Toohh.Fuuutt.EEE. Tofuti. Tooohh.Fuuutt.EEEEE.
And Katherine Helmond! "But darling, if you have a baby, you won't BE the baby!"
Can I be an Ameganee, too?
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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.
Beverly - Dec 08, 2006 10:54:59 am PST #6384 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Aims - Dec 08, 2006 10:57:25 am PST #6385 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
yes!!
Beverly - Dec 08, 2006 11:20:43 am PST #6386 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Woohoo!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 08, 2006 1:40:07 pm PST #6387 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
"Snake Plissken? I heard you were dead."
My friend Tamela cracked up an entire movie theater by shouting that as soon as Kurt Russell's face appeared in the Escape from LA trailer.
Kalshane - Dec 08, 2006 2:06:51 pm PST #6388 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.
Sadly, I've still never seen Escape from New York. Like Aliens, it's one of those major geek movies that I've never seen, but really should. I did see Escape from L.A., but was underwhelmed to say the least (which I think was pretty much everyone's reaction to that movie.)
Cashmere - Dec 08, 2006 3:50:39 pm PST #6389 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Escape from New York is a MUST. It's FABULOUS. Not underwhelming at all.
So I just now noticed they're making a film version of Mimsy Were the Borogoves. Classic science fiction short story being made into a film.
They can't possibly fuck it up, can they?
::Hugs her copy of Johnny Mnemonic tightly::
Frankenbuddha - Dec 08, 2006 4:06:05 pm PST #6390 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Escape from New York is a MUST. It's FABULOUS. Not underwhelming at all.
I've determined after multiple viewings that EfNY was seriously undermined by Carpenter's minimalist score. It's a great style for his horror movies (and I'm convinced he basically force-fed Morricone his ideas for THE THING), but I think it enervates EfNY to a point where I couldn't enjoy it completely on first watching it. A rousing soundtrack would have done wonders for that movie.
Cashmere - Dec 08, 2006 4:36:37 pm PST #6391 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
but I think it enervates EfNY to a point where I couldn't enjoy it completely on first watching it. A rousing soundtrack would have done wonders for that movie.
I don't know. That pounding, relentless beat sort of sticks with me. It's been years since I've seen it but I had a cousin who had it on laser disc and we watched it about 50 times or so when we were in high school. I may be due for a rewatch.
Amy - Dec 08, 2006 5:16:04 pm PST #6392 of 10001
Because books.
I'm totally due for a rewatch. It's been too long.
I remain unsullied by Escape From L.A., though.
What's weird to me is how many sci-fi/fantasy movies I adore when I never really read (and still don't read) sci-fi. Some of my favorite movies are The Matrix, Bladerunner, the LoTR trilogy, Blade (kind of really horror, I know) the original Star Wars trilogy, Altered States, the gadgetry of the Bond movies...
But then I also adore a lot of action movies, and have never read a Ludlum book or similar.
Cashmere - Dec 08, 2006 5:28:42 pm PST #6393 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I saw Star Wars when I was 7. My cousin introduced me to Burroughs's John Carter of Mars when I was 12 (I read the whole series). But when I was 13, I went to a smart-kid summer camp and took a class on Science Fiction. I was introduced to Bradbury, Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clark and Vonnegut. I read "Nine Billion Names of God", "Microcosmic God", "He Built a Crooked House", "Harrison Bergeron", "I, Robot" and "Mimsy Were the Borogoves", "A Sound of Thunder" and "Nightfall".
Talk about opening the floodgates.
Now I'm sad again because of all the craptacular film versions of these classics.