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Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape

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Strega - Jul 16, 2008 11:43:46 am PDT #7080 of 10000

I don't think it was populism exactly. Kael wrote a long essay on the pleasures of trash, but she doesn't ever claim it's not trash:

There is talk now about von Sternberg’s technique—his use of light and décor and detail—and he is, of course, a kitsch master in these areas, a master of studied artfulness and pretty excess. Unfortunately, some students take this technique as proof that his films are works of art, once again, I think, falsifying what they really respond to—the satisfying romantic glamour of his very pretty trash. “Morocco” is great trash, and movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 11:46:32 am PDT #7081 of 10000

I look more rad than Lutheranism

British Jeff still = The Hot One.

You're not wrong.

(Though my heart goes pitter pat over Jack Davenport, because....yum. I think it's his voice as much as his appearance.)

amych - Jul 16, 2008 11:49:48 am PDT #7082 of 10000

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Though my heart goes pitter pat over Jack Davenport, because....yum.

Huh. That was my... heart? What a funny location for it.

P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2008 11:58:49 am PDT #7083 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

So... kinda like Lorne's, but a little to the front?

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2008 12:02:31 pm PDT #7084 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

I can easily see how someone could hate the Jane character, though for me Gina Bellman's performance somehow made her extremely enjoyable, if not exactly likeable. But Lindsay Price's Jane had the exact opposite effect—pairing a monstrously self-absorbed character with an actress whose cutesy "LOOK AT ME!" delivery in baby-doll voice had me hoping the American writers would throw in a date with a serial killer as an original plot twist.

Dana - Jul 16, 2008 12:52:22 pm PDT #7085 of 10000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

British Patrick is totally a hottie. Please.

Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 1:45:18 pm PDT #7086 of 10000

I look more rad than Lutheranism

pairing a monstrously self-absorbed character with an actress whose cutesy "LOOK AT ME!" delivery in baby-doll voice

See, that's exactly what I got from Gina Bellman. Maybe her voice wasn't *quite* high-pitched or breathy enough to be baby-doll, but MAN, did her voice grate. And I saw an interview with her (DVD extras, maybe), and found that I really liked her voice when she wasn't t Jon Lovitz Master Thespian flourish acting.

P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2008 1:53:27 pm PDT #7087 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Gina Bellman won me over with her not-a-date at the Inferno party. When she stabbed the lamb and went baaa.

Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 1:58:55 pm PDT #7088 of 10000

I look more rad than Lutheranism

When she stabbed the lamb and went baaa.

That might be my most-unfavorite Jane episode ever.

(I swear I'm not trying to be contrary!)

P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2008 2:01:04 pm PDT #7089 of 10000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It was just so cheerfully, completely, totally EVIL of her!

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