Steph! In Bring it On, in the extras, have you watched the Jesus cheer?
Oh my god. So. Fucking. Funny!
All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Steph L. - Jan 20, 2005 2:50:47 pm PST #8181 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
JohnSweden - Jan 20, 2005 2:51:00 pm PST #8182 of 10001
I can't even.
Fine. But if you make me watch it when I'm middle aged and bitter, I won't guarantee that "bitter" won't turn into "homicidal."
By then, it will seem uplifting. Yes, you have this to look forward to. I know, it is grim. Also, you'll know you've been single for too long when Andie McDowell actually seems appealing. (Not really, that's part of the humour.)
Kate P. - Jan 20, 2005 2:51:53 pm PST #8183 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Must-watch: The Princess Bride, natch, and Strictly Ballroom. I'd nominate Beautiful Thing too, except the likelihood of me ever running across it on TV is so low as to be nearly nonexistent.
Alas, I do not share the mad Groundhog Day love. I like it fine, don't get me wrong, but Andie MacDowell... yeesh. I remember loving it the first few times I saw it, but watching it again recently, I was struck by just how awful she is, and it made the movie much harder to enjoy.
Edit: heh, xposty
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2005 2:59:19 pm PST #8184 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Man, Kate. You're lucky I didn't know that until now, cause I would have totally acted all resentful and bitter toward you in New York.
And maybe sent you off on the wrong subway.
Alibelle - Jan 20, 2005 3:04:19 pm PST #8185 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
Oh my god. So. Fucking. Funny!
It really, really, really is. My best friend and I spent the better part of an hour just watching it over, and over, and over again. And now we still randomly break out into the Jesus cheer. And you know what? It's just as funny, every time.
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2005 3:05:22 pm PST #8186 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And you know what? It's just as funny, every time.
It's not that long -- I don't know why it was cut.
JZ - Jan 20, 2005 3:05:36 pm PST #8187 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
All you Groundhog Day haters are Dead To Me. Seriously. You are crazy like crazy things that are mad with a lack of reason. I own that movie, I used to be able to reel off entire scenes from memory, I've damn near memorized the commentary track, and I will still fall into its thrall every single time I flash across it while channel-surfing. It's so fucking perfectly written, I just... guh. Love Bill Murray, find Andie McDowell totally tolerable, crumple in a little whimpering heap before the screenwriter.
Also, I can barely justify, yet can never not watch The Cutting Edge.
And now I'm going to earn the loathing and disrespect of every Buffista who ever was or is or is to be by admitting that Fools Rush In falls into this category too. The only possible, lame, excuses I have for this last one are (a) nifty soundtrack; (b) Matthew Perry all lean and healthy and pre-pain-pill-addiction; and (c) Salma Hayek at her most radiantly Kinsey-skewing luminous, playing a snarky Catholic girl.
But really, those are all lame, lame excuses. I suck so bad, except that I've now freed everyone else from feeling the least bit bad about their own guilty pleasures.
WildDemon Cornelius - Jan 20, 2005 3:06:59 pm PST #8188 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Three of my must-watch movies were on TV on the same night recently; Princess Bride, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Airplane. That was a good night.
Hil R. - Jan 20, 2005 3:08:03 pm PST #8189 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Bring It On is on TV now, and I did have to watch it. So I guess I'm adding that to my list.
Alibelle - Jan 20, 2005 3:12:02 pm PST #8190 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
It's not that long -- I don't know why it was cut.
Maybe they figured it could really offend people. But they obviously didn't balance that with the amount of joy and good cheer and hilariousity it would bring to other people.
The Cutting Edge is so great. Toe pick! And I like Fools Rush In. I don't love it, but I definitely like it.
Groundhog Day still sucks, though.