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Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape

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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.

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Aims - Oct 25, 2007 5:19:06 am PDT #1861 of 10000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I stayed home yesterday and caught "You've Been Served" on some channel.

Question: When did the "rival performance teams square off in a competition only to tie and then have a dance/drum/rap/walk-off where the rules all change and the protaganist (who inevitably got booted earlier in the story) gets to compete and that makes the team win" become it's very own genre? Am I late to the game and I'm just not remembering it in other, earlier movies?

Tom Scola - Oct 25, 2007 5:22:55 am PDT #1862 of 10000

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Rocky and Apollo Creed tied in Rocky I, but I don't think that's what you're asking about.

Aims - Oct 25, 2007 5:32:46 am PDT #1863 of 10000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Well. I can mark Rocky off my list of movies to see

Hee.

Kathy A - Oct 25, 2007 6:37:01 am PDT #1864 of 10000

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Drumline!! As cheesy as that ending is, I really love that movie just because being in the band is cool, instead of dorky. Also, that final drumline-off is freaking awesome.

Aims - Oct 25, 2007 6:44:54 am PDT #1865 of 10000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Totally.

Ailleann - Oct 25, 2007 6:46:39 am PDT #1866 of 10000

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Aww, Drumline! Cheesy, yet fabulous. (Plus, music fraternity shoutouts!)

le nubian - Oct 25, 2007 7:41:53 am PDT #1867 of 10000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have seen that movie like 4-6 times. The final sequence with Earth Wind and Fire is just fucking awesome.

Aims - Oct 25, 2007 7:47:16 am PDT #1868 of 10000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Joe laughs because I have NOT seen the whole of Drumline. Just the last half-hour or so.

Nutty - Oct 25, 2007 9:19:42 am PDT #1869 of 10000

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I just like Drumline because where else can you watch only the band parts of college football? On ESPNU, you have to wade through all of that football to get to the guys in purple uniforms with feathers bashing one another with their tubas.

(Except for The Play, which thankfully they show shorn of its game context, because stomping on trombones really is that funny.)

Daisy Jane - Oct 25, 2007 3:28:51 pm PDT #1870 of 10000

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I love Drumline, Stomp the Yard, You Got Served- all that! Guy who gets booted cause he doesn't play by the rules helps the team win in a last stand situation and the coach learns a new way and the rebel learns a lesson about teamwork- are some of my favorite guilty pleasures.

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