Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2007 3:35:48 am PST #2590 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ellen Page: Tiny and adorable.

Just watch out for that scalpel.


Liese S. - Dec 07, 2007 4:45:07 am PST #2591 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Is Emile Hirsch wearing yellowface in this movie?

I hope not. Or I'd have to go samurai on someone's ass. And I can, 'cause I'm a direct line samurai descendant.


Sue - Dec 07, 2007 5:06:50 am PST #2592 of 10000
hip deep in pie

Ellen Page: Tiny and adorable.

I sat behind her at a film festival screening of her new movie, The Tracey Fragments, and some high school girls came over to get her autograph and were all fawning and Ellen was super sweet with them


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2007 5:20:52 am PST #2593 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

It doesn't look like it in the close-ups, but in that sideways action shot with Racer X (WTF? Isn't Matthew Fox like 6'2"?) there is something very odd going on with his complexion.


Tom Scola - Dec 07, 2007 5:23:29 am PST #2594 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

(Unknown to Speed, Racer X is secretly his older brother, Rex, who ran away from home years ago!)


tommyrot - Dec 07, 2007 5:24:58 am PST #2595 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yeah. That makes the UST between Speed and Racer X especially, um, poignant.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2007 5:40:18 am PST #2596 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

runs screaming from thread with tatters of childhood innocence firmly in grasp...


Nutty - Dec 07, 2007 5:57:01 am PST #2597 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Is Emile Hirsch wearing yellowface in this movie?

I saw a bit of the trailer on one of those celebrity-blah-blah shows last night, and although they dyed John Goodman's hair dark brown and gave him an ugly mustache, it looks like the main character and all his family are played by white actors. White actors with dark hair, but I don't see an indication that they're meant to be Asian in any way; rather, I'd guess that the characters have been whiteified.


flea - Dec 07, 2007 6:13:45 am PST #2598 of 10000
information libertarian

the characters have been whiteified.

They fed them all blueberry bagels?


Nutty - Dec 07, 2007 6:21:57 am PST #2599 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

No! Whole wheat oatmeal currant bagels. With chive and garlic cream cheese.