Wow, that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
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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.
sumi - May 23, 2005 10:49:21 am PDT #3214 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
bon bon - May 23, 2005 10:49:43 am PDT #3215 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
People born in 1990 are like sophmores in HS! It's fucked up!
Nutty - May 23, 2005 10:50:33 am PDT #3216 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have yet to see something involving Natalie Portman that impresses me much, in part because she still looks like a child, to me. It's harder to take her seriously as an adult consciousness with all of her childlike gestures. (I feel the same way about what little I've seen of Keira Knightley, although in her case it's a vaguer feeling.)
Which is not to say Portman doesn't have something; certainly, there's more there behind her eyes than, say, Orlando Bloom's. But, like green bananas.
juliana - May 23, 2005 10:50:36 am PDT #3217 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
Indeed, and provided us with some internal consistency. Hmmph.
Frankenbuddha - May 23, 2005 10:52:43 am PDT #3218 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
Why do I have this horrible feeling that if he HAD gone that way, it would have meant more JarJar.
P.M. Marc - May 23, 2005 10:53:45 am PDT #3219 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Gack! What? No!
I know! AND no-one cards me anymore. WTF?
Lyra Jane - May 23, 2005 10:53:46 am PDT #3220 of 10002
Up with the sun
I really liked her in Closer and Garden State. They weren't mind-blowing performances, but she inhabited her characters in a very natural, relaxed way.
I agree that she was good in Garden State. But I thought that, while she was clearly trying hard, her performance was the weakest in Closer -- she was visibly Acting at times, instead of existing as the character. Then again, the character probably *should* be visibly Acting at times.
§ ita § - May 23, 2005 10:55:28 am PDT #3221 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't be that critical of NP in Closer since I thought JR was pointlessly blank. She was ranking below OB on the emotimeter.
DavidS - May 23, 2005 10:56:00 am PDT #3222 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On-topic, thanks to Hec for recommending Aventurera. Excellent film noir, and, since it wasn't Hollywood, I couldn't rely on the conventions to figure out what would happen next. Which means I was caught completely off guard by the big plot twist.
You should have heard the gasp in the Castro Theater. And that was an audience full of hardcore Dynasty fans (back when I saw it).
::points at the New Old and laughs derisively, Nelson style::
You're no longer young! One of us, one of us. Join us in achey backs and out-of-it-ness, and "You call that music!" and pathetic nostalgia for the crap pop culture of your preteen years. Bwahahahaha!
Lyra Jane - May 23, 2005 10:57:44 am PDT #3223 of 10002
Up with the sun
Jessica's whitefonted subplot would have been great.
She was ranking below OB on the emotimeter.
My first association with OBs is tampons, which I suspect is not what you mean.