I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.

Buffy ,'End of Days'


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.


Kathy A - May 15, 2007 8:37:40 am PDT #8471 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Ummm, what's Tintin?


Volans - May 15, 2007 8:45:26 am PDT #8472 of 10001
move out and draw fire

I think I have to subdivide my Rewatch List into:

Movies I Saw Multiple Times In the Theater
Movies I Bought on DVD (or VHS) and Voluntarily Put In
Movies I Will Stop Channel Surfing To Rewatch
and
Movies I Will Rewatch If There's No Other Interesting Option

Oh, and from above, the guy was talking about the Wise version of The Haunting. In my world, there exists no other. Whatever that recent movie was that was called The Haunting, with characters named the same? It wasn't the same.


JZ - May 15, 2007 8:46:43 am PDT #8473 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Seen a berjillion times, will stop and rewatch if I flip past 'em on TV, and have never seen 'em on the big screen but would definitely go out of my way to do so if they ever showed up there:

Holiday, The Princess Bride, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Citizen Kane, In A Lonely Place, Bringing Up Baby, Groundhog Day, It's A Wonderful Life, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona

Seen a berjillion times including on the big screen, will rewatch on TV, and will make a special trip to see on the big screen again:

Touch of Evil, Mary Poppins, Vertigo, LOTR, POTC, Fargo, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Seen a berjillion times, wouldn't make a special trip for the big screen but will happily rewatch and rewatch again:

The Cutting Edge, Beetlejuice, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, all the Back to the Future movies, anything with Brendan Fraser (though Gods and Monsters probably belongs on the make-a-trip-to-the-theater list), and, to my near-utter shame, Fools Rush In. (I can't help it! Matthew Perry is all young and skinny and free from pain-med issues, and Salma Hayek knocks my Kinsey all askew like woah, and her character is witty and snarky, not just pretty, and actively religious without it being a sign that she's a craxyhead, and the relationship between her and her best friend is kind of sweet, and -- okay, really, it's kind of a crap movie. But I still can't help it.)

Stuff on most people's most-watched list that I've never seen or seen only once and in part that left me completely cold because I have no magic in my heart:

Grease, Dirty Dancing


§ ita § - May 15, 2007 8:48:14 am PDT #8474 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kathy: Tintin.

I can see the differing sorts of childlike wonder of Jackson and Spielberg working well together. Even better if there are spiders.

Just keep Tom Hanks away.


megan walker - May 15, 2007 8:49:15 am PDT #8475 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Tintin is a Belgian comic book series from the 30s and 40s. Tintin is a reporter that gets pulled into all sorts of mysteries. There are about 25 adventures in the series. There are some pretty bad stereotypes in the earlier ones ( Tintin in the Congo, The Blue Lotus and Tintin in America especially) but I think new editions have toned those down. Tintin is iconic in Europe.

ETA: Oh my God, please, no Tom Hanks!


JZ - May 15, 2007 8:53:34 am PDT #8476 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'll put up with Tom Hanks if absolutely necessary. All I ask is that they keep XXX XXXXXX far, far the fuck away.

eta for Megan's comfort: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Not Voldemort, the other one.


megan walker - May 15, 2007 8:54:49 am PDT #8477 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

What is wrong with you people? Stop jinxing things!


Kathy A - May 15, 2007 9:10:37 am PDT #8478 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Yep, never heard of Tintin. Then again, I hadn't heard of Babar until I saw the movie Fletch, so you know the state of my knowledge of classic children's literature.


brenda m - May 15, 2007 9:58:19 am PDT #8479 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

The Anne of Green Gables movies (not feature films, I know, but that's a lotta hours of my life)

Oh, right. Add the BBC/A&E Pride and Prejudice to my list.


erikaj - May 15, 2007 10:11:58 am PDT #8480 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Things I Watch Whenever
Dirty Dancing
Say Anything
Goodfellas
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Don't know why...have some of these on video, but if they are on TV I watch them, too Oh, and "Corrina, Corrina" I also, JZ, don't know why "Fools Rush In" got a reputation for such devastating badness...is not amazing art, but I have totally seen worse. And I think MP is really cute. But maybe he had me at "Gum would be *perfection*"