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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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Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 8:01:25 am PDT #5601 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I think a backstory would weaken the character.

Let's be honest, here. The Usual Suspects varnished over a steaming pile of incoherence with a lot of style. It's excellently done, but the problem with steaming piles of incoherence is that they don't take well to further investigation.

Literally speaking, 70-80% of the shown scenes in that movie are flashbacks by an unreliable narrator. That's a lot of gaps that could be filled with waltzing clowns, or squirrel-duels, or lemon merengue pie.

Mr. Broom - Jul 13, 2005 8:12:54 am PDT #5602 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

The unreliable narrator angle is one of my favorite angles. Making another film threatens to fill in the unreliable bits with reliability, which will make it do in spades what so many sequels do, which is destroy the integrity of the original. We need to not know the real history of Keyser Soze, which parts really happened and which were embellished in the telling, either by Verbal Kint or by other characters talking about Soze in the film.

My rallying cry, growing fainter as the Dark Side grows stronger: SOME FILMS CANNOT HAVE SEQUELS. YOU ONLY GET TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE ONE.

Nutty - Jul 13, 2005 8:14:28 am PDT #5603 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

So, the waltzing clowns are a no??

Damn.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2005 8:15:03 am PDT #5604 of 10002

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

My rallying cry, growing fainter as the Dark Side grows stronger: SOME FILMS CANNOT HAVE SEQUELS. YOU ONLY GET TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE ONE.

There can be...only one.

DavidS - Jul 13, 2005 8:19:10 am PDT #5605 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So, the waltzing clowns are a no??

That is so 1998. Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.

tommyrot - Jul 13, 2005 8:20:20 am PDT #5606 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.

Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.

Do they have little swords?

Or maybe LASERS!

Jessica - Jul 13, 2005 8:20:30 am PDT #5607 of 10002

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

Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.

I think there's one in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2005 8:30:26 am PDT #5608 of 10002

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

Squirrel-duels, though? Yeah, I wanna see that.

Do they have little swords?

Or maybe LASERS!

Peruvian pimp cups!

Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2005 8:34:13 am PDT #5609 of 10002

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Dude, I totally get that, thanks to a bit of 'Suela nostalgia on LJ a week or so ago.

DavidS - Jul 13, 2005 8:34:32 am PDT #5610 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Or maybe LASERS!

On their frickin' heads!

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