Yeah, but could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 5:10:09 am PDT #7610 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.
Calli - Sep 26, 2005 6:37:55 am PDT #7611 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
could the Klingon bodygaurds take on ita's security team?
I don't know, but I'd love to see the video if they decided to find out.
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 6:40:38 am PDT #7612 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.
I suppose it depends if the Klingons actually know how to user their Batleths....
Hayden - Sep 26, 2005 6:46:27 am PDT #7613 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I watched Preston Sturges's Unfaithfully Yours last night and would highly recommend this to the Buffistas. The movie is about a conductor, played as a stiff upper Brit by Rex Harrison, who, through the machinations of his brother-in-law (played by the unlucky rich guy from The Palm Beach Story), believes that his young wife is having an affair. The first amazing thing about this movie is the way that it makes the performance of an orchestral work into pure drama. Sturges films at least four full performances (that's all I recall) of works by Rossini, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky, the first a rehearsal and the other three part of a concert. During the concert, as Harrison conducts, he imagines three possible ways to deal with his wife's infidelity, all pitch-black funny with the others in the cast a few hairs over the top (because this is in his imagination, see?). After the performance, he decides to implement his plans, with a hilarious sequence of errors, possibly the funniest scenes involving a man plotting to murder his lovely wife to ever hit the screen. Sturges is always great, and this one's as good as Sullivan's Travels and The Lady Eve. My praise doesn't get any higher.
Jim - Sep 26, 2005 6:51:07 am PDT #7614 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Remade with Dudley Moore, IIRC.
Hayden - Sep 26, 2005 6:57:49 am PDT #7615 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, I bet that wasn't nearly as funny.
Jim - Sep 26, 2005 7:10:53 am PDT #7616 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I suspect not, but I bet his conducting was better.
Sean K - Sep 26, 2005 7:17:04 am PDT #7617 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, I bet that wasn't nearly as funny.
It wasn't. And I say that having never seen the Preston Sturges version.
Hayden - Sep 26, 2005 7:46:48 am PDT #7618 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I suspect not, but I bet his conducting was better.
I dunno. Rex really loses himself in his conducting.
And I say that having never seen the Preston Sturges version.
As I've said before, I think the Coens took all of their screwballity directly from Sturges. If you like their comedies (or even their dramas), you'd probably love Sturges's movies.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2005 8:11:32 am PDT #7619 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As I've said before, I think the Coens took all of their screwballity directly from Sturges.
Some of their fast talking characters - like Tony Shaloub in The Man Who Wasn't There, and Barton Fink - seem more Hawksian to me. I also think they have a big dose of Nathaniel West in their work.
I saw a big chunk of Stardust Memories this morning before work. It made me miss Jessica Harper. She's probably one of my favorite actresses of the 70s. Plus, of course, Charlotte Rampling, which is always good.