Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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Gradually catching up after taking a week off work and not checking the board during that time....
I'd like to nominate The Jane Austen Book Club for Most Buffista Moment in a Movie, Ever. The movie follows the lives of six people who form a book club devoted entirely to Jane Austen's works. The Moment involves the male member of the club who contrasts an Austen plot to a Star Wars movie.
Marc Blucas also has a smallish role, but that doesn't make the movie particularly Buffista.
I liked the film, except that I was a bit disgruntled they aged everybody down by about a decade. And Hugh Dancy's character was supposed to have been an average-looking guy in his early 40's, not a curly-mopped, merry-eyed crumpet with a biker's body (which... OK, I didn't mind as much because Dancy was ADORABLE. It didn't hurt that the first words out of his mouth was "... are you here for the Buffy convention?")
"... are you here for the Buffy convention?"
I'd forgotten that bit. Which shouldn't have been forgotten, if only because of the "invisible" vampires.
I'll post this here, since the exhibit is mostly movie-based: Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has the world premiere of the new Harry Potter traveling exhibit opening now, running through September!
The article is written by a complete fangirl, and she makes it sound very cool. Although I don't know if it's $18 cool (cost of the exhibit), but the exhibit's gift shop sounds like it might be worth it--it's designed like Diagon Alley.
The Ferris Beuller Fight Club Theory
This would only work if Cameron was the narrator. Since it's Beuller talking to through the fourth wall, not so much. Plus, I hate FBDO with the fiery heat of a thousand suns, so I'm EXTREMELY disinclined to give any coolness points in it's favor.
Really? I like it a lot, though I saw it about four years after everybody told me it ruled. Maybe I passed out in the Baskin Robbins.
Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek! Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
(Um, yeah, I liked it a lot. No idea what purists will think, but as a casual fan I thought it COMPLETELY ROCKED.)
Excellent news, Jess! Not a purist (though I know WAY too much geekery from it), so I'm totally psyched. They kinda had me at the previews, though.
Really? I like it a lot, though I saw it about four years after everybody told me it ruled. Maybe I passed out in the Baskin Robbins.
It's a movie about a smug, popular, deliberate underachiever who gets away with everything. Yeah, I hate it. Hits some big hot-button issues from high school.