Buffy The Vampire Slayer (film)

A lot of people tend to forget that Buffy The Vampire Slayer was actually a film before it became a series. It was originally a comedy/action filmed starring Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens and even had Hilary Swank as well as David Arquette; many others. What others tend to really forget that the movie and the show are both different in the aspects of genre. In the movie Buffy was a teenage cheerleader the typical clichéd one, who wanted to have the typical life, but was interrupted by Merrick the watcher (Sutherland) kept finding her and telling her about her fate as a vampire slayer. Lothos wanted her for other reasons. Merrick taught her how to be a vampire slayer, and she kept having these pains (mistaken for cramps) but it was also to signal a vampire was near. Plus the two differences that the tv series was at a different place called Sunnydale High, while the movie was Hemery High School. Now the tv series did have some comedy but it was mostly horror. If I’m not mistaken Buffy in the show wasn’t a cheerleader there and then also she had actual friends that were known as the Scooby Gang. In the film, Buffy had friends but they were backstabbers, hell one of them slept with her boyfriend, and she later on fell for Oliver Pike, ironically was the damsel in distress. It’s a funny film, I was shocked to see Paul Reubens as a vampire, I guess after seeing him as Pee-Wee Herman, it startled me. The rest I wasn’t too shocked, Sutherland was on Animal House, and the Kristy Swanson made appearances on John Hughes’ films the 80’s films like Pretty in Pink (as the Duckette) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (as Simone Adamley) and then on another film called Hot Shots! It was a parody film. That was in 1991 (non John Hughes). Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out in 1992. While the show came out in 1997 and ended in 2003, Sarah Michelle Gellar was the leading role as Buffy in the show. I watched bits of it when I was younger, at the time I didn’t even know they had a movie about it, I mean they still used the main idea, the main character destine to kill vampires. I like the movie; it was funny. I like the fact even though it was a comedy it does bring out factual morals about life, like people want to be popular, there's backstabbing, followers, etc.

No Small Affair review

I took upon myself on checking out this movie. I was looking for a laserdisc of Pet Shop Boys’ It Couldn’t Happen Here, but I know that was too rare to be in Amoeba; however,  I caught up something that will probably forever spook me. I saw this movie No Small Affair and right behind it Liar Liar . I often told people that Jon Cryer resembled Neil Tennant and then Jim Carrey as Chris Lowe(possibly) in a movie based on them, hope I would be able to do it and then another look like on another artist. It was scary to see them right next to each other, and then the same day(kind of the next day), the movie came on, looked like fate to me. I thought the movie was pretty clichéd my pretty funny and fascinating. It’s basically about a photographer (Cryer) mistakenly took a photo of a singer (Demi Moore) by accident while he was taking a photo of the street sweeper and was on a journey to find her, and then both taught each other about life and love. Familiar faces were Jennifer Tilly, George Wendt, Elizabeth Daily,(also a voice over actor), Tim Robbins, and Jeffrey Tambor. It was a brief movie but it was funny and it was almost ironic because Cryer is acting with Ashton Kutcher(Moore’s ex-husband) on the new Two and a Half Men. This movie was released in 1984 in Columbia Pictures. I have two formats of this movie: Laserdisc and DVD. The DVD has a different photo of the movie. The quality was alright, I think it could have been a bit better, that’s just me. I personally didn’t know that Cryer was in a movie before Pretty in Pink(another good movie). I think it’s stil worth watching. This is a Jerry Schatzberg film.