Never send a minion to do a god's work.

Glory ,'The Killer In Me'


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.


Lee - Jun 20, 2005 5:43:58 pm PDT #4472 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Raises hand.


Gandalfe - Jun 20, 2005 6:20:32 pm PDT #4473 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Why the hell did I watch Chronicles of Riddick? Why, oh, God, why? And how did they get Dame Judi Densch into it?


dcp - Jun 20, 2005 6:44:56 pm PDT #4474 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

t Nathan Fillion imitating John Lovitz's "Master Thespian"

"Layers upon layers of acting challenges."

t /Nathan Fillion imitating John Lovitz's "Master Thespian"


Polter-Cow - Jun 20, 2005 7:23:28 pm PDT #4475 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite. I would like to register an opinion of "Eh."


§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 9:28:50 pm PDT #4476 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From IMDB:

Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have signed to star in a second Batman movie, but love interest Katie Holmes has been dropped. Movie bosses are thrilled with the response to Batman Begins - it took $46.9 million in its first weekend at the US box office - and have snapped up the film's stars for a sequel. Bale as Batman was the first to put pen to paper, followed by Caine as butler Alfred and Freeman as Bruce Wayne's business associate Lucius Fox. But Holmes won't reprise her role as district attorney Rachel Dawes - reportedly because Warner Bros is angry her engagement to Tom Cruise has stolen media attention away from the movie. A source tells Pagesix.Com, "Everyone is in agreement that the movie's strength is with Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman." Adding of Holmes, "She won't be in the sequel... the next romantic interest will be a much stronger actress. Warner is happy that people are now focusing on who'll be playing the Joker rather than Katie and Tom."


Volans - Jun 21, 2005 1:08:03 am PDT #4477 of 10002
move out and draw fire

They would've changed the actress anyway, according to Raq's Law of Fungible Actresses. You just can't have the same female love interest in two movies.

Back on Seabiscuit, one more quick rant that ties into the earlier discussion of recognizing where movie scenes were filmed: When the train is at the Albuquerque station, they got the station building right (my dad worked for the AT&SF in the Depression, so we've plenty of photos of that building) more or less. But the giant palm trees in the background? NSM.


tiggy - Jun 21, 2005 2:05:55 am PDT #4478 of 10002
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

Why the hell did I watch Chronicles of Riddick? Why, oh, God, why?

I couldn't watch more than a half hour of it. it was baaaaaaaaaad...


Jon B. - Jun 21, 2005 3:06:23 am PDT #4479 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite. I would like to register an opinion of "Eh."

I've found it to be a real grower -- one of those films that you look upon more fondly as time goes on.


bon bon - Jun 21, 2005 5:33:39 am PDT #4480 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

They would've changed the actress anyway, according to Raq's Law of Fungible Actresses. You just can't have the same female love interest in two movies.

You're right. There's no reason to believe they would have kept her, Cruise or no Cruise. That rumor sounds pretty much blown out of proportion. And what the fuck is Pagesix.Com-- that just resolves to the Post's Page Six.


Jesse - Jun 21, 2005 5:43:46 am PDT #4481 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What do you mean? It's just Page Six. Online.