I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown

Anya ,'Sleeper'


Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video  

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.


Gris - May 20, 2005 11:43:56 am PDT #3100 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I really love this place.


Sean K - May 20, 2005 11:48:39 am PDT #3101 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

nine-edge:tits up::suck:blow

Flashing back to our SATs, are we?


Jessica - May 20, 2005 11:51:51 am PDT #3102 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Flashing back to our SATs, are we?

Wow, your SATs were much more fun than mine.


Polter-Cow - May 20, 2005 5:15:43 pm PDT #3103 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I finally saw Saved! It was all right. Mostly funny, generally decent. It wasn't as supermegaawesome as I'd been led to believe, but that's okay. Cause I like Jena Malone.


Invisible Green - May 20, 2005 5:53:19 pm PDT #3104 of 10002

I saw Episode III today. Yes, the dialogue and acting were pretty bad, but I still really enjoyed it, though it wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped. It seemed less imaginative than the other films, including Episodes I and II. The special effects were awesome, of course, and Lucas does know how to give a movie that epic feeling.

Then I saw The Muppets' Wizard of Oz on TV, and it was surprisingly brilliant. Very funny and clever. And it had a very bizzare cameo appearance by Quentin Tarantino. Seriously I think it's the best movie I've seen in a long time. It was even better than Sin City and Gong fu, even if it was clearly low budget and had crappy special effects.


Sue - May 21, 2005 3:41:23 am PDT #3105 of 10002
hip deep in pie

The New Yorker review of RoTS was pretty great. I'm not normally a big fan of Anthony Lane.

Some choice lines:

What can you say about a civilization where people zip from one solar system to the next as if they were changing their socks but where a woman fails to register for an ultrasound, and thus to realize that she is carrying twins until she is about to give birth? Mind you, how Padmé got pregnant is anybody’s guess, although I’m prepared to wager that it involved Anakin nipping into a broom closet with a warm glass jar and a copy of Ewok Babes.

And then he rags on Yoda:

Also, while we’re here, what’s with the screwy syntax? Deepest mind in the galaxy, apparently, and you still express yourself like a day-tripper with a dog-eared phrase book. “I hope right you are.” Break me a fucking give.


Invisible Green - May 21, 2005 6:44:14 am PDT #3106 of 10002

I was a little disapponted that the "Yoda has a sex scene" rumor turned out to be false. 'Course, I didn't really have to see the movie to know that. But it's still the most amusing rumor I've heard in a long time.


§ ita § - May 21, 2005 6:49:38 am PDT #3107 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's the "Jabba eats Jar Jar" rumour that cracks me up.

Whitefonted for my own amusement, since it's false. But maybe you don't want to know it doesn't happen.


Betsy HP - May 21, 2005 6:52:54 am PDT #3108 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Believe me, I was hoping for that scene through the whole movie. I would have settled for "Large rock falls on Padme", though.

Man. Only George Lucas could get bad performances out of Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, AND Samuel L. Jackson.


Polter-Cow - May 21, 2005 7:01:16 am PDT #3109 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I thought Ewan did a good job. Samuel L. Jackson just sounded bored, though. I guess because his character has no...character.