DEAR GOD! I just saw the Buffy Movie trailer!(Yes, I know I'm late in the game.)

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JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:29 PM

You know the one, 1992's Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Kristy Swanson(as Buffy). It was such a JOKE! Nowhere NEAR the talents of Joss Whedon! I can't believe how much The Powers That Be screwed it up! They should have stuck with Joss's original idea, it would have made a MUCH better movie, let alone a trailer FOR the movie! I'm so glad that I watched BTVS the Series BEFORE I saw the movie trailer because I would have never gotten into The Series had I seen the movie first(I've never actually seen the movie)! I have no idea why I'm posting this but,"Well, here I am."

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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Saturday, June 24, 2006 4:24 PM

I always liked the movie...

I like how it's the same age as me!

DARKJESTER

Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:52 PM

Best way I can describe it is that you were meant to laugh AT the original Kristy Swanson movie. Pee Wee's big death scene? Hi-larious! The campiness, the ridicul-osity, the characters were performing for laughs. Of course, that really removes any empathy you have for Buffy or the other characters.

I liked the movie for those very reasons. It's good for a laugh.

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JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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CHRISISALL

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:34 PM

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Originally posted by DarkJester:

I liked the movie for those very reasons. It's good for a laugh.

Yep.

Does the word 'Duh' mean anything to you Chrisisall

SIGMANUNKI

Monday, June 26, 2006 12:06 AM

Actually, if you watch it, you can see that there are many "whedonisms" in it. The actors just weren't pulling them off well at all.

Also, the problem with someone writing a movie and another directing it, is that never does what happens in the writers mind end up on the screen. It is irrational to even suggest that this is possible.

First off, the director is not psychic. Secondly, the director will do his/her own vision of what (s)he thinks should be done, not someone else's. This is one of the "crazy" defining qualities of a director.

For that matter, how do you know that "they" even knew Joss's original idea? After all, he just wrote the thing. How often does the person who sells a screen play stick around to talk to the studio to tell them about what they should do with it?

I mean seriously. This is the early 90's. A time in which if someone mentioned Joss's name, people would say something along the lines of, who the is Joss Whedon?

Finally, if you want to have an opinion on a movie and have that opinion carry weight, you're going to have to actually see the movie.

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EMBERS

Monday, June 26, 2006 12:16 AM

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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
First off, the director is not psychic. Secondly, the director will do his/her own vision of what (s)he thinks should be done, not someone else's. This is one of the "crazy" defining qualities of a director.

For that matter, how do you know that "they" even knew Joss's original idea? After all, he just wrote the thing. How often does the person who sells a screen play stick around to talk to the studio to tell them about what they should do with it?

Poor Joss was in his early 20s...
and had no power
the director wanted to make a 'campy' style comedy and Joss hates campy.
But what REALLY has always upset JW was that Donald Sutherland never bothered to learn any of his lines, he ad-libbed his way throughout (the very reason Joss has always been death on actors who try to adlib!)...
unfortunately he was supposed to present the exposition!
without the exposition the movie made no sense,
and became the joke that it was.

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Finally, if you want to have an opinion on a movie and have that opinion carry weight, you're going to have to actually see the movie.

I disagree: I think Joss Whedon would thank you for skipping the movie and only judging Buffy (and his writing) on the TV series.

JOSSISAGOD

Monday, June 26, 2006 12:52 AM

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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Finally, if you want to have an opinion on a movie and have that opinion carry weight, you're going to have to actually see the movie.

The point is conceded, I guess I should watch the movie now, It's just that, after watching the series, and having an image of what Joss wanted Buffy to be, then seeing the trailer and having that image turned into a horror/comedy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer the movie doesn't seem like something I'd be interested in.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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CYBERSNARK

Monday, June 26, 2006 2:54 PM

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Originally posted by embers:
(the very reason Joss has always been death on actors who try to adlib!)

Until Firefly, when he started telling Nathan to adlib.

"Say something Mal would say!"

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JOSSISAGOD

Monday, June 26, 2006 3:04 PM

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Until Firefly, when he started telling Nathan to adlib.

"Say something Mal would say!"

That's just what I was thinkin'!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!

"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Monday, June 26, 2006 3:04 PM

Jossis,

watch it. It was very campy. I loved it. Watch it as it's own entity and not as part of BTVS series.

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