Very nice.
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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.
Polter-Cow - Feb 24, 2005 10:48:34 am PST #9329 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Feb 24, 2005 10:56:03 am PST #9330 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I would just like to point out, from that review, that this:
Vegas-style production numbers (featuring clowns, little people, and/or magicians) are constantly threatening to break out.
happens once. Most of the Vegas-style production numbers are entirely magician/little people/clown-free.
Lee - Feb 24, 2005 11:15:02 am PST #9331 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Also from the review, but whitefonted:
Sheybal takes the young lovers to what appears to be a Broadway version of hell, where Stewart is serenaded by a strapping, g-string-clad fellow who sings the immortal couplet "It's a natural, natural, natural desire / To meet an actual, actual, actual vampire." Gilmour experiences a psychedelic disco freak-out after his drink is drugged and he encounters scores of homely transvestites rendered in trippy kaleidoscope vision. Then he falls in with a tribe of cave-dwelling hippies, reunites with and impregnates the chastened Stewart, and is led into an extraterrestrial paradise by a white-suited supreme being, in what's either the best or worst ending of all time.
Damnit, I never got to see the ending, since Sean and I got scared, and now I'm spoiled.
Jessica - Feb 24, 2005 11:17:13 am PST #9332 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
and now I'm spoiled.
Not possible. Trust me.
Polter-Cow - Feb 24, 2005 11:25:40 am PST #9333 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
and now I'm spoiled.
Not really. Don't worry. That information will have no effect on your viewing of the film up until that point. Really.
Alibelle - Feb 24, 2005 1:04:22 pm PST #9334 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
Matt, at least certain things will look very cool. So who cares about the plot?
DavidS - Feb 24, 2005 1:29:21 pm PST #9335 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Look at that - Hello Down There is being released on DVD.
I only know about this because Jeff Barry (Archies main man) did the music for this. 1969, Tony Randall's family lives in a bubble under the sea. Teenage son Richard Dreyfuss writes pop songs and beats on a shark's snout with his guitar. Wacky fun, I guess.
DavidS - Feb 24, 2005 1:36:00 pm PST #9336 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, I recently bought (though haven't viewed) The American Astronaut by Cory Macabee of the Billy Nayer show. (Not a NASA documentary, incidentally.)
Mikey - Feb 24, 2005 3:14:52 pm PST #9337 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
Getting back to WKW/CD, I think I've seen Chungking Express more than any other movie, maybe 20-25 times now. Just something to be savored. And I still own it on laserdisc.
Sean K - Feb 24, 2005 4:01:31 pm PST #9338 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Speaking of OTT Asian flicks, I've pimped this in this very thread before but I have to again pimp the Korean action piece Tube. It was gleefully, wonderfully, awesomely OTT, not to put too superlative a point on it. It was like the bastard love child of Speed, Die Hard and Heat, all hopped up on steroids and crystal meth, and having a grand old time doing it. It puts other OTT movies to shame. Even it's action movie/hero cliches were brilliantly over the top.