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Popdose: Soundtrack Saturday: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

  • DwDunphy · 5 months ago
    Susanna Hoffs covering Oingo Boingo. How can you go wrong?
  • Ted · 5 months ago
    It's hard to believe Buffy the film would spawn such a brilliant series. Now there are plans afoot to film a new Buffy moive -- without the TV cast and without Joss Whedon. To add another phrase to the one Kelly quoted: "What to the fuck?"
    http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0814308/
  • rwcass · 5 months ago
    Whedon and Gellar aren't involved? Then what's the point? I thought they were, and I was about to "post-edit" that information in. Thanks for that news, Ted.
  • DwDunphy · 5 months ago
    Anthony Head pretty much echoed your thoughts in a recent interview. Even if Gellar wasn't involved, he asked how in the world they could proceed without Whedon, especially considering the original movie was called a toxic asset and would never make a franchise.

    The kicker: the person who is spearheading this reboot is the director of the original Buffy, which gives it all a smell of "Thanks, Joss. Now that you fixed it, I'll take over again."
  • Ted · 5 months ago
    At the end of that article I linked to (which links to another article), the author speculates that all this talk of "rebooting" the original film without the TV characters is a ploy to get Whedon and Gellar to participate in the film--since both are reticent about doing a Buffy movie.
  • DwDunphy · 5 months ago
    Possibly. Scaring them into it for fear of capping the series with a half-assed reboot though... It would never work. The answer was given by Bad Brains a long time ago: money changes everything.
  • Ted · 5 months ago
    Josh (Whoops! I meant Joss) is pretty much over the Hollywood machine, but do you think he's really okay with the Kuzuis wrecking his masterpiece TV series?
  • James · 5 months ago
    I thought that this was such a good soundtrack. I loved the movie and the show. Paul Reubens dying made that movie.
  • Jill · 5 months ago
    Another fantastic post, Kelly. I posted it to my facebook & linked to it on Twitter. You rock as always.
  • Jill · 5 months ago
    Jill, here, again - I just joined digg & of course linked to your post.
  • Daburcor · 5 months ago
    Matthew Sweet is my all-time favorite musician, and I have this soundtrack to thank for that. My mom rented this movie for me when it first came out on VHS, and I loved everything about it. Now, at 26, I look back at this movie and laugh at how not very great it is... especially to have such a great soundtrack. Susanna Hoffs + Oingo Boingo = Brilliance.

    By the way, Under the Covers, Vol. 2 is everything you'd hope it to be and more. I think it might even be better than the first!

    Can't wait for them to answer the fan queries! Very exciting!