Right. Sir. Honey.

Zoe ,'The Train Job'


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.


DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:18:47 pm PDT #9293 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I think plenty of things ate them, they just bred like tribbles.

Yeah, but only when they were massed a million wide across the sky. I'm not sure if that makes them orgiastic or kind of shy.


sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:22:18 pm PDT #9294 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Natural predators:

The bird's only natural predators were hawks and eagles.

Although, I bet that owls took a few too.

And even if we didn't slaughter them they would have suffered because we destroyed their natural habitat. (By clearing all so much of the forests between the Atlantic and the Mississippi.)


Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 1:24:56 pm PDT #9295 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Is there a SciFi movie about a mad scientist who harvests passenger pigeon DNA and regrows them á la Jurassic Park, and then they breed rapidly á la Gremlins and begin attacking people á la The Birds ? If not, why?


DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:25:33 pm PDT #9296 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The bird's only natural predators were hawks and eagles.

That must've been like a buffet line for the raptors.


DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:26:31 pm PDT #9297 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If not, why?

Have you seen Night of the Lepus?

Because horror films about not-horrible animals tend to not ping the primal fear centers in the brain.


sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:28:29 pm PDT #9298 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

P-C, you should totally propose that to SciFi. Perhaps you could include the Giant Auk and the Sea Mink. Ooh and the Carolina Parakeet!


sumi - Jun 19, 2007 1:29:17 pm PDT #9299 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Well, maybe something like the Attack of the Were-Rabbit. . .


§ ita § - Jun 19, 2007 1:35:46 pm PDT #9300 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What if movie casting.

Some of these I totally see--Chow Yun Fat as Morpheus in The Matrix, and others make the movie way too different.

I think the turning down that surprised me the most was Kate Hudson picking The Four Feathers over Spiderman.

I just .... man, I didn't even like Spiderman. I still would have taken the role.


DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 1:44:47 pm PDT #9301 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Daniel Day Lewis would've made a good Aragorn.

Not that I'm unhappy with Viggo, but DDL would've been good.


Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 1:50:32 pm PDT #9302 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Have you seen Night of the Lepus?

Generally, Hec, the answer to "Have you seen [movie]?" coming from you is no. Heh.