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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.

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JZ - May 26, 2005 8:23:05 am PDT #3387 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I love them for including Double Indemnity, In A Lonely Place and The Lady Eve, but The Awful Truth over It Happened One Night?

I love TAT, think it's utterly brilliant, but IHON was several years earlier, and it's just the damned Shakespeare's Collected Works of romantic comedies: love it or hate it, it was early and enormous and everything in the genre that's been made since has been either standing in, fleeing from, or standing back and observing or deconstructing its shadow. As much as I love It's A Wonderful Life, (and as much as I think it's in many ways Capra's best and richest and darkest), if the listmakers were trying to stick to just one film per director, I'd still have to go with IHON for sheer seminal influential ur-genre-exemplarosity.

Jesse - May 26, 2005 8:25:37 am PDT #3388 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I heard something about that list that made it pretty clear they were picking their favorites, not the Best or Most Influential. Which that page doesn't indicate at all.

Hayden - May 26, 2005 8:27:50 am PDT #3389 of 10002

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.

DavidS - May 26, 2005 8:28:49 am PDT #3390 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.

In A Lonely Place is great. It's more like a European movie about a fucked up relationship than a Hollywood movie. All kinds of shades of gray and tragic.

Jessica - May 26, 2005 8:36:20 am PDT #3391 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Invisible Green's post looks like English....

Dana - May 26, 2005 8:36:41 am PDT #3392 of 10002

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

...but it comes out in crazy talk!

Betsy HP - May 26, 2005 8:37:02 am PDT #3393 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

David, technically it isn't one of my favorite movies, it's one of my favorite bad movies. But, yes, so much goodness in the bad.

Sue - May 26, 2005 8:45:04 am PDT #3394 of 10002

hip deep in pie

re RotS: Am I the only one who thought Palpatine was terrible? If they had had a actual cured ham chewing on the scenery, I thought it would have given a more credible performance.

tommyrot - May 26, 2005 8:59:10 am PDT #3395 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I was rooting for evil, so I liked his performance.

Also, I was sad that General Grievous wasn't given more to do. He rocked in the animated series.

If General Grievous really existed, he'd make an excellent dog-walker, what with his four arms....

Betsy HP - May 26, 2005 9:20:27 am PDT #3396 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

Huh. I thought Palpatine was the best-acted character in the movie.

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