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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video  

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§ ita § - May 23, 2005 11:18:36 am PDT #3237 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am the same age as everyone but the very old and the very young. Sometimes it's confusing, but it makes dating simple.

Or would, if I did.


Cashmere - May 23, 2005 11:28:48 am PDT #3238 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

You should. Because everyone ought to do so. When you rent it, make sure you get the version titled "Leon" instead, for the extra-disturbing extra 20 minutes.

Yes. Absolutely.

I liked Natalie Portman in Garden State. She can emote. I've seen it happen. I haven't seen Closer yet, but I don't know if I'd like that better than GS.

I still have yet to see Kingdom of Heaven. And now there's RotS to see. My babysitter needs to clear up her schedule.


Gris - May 23, 2005 11:32:28 am PDT #3239 of 10002
Hey. New board.

Alyson Hannigan is 31. She was 23 when Buffy began. If she were 24 now, that would have made her 16 when Buffy began, which would have been far too close to the age she played for it to have been allowed.

(SMG was the youngest member of the cast, and she was 20 when Buffy began.)


§ ita § - May 23, 2005 11:36:07 am PDT #3240 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

far too close to the age she played for it to have been allowed

Not allowed? Why?


Steph L. - May 23, 2005 11:55:46 am PDT #3241 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

[Ewan] just breaks my heart in the big final battle scene.

Does he sing "Come What May," while his TB-infected hooker girlfriend dies in a shower of rose petals at his feet?

Sorry; complete other rant. I hate the Hooker With a Heart of Gold storyline, even when the hoor is as heart-stoppingly beautiful as Kidman was in Moulin Rouge.


beathen - May 23, 2005 12:00:41 pm PDT #3242 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Sorry; complete other rant. I hate the Hooker With a Heart of Gold storyline, even when the hoor is as heart-stoppingly beautiful as Kidman was in Moulin Rouge.

I'm right there with you, honey.


§ ita § - May 23, 2005 12:01:24 pm PDT #3243 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I hate the Hooker With a Heart of Gold storyline

Especially when the hooker won't put out just ONE MORE TIME, even to save the life or livelihood of her beloved. C'mon now. Who hasn't been all up in there yet?


Gris - May 23, 2005 12:04:46 pm PDT #3244 of 10002
Hey. New board.

Not allowed? Why?

I was joking. In a non-funny fashion. One of my pet peeves that twenty-somethings are so often cast as teens.


Betsy HP - May 23, 2005 12:05:10 pm PDT #3245 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

"all up in there"?


Nutty - May 23, 2005 12:05:19 pm PDT #3246 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Wait, you're advocating for Our Hero to have sex with a consumptive with active symptoms? I think, given my druthers, I'd prefer not to share such intimate things as bedsheets, rose petals, drinking glasses or my personal mucus membranes with a consumptive if it is all the same with you all.

Not being a fan of getting consumption myself, you know.

(Yes, I'm aware people did it all the time with consumptives, back in the day, but they also performed surgery without handwashing or anaesthetic, and I'm not a fan of that practice either.)

(Can you tell I never saw that movie?)