Or they could make it into a game so we could have the pleasure of murdering them ourselves.Gene O said:
Proof That the World's Ending In 2012!
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There is a YouTube mashup of Buffy getting creeped the fuck out by Edward Cullen. Many people of my acquaintance regard it as the very essence of hilarity. They may not be wrong.Gene O said:
Anyway, if they're seriously doing another Buffy movie... why is it that Hollywood only does sequels and remakes anymore? Don't tell me there aren't enough eager young aspiring screenwriters out there all sitting on five or six reasonably creative scripts. You kind of yearn for the days when movie studios would have real authors as their screenwriters.
WHAAAAA?! I cannot come up with any way this can possibly be good. At all. Sad face.KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life said:
I made that overly dramatic title as a joke.TheDoctor455 said:
Now why would anyone take offense to being called an idiot? Seriously, this thread is not proof that I'm an idiot. Well, at least not major proof that I'm an idiot. Maybe a little proof?
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They actually did that to my beloved Futurama?imahobbit4062 said:
MUST BURN WORLD!
Oh, and I'll sign that. If only because that's what Bender would have wanted. I think I'll have a heart attack if I ever hear anyone else voice acting Zoidberg or Bender.
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Edit: I am slightly less enraged upon learning Futurama will apparently be left alone... As nature intended.
You know, I never actually watched the actual show. I saw a couple of episodes when I was younger and I thought to myself, "this is a good show". But I never got round to watching it because at that time I didn't have the internet's ability to watch old TV shows, and I didn't have the money for the old season boxsets. I intend to watch them all on the internet from the beginning after I finish watching the entire chronology of Scrubs (up to a quarter of the way through Season 5 so far). But I heard about the original film, and after research through the internet I decided it wasn't worth bothering with. So basically, the original film is deemed to be bad by someone who hasn't even seen the TV series for comparison.
Now, I like Joss Whedon. I intend to catch up with Dollhouse, I want to see the new Star Trek film (despite my dislike otherwise for Star Trek in general) and I'm a massive Browncoat. And from the little Buffy I have seen, I can tell that it is entirely Whedon's own thing. He made it, it is a Whedon enterprise, and if it is ever brought back in any way, shape or form to any sort of screen, then Whedon needs to be at the helm. So yeah, I won't be watching this film. No way.
Now, I like Joss Whedon. I intend to catch up with Dollhouse, I want to see the new Star Trek film (despite my dislike otherwise for Star Trek in general) and I'm a massive Browncoat. And from the little Buffy I have seen, I can tell that it is entirely Whedon's own thing. He made it, it is a Whedon enterprise, and if it is ever brought back in any way, shape or form to any sort of screen, then Whedon needs to be at the helm. So yeah, I won't be watching this film. No way.
I know, I meant my post as a joke as well... But still... to get that worked up about a Buffy movie...Gaderael said:
Meh. Buffy is to me what Gundam, Transformers, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, etc, are to other people. i just felt the urge to nerd rage here, as I thought there would be a fair amount of Joss Whedon/Buffy fans floating around the site. Sorry I did not get the joke in your post.TheDoctor455 said:
That wasn't her, someone else ruined that film.Gaderael said:
Someone who has, as yet, not been brought to justice for it.
I don't really get the Gundam or Transformers comparison there. But Batman and Battlestar Galactica I sort of get... for different reasons. Batman because he was pretty much the only comic book super hero I read about during my childhood (and yes, that does include some of Frank Miller's take on him). And Battlestar Galactica I get because my dad loves that show... personally I don't really like BG at all, because the original series was shit and the "re-imagining" practically rips Babylon 5 off verbatim.Gaderael said:
Here I thought I would be reading a wall of text from an insane Creationist conspiracy theorist.
Now, I know Buffy isn't everyone's cuppa tea and that's quite understandable. But I think most people who hate the show never really watched it, apart from a cursory glance that wouldn't do the series justice. At any rate, it is, in my opinion, one of the best coming of age stories made for television and for me personally it's wrapped in nostalgia, since the series got me through my teen years. I grew up watching the show.
So, hell, I'm biased. It may not be the best series ever, hell, it's not even Whedon's best show, but for me, it's the best tv show ever made, never mind it's occasional lapses in quality and the fact that it was probably dragged out for too long. It's not that the later seasons were all that worse, it's that the first three seasons and the rest of the series are almost like two different shows. But I loved it every bit until the end. The final season was kinda odd. It had a couple of great episodes, a fitting epic arc and everything came full circle. It was time for Buffy to end. And not only because of the fact that it'd ran it's course and, like Buffy, I'd grown up but because there was a distinct feeling that the writers and the cast wanted to move on too. They'd been doing it for a while and as the series was about to end you'd think they'd pull all the crazy ideas out of the drawer that might have been previously discarded for whatever reason.
But they didn't. Buffy went rather gently to that good night. Yeah, there were the comics and such but they never really felt right. They went too far from the original idea and where they didn't it just felt like a re-hash. I enjoy Whedon's other stuff and the legacy he left behind. I have all the DVDs and if they ever do a proper Bluray release with a decent retrospective documentary, I'm gonna get that too. But I'm kinda torn about Twilight and such. Yeah, you can clearly see that they've taken their cues from Buffy and while I can imagine that if I was thirteen (and a girl, maybe) I would enjoy them. Maybe it's that I'm an adult now but I can't shake the feeling that Twilight and the other romantisized vampire offerings since Buffy suffer from a lack of decent, innovative writing and a slightly misjudged tone. Yes, Buffy was always about the end of the world and doomed love -- or how at least that's what life feels like for a teenager -- and how time changes those attitudes. But there was a certain humour and quirkiness that got lost in translation, I think, along the way, when people started doing these "new" versions of Buffy. Not that Buffy's idea was completely original but it managed to take its ideas and mix them into something fresh and engaging, a bit like Star Wars did a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
As for the Buffy movie... I dunno. Certainly, whether it's made or not, will not take anything away from my fond memories of the series. I guess it's just that if it sucks and it probably will, I'll feel that people who haven't really seen the show will think it was shit too. But that might be moot, since few of those people would go back and watch the series anyway. I suppose it's a bit of a child of its time, it's very much late 90s, turn of the millenium TV drama; a seminal show that I think paved to way for the current wave of more "respectable" drama to a greater degree than most people realize.
So, hell, I'm biased. It may not be the best series ever, hell, it's not even Whedon's best show, but for me, it's the best tv show ever made, never mind it's occasional lapses in quality and the fact that it was probably dragged out for too long. It's not that the later seasons were all that worse, it's that the first three seasons and the rest of the series are almost like two different shows. But I loved it every bit until the end. The final season was kinda odd. It had a couple of great episodes, a fitting epic arc and everything came full circle. It was time for Buffy to end. And not only because of the fact that it'd ran it's course and, like Buffy, I'd grown up but because there was a distinct feeling that the writers and the cast wanted to move on too. They'd been doing it for a while and as the series was about to end you'd think they'd pull all the crazy ideas out of the drawer that might have been previously discarded for whatever reason.
But they didn't. Buffy went rather gently to that good night. Yeah, there were the comics and such but they never really felt right. They went too far from the original idea and where they didn't it just felt like a re-hash. I enjoy Whedon's other stuff and the legacy he left behind. I have all the DVDs and if they ever do a proper Bluray release with a decent retrospective documentary, I'm gonna get that too. But I'm kinda torn about Twilight and such. Yeah, you can clearly see that they've taken their cues from Buffy and while I can imagine that if I was thirteen (and a girl, maybe) I would enjoy them. Maybe it's that I'm an adult now but I can't shake the feeling that Twilight and the other romantisized vampire offerings since Buffy suffer from a lack of decent, innovative writing and a slightly misjudged tone. Yes, Buffy was always about the end of the world and doomed love -- or how at least that's what life feels like for a teenager -- and how time changes those attitudes. But there was a certain humour and quirkiness that got lost in translation, I think, along the way, when people started doing these "new" versions of Buffy. Not that Buffy's idea was completely original but it managed to take its ideas and mix them into something fresh and engaging, a bit like Star Wars did a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
As for the Buffy movie... I dunno. Certainly, whether it's made or not, will not take anything away from my fond memories of the series. I guess it's just that if it sucks and it probably will, I'll feel that people who haven't really seen the show will think it was shit too. But that might be moot, since few of those people would go back and watch the series anyway. I suppose it's a bit of a child of its time, it's very much late 90s, turn of the millenium TV drama; a seminal show that I think paved to way for the current wave of more "respectable" drama to a greater degree than most people realize.