Saw Jesus is Magic. It was fun. And less offensive than I imagined it would be.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
tommyrot - Nov 26, 2005 8:07:44 pm PST #8776 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.
Nutty - Nov 27, 2005 6:28:10 am PST #8777 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I watched Northfork yesterday. I love me some Polish brothers. (which sounds like something it's not.)
You know, I still don't know whether they're Polish as in the country of Poland, or Polish as in the stuff that makes your silverware shiny. Damned homonyms.
It reminded me to re-rent Idaho Falls.
You'll find it under Twin Falls, Idaho. That movie freaked me out the first time I saw it.
The sum of my movie-seeing has been Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which I discovered that Jimmy Cagney could sing and tap-dance, George M. Cohan wrote a lot more persistently-popular songs than I had guessed, and filmic biography before 1960 was pretty dull and uninvestigative.
Scrappy - Nov 27, 2005 8:36:08 am PST #8778 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw Harry Potter and Pride & Prejudice last night. Liked both of them. I ADORE the BBC miniseries version of P&P, so I had to be won over, and I was. Some interesting dramatic choices--I liked the way they portrayed the elder Bennet's relationship very much. Keira Knightly was a lovely, smart, slightly astringent Lizzie.
Loved HP, but I agree with Matt about hemrione in this episode. They had to cut an entire subplot about house elves and her activism ont heir behalf, and her onscreen portrayal suffered as a result.
Volans - Nov 27, 2005 8:44:56 am PST #8779 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Re HP: It sucks that Hermione wasn't as strong as she's been, but I am very glad they cut the SPEW stuff.
Mr. Broom - Nov 27, 2005 9:11:40 am PST #8780 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
Re: above: The house-elf subplot of books 4-6 are entirely removable with no ill effect. Any plot devlopment that comes about as a result of the house elf thing is either a) superfluous or b) easily accomplished by other means. A judicious editor would've insisted they be trimmed from the books to improve their flow, but it's clear Rowling's editors are anything but judicious.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 27, 2005 12:00:44 pm PST #8781 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
She has editors?
Sue - Nov 27, 2005 12:04:05 pm PST #8782 of 10002
hip deep in pie
I tried to see HP this afternoon but there was a fuse blown in the projector and the movie started without a dialogue track. There was also a birthday party of about 20+ kids who were talking during the beginning of the movie, but when they had to stop it, they were absolutely running amok and the parents were doing little to stop it, so I got my money back and bailed.
Trudy Booth - Nov 27, 2005 12:40:07 pm PST #8783 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I saw Rent. I enjoyed it, their voices were good, the cast being too old didn't bug me. But all the IMPOSSIBLE New York did, ugh.
Fake New York is fine. Impossible New York is crazy making. Avenue A doesn't DO that, feh.
Scrappy - Nov 27, 2005 12:41:53 pm PST #8784 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I would have done the same thing, Sue. A woman brought her 3-year-old to see it last night when we were there. OF COURSE the poor kid lost interest (after asking loud questions during the first 45 minutes) and cried and she had to leave. I was with friends who are the parents of a 3 and 8 year old, who were checking out the film to see if it was appropriate for their older kid to see. They were as aghast as I was.
Sue - Nov 27, 2005 1:40:25 pm PST #8785 of 10002
hip deep in pie
If it was just a few kids, I would have stayed and moved, because they told us they were comping the film anyway, but there were so many that I figured they were going to drive me crazy no matter where I sat.
I had also taken cold meds before I left the house, and I was afraid I was going to fall asleep during the movie. I should have licked the noisy kids armrests and gotten them all sick.