Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Um, okay.
We went and saw Sin City on Friday afternoon. Stylistically gorgeous. Pretty, pretty movie. However, if I watch it again, it will be with the sound off, and Lyra Jane explained why perfectly:
Too bad the script and performances didn't live up to the pretty shiny surfaces. There's a fine line between paying homage to cliches and just being cliched, and I think it ended on the wrong side of that line too often.
If you're a fan of Christian Campbell's body, you'll probably enjoy this movie.
Woo hoo! I knew there was a reason I was eagerly anticipating this thing.
The Guardian Unlimited has a fun piece about best and worst accent mimicking.
Huh. Marsters gets the nod over Denisof?
What's Winona Ryder doing on that list?
Dick Van Dyke below Marlon Brando & Keanu?
Maybe the latter accents are worse, but walk up to a random Brit and say "Dick Van Dyke!". 9 times out of 10, they'll groan, "Oh, that horrible accent in Mary Poppins" (seriously -- I've experimented). The same doesn't happen with Marlon or Keanu.
I wondered about Dick Van Dyke -- given that his name seems to be synonymous with a bad faux-Cockney accent.
Spike is the one people may have heard of - bear in mind that Angel was never shown properly on terrestrial TV here.