Saw V. Liked it a lot.
It took me SO LONG to realize you didn't mean the mini-series about aliens.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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.
Gris - Feb 26, 2006 7:53:49 am PST #663 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Betsy HP - Feb 26, 2006 8:37:26 am PST #664 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Likewise.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 26, 2006 12:12:36 pm PST #665 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
At lunch I was poring over the Walt Disney Co. annual stockholders' report. I see that the studio has The Shaggy Dog and Santa Clause 3 as upcoming releases.
The operating expenses section didn't itemize sufficiently to tell what we paid for Tim Allen's soul.
lisah - Feb 26, 2006 5:38:13 pm PST #666 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I just read V for Vendetta and was kind of underwhelmed by it. I liked the ideas but I thought the plot was a little scattershot. I kept thinking that it might actually work better as a movie.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2006 5:39:14 pm PST #667 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heretic!
Just kidding.
What did you think was scattershot about it? I thought it quite tight, so I'd appreciate the perspective.
Mr. Broom - Feb 26, 2006 6:03:37 pm PST #668 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
As someone who was impressed with both the scope and attention to detail in both V and The Watchmen, I'm likewise interested in a contrary opinion. I can't drum up really good conversation about them, despite wanting to, because all my friends who've read them agree with me, which is no fun.
Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2006 6:09:07 pm PST #669 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2006 6:13:04 pm PST #670 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.
There totally is. Watchmen. See?
Strega - Feb 26, 2006 7:06:48 pm PST #671 of 10001
Jessica, re your whitefont, now I'm making an "O" face. That sounds...neat.
The main problem I'm having with the ads now is that V is presented like a superhero with the swishy knives. Is this mostly an ad thing? Because that's fine. I keep trying to believe it is just an ad thing. I guess... I want him to be creepy. He should be creepy.
DebetEsse - Feb 26, 2006 7:14:15 pm PST #672 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm hoping for an ad thing, as well, because the man was stealth-lethal-dude, but, yeah, not what he's about. The "Matrix" pedigree worries me a little, but I'll be seeing it, having heard that it doesn't suck.