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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned

Closed Film and TV threads

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.

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§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 4:11:28 pm PST #7714 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I like the first three quite a bit -- and they're tagline material from start to end -- Douglas Adams had a very small turning circle. If he's being evocative you can pretty much bet he's about to smash you in the face with a context-shifting joke.

Okay, if he's starting a sentence, you can be pretty sure he's about to do that too.

Steph L. - Jan 07, 2005 5:04:50 pm PST #7715 of 10001

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Bale, Batman

Okay, that picture -- that IS Batman. THAT is my RL, 3-dimensional image of The Bat. It's freaking PERFECT.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 07, 2005 5:59:10 pm PST #7716 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

You all know that the TV show that was done of Hitchiker's... (and, whatever else it might not have done right, the actor playing Arthur Dent was perfection - the issues I have with the rest I just think of as an homage to Dr.Who and let it go) is available on DVD, right?

Jessica - Jan 07, 2005 6:00:08 pm PST #7717 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You all know that the TV show that was done of Hitchiker's... (and, whatever else it might not have done right, the actor playing Arthur Dent was perfection - the issues I have with the rest I just think of as an homage to Dr.Who and let it go) is available on DVD, right

Yes.

Zenkitty - Jan 07, 2005 6:03:18 pm PST #7718 of 10001

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Alas, a bad movie: White Noise . Save yourselves. Don't go. It was like they hired three writers to each do a script based loosely around a cool, spooky concept and then they filmed parts of each one and stuck them together. It was not scary, and it made no sense. I'm disappointed; I wanted to be scared. What a waste of a good idea.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 07, 2005 6:04:39 pm PST #7719 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, duh. Missed the "tv" in there. Too much skimming. No biscuit.

DavidS - Jan 07, 2005 6:05:23 pm PST #7720 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What a waste of a good idea.

Was it a good idea? It seemed like a cheap knockoff of The Ring and The Sixth Sense.

Zenkitty - Jan 07, 2005 6:25:39 pm PST #7721 of 10001

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

The idea being the EVP stuff. Which seems like a good idea for a horror movie to me because it freaks me way the hell out.

I couldn't say it was even a cheap knockoff of either of those movies. It brought neither to mind.

P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2005 6:25:55 pm PST #7722 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Huh. I've just found a movie I had to turn off before the halfway point.

Elf.

I know it got decent reviews, and a lot of people liked it, but man... it was PAINFUL.

Now I have to find something else to watch.

Lee - Jan 07, 2005 6:31:32 pm PST #7723 of 10001

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Oh dear. I just got it from Netflix.

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