I have yet to see Avatar OR Titantc
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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le nubian - Apr 15, 2013 6:51:58 am PDT #24054 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie Neil - Apr 15, 2013 7:16:26 am PDT #24055 of 30000
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I enjoyed Titanic for Kathy Bates and everything in the background. I was always fascinated by the Titanic story, and the romance was secondary to what I was watching for.
Consuela - Apr 15, 2013 7:32:29 am PDT #24056 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, hey, the Catching Fire trailer is out: [link]
Sophia Brooks - Apr 15, 2013 7:37:07 am PDT #24057 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I LOVE the lesser of two weevils joke!
Consuela - Apr 15, 2013 7:49:18 am PDT #24058 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I LOVE the lesser of two weevils joke!
I love that Jack thinks it's so funny. In the books, Jack's so ridiculous in that he thinks so highly of his own wit when it's usually really labored and kind of simple. The movie, I think, doesn't quite get to that: you don't see Crowe ever being quite the doofus book!Aubrey can be, although they made a good attempt with that, and the silly Galapagos pudding.
Part of the problem is that Russell Crowe just doesn't do silly convincingly.
Jessica - Apr 15, 2013 8:13:09 am PDT #24059 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, hey, the Catching Fire trailer is out
HA - I was just about to mention Hunger Games as a pop culture phenomenon I felt so completely overloaded by commentary and opinion on that I never bothered to check out the original thing itself. (Until I was on vacation with nothing else to read...I got through about 50 pages before I got bored. The movie was ok.)
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2013 8:14:05 am PDT #24060 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't listened to the audio on that, but watching it did make me shiver. Certain hot buttons got hit there.
Gris - Apr 15, 2013 8:43:19 am PDT #24061 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I have yet to see Avatar OR Titantc
Avatar: Don't. Still annoyed, though happy I saw it solely for techno reasons. Am glad there are now occasionally GOOD movies being made with that technology (see: Hugo. And maybe Gatsby will do it well.)
Titanic: Kinda do. Surely by now the pimping and build-up has worn off a little, right, and you've incorporated just as much hate as obsession into your psyche? It's not best-movie-ever-made good, but it's really pretty, plus Kate and Leo are pretty good actors (not as good then as now, but still) so the love story sells well. I didn't like it much at the time, but I was a fifteen-year-old boy and so the swoons of my female peers did far more to turn me off than any overselling I would encounter now. But watching it now, it's enjoyable. And did I mention pretty?
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2013 9:00:17 am PDT #24062 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've tried to watch Titanic--it's not the hype that turns me off. The romance storyline was really unengaging for me, and I don't like real life disaster movies, so its 0 for 2.
EpicTangent - Apr 15, 2013 9:49:09 am PDT #24063 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Finally saw Oz, the Great and Powerful this weekend. I must say that everyone who said Franco was miscast could not be more correct. For a good actor, he was really...flat. And I mourn for how awesome RDJ would have been.