You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.

Fred ,'Life of the Party'


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.


Sue - Jun 13, 2008 1:50:36 pm PDT #6432 of 10000
hip deep in pie

We'll expect regular reports.

I never see anyone. I went out trying to stalk Tim Roth a couple of weeks ago and I only found crew building a set.


Tom Scola - Jun 13, 2008 1:51:37 pm PDT #6433 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Alan Rickman fans need to watch this trailer, or at least fast-forward for the last line.


Miracleman - Jun 13, 2008 3:20:21 pm PDT #6434 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

It's Dreamworks in this case. And the funny thing is that there is a pregnant cow in the plot. She has her baby at the end of the film so there is a distinct difference between male and female cow characters.

i.e. Somebody fucked her.

Sophia is right, Barnyard's creators thought it would be funny.

Then in one particular case (mine), they failed because...TRANNY COW?!

I have nothing against trannies, but...TRANNY COW?!

How is that funny to kids? Eventually, they will learn enough about animal biology (and probably earlier than parents want to think) and go "Mommy...Daddy...WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!"

At which time the parents will have to say: "Well, child, the creators thought it would be funny. Let's move on to the subject of 'Hollywood = Insanity', shall we?"

In the end, I suppose everyone learns a valuable lesson, but I would be squicked beyond belief to see the Movie of the Week on that subject.


Jessica - Jun 13, 2008 3:21:52 pm PDT #6435 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I just need to start a kids' movie blog or something where I can rant about some of the things that drive me crazy with the movies Owen watches.

Ooooh, yes!


Juliebird - Jun 13, 2008 3:26:17 pm PDT #6436 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

In my quest for more Robert Downey Jr. goodness I rented A Scanner Darkly, which, not only was RDJ fabulous, even/especially rotoscoped, but the movie was quite good as well, even if I'm still hazy on some of the plot points regarding the revelation at the end. I'd say that Woody Harrelson and RDJ stole the show, what a (sometimes disturbing) hoot!

edited to fix parentheses


Hayden - Jun 13, 2008 3:29:30 pm PDT #6437 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

A Scanner Darkly is indeed really great.


Nutty - Jun 13, 2008 3:41:33 pm PDT #6438 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I don't know how to break this to you: in Babe the Gallant Pig, Babe the character is actually male. (This is explicit in the book, with the pronouns and everything.) But they filmed it with female piglets (several staggered litters of them, because they grow so fast), because so many of the shots are from the rear, and a closeup of a piglet's testicles were decided to be too distracting for a children's movie.

(Babe's voice was supplied by a woman, but that's kind of typical for animated boy-characters -- see also Bart Simpson.)


DavidS - Jun 13, 2008 3:49:46 pm PDT #6439 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Babe's voice was supplied by a woman

Not just any woman! The Great Christine Cavanaugh!

She also did Chuckie on Rugrats, and Oblina on Real Monsters, and Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.

eta: And Gosalyn from Darkwing Duck.

And she was also in an X-Files episode.

Apparently she's retired since 2001 for "personal reasons." which makes me suspect either a religious conversion or cancer. I hope the personal reason was: "I made a shitload of money in Hollywood and now I want to hit all the cool garage sales."

eta: Internet rumors suggest it was parenthood that lead to her retirement.


Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2008 3:58:33 pm PDT #6440 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I have A Scanner Darkly on my DVR, waiting to be watched. Glad to hear it's really great!


Juliebird - Jun 13, 2008 4:04:02 pm PDT #6441 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

P-C, if you dislike bugs, as I do, you might want to FF through the first scene. I was squirming, and it went on far longer than I was comfortable with. I think if it had been live-action with CGI (i.e. fake-looking) bugs, I might have been alright.