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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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DavidS - Jun 06, 2006 12:59:23 pm PDT #2080 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Notice how much I'm resisting my pre-formatted argument 7-a-III (the cross-influence of Ford, Kurosawa, and Peckinpah)?

Admirable restraint! Go off and think about Hawks and Sturges for a while and come back with some thoughts about Jarmusch and Ozu.

I really liked 6FU, but only watched the first two seasons. Rachel Griffiths was amazing. Also really liked Lauren Ambrose. Disliked Alan Ball's influence at times, but generally throught the writing was strong. I understand the Smack Factor dislike, but I felt that way about Thirtysomething but could also acknowledge that it burrowed into weird itchy dramatic places that I'd never seen before. I think I only really wanted to smack Hope.

erika, I haven't seen The Wire yet. When I spot a decent used copy at Amoeba I'll pick it up, I promise.

I really got sucked into the world of Carnivale but felt it unspooled too slowly and to too little effect. Still, it had a handful of really great moments.

P.M. Marc - Jun 06, 2006 1:01:50 pm PDT #2081 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

All the characters on 6 Feet Under made me want to smack them. A Lot. And that's why I hated it.

Lisa and Tom and I are as one.

Atropa - Jun 06, 2006 1:07:16 pm PDT #2082 of 10001

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I really got sucked into the world of Carnivale but felt it unspooled too slowly and to too little effect. Still, it had a handful of really great moments.

Including two of the episodes of TV I have EVER seen. Thinking about the ending of one of the episodes still freaks me out, and I suspect it always will.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 06, 2006 1:10:20 pm PDT #2083 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

I spent half the first season of 6FU hoping Claire would make good her promise to join the Army so they could teach her to kill, Kill, KILL! and then return to practice those skills on the rest of her family.

erikaj - Jun 06, 2006 1:10:54 pm PDT #2084 of 10001

Always Anti-fascist!

Cool. Just wondered if you ever did, not hoching. Even though I can be "The Wire likes West Baltimore carrots." But it did cement my obsession. With Baltimore, you know. And you're gonna love the boys hanging on the orange couch; they talk about food as much as you! Still feel a little embarrassed about the punk-assed letters I wrote to HBO cause I think they were to the effect that "My life sucks, we lost the election, and my dog died. Please give me my show back." But maybe my pathetic worked?

DavidS - Jun 06, 2006 1:21:35 pm PDT #2085 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Thinking about the ending of one of the episodes still freaks me out, and I suspect it always will.

I'm sure I know the scene, it's the one that ends with the ghost of the girl who was killed, naked and surrounded by the vengeful ghosts who claim her and pull her back into the shadows. Eeep! Makes my skin goosebump even just typing that.

Atropa - Jun 06, 2006 1:24:17 pm PDT #2086 of 10001

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Yep, that's the one. Possibly the creepiest moment in television, ever.

Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2006 1:26:06 pm PDT #2087 of 10001

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Damn. Now I want to see it.

IAmNotReallyASpring - Jun 06, 2006 1:26:47 pm PDT #2088 of 10001

I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

Disliked Alan Ball's influence at times, but generally throught the writing was strong.

I found Ball's episodes to be the weakest; I'm the same way with Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars.

ETA. Which is funny since they're the creators.

Glamcookie - Jun 06, 2006 1:28:52 pm PDT #2089 of 10001

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

All the characters on 6 Feet Under made me want to smack them. A Lot. And that's why I hated it.

This. There was not a single character I cared about, even a little.

TOTAL. I felt the same way about American Beauty , too.

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