Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.

Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape  

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brenda m - Aug 18, 2007 10:06:18 am PDT #928 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Have spent the entire day watching bad horror flicks on tv. I'm actually quite entertained. Final Destination 2, on right now, is practically a live action Road Runner cartoon - ETA, make that a cross between Road Runner and Itchy and Scratchy - , while Bride of Chucky was surreally bizarre.

L&O's Kathryn Erbe being in...crap, what was it...something about Echoes...with Kevin Bacon pretty much puts paid to that game for all time, given the way the show cycles through every actor working.

Stir of Echoes. Thanks, P-C! That one wasn't actually all that bad.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2007 10:13:54 am PDT #929 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Stir of Echoes.


Sean K - Aug 18, 2007 10:35:01 am PDT #930 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Bride of Chucky was surreally bizarre.

I love Bride of Chucky for its bizarre surreality.


Laga - Aug 18, 2007 10:35:16 am PDT #931 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

We just got Hot Fuzz on DVD. YAY!


erikaj - Aug 18, 2007 1:54:32 pm PDT #932 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah, Robin, it does remind me of "The Graduate"(which I have seen at least ten times) but I thought maybe there was something a bit more...spot-on. Maybe there is not one, specific, alienated-guy-at-airport moment they are calling back to. Maybe it's a bunch. (and, yes, I think I'm ridiculous, thinking about a caveman commercial that much.)


brenda m - Aug 18, 2007 2:01:44 pm PDT #933 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I don't recognize it, but it always stuck me as though there should be something going on that I wasn't picking up on. Because seriously, otherwise it makes even less sense.


Volans - Aug 18, 2007 3:13:15 pm PDT #934 of 10000
move out and draw fire

Maybe they just hotwired into the memestem. Or condensed gestalt.

Or that ad will become such an iconic and pervasive image that you are feeling the recognition waves from the future.


brenda m - Aug 18, 2007 4:18:14 pm PDT #935 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I love Bride of Chucky for its bizarre surreality.

I must admit I had to turn my head away for the doll sex.


DavidS - Aug 18, 2007 5:48:29 pm PDT #936 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I can note that Jennifer really had fun doing Bride of Chucky and was super chuffed to be nominated for an MTV movie award.


Kate P. - Aug 18, 2007 6:16:47 pm PDT #937 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I just got back from Stardust. I'm glad that my expectations were lowered from reading reviews here & elsewhere. I saw it with a friend, and we both walked out agreeing that it felt like at least three different movies put together, one of which was entertaining, one of which was pretty boring, and one of which was intensely irritating (OMG, Captain Shakespeare as a flaming, prancing, cross-dressing, queeny gay pirate? WTF? The scene where Septimus finds him in his boudoir with the frilly pink dress had me practically crawling the walls in anger & discomfort. But the worst insult was that he turned out to be completely useless at defending himself -- if only he'd used that fan as an impromptu weapon, or snatched up a sword, or *something*, instead of just standing there! ARGH). I also share Zenkitty's irritation at the line of succession being limited to the male heirs. Initially when Una turned up, I thought she'd end up being the ruler, which made me happy, and I was annoyed that it fell to Tristan after all. What does he want to be a ruler for, anyway? It would have made much more sense for Una to take the crown -- I bet she knows a damn sight more than Tristan about how best to rule Stormhold.

I liked Michelle Pfeiffer a lot, and all the dead brothers. I liked Dunstan too, both as a boy and as a man, and would have liked to see more of him.

Someone upthread mentioned something special or unusual about the brothers' costumes -- I didn't pick up on anything like that. Can someone elaborate?