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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.


Kalshane - Jan 06, 2006 8:04:39 am PST #9661 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.

Ooh. A non-sucky Odyssey staring Sean Bean would be awesome. He was about the only character I really liked in Troy. Well, Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.


bon bon - Jan 06, 2006 8:05:46 am PST #9662 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I thought Pitt was supposed to be skeevy in Troy-- he was perfectly cast as an analogue of the vapid but but mysteriously compelling celebrity.


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 8:07:41 am PST #9663 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, sleeping with his cousin certainly pushes things that way.


Scrappy - Jan 06, 2006 8:11:16 am PST #9664 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

No, I found him physically skeevy. I liked Bana and Bean a lot in that (horrendous) film, AND found them both Hottly McTogapants, but Pitt's musclebound physique just made me want to run screaming.


Nutty - Jan 06, 2006 8:11:22 am PST #9665 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.

I will say, in the hair competition, he and Orlando got off well -- long curly hair just looks more glam than long straight hair (as Robert Plant or Luke from General Hospital will surely attest). However, Bana incurred skeevy points for a scene in which he sits down, shirtless, with the infant Astyanax in his arms, and looks for all the world like he is breast-feeding the child with his enormous man-breasts. My brain was scarred.

(It was particularly notable because the woman playing Andromache looked like she was starving to death, and had no breasts at all.)


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 8:12:42 am PST #9666 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

looks for all the world like he is breast-feeding the child with his enormous man-breasts

I bet they'd make good teething toys, though.

God, those were some pecs. As I learn more and more about what it takes to maintain that sort of male physique, I'm flabbermegasted as I look at the pretty.


Kate P. - Jan 06, 2006 8:35:33 am PST #9667 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Fight Club was like American Beauty for me...except worse, because Ed Norton gives me hives.

More Ed Norton for me! I adore him. Though I didn't particularly like Fight Club. It's been a while, but I remember being kind of underwhelmed, though I thought parts of it were cool.

God, those were some pecs.

Good lord! I just looked at the picture you linked to above, and I'd forgotten how huge his man-boobs er, pecs are in that movie. Not a look that inspires me to lust.

I think I only ever really found Brad Pitt attractive in Thelma and Louise and A River Runs Through It. Everything from Legends of the Fall onwards has given me the impression that he is actually kind of funny-looking.


Ailleann - Jan 06, 2006 8:38:19 am PST #9668 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Yes, Eric Bana = teh HOTT. Might be the only reason I see Munich of my own accord.

Speaking of Troy... I remember rumblings on here somewhere about how the script was so much better than the movie ended up being... could anyone Nilly up the link for me? (I'd search myself, but I'm not sure that anyone ever put it up, because I would have clicked on it like woah.)


beekaytee - Jan 06, 2006 8:41:34 am PST #9669 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

My favorite Brad is tattooedSnath!Brad. Talk about ironic.

My least favorite? Overwhelminghair!Brad in Legends of the Fall(ing down laughing...at least for the audience.)

I saw Legends with a British friend who, upon emerging from the theatre exclaimed, "Oh my. I'm GoneWithTheWinded." Classic.


beekaytee - Jan 06, 2006 8:41:42 am PST #9670 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant