Not to pick on you, but you honestly thought otherwise?
I totally assumed it was a hoax.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
DXMachina - Jul 17, 2004 12:30:21 pm PDT #790 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Jessica - Jul 17, 2004 1:01:33 pm PDT #791 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Anyone want Ned Kelly on DVD? First person to email me gets it.
[Aaaand it's gone!]
Consuela - Jul 17, 2004 1:05:24 pm PDT #792 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I totally assumed it was a hoax.
I didn't, although I assumed that the marketing was blowing whatever "scoop" they had completely out of proportion. Which is certainly par for the course with the SFC folks.
Bait-and-switch? Sci-Fi Channel? Never.
rassinfrassin two-year commitment for Farscape my eye
bon bon - Jul 17, 2004 1:48:48 pm PDT #793 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
We talked a little about that doc being a viral marketing thing at the end of the last movie thread.
beekaytee - Jul 17, 2004 2:04:12 pm PDT #794 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
This is me...out of the loop.
I missed the end of the last movie thread (must. visit. more. often.) and I don't actually have a tv, so all my news comes from the 'net and well...Buffistas! Never saw the SciFi promos, which might have given me a whiff of fraud.
I think my 'sheesh' meter is calibrated so high, I don't doubt anyone who says they want/intend to trash someone else, regardless of the veracity of their claims.
I wasn't thinking anything about the 'sekrit', only that someone wanting to make a buck would be willing to exploit a successful person. The fact that M. was involved just makes me sad. Bad Choices.
beekaytee - Jul 17, 2004 2:14:25 pm PDT #795 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
And Sean--not feeling picked on.
Loved the reminder about Se7en. It's been so long, I might not have remembered that there was very little actual violence but I do remember commenting on how effective it was that they didn't show the head in the box. Genius.
I ALSO remember the knife with all the edges and curves that they claimed the one victim had been raped with. That was enough for me.
It really is great filmmaking when things are left to our imaginations. Martin Scorcese talks about it in my favorite documentary ever...A Personal Journey Through American Movies. There is a scene with Kirk Douglas where he plays a movie producer trying to make a big hit. He points out that there is nothing scarier than what we think is in the dark.
Se7en really played on that.
Volans - Jul 17, 2004 4:28:09 pm PDT #796 of 10001
move out and draw fire
The thing that bugged me about Se7en was that it was so good. No really - the acting was good, the directing was good, the writing was good, the art direction was good, the editing was good. Everything was amazing. For THAT subject matter. All this talent to make something disturbing.
askye - Jul 17, 2004 4:30:54 pm PDT #797 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I've never seen Se7en all the way through. I watched it on tape at some people's house until the movie got up to gluttony and then I had to go in the other room.
It was just too disturbing for me.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2004 4:46:43 pm PDT #798 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What did Peter Jackson do that was like M Night?
eta: Oh, whitefont. Still -- what were the details?
Lee - Jul 17, 2004 5:08:31 pm PDT #799 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I liked Se7en, right up until the end, even though I had to hide my eyes a little bit, but I thought Pitt's acting in the last scene was bad.
People have told me I am wrong, but I still think so.