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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell  

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.


Volans - Jan 24, 2006 6:25:49 am PST #111 of 10001
move out and draw fire

I need to see CCF. It sat around my house for months back when I first got into Buffy, so when choosing a DVD, Buffy always won over CCF. Now it's gone, away with the Roomie.


sumi - Jan 24, 2006 6:36:45 am PST #112 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Pictures from The Prestige.


§ ita § - Jan 24, 2006 7:20:28 am PST #113 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Spectacles ... thanks sumi!


Gris - Jan 24, 2006 8:31:04 am PST #114 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Is it good or bad that the Slither trailer made me laugh until tears came to my eyes?


Frankenbuddha - Jan 24, 2006 8:33:04 am PST #115 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Is it good or bad that the Slither trailer made me laugh until tears came to my eyes?

Considering the director got his start in Tromaville, I'd say it's at least an appropriate response.


Sean K - Jan 24, 2006 8:52:45 am PST #116 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Is it good or bad that the Slither trailer made me laugh until tears came to my eyes?

I'm thinking good myself, Gris. It looks unbelievably disgusting. And funny as hell.


Mr. Broom - Jan 24, 2006 9:53:15 am PST #117 of 10001
"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

Oh, dear Jesus, that was wrong. Hilarious, but so very, very wrong.


Sean K - Jan 24, 2006 11:32:14 am PST #118 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I was already planning on seeing it for Nathan Fillion, but the trailers sealed the deal.


beekaytee - Jan 24, 2006 12:52:04 pm PST #119 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Wrong in the wrongest of ways that wrong can be.

I loved Tremors. But this one ups the goo-factor a bit past what I think I can stomach in the theatre. Netflix, it will have to be.


§ ita § - Jan 24, 2006 1:47:18 pm PST #120 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

John Rogers on Catwoman:

Holy --two years worth of Catwoman notes. And right on top, the mission statement I sent to them when I took over the script. Dated 2/6/01. What's typed, literally in 24 pt boldfaced Arial and underlined, I shit you not, right there on the front page?

"No hyper-reality pop crap."

Wow. That went exactly as planned. Oh, look there's the section where I talk about how the suit should be functional for her thievery, and she should wear lug boots. Yes, yes, it all fell into place. Hmm, let me count these ...

... 169 pages. Most single spaced. About an inch of notes, and I know this isn't all of them. I have another set, the later ones, in my home office. So all in all, two inches of Catwoman notes.

Just goes to show you, the old saying is true. It's no easier to make a bad movie than a good one. Sometimes, it's even harder.

I didn't see the movie -- what was the "hyper-reality pop crap"?