Jayne, you'll scare the women.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


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.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2006 12:23:37 pm PDT #3584 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Transformers Revealed!

Orci and Kurtzman promise that the story will be accessible to the uninitiated while staying loyal to the legions of fans. They also say the story will be told through the eyes of its human characters, who are witnessing the intergalactic Autobot-Decepticon war come abruptly to Earth.


Kalshane - Aug 18, 2006 12:32:07 pm PDT #3585 of 10001
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.

Transformers Revealed!

I'm kind of annoyed they felt the need to pretty much make up new characters for almost all of the Decepticons.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2006 12:39:18 pm PDT #3586 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, most of them didn't sound familiar. I wondered why. But I guess that's the way with movies. I mean, why the hell would you make up new mutants for the X-Men movies when there are, I imagine, hundreds in canon already? It's not like they performed any function necessary to the plot.


sumi - Aug 18, 2006 12:40:05 pm PDT #3587 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Daniel Craig cast in The Golden Compass.


Gris - Aug 18, 2006 12:40:20 pm PDT #3588 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Entering the second act of Rent, the only thing I'm REALLY disappointed with so far is the fact that they split the first act into several days. I like it better as one day. There are some things that are coming across quite beautifully on film. And I LOVE Rosario Dawson, I've decided, as Mimi. I was never a huge fan of Daphne Rubin-Vega's voice like some, though, so that probably makes me less likely to get pissed.

Sorry, for the non Rent-heads in the audience.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 18, 2006 12:48:05 pm PDT #3589 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

What do you think of Traci Thoms as one of the new cast?


Gris - Aug 18, 2006 12:51:53 pm PDT #3590 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Oh, I really like her. A lot. She's a fairly minor character, compared to some of the others, so I didn't mention. But I'm watching her biggest song right now.

And.... yeah. She rocks.


Aims - Aug 18, 2006 12:52:33 pm PDT #3591 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I adored her, but then, I've never seen Rent on stage.


Gris - Aug 18, 2006 12:54:45 pm PDT #3592 of 10001
Hey. New board.

In all three casts I've seen, Joanne has been the weakest cast member, so I'm very, very happy to see Tracie in the film.


Gris - Aug 18, 2006 1:29:41 pm PDT #3593 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Okay, wow.

Emotional wreck now.

I don't think it's a great film. I wish it had been given to an inspired director, instead of the world's most boring one. It needed better connections between the music and the not-music. It shouldn't have cut the end of Goodbye Love. But still. I'm so, so grateful that it exists.

Why are so many musical movies that way?