:26 pm PDT #728 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Desk Set.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2004 2:57:27 pm PDT #729 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Except I think I take it back -- Ocean's Eleven is on TV, and I think THAT might be the actual mood I'm in.
DavidS - Jul 16, 2004 2:58:38 pm PDT #730 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Random movie question: I just got two movies out of the library, one of which I think I'll watch tonight. I can't tell what kind of mood I'm in. So, Chinatown or Desk Set?
Chinatown - one of the greatest movies of the 70s. Desk Set is entirely lesser Hepburn/Tracy.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2004 3:01:51 pm PDT #731 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've never even seen Chinatown! And I don't think I've seen Desk Set since I saw a stage adaptation years ago. Either way, I'll get to both of them in the next week.
beekaytee - Jul 16, 2004 3:02:22 pm PDT #732 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Desk Set is my favoritest Tracy/Hepburn venture.
It seems to have aged the most gracefully and is somewhat less sexist (a micron, really) than the others. And now that I know more about their relationship? Not as oppressive as, say, Pat and Mike.
eta: my point