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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.

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Scrappy - Dec 26, 2007 1:42:42 pm PST #2976 of 10000

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

Mmm, Sweeney. It was sold out at the theater here yesterday, but that's LA on a holiday, so YSweeneyMV.

Report on our Christmas Movie day. We saw four:

National Treasure: -Expositiontastic and the clunkiest script EVER, but the audience seemed to dig it. Not convinced Diane Kruger could act her way out of a well-liit paper bag with easily visible Exit signs.

Charlie Wilson's War -Tom Hanks and Phillip Setmour Hoffman RULE and it's great fun to watch them playing off each other. Liked the smart Sorkin script and felt really pulled in by the story.

Sweeney Todd -Loved it lots and lots. And lots. Sondheim, Depp, Burton--just too wonderful for words.

Walk Hard -Funny scenes, the music totally works as parody/pastiche and great cameos. (Jack White does a hilarious Elvis) but not as funny as I hoped it would be.

sj - Dec 26, 2007 5:07:06 pm PST #2977 of 10000

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Mmm, Sweeney. It was sold out at the theater here yesterday, but that's LA on a holiday, so YSweeneyMV.

A horde of teenagers showed up at the last minute, so the theatre ended up being about half full. I loved the film, but I'm not at all familiar with the original musical, so I can understand how others feel differently. I thought ASH's scenes were cut, but he was in it for about 5 seconds.

SuziQ - Dec 26, 2007 5:14:08 pm PST #2978 of 10000

Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

sj - really? I missed that....geeesh. Might have been when I had my hands over my eyes. I loved the movie, but I have blood issues.

sj - Dec 26, 2007 6:46:04 pm PST #2979 of 10000

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Really. TCG missed it totally despite my squealing, that's how quick it was.

Edited for clarity.

DavidS - Dec 26, 2007 8:24:20 pm PST #2980 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Slate talks about a movie I never heard of...

It's a totally famous cult movie, tommy!

I don't love it like Cor does, however.

Hayden - Dec 26, 2007 9:32:09 pm PST #2981 of 10000

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Yeah, I love the hell out of it. And I really hate James Taylor, so that's saying something. In fact, it would make a fantastic Zen double feature with Cockfighter, which is a similar Monte Hellman-directed faux-exploitation existential-crisis dialogue-lite movie.

lisah - Dec 27, 2007 5:44:35 am PST #2982 of 10000

Punishingly Intricate

Cockfighter is one of my favorite movies!

My friend and I are trying to figure out what movie to see on Sunday. So far on the list:

The Savages
Romance & Cigarettes
The Kite Runner
Charlie Wilson's War
Enchanted
No Country for Old Men

What do you all think?

Fay - Dec 27, 2007 5:49:42 am PST #2983 of 10000

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Having only seen Enchanted from that list, I'm going to say: Don't go see Enchanted.

It's more of a catch-it-on-TV kind of movie. I think if I hadn't paid money for it, I'd have appreciated it a lot more.

DavidS - Dec 27, 2007 6:13:40 am PST #2984 of 10000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What do you all think?

No Country For Old Men is near the top of my list.

But I haven't seen a lot of movies so I also want to see: Sweeney Todd, I'm Not There, Juno, Darjeeling Express (still barely hanging on in theaters here), and There Will Be Blood.

It's interesting, we've had two movies come out this year which were hailed as instant classics: No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. That's unusual.

I'm also struck by how daring filmmakers were this year - not always successfully, but risks were taken: Southland Tales, I'm Not There, There Will Be Blood.

Tom Scola - Dec 27, 2007 6:14:55 am PST #2985 of 10000

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

Let me know if you're up for seeing a movie this weekend, David.

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