Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us Saturday? You could feel indispensable.

'Dirty Girls'


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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2008 1:32:30 pm PDT #7278 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

That's because Bogie used up all the chemistry there was with Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ten years earlier!


sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:33:32 pm PDT #7279 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

That's because Bogie used up all the chemistry there was with Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ten years earlier!

And The Big Sleep!


JZ - Jul 21, 2008 1:44:19 pm PDT #7280 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Don't shortchange them... they were plenty sparky in Key Largo, too.

Glad I'm not the only one with a small soft spot for the Sabrina remake. The thing is, Audrey Hepburn wasn't just pretty and radiant, she was a fantastic actress; she could easily carry and flesh out an underwritten script like the original, but she could have knocked the remake out of the park too, if she'd gotten a chance to sink herself into all that lovely language.


sj - Jul 21, 2008 1:49:18 pm PDT #7281 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Don't shortchange them... they were plenty sparky in Key Largo, too.

Yes. It's sad that they only managed to be in four films together.


Juliebird - Jul 21, 2008 2:01:18 pm PDT #7282 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Haven't read the white font just yet, but my initial, fairly untainted reaction to TDK was "Okay."

Maybe it was about halfway through I really needed to pee, but I just didn't feel it. It had some wonderful moments, and I really enjoyed the talky bits (yes, I did peek a bit), if only because they were the few character moments before it was plotty plotty Action! What I liked most about Batman Begins was the first half, all those character bits, and the action-packed end left me a bit cold.

It truly was dark, horrific, hopeless, despairing, and bleak, which I suppose made the outcome of the two ferries that much more joyful. I suppose when I heard "dark" I really didn't expect so much of it. So extensive. I was expecting it to all emenate from the Joker, but he was also the only one who brought any [horrific] levity to the piece.

Maybe I'd like it better upon rewatch, now knowing what to expect. And maybe it really was that I shouldn't have had that small Cherry Coke.

Off to the beginning of the discussion!


tiggy - Jul 21, 2008 2:08:21 pm PDT #7283 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

P-C, i have to own up and say that when the Joker made the pencil "disappear", i cracked up and almost didn't hear the subsequent lines because i was laughing so hard. i was suitable horrified, but yeah. i think it was the delivery of the whole thing...


Juliebird - Jul 21, 2008 2:29:13 pm PDT #7284 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I disliked the bat-voice half the time, when it sounded like Bale had a lisp, and the other half didn't mind it.

And one of the thoughts racing through my mind during the final scene between the Joker and Batman was "OMG! It's the Master and the Doctor! In a slashfic!"


juliana - Jul 21, 2008 2:33:53 pm PDT #7285 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

when it sounded like Bale had a lisp,

Doesn't Bale actually have a lisp? Or is that the Welsh accent trying to break through the American accent?

(Haven't seen TDK yet, but did watch Batman Begins last night.)


Polter-Cow - Jul 21, 2008 2:34:01 pm PDT #7286 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

i was suitable horrified, but yeah. i think it was the delivery of the whole thing...

Heh, no, I agree that the delivery calls for laughter. He's the Joker, after all. Part of me wanted to laugh, but part of me was just trying to imagine the physics of it. Just the physical force with which he had to have pushed the guy's head down to IMPALE IT ON THE ERASER END OF A PENCIL. Ergh.


Juliebird - Jul 21, 2008 2:38:44 pm PDT #7287 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Doesn't Bale actually have a lisp?

Dunno, but his Bruce Wayne doesn't-- didn't.