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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 - Oct 03, 2005 10:34:22 am PDT #7699 of 10002

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

My sense of Badlands is that is it less preposterous and gently dull than either Days of Heaven or The Thin Red Line, which makes it the best Terence Malick movie I have ever seen. Slooooooow as all get-out, but that's intentional. (I do think Days of Heaven is prettier, but pointless.)

It amazes me how Sissy Spacek was all desctructive characters in her youth, Carrie and all, and ended up playing gentle moms in middle-age. Kind of cute -- in the heart of every lunch-maker and mess-cleaner-upper lies the urge to KILL!!!

Mr. Broom - Oct 03, 2005 11:11:39 am PDT #7700 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

Ah ha ha hahahaha. Seriously, Nick. What are you doing? [link]

Hayden - Oct 03, 2005 11:46:13 am PDT #7701 of 10002

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

My sense of Badlands is that is it less preposterous and gently dull than either Days of Heaven or The Thin Red Line, which makes it the best Terence Malick movie I have ever seen. Slooooooow as all get-out, but that's intentional. (I do think Days of Heaven is prettier, but pointless.)

Tell you the truth, I saw both Badlands and Days of Heaven as part of the same film festival while I was an undergrad, and I could barely recall either the other day. I think Badlands will stick with me better these days (what with the clean-livin' and all), but I want to re-watch Days of Heaven before issuing any kind of opinion. I also liked The Thin Red Line quite a bit.

It amazes me how Sissy Spacek was all desctructive characters in her youth, Carrie and all, and ended up playing gentle moms in middle-age. Kind of cute -- in the heart of every lunch-maker and mess-cleaner-upper lies the urge to KILL!!!

So true! In fact, I suspect it was her gentleness that made her such an effective blithe accomplice/crazed dirty-bagged killer.

erikaj - Oct 03, 2005 11:50:59 am PDT #7702 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

But why couldn't a killer look like that? Not that KT wasn't brilliant, but SS should have played "Serial Mom"

beekaytee - Oct 03, 2005 11:59:42 am PDT #7703 of 10002

Compassionately intolerant

Kel-al Cage? WTF?

Hayden - Oct 03, 2005 12:04:21 pm PDT #7704 of 10002

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Nicholas is clearly planning to be grandfather to Superman.

erikaj - Oct 03, 2005 12:07:38 pm PDT #7705 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

Watch. He'll be an awful klutz and beg people to call him "Kevin".

P.M. Marc - Oct 03, 2005 12:08:41 pm PDT #7706 of 10002

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Nicholas is clearly planning to be grandfather to Superman.

Were that so, he'd have named the kid Jor-El.

Glamcookie - Oct 03, 2005 12:11:11 pm PDT #7707 of 10002

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Serenity on Friday. I liked it more than any episode in the series. The stakes seemed higher, the characterizations more true, and the story seemed more taut and well-thought.

Corwood and I are as one. I even saw more than one movie over the weekend - Serenity and Corpse Bride. I felt about Corpse Bride the same way I felt about Nightmare Before Christmas. Wonderful visually but lacking in emotion. I just didn't feel any sort of connection with the characters. And I don't like the Elfman music for either movie.

Hayden - Oct 03, 2005 8:07:48 pm PDT #7708 of 10002

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Were that so, he'd have named the kid Jor-El.

I don't think we're in strict continuity-land here.

Corwood and I are as one.

Words I love to read.

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