Nobody puts Baby in a bomb shelter!
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2005 12:14:59 am PST #7910 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sean K - Jan 16, 2005 2:56:19 am PST #7911 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Alibelle's whitefonted review of Elektra cracked me up. I have to see this movie now. Provided I don't have to pay for the experience.
I also now want to see Milius' Dirty Dancing.
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2005 8:08:14 am PST #7912 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw In Good Company Last night. I really enjoyed it--Topher Grace was terrific and Dennis Quaid was the hottest 50-year-old ever. Lovely script--light without being insubstantial and also had some really strong moments. The women were underwritten, but it was the men's story, and their story covers a lot of ground, so the women lose out. They weren't badly written, we just didn't spend a lot of time with them.
Lee - Jan 16, 2005 8:15:12 am PST #7913 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Robin, have you seen Sidewards? I've decided to hit a matinee today, and I can't figure out if I should see that, or In Good Company.
Scrappy - Jan 16, 2005 9:01:02 am PST #7914 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sideways, Lee? It's a more intimate, more melancholy, and less glossy film, but will probably stay with you longer, so it depends what you are in the mood for.
Lee - Jan 16, 2005 9:05:30 am PST #7915 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That's the one I mean, Robin.
Thanks.
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 16, 2005 9:40:31 am PST #7916 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Hey, the Godzilla remake had cool French commandos in it.
Yeah, but most of them ended up as redshirts for the lil' baby Godzillas (coughripoffofraptorsfromJurassicParkcough), and Jean Reno (who kicks ass in anything he's in) didn't have enough to do.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2005 11:01:35 am PST #7917 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Considering that most of what he did do was act superior and annoying, I think it's just as well he didn't get more screen time. Vicki Lewis, Doug Savant, and the CGI Godzilla were the only performers that I found watchable in that movie.
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2005 11:27:43 am PST #7918 of 10001
brillig
The coffee scene was funny.
(Head Frenchguy bitches about the coffee, the underling who's doing the cooking holds up a can of coffee marked "French roast" and shrugs.)
Alibelle - Jan 16, 2005 2:03:14 pm PST #7919 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
Well, sure, as Dirty Dancing. However, Dirty Dancing as our imagined Cuban Missile Crisis AU where Baby and what's his butt save the universe or die trying? Totally had to be Milius.
Oh, that's okay then. So long as Emile's gets to stay, too. And DD2 was all, like, in Cuba and stuff. And also was not good. Maybe Milius should have made that one. And maybe he would have hired people that could dance, too, on their deadly foxtrot to save the universe.
Alibelle's whitefonted review of Elektra cracked me up. I have to see this movie now. Provided I don't have to pay for the experience.
You're welcome.
I agree with you about "In Good Company," Robin. Although, when Paul Weitz was talking to us, he said that Scarlett's character was interested in Topher because he was so messed up, and she was a writer cursed with a functional family, and so he was at his most attractive to her when he had revealed something about how screwed up his own family life has been . Which I didn't get. But it might be because I prefer not to see it that way. Did you pick up on that?