Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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LiT is a movie that hit me so hard I can hardly bear to hear people say anything bad about it.
Jess and Sean and Tep and JohnSweden are all me. Whodathunk?
Though ita's reaction to LiT was almost my exact reaction to ESotSM.
I can't think of any movie I've grown into, but I can think of a lot I think I've grown away from. (Maybe grown out of, who knows.) Like, I fear, everything Hal Hartley ever made. I went through a major, major Hartley period. I don't know why the love is now gone. Oh, and Sirens wasn't as nifty last time, despite the continued delight that is Naked Portia De Rossi.
Though ita's reaction to LiT was almost my exact reaction to ESotSM.
Ah, me too. With a healthy dose of "Look! Jim Carrey is Acting! Watch how he Acts for us all! Act, Jim, Act!"
With a healthy dose of "Look! Jim Carrey is Acting! Watch how he Acts for us all! Act, Jim, Act!"
Snerf. That, too.
There was also a side of, "Damn, Kate. You look like Jessica!" which distracted me.
LiT just leaves me feeling that I Don't Get It. And that that's my fault and not the movie's, because Oscar and other people like it a whole lot and I just need to concentrate more, or something. But that happens to me a lot.
Y'know that scene in Velvet Goldmine where Arthur is looking at the TV, and pictures himself saying, "That's me! That's me, ma!" as he watches the boys go all boy on boy?
That's my reaction to LiT.
As opposed to my reaction to VG, which is more along the lines of, "Yum." and, "More, please."
I mean, it's pretty much THE All Naked All Gay musical with glitter.
I mean, it's pretty much THE All Naked All Gay musical with glitter.
Too bad Ewan and Christian and Jonathan were all so damned ugly and undesirable.
Speaking of Ewan, what did I just get delivered to me today???
The Pillow Book
on DVD. Yum.
I had a funny line about Memento, but I forgot it.
Part of being a script supervisor is tracking continuity for the project you're working on. Part of doing that is taking polaroids of everything so you remember where all the props were and stuff.
On the shoot I worked last week, I couldn't control myself. I had to take one extra picture of our lead, just to write "TEDDY" on the front and "DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES" crossed out with "HE IS THE ONE, KILL HIM" underneath it.
And no, having too much time on one's hands is never a problem a script supervisor ever runs in to.
There was also a side of, "Damn, Kate. You look like Jessica!" which distracted me.
Every time I see a picture of Kate from that movie, I first think it's Jess.
Speaking of Ewan, what did I just get delivered to me today???
And speaking of Bale, Empire of the Sun arrived yesterday.
I have to remind myself that I'm allowed to watch it and not feel squicked or ooked at his extreme youth on account of him being, oh, my age. Mostly, I've just been remembering how much I love that movie, and wanting to watch it again. Just have to remember to wait a week or two before watching Velvet Goldmine again this time.
Sean: Ha!
Phil Nugent has a great joke about Memento buried in this amusing story on his blog.
