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Siskoid

It probably isn't fair to compare Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Motion Picture with the iconic TV series of the late 90s-early 2000s, but sometimes life isn't fair. The TV show ended up being funnier, more exciting and more well thought-out, sometimes as if the movie was held as an example of how not to do it. But even taken on its own, it's got problems. The pace is way off, even sluggish, particularly where action is concerned. The broad physical humor is distracting (nowhere more so than in Paul Reubens' extended death scene), and while I don't dislike Kristy Swanson's take on the character as someone actually more clever than she lets on, she nevertheless gets the dialogue of a joke book dumb blonde from a joke book (Clueless would do all of this, sans vampires, 3 years later). Rutger Hauer is wasted as a too-easily defeated main villain. You might watch it to see young stars before they got bigger, but otherwise, the joys are few and far between.

2 years 7 months ago

rjcman

So bad it becomes good.

7 years 5 months ago

Neens

How can the TV series be so amazing when the film it was based on is so spectacularly bad? And I'm not just talking bad in terms of plot, dialogue, acting (the main characters are ok, though), it is also bad in terms of pacing, cutting and sound... At one point, when Buffy and her watcher are talking inside a car, it sounds like they're in a vast cathedral!

Also, the film hasn't decided what genre it wants to be, so there is everything from slapstick comedy to the expected spooky graveyard scenes. The vamps themselves are pathetic, feeble and ridiculous, behaving more like clowns than creatures of the night, and you never get to see any of them being dusted.

Oh, and Buffy senses vampires are around through spoiler

, and the more of them there are, the worse it gets? Written by a man much? I mean, in that case she'd just be a wriggling wreck on the ground whenever they gang up on her! Urgh.

Basically, if you're not a massive fan of the TV series with a special interest in how it all began, I'd recommend giving this a miss. You certainly don't need to watch it first for continuity's sake.

7 months 1 week ago