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it is supposed to go in wide release on Jan 6
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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le nubian - Jan 01, 2012 11:49:10 am PST #17285 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela - Jan 01, 2012 1:54:53 pm PST #17286 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
One of the trailers I saw the other night was something I found rather baffling: apparently Madonna made a movie to redeem Wallis Simpson?
By "redeem" I mean, the movie "W.E." appears to characterize the woman I have seen described as, at best, a gold-digging adulterer with unfortunate political affiliations, as a true romantic unfairly tarnished by a cruel world that doesn't understand the True Power of Love.
Turning the sordid into the epic is a challenge only Madonna would take on, I guess?
le nubian - Jan 01, 2012 2:00:16 pm PST #17287 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer? I mean she really does not come out looking very good on any dimension.
What galls me is that they blamed her for Edward's own relationships with Nazis, which I think is utter bullshit.
Edward nor Wallis come out looking great in The King's Speech, and yet it was probably the kindest the movie could have been.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2012 2:01:51 pm PST #17288 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela, I was meaning to post just that, when I saw the trailer before TTSS. I was very WTF about the relentless positivity and romantic OTTness of the trailer. And then...Madonna. Okay. I was indeed wondering if there was any credible modern angle that didn't make her look like a gold-digger at best.
Consuela - Jan 01, 2012 2:03:18 pm PST #17289 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer?
She was certainly suspected of it; some people even think she passed information about French defenses to the Germans when they were in France before the war started. According to Wikipedia, anyway. [link]
Consuela - Jan 01, 2012 2:05:01 pm PST #17290 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And then...Madonna. Okay.
Yeah, far be it from me to psychoanalyze someone I've never met, but I can't help but think Madonna feels a lot of sympathy for a woman who became simultaneously enormously famous and enormously vilified, in roughly equal measure.
But I think she'll have to do some serious cherry-picking from history to pull it off...
Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2012 2:28:26 pm PST #17291 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?
DavidS - Jan 01, 2012 2:47:41 pm PST #17292 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?
Well, the theatrical version is just about a perfect movie of its type. And I'm starting to trust Riddley Scott less with the Director's Cuts after the third do-over on Bladerunner.
Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2012 4:09:59 pm PST #17293 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Theatrical it is, then. Even he said he was perfectly happy with it to begin with.
Gris - Jan 01, 2012 4:24:09 pm PST #17294 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I really liked the Director's Cut, but I think it's the only version I've ever seen. I saw it in the theater, and it was mind-blowingly awesome.