You're not secretly Swedish, are you?
God, my parents would have a FIT.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 9:01:31 am PDT #9452 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 9:04:46 am PDT #9453 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like Liza in Cabaret. She's supposed to be hyper and shallow.
Exactly. Her Sally Bowles is the epitome of flightiness, but by the end of the film, that flightiness is an obvious shell since we've grown to know the frightened, rejected child she is underneath. A really excellent performance by Liza, and one she (supposedly) based partially on her mother.
A secret message for Sean: pfffffffttttttthhhhh!!!
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 9:04:54 am PDT #9454 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Corwood, that song is AWESOME!
Thanks!
Diane Keaton is terrible and wasted in Godfather
Oh, I don't agree with this. She's not great in parts, but when Kay realizes just how fucked she is towards the end, Keaton pulls off some great pathos. She's definitely the most over-the-top actor in G2, though.
Theodosia - Jun 21, 2007 9:05:53 am PDT #9455 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"
Movies I haven't seen but have an opinion about: Raging Bull, The Wild Bunch, On the Waterfront. Perhaps I should add, not a favorable one, at least not enough for me to watch enough of each movie to see if I'm wrong.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 9:09:54 am PDT #9456 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Movies I haven't seen but have an opinion about: Raging Bull, The Wild Bunch, On the Waterfront.
I finally watched On the Waterfront as part of the film noir podcast and it was much better than I thought it would be.
askye - Jun 21, 2007 9:10:13 am PDT #9457 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I've seen 31 of the movies on the list. I've seen more of the ones taken off the list.
I hate Forrest Gump because I don't like Forrest the character. Actually the book wasn't half bad but the movie just...ugh. It's one of the reasons I don't like Tom Hanks as much. Although I was never a huge fan of his.
I'm also in the corner with JZ and Ple and the love of It's a Wonderful Life it totally should be on the list. It gets hurt becuase it's so over exposed and has been parodied a lot but it is a good moive. The scene where Mary and George share the phone is just amazing.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 9:10:54 am PDT #9458 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't seen 44 of those films. I have little urge to catch up on Westerns or musicals or war movies. But 12 Angry Men is deinitely on the list. And All About Eve. I can't imagine how I missed that.
As I type, I keep realising I've seen more than I'd thought. Now I'm down to having not seen 42, and it may keep dropping.
I hated Forrest Gump, and that's right where my Hanks hatred started too. Ugh. Triumph of the magical handicapped. Blecch.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 9:13:00 am PDT #9459 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I hate Forrest Gump because I don't like Forrest the character.
One of my biggest problems with it is the music, which I found particularly grating. It was like they thought about what they wanted to put out on the CD and then tried to jam as much of that music as possible into the film.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 9:13:03 am PDT #9460 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
This should come as a surprise to no one, but The Wild Bunch is pretty much my favorite movie and I believe that, like it or hate it, everyone should watch it once.
Also, I love On The Waterfront, despite its convoluted relationship with McCarthyism.
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 9:18:07 am PDT #9461 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I hate Forrest Gump because I don't like Forrest the character. Actually the book wasn't half bad but the movie just...ugh.
My understanding (second hand) is that one of the main tidbits from the book that the movie leaves out is that Forrest has a HUUUUUUUGE cock, and that's why Jenny sleeps with him, and why she decides to stay with him at the end.