bad movies need love too

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a bad movie. It's like Heathers with vampires, which I would expect to be great, except it's not that smart or dark or funny. There are loads of lame jokes. I can't even remember any. But what I like is that the whole power thing still comes through. I like the strong cheerleader thing, I guess. Girl power, and whatnot. I like Kristy Swanson, she's such a good ditz, and Donald Sutherland is a good patriarch type person as her Watcher. There's no Watcher Council or anything, he keeps getting reborn with all Watcher knowledge, so a lot is different from the series. I'm so glad they remade it. Anyway, besides the snotty silly dialogue, the best part of this movie is all the bit parts that people who would get way more famous later have. Well, Pee Wee is not the villain but he's like the Vice President Villain, but I guess he was already famous. Hilary Swank plays one of Buffy's bitchy friends who gets nasty when Buffy starts missing chearleading practice to kill vampires. Ricky Lake is a waitress in a bar, she waits on David Arquette and Luke Perry. Luke Perry becomes friends with Buffy after she accepts her fate as the Slayer. David Arquette is his friend who becomes a vampire. They're sort of like Christian Slater in Heathers, both wearing grubby clothes and I think they're mechanics, so they're not as dangerous or as cool. Ben Affleck is a basketball player on the team that plays Buffy's high school team and during that game one of her team's players comes out as a vampire. I think that's it? Oh, Liz Smith has a cameo, she's a gossip columnist I think, as a reporter, at the end. I hope I didn't forget anyone. See, one of my favorite games is spotting people or character actors and naming other things they've been in. This is especially awesome with TV, especially HBO shows, because a lot of the same people from like The Sopranos or Sex in the City also show up in Six Feet Under or something.

I wonder what the new Buffy movie will be like.