Bye, now. Have good sex.

Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'


Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape  

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 16, 2007 3:08:11 pm PDT #243 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I may have one or two tix going begging. Email me: lagarat at gmail dot com if you'd be interested. It's in Woodland Hills at 7pm.


Volans - Jul 16, 2007 4:12:30 pm PDT #244 of 10000
move out and draw fire

(Tries to figure out how to get to LA without anyone noticing I'm gone)


Laga - Jul 16, 2007 4:26:56 pm PDT #245 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

It's 2007! Where's my damn teleporter?!


Aims - Jul 16, 2007 7:43:15 pm PDT #246 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

points at Joe

Lazy. Also? Wasted all the monkeys.


§ ita § - Jul 17, 2007 5:28:19 am PDT #247 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a question or two for people that saw Transformers:

  • What was the bad guy's original plan?
To get the All Spark and corrupt Earth's technology? Arriving 300 years before we had any, all of which was reverse engineered from him anyway?
  • What was the good guys' plan
after leaving the dam? Give the slowest member of the group the thing that the bad guy wants, send him up to a tall building and have him draw attention to himself?
  • How was the bad guy defeated?
By handing him (the all spark was definitely not placed in his chest) the thing he'd been looking for the whole time.

At least that's what I saw, and it doesn't make much sense.


Theodosia - Jul 17, 2007 5:37:11 am PDT #248 of 10000
'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"

Alas, ita, while I've not seen the movie, I have a feeling that "It's a Michael Bay movie" figures heavily into the answer to all of your questions.


beekaytee - Jul 17, 2007 8:23:52 am PDT #249 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant

ita, I read the moviespoiler.com synopsis and if the reporting is at all correct, I'd say 'yup' to all your questions.

Phew. moviespoiler saves me again!


§ ita § - Jul 17, 2007 8:29:57 am PDT #250 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, man, we laughed forever at how the black Transformer was the only Autobot killed. One of the people I was arguing with said he wasn't black, more silver-coloured which was a cute-assed way of misreading the description. I mean, as far as we could tell his first line is "What's up, bitches?" and then he does some spontaneous (you know how we are with rhythm) breakdancing. And dies.

IT'S ALWAYS THE WAY. WE DON'T GET NO JUSTICE.

I'm also still creeped out by the scene near the end where our intrepid young heroes are making out ON THE SENTIENT CAR while others watch. Kiddy porn, anyone?

The movie cracked me up, but I cannot call it good. For something that funny...well, it just cracks enjoyable.

This week I'm going to see the new HP, and from not reading the whitefont here, I'm very excited. Friend doesn't read the books, just watches the movies, so I'm curious to watch his take.


Dana - Jul 17, 2007 8:46:56 am PDT #251 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I laughed at (bitterly) and was creeped out by the same things.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2007 8:57:26 am PDT #252 of 10000
"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

Okay, after reading the whitefont I think I may have to go see this movie just to laugh at it. it sounds like a $150 million budget SNL digital short. Though You Kill Me and Ratatouille are higher on my to do list.