Is March of the Penguins out? It's not playing anywhere in Chicago.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2005 3:13:39 pm PDT #4597 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.
Gris - Jun 25, 2005 4:27:17 pm PDT #4598 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Saw Mysterious Skin today. It was very disturbing, and had some consistency issues, but was mostly very well done. The acting was especially notable, especially the main guy whose name I'm currently forgetting.
MT should always be a goth girl, but next time it should be in a movie I can enjoy the look, less surrounded by the pain.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2005 4:45:58 pm PDT #4599 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.
Kathy A - Jun 25, 2005 6:48:01 pm PDT #4600 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Penguins is opening relatively slow, according to their website. Chicago's not getting it for two more weeks--it's only in NY and LA right now.
Gandalfe - Jun 25, 2005 6:58:01 pm PDT #4601 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Tommyrot - That article forgot some of the (admittedly few) actually good ones. The Addams Family movies were spectacular - better than the show ever was. And, of course the Star Trek movies.
I also hear there's something coming out in September, based on some little watched quickly cancelled sci-fi show. It's gonna bomb.
Jessica - Jun 25, 2005 7:01:38 pm PDT #4602 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And it's only at 2 theatres in NYC. Sadly, neither is the independent theatre with the comfy seats, big screens, and convenient-to-my-subway-line location, so DH and I went to a double feature of Film Forum's "Paramount Before the Code" series. Which was fabulous. This week is Trouble in Paradise and Blonde Venus. I hope we'll have time to go back at least once more.
Polter-Cow - Jun 25, 2005 7:45:11 pm PDT #4603 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finally saw Night of the Living Dead, the 30th Anniversary Edition with added footage. It was pretty good, and I'm so glad it ended the way it did, with the very last survivor being shot because he was mistaken for a zombie. I didn't know if the movie would go there, and it did. Rock.
There was some baaaaad acting, though (even in the added footage), and that one guy looked like Rob Corddry. Barbra is like the most annoying character in the history of ever.
Gris - Jun 25, 2005 11:19:54 pm PDT #4604 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I agree that the Addams family movies were amazing. I'm not sure that the Star Trek movies count in relation to the article, as it seems to be concerning itself with long-after remakes, using a different cast. In the same vein, I don't think it counts Serenity or the X-Files movie, since they, too, use the same cast as the show. The examples seem to be a different genre from those.
Volans - Jun 26, 2005 2:16:23 am PDT #4605 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Night of the Living Dead was a pretty brilliant movie, packaging a strong social message inside a B-movie wrapper. It's theme of lynch mobs and such spoke to me a little more than the attack on crass consumerism in Dawn of the Dead.
Of course, we just watched Shaun of the Dead and I laughed my ass off (not literally, because that would be too easy a diet plan), so please understand I adore the zombie movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2005 3:18:24 am PDT #4606 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Very special episode: The movie
I have nightmares about the big screen version of “Blossom.”
Too, too funny. That show is always going to be remembered for having a Very Special Episode every week, isn't it?
While I think the author missed (perhaps purposefully to prove his point) the Addams Family movies as examples of how to do it right, Maverick is the only movie named that I'd really disagree about. And even that is retroactively tainted for me by starring Sexist McCrucifixion.