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Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape

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§ ita § - Nov 03, 2007 9:12:20 pm PDT #2009 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My, my, my.

Just finished watching Lost Souls (2000) with Ben Chaplin and Winona Ryder. It's one of the most consistently bad movies I've seen. It was so clear what just about every scene was trying to do, and how surely it was failing. A bit of The Omen, a bit of Rosemary's Baby but really nothing of either, because it had no style or darkness. Visually obviously shortchanging you, because the sets themselves looked great, but like they could have been filmed better. Blocking was strangled, jammed up the movement and the eyelines of the conversations. The plot had pacing problems, and even bigger plausibility ones.

Remarkably stinky. I was wondering how Winona Ryder paid her rent--I guess I should have been wondering how she slept nights, with this on her conscience.

-t - Nov 03, 2007 9:29:35 pm PDT #2010 of 10000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I own that movie. Bought it for way cheap when Wherehouse Music went out of business. I might not have it anymore, but I haven't exactly looked for it. I think I watched it all the way through...

§ ita § - Nov 03, 2007 9:40:06 pm PDT #2011 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wish Netflix forced you to say why you added anything to the queue. Can't work out this one. At least Grave of the Fireflies is next.

Juliebird - Nov 04, 2007 3:51:45 am PST #2012 of 10000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Run away, ita!

Unless you like dark, depressing, bleak and joyless and eventually pointless (At least that's what I went away with, but the movie also was nothing like what I was expecting).

Dana - Nov 04, 2007 3:52:54 am PST #2013 of 10000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I want to like Ben Chaplin, but he doesn't make very good movies.

At least Grave of the Fireflies is next.

Oh, god.

Scrappy - Nov 04, 2007 7:03:37 am PST #2014 of 10000

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Went to American Gangster last night. Very good movie. It's a little too long and takes itself a little too seriously to be great, but definitely worth seeing. denzel is looking goooooood and he underplays really well.

§ ita § - Nov 04, 2007 7:37:22 am PST #2015 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay. I'm halfway through Grave of the Fireflies. Should I really give the rest a pass? It's certainly sad and haunting so far, but not so compelling that I'll feel empty leaving it here.

Dana - Nov 04, 2007 7:51:12 am PST #2016 of 10000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

ita, it only gets more depressing, which is my primary memory of the movie.

Hayden - Nov 04, 2007 7:55:31 am PST #2017 of 10000

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

It's depressing, but very beautiful. I don't think it was meaningless or even joyless at all. That said, I'll never watch the damn thing again, but I'm glad I saw it once.

Laga - Nov 04, 2007 8:09:41 am PST #2018 of 10000

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'll never watch the damn thing again, but I'm glad I saw it once.

This should be its own genre.

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