I thought the trailers made it out to be more cracked-out than it actually was.
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2008 11:11:37 am PDT #4469 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Juliebird - Mar 23, 2008 11:49:01 am PDT #4470 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My mother rented Romance and Cigarettes because it looked like good fun. We sat down as a family and suddenly there's "stick your finger up my a$$" and other horrors and was a lot more crass and vulgar than either of us had been expecting, and a lot less funny/quirky like the trailer was. I tried finishing it later when my father wasn't present and it just slowly got worse. And the musical scenes left much to be desired. Seriously, lip-synching?
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2008 11:56:03 am PDT #4471 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw The Hammer and In Bruges last night. After a slow start, I really liked Bruges, and thought the performances were excellent. It was clealry a movie written by a playwright, but the actors really dug inot the dialogue. Brendan Gleeson was all kinds of subtle and good.
The Hammer is a cute little low-budget movie which stars Adam Carolla (of Loveline and Man Show game) and was actually quite sweet and enjoyable.
Laga - Mar 23, 2008 3:35:16 pm PDT #4472 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Nutty - Mar 23, 2008 4:18:34 pm PDT #4473 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Persian king Xerxes was not an 8-foot-tall Cirque du Soleil reject.
You don't say!
-t - Mar 23, 2008 7:03:08 pm PDT #4474 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Including 2001 doesn't really seem fair.
JZ - Mar 23, 2008 8:33:45 pm PDT #4475 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm amazed they only devoted three sentences to Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Was there one single moment in that movie that wouldn't make a history teacher cry?
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2008 8:35:36 pm PDT #4476 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Including 2001 doesn't really seem fair.
They did say nice things about it.
Steph L. - Mar 24, 2008 4:50:24 am PDT #4477 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We rented Kinky Boots last night, and I have to say, I was really impressed with Chiwetel Ejiofor. I've only ever seen him as a bad guy, so I was dubious about his ability to play a sympathetic character, but he was great.
Plus he looks killer in a dress.
Kevin - Mar 24, 2008 4:53:52 am PDT #4478 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
He just won an Olivier award, which is a huge deal for UK actors. He's a really, really good actor.