Just got back from seeing The Host. It's just your average Korean comedy-horror-family-anti-pollution-coming-of-age-satire, the perfect film for my first outing since surgery. Really great film and I can recommend it wholeheartedly to most Buffistas.
We're in love. We're ... lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.
Willow ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Scrappy - Mar 24, 2007 8:03:18 pm PDT #7991 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Fiona - Mar 24, 2007 10:37:42 pm PDT #7992 of 10001
This question:
4) Favorite Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger movie
from the quiz MADE me rewatch "A Matter of Life and Death" last night. Oh the hardship. Was the young David Niven ever more charming? And that's saying something.
It's was SO's first P&P movie. His comment: "abgefahren", which translates as cool, spacy, way-out, wicked. Yeah, he gets it.
megan walker - Mar 25, 2007 3:29:49 am PDT #7993 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
His comment: "abgefahren", which translates as cool, spacy, way-out, wicked. Yeah, he gets it.
You should do Black Narcissus next--talk about abgefahren. That PP question was so hard, just cause I love them all.
Theodosia - Mar 25, 2007 3:46:49 am PDT #7994 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Abgefahren = "Far out, man!" :-)
Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2007 7:04:56 am PDT #7995 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Anti-littering PSA from David Lynch: [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2007 11:22:31 am PDT #7996 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 just got back from the international film fest showing of Almodovar's All About my Mother. SO happy that I waited to see this on the big screen for the full immersion experience. Cecilia Roth just blew me away - I think that's the best performance by an actress I've seen in the past year.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2007 12:00:31 pm PDT #7997 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Movie quiz stuff:
1) Repo Man (didn't really love it on first pass; soon become most quoted movie in then recent memory)
2) Grapes of Wrath
3) John Hurt's cameo in SPACEBALLS (double your reference, double your fun)
4) Damn, I've only seen PEEPING TOM which is post-Pressburger. Oh well, it's a great movie.
5) Trey and Matt showing up in drag and tripping.
6) Guy Pearce. For RAVENOUS if nothing else (and there is more).
7) Amarcord
8) THE NAKED KISS
9) Monica all the way, bay-bee!
10) GROUNDHOG DAY / THE FULL MONTY / NORTH BY NORTHWEST
11) PATCH ADAMS
12) HOPE AND GLORY
13) Warren, though I do love Bruce.
14) The correct one.
15) I think Quentin Tarantino's movies utterly reflect his personality, and that's just the first one I thought of. I think both Wes and Paul Thomas Anderson are also in that category. And definitely Sofia Coppola.
16) Aguirre.
17) THE FLY (Cronenberg version)
18) Sandra, for getting to torture Jerry Lewis on camera.
19) Favorite: the jaded hero(ine) who rediscovers their reasons / Least: Wacky misunderstandings that two sentances would have cleared up.
20) Nes.
21) BIGGER THAN LIFE (scary ass shit and could have qualified for question 17); my wise-ass response would be THE AMERICAN FRIEND
22) I'm going with famous "bombs" that were underrated: POPEYE, HUDSON HAWK & LONG KISS GOODNIGHT.
23) VIDEODROME
24) Bruno!
25) HEARTS OF DARKNESS
26) Michael Palin throwing out "but I didn't have the salmon mousse" at the last second in MEANING OF LIFE. In a non-movie context, Bob from TWIN PEAKS showing up by accident in a shot a Lynch and company running with it.
27) WINGS OF DESIRE
28) Pena, for LONE STAR if nothing else (and there is more)
29) BLACK SHEEP: Get ready for the violence of the lambs!!!!
30) Whatever Pauline Kael did, that's what I loves the most.
Bonus: Yes, because they matter to me.
Also, a massive pbpbpbbbblllttt!!!! to Hec for his 2001 crack.
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2007 6:28:51 pm PDT #7998 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I just watched the Manchurian Candidate remake.
How did they take an exciting thriller and make it so damn boring ?
I feel like it was ineptly made, or I just hated all the directorial choices. Like the fact that half the shots were the character right in the middle of the frame, facing the camera. Often talking to the camera in the process of addressing a character. There were a couple times where it seemed intentional, for effect, but it happened so many times for no apparent reason that it felt like Demme had never made a movie before or something. Plus, the constant fade-outs were weird. It's like the movie had zero momentum. It was sort of a mess. I don't get it. I remember being really impressed with how good the original was.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2007 9:08:59 pm PDT #7999 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
Some alternative marketing for 300. I cracked up at the visual the creator chose for the first chorus.
megan walker - Mar 26, 2007 8:43:29 am PDT #8000 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Pena, for LONE STAR if nothing else (and there is more)
God do I love that movie! Now that I've actually been to that part of Texas, I should probably see it again.