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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.


Gris - Jun 04, 2005 7:17:11 pm PDT #3742 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I don't know; the show's kind of overly sentimental itself. It could work.


DebetEsse - Jun 04, 2005 7:19:09 pm PDT #3743 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I did not explain sufficiently, I think. IMO, there is enough sentimentality inherent in the story, that adding it in with the direction takes the show from "touching, but relatable", to eye-rolly Hallmark.


Gris - Jun 04, 2005 7:19:49 pm PDT #3744 of 10002
Hey. New board.

Ah. Point taken and agreed with.


bon bon - Jun 04, 2005 7:23:22 pm PDT #3745 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I just saw this on a friend's blog:

Orders 1 through 65 
1 - Tuna Salad sandwich. Lightly toasted.
2 - Shine boots.
3 - Brush your teeth and go to bed.
4 - Coffee. Sugar. No cream.
5 - Clean blaster.
6 - Move in an unnaturally fluid CGI manner.
7 - Stop removing your helmet.
8 - Consider, but do not perform, self castration.
9 - Do something to set yourself apart from the crowd.
10 - Get back with the crowd, mister.
11 through 56 - Create gigantic circular man-ass-daisy-chain sandwich. 
Remember - making love to your clone does not make you gay. Just vain.
57 - Perform self castration. 58 - Stop and smell the flowers. 59 - Tell a stranger "hello" today. 60 - Coffee. Cream. No sugar. 61 - Around the survivors, a perimeter create. 62 - Coffee. Black. 63 - Coffee. Two sweet-n-lows. No cream. 64 - Coffee. One equal. Extra cream. The fatty stuff too, not that
coffee-mate shit. 65 - Pretend that everything is fine with the Jedi. We're all one big
happy family.


Aims - Jun 04, 2005 7:31:11 pm PDT #3746 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Is it just me or, movie being what it is aside, do the television commercials for RotS just suck? I mean, not a lot to work with, but they seem very very bad.


Ailleann - Jun 04, 2005 7:48:17 pm PDT #3747 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I agree, Aimee. They're very "here are four second shots of everyone you'd recognize from this movie, to remind you why you SIMPLY MUST see it." (Because of the pretty.)

I think it's because if they tried to cobble any amount of plot together into a 30-45 second spot, you'd just come away with a feeling of WTF?


Glamcookie - Jun 04, 2005 9:30:39 pm PDT #3748 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I saw Mysterious Skin today. It was even more hard-hitting than I'd expected. Very well-done and totally gut-wrenching. While I thought it was a good movie, I don't know that I'll need to see it again. It was pretty tough.

I wonder about the parents of kid actors who put their young children in roles like the ones in Mysterious Skin. I'm not sure what I think, but it certainly feels wrong when you see it. See also Jena Malone in Bastard Out of Carolina .

It was weird seeing little Dawnie running around saying fuck and being involved with a young hustler.


Invisible Green - Jun 04, 2005 9:58:58 pm PDT #3749 of 10002

I wonder about the...

I read an article about how an alternate screenplay was written specifically for the kids, so that the director could aquire the footage he needed without having the kids ever know what the movie was really about.

Very well-done and totally gut-wrenching. While I thought it was a good movie, I don't know that I'll need to see it again. It was pretty tough.

That's how I feel about La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher). It was a very good movie, but I don't think I could ever watch it again. It's definitely the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. I'd actually like to read the book sometime, but I've heard that's it's even harder to read than the movie is to watch, so I don't know if I could make it through (especially since I have a habit of quiting books after several chapters due to a sudden unexplainable loss of interest).

Gloomcookie, have you seen La Pianiste? Is Mysterious Skin anything like that?


Glamcookie - Jun 04, 2005 10:03:17 pm PDT #3750 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I haven't seen La Pianiste, but I remember hearing about it when it was out. Re: the white font stuff I figured that's what they do. I wonder how the kids will feel when they are older about having been in those roles. Also if I were the parent, I'd never be able to watch the final product. Far too disturbing.


Glamcookie - Jun 04, 2005 10:08:57 pm PDT #3751 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Most amusing IMDB user comment on La Pianiste:

Why was the whole film in French?