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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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Lyra Jane - Jul 07, 2005 4:31:14 am PDT #5298 of 10002

Up with the sun

I'm probably going to need to see "Fantastic Four" anyhow, because it looks bad in the fun way. Besides, it's impossible that I'll be as disappointed by it as I was by "Batman Begins."

And I don't think we should count Reese out just yet, though I agree the movies since "Election" haven't lived up to that film or "Pleasantville." It'll be interesting to see what she does over the next ten years.

When I was doing the survey on the MSNBC article, I was a little surprised how many really good movies Brad Pitt has been in, and how many forgettable ones Johnny Depp has made.

Jessica - Jul 07, 2005 4:33:55 am PDT #5299 of 10002

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

I saw Wedding Crashers last night, and it was hysterical. Not quite Zoolander, but as good or better than Starsky & Hutch.

Seeing FF tonight, and will report back.

JZ - Jul 07, 2005 5:49:35 am PDT #5300 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.

Rotten Tomatoes already has 27 reviews up, and FF has garnered an overall average of 21%. It looks dismal.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2005 6:31:15 am PDT #5301 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

They should have aired part of the 1994 version to the critics before showing the current movie in order to make it seem like Schindler's List in comparison.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 07, 2005 7:26:17 am PDT #5302 of 10002

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

They should have aired part of the 1994 version to the critics before showing the current movie in order to make it seem like Schindler's List in comparison.

Ha! Including Mercedes McNabb as "Young Susan 'Sue' Storm".

tommyrot - Jul 07, 2005 7:38:27 am PDT #5303 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.

Longish article on the marketing and long gestation of TFF: [link]

Check out the photo of the fans dressed like two of the FF - the guy has these prosthetic arm thingies to make it look like he's stretching his arms. Sorta.

Jars - Jul 07, 2005 9:13:04 am PDT #5304 of 10002

The King Kong trailer looks like a lot of fun.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2005 10:27:16 am PDT #5305 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

Note to Avi Arad: If you want Harry Knowles to help spread good word-of-mouth about your film, publicly calling him "Fat Harry" is probably not the best way to win him over.

tommyrot - Jul 07, 2005 10:29:15 am PDT #5306 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.

Do we know that Chow Yun-fat is gonna be in PotC III ?

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Casting for movies isn't spoiler info, is it?

edit for typo....

Jessica - Jul 07, 2005 10:32:32 am PDT #5307 of 10002

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

Bwah to your typo.

Also, squee!

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