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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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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.

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Nutty - Oct 17, 2006 7:44:45 am PDT #4761 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

If they can make an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical out of The Woman in White, they can do anything.

The third act is painfully drawn out, and depends on the audience not having figured out either trick to be interesting.

So, the answer is, I should be about half-drunk when I walk into the movie, and I will enjoy it. (Movies where I figure out the ending too soon tend to annoy the crap out of me.) For The Illusionist, I figured it out pretty early on, but was half-convinced that the how of it wasn't the point, and anyway there was Edward Norton being mournful and Paul Giamatti being fussy and all manner of fin-de-siecle Viennese confusion and who doesn't like that??

Also, bowler hats.

Gris - Oct 17, 2006 7:44:45 am PDT #4762 of 10001

Hey. New board.

The John Travolta bit sucks. Other than that, I have no problem with it - Hairspray is more likely to make a better second movie than The Producers did, anyway.

Aims - Oct 17, 2006 7:44:47 am PDT #4763 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Wha?

Huh?

Wha?

I'm totally kicking you the next time I see you.

LET HARVEY FIRESTEIN PLAY IT, GORRAM IT.

I loved the musical and I love the movie.

kicks whoever cast that shit

SO help me, if they get Gwenyth Paltrow to put her fat suit on again and be Tracy, I'll lose my ever loving mind.

Aims - Oct 17, 2006 7:47:24 am PDT #4764 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

And it looks like they've cast Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle. I can get behind that.

esse - Oct 17, 2006 7:51:42 am PDT #4765 of 10001

S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Why on earth would they re-shoot the movie? That's ridiculous. Oh well.

So Angier is Hugh and Borden is Bale? That's how I mentally cast it as I was reading the novel.

Aims - Oct 17, 2006 7:53:50 am PDT #4766 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

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Here's the entire cast list for the new Hairspray movie.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2006 7:54:01 am PDT #4767 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

Frankly, the premise of "Ziggy Stardust helps Wolverine kick Batman's ass using THE AWESOME POWER OF ELECTRICITY" was never really going to live up to the version in my head.

What? Bowie's siding with Jackman against Bale? WAS VELVET GOLDMINE ALL FOR NOTHING?!?

Strega - Oct 17, 2006 7:56:55 am PDT #4768 of 10001

Frankly, the premise of "Ziggy Stardust helps Wolverine kick Batman's ass using THE AWESOME POWER OF ELECTRICITY" was never really going to live up to the version in my head.

Okay, first of all, you are crazy, because Ziggy Stardust would totally be on Batman's side.

Secondly... or more likely, Batman and Wolverine would resolve their differences by beating Ziggy Stardust to a pulp.

Thirdly: I think I need to send you a copy of Five Fists of Science.

Jessica - Oct 17, 2006 8:14:39 am PDT #4769 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Okay, first of all, you are crazy, because Ziggy Stardust would totally be on Batman's side.

Hey, I didn't cast it! You can't pin that crazy on me!

Strega - Oct 17, 2006 8:18:03 am PDT #4770 of 10001

You could have pretended that was the shocking twist. Like, Ziggy was actually in cahoots with Batman the whole time!

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