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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned

A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 5:25:04 am PST #5327 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can anyone recommend Something Wild to me, the one with Jeff Daniels? Netflix should have an annotation function, because I need to make notes on why I rent certain movies. This one must be because of something random I read on the internet. It doesn't have any of my favourite stars, and it features a free-spirit woman (with awful jewelry) liberating a stuffy man. Later on it will no doubt go to hell in a handbasket and everyone learn valuable life lessons (or maybe die -- that would be cool).

But for right now, I'm wondering if I should just send it back with all but 10 minutes unwatched. Melanie Griffiths, for christ's sake. What was I thinking?

Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:29:15 am PST #5328 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Well, It's Jonathan Demme. Ray Liotta is terrific in it, and it has a great soundtrack. I think it's an odd, fun staisfying little movie, but if oyu ain't liking it, no need to keep watching.

§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 5:31:13 am PST #5329 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If Melanie is going to get less Melanie (or die really soon), or it does something really interesting to the free-spirit woman cliché, it might be worth my while -- what are my odds?

Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:32:43 am PST #5330 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Where are you in the story, ita? It switches gears once they get to the reunion and just keeps getting darker until the end.

§ ita § - Oct 31, 2004 5:41:51 am PST #5331 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She's just driven off with him. Not far at all.

I think I might just hate Melanie too much to make it through. Looks like they have a bit of roleplaying to go through before it gets really ugly.

Tom Scola - Oct 31, 2004 5:45:17 am PST #5332 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I always had a soft spot for Something Wild because part of it was shot in the town I grew up in, but I don't think that's any help for you.

The Feelies playing at the reunion?

Sister Carol singing over the closing credits?

Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:46:28 am PST #5333 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Well, I can ignore the Melanieness because of the other pleasures of the film, but I can see where that could be a deal-breaker. I'm very fond of it.

Scrappy - Oct 31, 2004 5:48:02 am PST #5334 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Plus there is a lot of fighting later.

Frankenbuddha - Oct 31, 2004 5:50:04 am PST #5335 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

SOMETHING WILD is the film for which I will forgive Melanie a multitude of offences for her subsequent films. Not ALL of them, mind you, but she got a pass from me for a long time. Now I just pass on her, thank you very much.

I love the way the movie starts out one way, and at a certain point it just turns into a compeltely different movie.

tommyrot - Oct 31, 2004 6:03:23 am PST #5336 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The Feelies playing at the reunion?

I had forgotten about that. Jonathan Demme has good taste in music. He produced and directed a Robyn Hitchcock concert film.

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