No, no face. I was mildly irritated that they bothered to show Father's reflection in the monitor watching Benjamin, because I matched that to his voice, and was ... well, it wasn't a huge deal, I guess, the plot. Given I can't even remember how it ended.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2005 7:01:02 pm PDT #4027 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Jun 12, 2005 7:21:49 pm PDT #4028 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Apparently they killed a bunch of people and that meant they were safe forever. Or something.
Polter-Cow - Jun 12, 2005 9:22:01 pm PDT #4029 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, holy crap. It made $51 million. Second was $17 million, Madagascar.
Volans - Jun 13, 2005 2:31:32 am PDT #4030 of 10002
move out and draw fire
80s Camp Horror: Vamp / Lair of the White Worm. The first has Grace Jones as an evil vampire. ' Nuff said. The second has Amanda Donohue as an evil high priestess of a snake cult. Ditto.
Actually, the bed Hugh Grant is in is the real porn in LotWW. Hugh Grant's okay, but the bed...
I mentioned that a Buffista had referred to La Pianiste as the most disturbing movie they'd seen to my husband, so natually he decided to pull it off the "to be watched" shelf where it's been languishing for a year or so.
Yeah, it's disturbing.
Mostly it just made me cranky, though, with the lack of sense-making. I've found other movies more disturbing. I guess I need a little sympathy with the characters, but the only character I felt for was the girl student.
We were planning to see Star Wars on Friday, for our anniversary night out, but it's closed here already. Mr. and Mrs. Smith was playing instead. Quite the anniversary movie.
Double features: 28 Days and 28 Days Later
or how about Seven and 8 1/2 ?
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Sid and Nancy and Milo and Otis ?
Volans - Jun 13, 2005 2:43:03 am PDT #4031 of 10002
move out and draw fire
just coffee:
The MST 3K guys are hosting an alien movie marathon on Encore. Here's the blurb, but let me just say, "Starship Troopers TWO?!?"
FILM CREW TO HOST MARATHON ON ENCORE The Film Crew (Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett) will be hosting an "Alien Invasion" movie marathon on the Encore cable network Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26th. Commentary from the Crew will run between movies throughout the two-day event.
Scheduled to be shown (all times are ET/PT):
Saturday, June 25th Noon - It: The Terror From Beyond Space 1:10 p.m. - Predator 3:00 p.m. - The Blob (1988 remake) 4:40 p.m. - Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation 6:15 p.m. - The Thing (John Carpenter's remake) 8:05 p.m. - Predator (again) 10:00 p.m. - The Puppet Masters
Sunday, June 26th Midnight - Alien Intruder 1:40 a.m. - Predator (one more time)
Jim - Jun 13, 2005 3:09:37 am PDT #4032 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
How about a British Teenflick double: Kes & Scum?
Mr. Broom - Jun 13, 2005 7:23:52 am PDT #4033 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
"Starship Troopers TWO?!?"It was a straight-to-video release about two years ago. It starred (if you can say that anyone starred in this) our own Lieutenant Womack, Richard Burgi. Basically the studio felt they'd zipped up their collective fly a little too soon before leaving Heinlein's grave.
tommyrot - Jun 13, 2005 7:28:34 am PDT #4034 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.
It was also much lower-budget than the first one, so the special effects are less special.
Or so I've heard.
I love the first one (I find it very funny) but have not managed to see the second one....
Dana - Jun 13, 2005 7:30:31 am PDT #4035 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I really, really, really wouldn't bother. (Husband with inexplicable fondness for bad sci-fi.)
Glamcookie - Jun 13, 2005 7:36:31 am PDT #4036 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 Howl's Moving Castle last night. It was good but my top 3 Miyazaki films remain unchanged:
1.
Spirited Away
2.
Princess Mononoke
3.
My Neighbor Totoro
They made quite a few changes to the book as would be expected to make it fit in the timeframe of a movie but in some cases, it felt disjointed. Howl is very pretty.