Though being a very good episode, dreamy like "Restless" (one of my favorite ones), "The Weight of the World" remains a filler: some like "OMG: the season should be 22 episodes long and we are short of one!". I do think that Buffy's catatonic state is stressed like, say, she become Mormon or Scientologist. IMHO a catatonic Slayer is a contradiction in terms! The good side is that Willow takes her wizardry to a metaphysical level, not just interacting with physical laws to change them. She had to face both Tara's (her lover) and Buffy's (her best friend) madness and she succeeded to cure them both. (Tara is cured in next episode, but here are shown new Willow's powers).
Reviews
6 Reviews
Best show's episode(s) wannabe, but failing
5 June 2008
Warning: Spoilers
In Region 2 DVD's, "Bargaining" is the only two-part that is melted in one feature-length episode. I do state that if they chose to make it a single episode, cutting out the bad parts, it should be my favorite. But the biker demons are one of the silliest and lamest villains in the whole show! That said, the resurrection of Buffy by Willow is the single most revolutionary, heretic, moving scene of the show! For the first time, the witch is using overall blackest magick. Beginning with her slaughtering bambi, then the pentacle (she, Tara, Xander, Anya and dead Buffy), then the snake from her mouth: they are all Voodoo charms. But Willow got through Voodoo: she raised the dead from her tomb and gave her a conscience! Buffy was a putrefied cadaver: not even Jesus Christ did the same! Lazarus was dead just by a couple of days, not months! No wonder if Willow feels omnipotent!
Apodictic fast food
1 June 2008
That's not the best episode of Buffy, not even a very good one, but it's apodictic! That means that theories shown are not required to give legal proofs, but just common sense evidence! In this case, that fast food restaurants are giving customers unhealthy food. Maybe the burgers are not made by human flesh, dogs', cats' or rats' meat (but I've read that just Burger King signed a protocol about that), but it's unhealthy anyway! A guy made an interesting documentary about it! So stay away from McDonald and such like Hell! Anyway, the story of the episode is following the high and low trace of sixth season of "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer": Buffy very vulnerable (and in this case very naughty) in her relationship with Spike and Willow in crisis of abstinence from omnipotence.
The Pledge
(I) (2001)
One Huge Mistake
12 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The very big mistake about this movie, otherwise a great one, is the fact that the book placed the story in Switzerland (as written by a Swiss writer... Duerrenmatt, one who deserved Nobel Prize...), and the film itself placed the story in USA... The difficulty of pinpoint the next strike of a serial killer is geometrically magnified by the wideness of the area... While Kommissar Matthaei could reasonably pinpoint the next strike of the killer (and get mad when he erroneously thought he was wrong), in that small area of Switzerland, Officer Jerry Black cannot feel guilty about not pinpointing a serial killer in such a huge area of USA! Do you remember those well documented book and movie, "The Silence of the Lambs"? Well, since FBI itself can't pinpoint a serial killer in such a huge area if not by chance, the madness of Jerry Black is really unjustified.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
(2004)
Uma does act!
1 October 2004
Warning: Spoilers
Great great movie! I've not seen it in theater and bought the DVD just today... In Italy it's on sale just since Sept. 22nd! In combination with chapter 1 is in my own top ten movies of ever... Better than Pulp Fiction a big lot, and I do love PF! OK, no big fights as vol. 1, much of chit-chat... but surely Uma does act! SPOILER AHEAD In the almost final scene, when Beatrix is crying/laughing in the bathroom: well, I've seen many crying and laughing of joy, but no one crying for sorrow and laughing of joy in the same time! Well, in vol. 1 Uma jumps, kicks, punches, slashes, thrusts and slaughters... In here she just acts... And f***ing really well! 10 of 10
What Lies Beneath
(2000)
Bloch stuff
4 December 2003
Warning: Spoilers
*** Spoiler ***
Apart of massive "Psycho" reminiscences, the theme about the corpse of the victim emerging from deep water to "accuse" her killer was already developed in a short story by Robert Bloch, "Tunnel of Love", in an even freezier way than in this movie. I can get the film as a homage to Bloch and his atmospheres, but not more... Another thing: about a fourth of the movie is aimed on Pfeiffer's feet! Is Zemeckis getting fetish? 5 of 10, for me... The scary stuff is scary, but it's borrowed from uncredited sources!
Apart of massive "Psycho" reminiscences, the theme about the corpse of the victim emerging from deep water to "accuse" her killer was already developed in a short story by Robert Bloch, "Tunnel of Love", in an even freezier way than in this movie. I can get the film as a homage to Bloch and his atmospheres, but not more... Another thing: about a fourth of the movie is aimed on Pfeiffer's feet! Is Zemeckis getting fetish? 5 of 10, for me... The scary stuff is scary, but it's borrowed from uncredited sources!
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