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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 2:06:41 pm PDT #9305 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Jun 19, 2007 2:30:23 pm PDT #9306 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.
Night of the Lepus is made of awesome, except for the part where it's made of total spectacular badness (which is in itself made of awesome). Here's the original trailer, which will probably somehow fail to frighten you to death.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 2:45:16 pm PDT #9307 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow. That was awesomely bad. It reminded me of the Don't trailer, in that it never really tells you what the fuck it's about.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2007 2:50:38 pm PDT #9308 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It reminded me of the Don't trailer, in that it never really tells you what the fuck it's about.
Well...it could be bunnies.
JZ - Jun 19, 2007 2:53:42 pm PDT #9309 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.
it never really tells you what the fuck it's about.
Well, see, if it did, you would die laughing and thus never actually cough up the money to buy a ticket.
The actual movie is just... just... Lots of shots of people screaming, running, flailing, bleeding, intercut with shots of actual bunny rabbits lolloping around miniature sets, blinking and stamping their feet and behaving in a generally rabbity fashion. Terrifying to Anya, but probably not to a single other soul on the face of the planet.
There's another mutant-fuzzy-animal horror movie, whose name I'm too lazy to Google but it might be something like Hiss!, that's about a band of very angry feral cats and that suffers from the same inability to make its monsters credibly terrifying. The cats mostly loll about sleeping, as cats mostly do, and occasionally puff themselves up and hiss ineffectually, as cats occasionally do, and there's one shot of a cat attacking one of the hapless heroes in which I swear you can see the shadow of the animal handler throwing the cat through the air because the damn thing was too lazy to pounce on command.
And now I'm talking myself into big love for a mutant killer passenger pigeon movie. Though possibly mutant killer dodos would be even better.
Theodosia - Jun 19, 2007 3:24:09 pm PDT #9310 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"
Still patiently waiting for Black Sheep.
askye - Jun 19, 2007 4:13:25 pm PDT #9311 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I love Night of the Lepus.
I can say quite honestly it's one of my favorite movies. I wish it had made it's way on to MST3K, because I can only imagine the fun Crow, Tom Servo, and Joel would have had with it. You should watch it on Easter. It also has DeForrest Kelly.
On the other hand THEM! is a great giant radioactive mutant animal movie and does a much better job with the suspense. Leonard Nimoy has a small uncredited role.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2007 4:37:53 pm PDT #9312 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I agree, askye! It was pretty good.
Gris - Jun 19, 2007 4:48:29 pm PDT #9313 of 10001
Hey. New board.
In terms of non-scary-mutant movies, I'm a big fan of "Attack of the Killer Shrews." The giant shrews are adorable puppies with cardboard noses!
Atropa - Jun 19, 2007 5:14:10 pm PDT #9314 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Have you seen Night of the Lepus?
Dude, do not mock Night of the Lepus. It is a classic. Classic what, I'm not sure, but I'm very fond of it. I suspect it is part of the Evil Bunny Alliance's plan to lull everyone into complacency regarding bunnies, so that no one will be able to resist when Clovis finally takes over the world.