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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2006 7:07:09 am PDT #1483 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I thought it was supposed to be a feel-good, happy-ending, teen-romance movie, and yet she and Ducky didn't get together. Total tragic ending.

And see, I have Duckie issues. Like, would gladly nuke him from orbit. His sense of romantic entitlement with regards to a female friend makes me want to flail him. Repeatedly. (Yes, I also hate Some Kind of Wonderful.)

Plus, WTF is with a movie that reinforces the idea that, in order to catch and keep A Man, you must strip, strip, strip yourself of all quirk?

AND then there's the utter horror that is the destroyed vintage dress.

Wow. The rage, it just keeps bubbling over.

Megan E. - Apr 25, 2006 7:08:00 am PDT #1484 of 10001

In the novelization, which was clearly written after production had started but before the test screenings, Ducky gets the girl and Blaine is left alone standing on the sidelines.

Yes! I read it too. Was very confusing to my 15 year old self.

§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 7:09:38 am PDT #1485 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

WTF is with a movie that reinforces the idea that, in order to catch and keep A Man, you must strip, strip, strip yourself of all quirk?

That's a lot of my Grease irritation, although she wasn't quite a font of quirk. But it's the peer pressure remodel that grates.

I did like Some Kind of Wonderful despite having some of the same issues as PMM. But I think I'm helpless in the thrall of a young Stoltz.

P.M. Marc - Apr 25, 2006 7:11:37 am PDT #1486 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

But I think I'm helpless in the thrall of a young Stoltz.

Which is a perfectly valid reason for liking the movie. He was pretty freaking fabulous in it, despite my issues.

flea - Apr 25, 2006 7:28:25 am PDT #1487 of 10001

information libertarian

There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.

Volans - Apr 25, 2006 7:56:56 am PDT #1488 of 10001

move out and draw fire

That's a lot of my Grease irritation, although she wasn't quite a font of quirk. But it's the peer pressure remodel that grates.

This. (and why is the remodel always a blandification?)

There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.

And this.

And I actually like the soundtrack for SKoW about as much as the soundtrack for PiP.

juliana - Apr 25, 2006 8:00:59 am PDT #1489 of 10001

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

There is also a certain thrall to the young Mary Stuart Masterson. IJS.

This. Fuck Eric Stoltz, I wanted to be MSM.

erikaj - Apr 25, 2006 8:01:39 am PDT #1490 of 10001

Always Anti-fascist!

wrod.

§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 8:03:39 am PDT #1491 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Fuck Eric Stoltz, I wanted to be MSM.

Well, being MSM should help with fucking Stoltz.

Uh, story-wise.

Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 25, 2006 8:42:19 am PDT #1492 of 10001

"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

This. (and why is the remodel always a blandification?)

Didn't Sandy get remodelled from a bland Sandra Dee stereotype into an edgy leather-wearing temptress?

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