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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2013 5:31:08 pm PDT #25183 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ooh, Reese Witherspoon was in something else. Freeway ?

This movie is AWESOME. See it! SEE IT! Seriously. It's sleazy as hell, but Reese is hysterical and Keifer is just so wonderfully slimey and gross. I mean, it's Little Red Riding Hood updated and gnarled out.


SailAweigh - Aug 12, 2013 6:44:12 am PDT #25184 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

So I lucked out and got tickets to an advance screening of The World's End in Chicago about a week ago. I have to agree with Jilli that it isn't as funny as the other movies in the Cornetto trilogy, but I still loved it. It was a great look at how addiction fucks up everyone around the addict, not just the addict himself.

Simon Pegg really impressed me. But so did Nick Frost. It was nice to see him get a chance to be the totally BAMF character in one of these movies.

As a bonus, we were treated to a Q&A with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Edgar Wright is a tad on the pretentious side, but Simon and Nick were absolutely adorable, as we all know.


Polter-Cow - Aug 12, 2013 7:38:10 am PDT #25185 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Capsule movie reviews! Paranormal Activity 4, The Preacher's Daughter, Six Degrees of Separation, The American President, Black Dynamite, Starship Troopers, Lincoln, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Silver Linings Playbook, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Room, Bullitt, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Scarface, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dog Day Afternoon, Sweet Smell of Success, and Three Days of the Condor.


Scrappy - Aug 12, 2013 7:50:56 am PDT #25186 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I can't read SailAweigh's post because I am dying of jealousy.


Juliebird - Aug 12, 2013 3:32:10 pm PDT #25187 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Wolverine: great action scenes, loved Yukio of the anime hair and kicky boots. Viper was a little too Poison Ivy of that terrible Batman movie. Mariko was bland and yes, damsely, so it ticked me off when she kept saying that she could take care of herself.

So much better, miles and light years better, than the first stand-alone Wolverine movie, but still so many, maybe not plot holes, but definitely logic holes, to drive the Starship Enterprise through.

And for the last sequence, I found myself thinking "I'd really like a villainous monologue here to explain what the heck is going on". And then when I finally got it, I was saddened to see that it was grandad's last bid at immortality. I understood that he'd try on the above-boards with Logan, and accepted his failure. I didn't like that, in the end, he got stuck with the insane villain role.

Also, the brief span of time that I was into comics, the Wolverine stories with Mariko were my fave. So tragically romantic (at least to the teen that I was).

Also 2, half-inch bulging veins are disgusting. And Hugh's starting to get that old-man skin on his chest.

Also 3, I could have bought a profound emotional relationship more readily with Yukio. The second I saw her weird non-classical face, I thought "there's going to be a hot fantasy with lesser acting skills that will wind up being the love interest".


§ ita § - Aug 12, 2013 3:55:54 pm PDT #25188 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yukio belongs to Ororo. Come on now!

I loved how long it took Mariko to remember she knew how to fight and how she'd forget again 30 seconds later. Best victim ever! Keeping it interesting!


Juliebird - Aug 12, 2013 4:02:39 pm PDT #25189 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I loved how long it took Mariko to remember

That was ridic.

I would have loved to feel more attachment to the Jean scenes, but the clusterfuck that was the last adult Xmen movie negated that. Also, her whining about being left alone in a bird-song sundress afterlife was weak.


Dana - Aug 12, 2013 4:03:27 pm PDT #25190 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I've gotten so used to considering X3 a bad dream that I totally forgot that he killed Jean. Or Dark Phoenix. Or whatever that was.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2013 4:42:43 pm PDT #25191 of 30000
"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

Throughout those scenes I was thinking "If you're so lonely, raise your damn self from the dead! That's what you do, right?"


Tom Scola - Aug 15, 2013 6:02:42 am PDT #25192 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Hmmm...

It has long been my pet contention that Vertigo (1958) and the 14th century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have the same plot, so you can imagine my delight at this passing comment.

In Vertigo, one woman seems as if she is three women—Madeleine, Carlotta and Judy. Scottie, the protagonist, is on a quest to figure out what is really going on. He witnesses false deaths, follows false leads, quests under illusions. A shocking revelation starkly divides the film into two sections: the first section is radically, retrospectively realigned by the second. The girl was not the girl, the death was not the death. Every moment in which Judy/Madeleine establish their “identities” or shift between them is consistently coloured green. Green dresses, green jewellery, green lighting—even Madeleine’s car is green. The performed death (which seems as if it is real) takes place in a chapel.

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one man seems as if he is two men—the Green Knight and Bertilak. Gawain, the protagonist, is on a quest to figure out what is really going on. He witnesses false deaths, follows false leads, quests under illusions. A shocking revelation starkly divides the poem into two sections: the first section is radically, retrospectively realigned by the second. The girl was not the girl, the death was not the death. Every moment in which identities are established or shifted features the Green Knight—who is, as you might expect, coloured green. Green skin, green hair: even his horse is green. The performed death (which seems as if it is real) takes place in a chapel.