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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.


Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 3:43:27 pm PST #9964 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Going for the threepeat! Gwen Stacy cast for Spider-Man 3


Gris - Jan 19, 2006 3:43:29 pm PST #9965 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I fall asleep damn near every time I see something at Film Forum, completely irrespective of the movie being shown.

That's... so weird. I guess your theory makes some sense.

I've seen, um, two movies at Film Forum. The Seven Samurai and that movie where Michelle Trachtenberg played a goth girl best friend to the sexually abused gay guy. I should see something happy there at some point.

ETA: Oh, that Spider-man article reminds me that I saw a trailer for "Lady in the Water" in front of Brokeback Mountain and it was so poorly done that I nearly died laughing. I imagine it might actually be decent (Shymalan has to strike gold again someday, right? RIGHT? And Paul Giametti rocks) but the trailer was... not good.


Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 3:45:33 pm PST #9966 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I should see something happy there at some point.

Hee -- good luck with that! I think the most cheerful thing I've ever seen there was La Dolce Vita. They were happy most of the time...

[eta: I take that back -- they're showing One Two Three right now, which I believe is fairly low in existential angst and/or trauma.]


sarameg - Jan 19, 2006 4:00:14 pm PST #9967 of 10002

My mother is notorious for falling asleep during the opening credits and then miss the first 15 minutes or so. But she chooses to remain silent and confused, rather than ask for a recap. Now, if it is animated, well, she'll sleep through the whole thing.

Not a useful skill for an elementary school teacher. She'd wake to find her entire class staring at her, giggling, during the couple times a year they'd get a movie as a treat.


Sean K - Jan 19, 2006 4:01:55 pm PST #9968 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

(Shymalan has to strike gold again someday, right? RIGHT? And Paul Giametti rocks) but the trailer was... not good.

I have come to feel that M. Knight is something of a one-trick pony. I still haven't seen that last one. I fear that further movies of his will begin to lessen my enjoyment of the ones I *did* like.


Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 4:48:24 pm PST #9969 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I have work-related reasons to believe that Lady in the Water will be more of the same schtick, unfortunately. (As far as we can tell, very few people involved in the production are allowed to know the entire story. It's very, very annoying.)


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2006 4:55:45 pm PST #9970 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

person knitting herself into a cocoon over an 11 hour period

WHY? WHY?

Ran out of the good drugs?


Allyson - Jan 19, 2006 4:57:58 pm PST #9971 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

But is it art?

and why would anyone agree to film it?


Sean K - Jan 19, 2006 5:12:13 pm PST #9972 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Warhol filmed some guy sleeping for eight hours. People are strange and off-putting.


Gris - Jan 19, 2006 5:29:26 pm PST #9973 of 10002
Hey. New board.

I don't mind the schtick if it doesn't suck. I like surprise endings as much as the next. But, you know, Signs sucked. I never saw the other one, but I hear it sucked too.