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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.


§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 11:35:08 am PST #8834 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

For Alibelle, from IMDB:

Universal is aiming at women ("Not everybody is watching the Super Bowl" Universal distribution chief Nikki Rocco told Daily Variety) with the romantic comedy The Wedding Date, in which Debra Messing plays a woman who hires a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to pose as her boyfriend at a wedding party. Universal might have been well advised to withhold that film from critics as well. It was thoroughly drubbed by them today. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post described it as a "witless, stale and half-hearted rehash of clichés." Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune calls it "a tossed bouquet full of dead flowers and bad jokes that belongs in the nearest trash receptacle." Female reviewers were no kinder. Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times concludes that it's "an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself." And Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News figures that it "isn't bad enough to send you rushing back up the aisle, past the popcorn and into the winter weather. But once you've admired the expensive clothes, the beautiful couple and the pretty setting, you'll be more than ready to call it a night."


P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2005 11:36:43 am PST #8835 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

Sue and JohnSweden are me when it comes to that boat movie.

Sure, shiny, pretty costumes, and shiny pretty Kate Winslet, but the only part I really dug was the last moments of SpyDaddy. (And that was partly because VG rocks, partly because I love seeing actors from Molly Dodd, as so many of them kick serious ass.)


Ginger - Feb 04, 2005 11:41:35 am PST #8836 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

And then he could be eaten by molasses sharks.

(Which are not as fast as the regular kind.)

That depends on how cold it is.

My problem with Titanic was, as others have said, that there are so many real dramatic stories associated with the Titanic that I was irritated with the "Hundreds of people died but I learned to live" A plot.


Vonnie K - Feb 04, 2005 11:44:53 am PST #8837 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I was thinking about seeing The Wedding Date for fluffy fun, but its Rotten Tomatoe-meter score is the lowest I've ever seen. Have we ever had a 0%?


Beverly - Feb 04, 2005 11:45:31 am PST #8838 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

the only part I really dug was the last moments of SpyDaddy.

And Theoden.


Jessica - Feb 04, 2005 11:47:06 am PST #8839 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Have we ever had a 0%?

Usually, movies with scores that low will rise to about 5% once all the reviews are in, but 2% may be the lowest I've ever seen, too.


Maysa - Feb 04, 2005 11:59:35 am PST #8840 of 10001

It's nice to read that some of you guys liked Titanic, because often when I happen to mention to someone that it's one of my favorite movies, I suddenly get treated like a special needs child. It's the same reaction you get from certain people if you tell them that you like Soap Operas.


Gris - Feb 04, 2005 12:09:15 pm PST #8841 of 10001
Hey. New board.

That is a very low tomato-meter, but the Metacritic score isn't really all that terrible, compared to movies like The Adventures of Pluto Nash and The Master of Disguise, at least. Which means that very few people like it, but those that don't like it don't actually hate it enough to rate it 0 stars very often.


Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2005 12:10:24 pm PST #8842 of 10001
brillig

I suddenly get treated like a special needs child. It's the same reaction you get from certain people if you tell them that you like Soap Operas

Or when you admit that you think N'Sync had some catchy songs.


Nutty - Feb 04, 2005 12:23:20 pm PST #8843 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Now see, I love soap operas. They are so operatic! But soap operas are to real life crimes and divorces as fun disaster movies are to real-life disaster movies. (Good SAT training, right?)

Like, I am all for fictional histrionic suffering. Watch them fluff their big hair and put on gowns and have affairs with himboes and suffer! It is like crack! But real suffering, I have different rules for.