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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Sean K - Apr 05, 2012 10:16:07 pm PDT #19290 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Really? I cannot find anything likable or redeeming about this movie. I mean, it's not like there's a plot to watch if you're not digging the action sequences. And what plot there is is meaningless because of the aforementioned event at the fifteen minute mark.

And who are Sweet Pea and Rocket? And who is Babydoll? I cannot tell the difference between any of the characters.


Fred Pete - Apr 06, 2012 5:03:44 am PDT #19291 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

I know there are a lot of people who hate it, but I freakin' adore My Best Friend's Wedding because her character is such a blind trainwreck.

I saw that one when it came out, and I really liked it. But it didn't hold up when I saw it again a few years ago. I realized that the bride is almost as bad a trainwreck, and the groom has an attitude of, "Yeah, I'm getting married, but that doesn't mean anything in my life is going to change."

The production number on "I Say a Little Prayer" is, of course, beyond brilliant. And Rupert Everett's turn as the crude boyfriend/fiance does hold up.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2012 5:30:54 am PDT #19292 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And what plot there is is meaningless because of the aforementioned event at the fifteen minute mark.

I was totally willing to go see it at the second-run theater for the crazy eye candy (I kind of love the posters for it, even if they're entirely nonsensical) -- until I read a review that mentioned the whole lobotomy thing. No thank you.


erikaj - Apr 06, 2012 6:11:51 am PDT #19293 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Tep is me, here. We're very pretty. And then, to say that's "empowering?" Bella Abzug should come back as a ghost and slap the piss out of them.

  • That's* a movie I'd pay full price for.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2012 6:22:09 am PDT #19294 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Tep is me, here. We're very pretty.

Totally!

And then, to say that's "empowering?" Bella Abzug should come back as a ghost and slap the piss out of them.

*That's* a movie I'd pay full price for.

Ahahaha! Me, too.


Consuela - Apr 06, 2012 6:36:16 am PDT #19295 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Heh, erika. Indeed.


Sean K - Apr 06, 2012 6:52:44 am PDT #19296 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

You know, I actually sat down and watched it all the way through, just in case I was judging it unfairly, and I don't feel I was. You'll be just fine never seeing it at all Tep and erika.

Actually I watched the first fifteen minutes to give it a "fair viewing". That's all I needed to be utterly offended by this awful film. I sat through the rest of the movie because I had already gazed into the abyss by then.

And then, to say that's "empowering?" Bella Abzug should come back as a ghost and slap the piss out of them.

*That's* a movie I'd pay full price for.

Me three.


Sean K - Apr 06, 2012 6:55:24 am PDT #19297 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

My roommate kept asking if I wanted to stop watching, and I kept telling him "No, I want to keep watching and ranting about how hateful and vile this film is."

Oddly enough, any other time, he would find that a very compelling argument, but he kind of felt the same way this time.


erikaj - Apr 06, 2012 7:29:10 am PDT #19298 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I've done that...mostly from my true-crime fixation. I actually considered SP for a second, looking for something to watch on HBO(on weekends, I'm such a cheap date...sometimes I get surprised, but mostly, I regret things I choose on that basis,) but since I actually can't do what Raylan Givens might do and take personal time, round up the filmmakers and give them forty-eight hours to apologize to every grown woman in America, including the ones in the film, I decided my health couldn't take it.


JZ - Apr 06, 2012 8:17:39 am PDT #19299 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Emily Browning is so thoroughly the canny and inventive Violet Baudelaire to me that there is seriously no amount of money on earth that could have bribed me to see Sucker Punch. It was totally irrational of me, but the entire premise felt like a personal insult to that character and to the intelligence of the actress who'd brought her to life.

Stoopid mainstream movie industry. Last I heard, the amazing girl who played Wendy in the most recent Peter Pan had quit; she hit her late teens and early twenties and got tired of being offered nothing but screaming and helplessness.