I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

Cheese Man ,'Chosen'


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.


Vonnie K - Dec 07, 2005 5:42:33 am PST #8988 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Har. The pause before each utterance of establishment makes me think the place in question is a bordello or something. Which, it looks like, might have made for a more lively movie.


DavidS - Dec 07, 2005 5:46:28 am PST #8989 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Where are you going with that?

Just the repeated assertion in the press for Brokeback Mountain that it's unprecedented in its raw depiction of Gay Love. Though I suppose their qualifier is "in a major movie."


Kalshane - Dec 07, 2005 5:55:23 am PST #8990 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Kalshane - did you notice who played Chun Li? Yup, Jackie himself. That scene by itself could've made that drinking game interesting.

It's kind of hard to miss. I was of the impression that half the point of the scene was to showcase the absurdity of Jackie in a Chun Li outfit.

Do you like bars? Would you like to someday own a bar?

Do you like beans? Do you like George Wendt? Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans? t /Animaniacs


erikaj - Dec 07, 2005 6:16:53 am PST #8991 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Steven Frears? "The Committments", right? Lifetime pass. LOVE that movie. Liked Deadwood quite a bit for not being into Westerns, but I found myself missing a. colors and b. sentences without "cocksucker" but they both seemed like the right choice...don't get me wrong. And I have liked David Milch since "Blue" or probably Hill Street(although not quite in a "trust in Joss" way...that's just for Mr. Sweden and David Simon and even he got talked into that Falsone thing, so...)


Vonnie K - Dec 07, 2005 6:27:21 am PST #8992 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

The Commitments is by Alan Parker, I think. He hasn't made anything really notable since, more's the pity. I do love Angel Heart though, one of his earlier films, with Robert DeNiro hamming it up as Satan.

Stephen Frears did the Malkovich/Close version of Dangerous Liaisons, and more recently, High Fidelity and Dirty Pretty Things. I like his work a lot.


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 6:28:19 am PST #8993 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Though I suppose their qualifier is "in a major movie."

And American. I think that's big too.

There are a lot of gay movies out there -- it's profile that's the thing.


beekaytee - Dec 07, 2005 6:47:43 am PST #8994 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Bedrooms and Hallways is my new favorite big gay movie. (British, of course)

It features Kevin McKidd and James Purefoy. Plus nearly every supporting actor from Four Weddings and a Funeral. Recent Rome love inspired the Netflixing. Wooo-hooo! The fella's roles are quite...quite...different in B & H. Hugo Weaving is hysterical as a real estate agent who uses his clients' homes for...uh, you know. I just loved it.

Also? McLibel, the doc about two activists who spent 15 years battling the McAntichrist for the right to criticize its Mcvilliany may not be a stellar film (not even close to Murderball, Supersize Me, Mr. Death, etc. in terms of craft)...the soundtrack alone detracts from the message...but it is well worth seeing. And too, I gave up a 25 year vegetarianism about a year ago. McLibel put me right back on the wagon. Sheesh.


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 6:50:27 am PST #8995 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wish I could remember why Bedrooms and Hallways left me cold.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2005 7:13:59 am PST #8996 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

Whiny protagonist dumping James Purefoy in favor of his ex-wife did it for me.


beekaytee - Dec 07, 2005 8:16:14 am PST #8997 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

I can see that.