She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


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.


Steph L. - Feb 08, 2005 5:16:02 am PST #8952 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I did, in fact, read the first 2 books, just for the record. So now I know what all y'all are talking about.


Jim - Feb 08, 2005 5:23:12 am PST #8953 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Does anyone have a cite for the (crazy, wrong, ludicrous) H2G2 change? Because if they could afford to do the FX on the TV show, they can afford to get a guy to walk behind Rockwell with his chin on his shoulder , for pity's sake. How To Get Ahead In Advertising managed it.


Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:27:14 am PST #8954 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have a vague feeling I read it on AICN, which I can't remember why I even went there, but now I'm afraid to go back.


Vonnie K - Feb 08, 2005 5:27:20 am PST #8955 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

So, what's the advance word on The Jacket? The trailer looks interesting.

I guess I should read this Hitchhiker book everyone's talking about, eh?


Frankenbuddha - Feb 08, 2005 5:28:59 am PST #8956 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Does anyone have a cite for the (crazy, wrong, ludicrous) H2G2 change? Because if they could afford to do the FX on the TV show, they can afford to

Well, the FX on the show were about on par with Doctor Who, so that's not saying much, although I thought that was part of its charm.

I agree with you on How to get Ahead though - they did pretty well there. I do like the casting of Rockwell, though.


Jessica - Feb 08, 2005 5:56:51 am PST #8957 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The head spoiler was on AICN. It's mentioned in one of the reviews I linked to a while back. (I'd threadsuck and find it myself except that I'm completely swamped at work today and really shouldn't even be here.)


Alibelle - Feb 08, 2005 6:29:51 am PST #8958 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

In other news, I think my DH may be going for a Section 8 discharge (if the Foreign Service has those). He pretty much only speaks in movie quotes anyway, but apparently in staff meeting yesterday when asked what he wanted, he responded "I want Tina Sparkle to walk through that door and say 'The Finance Minister's broken both his legs and I want to dance with YOU!'"
His secretary told me this, in a worried tone of voice. My response was "That was unexpected."

I am loving this so much. Raquel and her DH are my new heroes.

Also, that martial arts movie looks impressive. Well, not so much the movie, actually, just the martial arts. Which is what that trailer was advertising, so that's all good.


Gandalfe - Feb 08, 2005 6:43:33 am PST #8959 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I personally thought that they should have had two completely dissimilar heads. Like, I dunno, Cary Elwes and Steve Buscemi.


Jim - Feb 08, 2005 6:45:41 am PST #8960 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Yeah, that'd rock. What are the rules for spoilers of upcoming movies, BTW? I mean something like this which I'd call just a basic part of the premise of H2G2 - is that a spoiler?


Fred Pete - Feb 08, 2005 6:47:10 am PST #8961 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Like, I dunno, Cary Elwes and Steve Buscemi.

Or Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito?