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Fuffy ,'Storyteller'


Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

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Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2005 6:02:35 am PST #8008 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, Ice-T was also in Ricochet with Denzel (one of the great, loony action films of all time where he plays a gangsta with a heart of gold).

Oh yeah, I saw that! All I remember is the end, where Denzel jumps down this big chute thing. I missed that on my IMDb skim. Ice-T's been in a lot of movies, it seems, but Ice Cube's been in bigger ones.


Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2005 6:04:17 am PST #8009 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Vanilla Ice played himself in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

And don't forget his breakout role in Cool As Ice. Followed by his stint as "Music Store Employee" in The New Guy. And coming in 2005: The Helix...Loaded. The plotline is as follows:

When "The One" dies, Orpheum must find the "Other One."


JohnSweden - Jan 19, 2005 6:05:51 am PST #8010 of 10001
I can't even.

Kind of x-posted from Bitches:

Our movie network is showing the Barbarian Invasions (2003 Best Foreign Film), and I've finally gotten to see it, having missed it in the theatres. It really is lovely and a wonderful coda to The Decline of the American Empire. It is shocking to see the years on the actors' faces, but Decline was 1986, which is a bit difficult to accept, but alas true. If you haven't seen it, I recommend them both highly, as movies on the human condition.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 19, 2005 6:06:30 am PST #8011 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

All I remember is the end, where Denzel jumps down this big chute thing.

Oh man, John Lithgow as the villain (Who came with his own "little bitch" sidekick/henchman) making Dr. Lizardo look like a piece of restrained acting, was a hoot. Lindsay Wagner as Denzel's grumpy superior officer. Kevin Pollack as Denzel's partner doing his Shatner impression. Loony, just loony.


Lee - Jan 19, 2005 6:09:58 am PST #8012 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Plus, don't you get to see Denzel in his boxers within the first 10 minutes or so of the movie?


erikaj - Jan 19, 2005 6:13:02 am PST #8013 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

That is, literally, everything I remember about that movie.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 19, 2005 6:24:35 am PST #8014 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Plus, don't you get to see Denzel in his boxers within the first 10 minutes or so of the movie?

Right, facing of against Lithgow in a hostage situation at an amusement park.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2005 6:31:25 am PST #8015 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

Snipes in KING OF NEW YORK, now, would have been a decent example, although a much smaller role.

He certainly played against his own type in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, though I wouldn't exactly say that the role itself involved no stereotypes.

(I still wish Reynolds had thought of screening that movie for the cast and crew to break Snipes out of the Blade mystique on set. Or possibly spur him to homicide—either option would have resulted in a better film.)

Wasn't Ice Cube the cook with a parrot who survived in Deep Blue Sea?


Frankenbuddha - Jan 19, 2005 6:34:09 am PST #8016 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Wasn't Ice Cube the cook with a parrot who survived in Deep Blue Sea?

Nope, LL Cool J, who's had some odd roles as well (Toys as Robin Williams cousin, anyone?).

(I still wish Reynolds had thought of screening that movie for the cast and crew to break Snipes out of the Blade mystique on set. Or possibly spur him to homicide—either option would have resulted in a better film.)

Heh, I was thinkning of Wong Foo during the Snipes discussion. I wonder what he thinks of it now.


Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2005 6:36:24 am PST #8017 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wasn't Ice Cube the cook with a parrot who survived in Deep Blue Sea?

As Frank pointed out, that was LL Cool J. He also wasn't Ace Ventura's cop buddy, that was Tone Loc.