River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

'Safe'


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.


Laga - Jul 08, 2007 3:22:05 pm PDT #9969 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Yes but when Buffistas do it we're being ironic.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 08, 2007 3:56:04 pm PDT #9970 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Wrong amy ita.


§ ita § - Jul 08, 2007 4:05:16 pm PDT #9971 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wrong amy ita.

Uh...no? I was just showing Laga we do "first post" here by linking to one.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 08, 2007 4:59:41 pm PDT #9972 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

My bad. It came right after this from AmyLiz so I got confused:

Has Never Been First, Sadly


Laga - Jul 08, 2007 6:32:24 pm PDT #9973 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

oddly enough I thought it meant both.

I just put The Thin Man in the player and I got the sense, just from the look of the DVD that I've already watched it.


megan walker - Jul 08, 2007 6:34:24 pm PDT #9974 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Finally saw Waitress. It was cute. I think it was a little too cutesy for me to love it. But it certainly was a promising little film that made me sad about Adrienne Shelly's fate.

Mostly I'm just really happy that the current films at my local theater are Waitress, Sicko, and Paris, je t'aime.

ETA: As someone who has The Thin Man memorized, I'd say watch it again. With a drink or two in hand.


Laga - Jul 08, 2007 6:35:18 pm PDT #9975 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

the current films at my local theater are Waitress, Sicko, and Paris, je t'aime.

dude! Are they hiring?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 08, 2007 11:27:41 pm PDT #9976 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

One thing that I think is nice about Waitress is that when Adrienne Shelley's daughter is older, her dad will be able to show her the movie as a love letter from Mom. Most people just get family albums and a few keepsakes to remember a deceased parent by.

I saw Evening this afternoon, and am apparently a sucker for Gatsby-esque romantic tragedies set in the elite coastal vacation towns of bygone eras. Though upon reflection over Hugh Dancy's role afterwards I did have to wonder if the filmmakers were aware the Hays Code is no longer in effect. After all, Buddy survived a perfectly legitimate potential death due to his own foolhardy drunken behavior, only to be struck down as if from on high by a car that appeared out of nowhere on a secluded road through the woods late at night, whose presence was not announced by sound or headlights beforehand and which disappeared without stopping even though the impact with him was shown to shatter the windshield. Why not just have him struck down by lightning or turned into a pillar of salt ?


sj - Jul 09, 2007 2:29:45 am PDT #9977 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

We saw Knocked Up last night, and I liked a lot more I thought I was going to. I really thought it would be more watch from the hall.


Steph L. - Jul 09, 2007 3:32:35 am PDT #9978 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Finally saw PotC3 yesterday. Yeah, it had too much in it, but I can forgive that, because (with the exception of Tia Dalma/Calypso) it was all necessary and carried over from the first 2.

t edit I mean that Tia Dalma carried over from PotC2, obviously, and we had gotten the idea that she and Davy Jones were OTP because we saw her locket in PotC. But the whole concept of Tia-Dalma-as-spirit-of-the-seas-trapped-in-human-form was a new (and totally unnecessary, IMO) asspull.

Jack Davenport has one of the sexiest voices EVER. And I think that Norrington should have been the one to stab Davy Jones' heart and then take over the Flying Dutchman.

I thought that this was Depp's best of the 3, mostly because he wasn't stagger-y/speech slurred/scenery chewing.

The Boy and I had a long debate afterwards about whether an undead ferrier of souls is even able to impregnate someone. My vote: no. The Boy's vote: it's just a movie; you accepted everything else, so just go with it. (Heh.)