This movie was sooooo much better than the series. I hate how people say the series was better, the original is always better. Luke, Kristy, David, Paul and Donald were all great in it. Oh and I can't forget about Hillary Swank and Ben Affleck.
shareWhat most people forget is that the movie is the prelude to the events in the series...the movie is low budget and usually more funny than scary...the vamps dont dust, theres no demons...BUT ITS THE PRELUDE! Personally i'd like to see a high budget remake of this with a stryline closer to the show. But what can i say as a closing statement...sarah michelle gellar never posed fer playboy ... or did she?
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I was seven years old when the movie came out and from the moment I watched it I couldn't get enough.I watched it over and over, and I to this day know the movie like the back of my hand. I even have the buffy movie poster hanging over my bed. The fact that I was completely smitten with luke Perry didn't hurt. Kristy swanson is so underated it's upsetting. Anyway in 96' my brother told me there was going to be a television show of buffy so I got excited but when I heard that some soap opera star was going to play buffy I was devistated. I watched the pilot for the first five minuted but quikly turned it off because it was so different. cut to about a month later, a rerun played one Sunday afternoon and suddenly I became addicted to the show too. I love the series, it might possibly be my favorite television show ever and Sarah michele gellar is great as buffy, she's pretty, funny and a good actress, not to mention all of the great supporting players(nicolas Brendan, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart head) but I will always have a preference for the movie and Kristy swanson.
sharehehehe you m,ust be taking the pi$$-this is seriously bad-the shows amazing ths isnt!
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I've never been able to watch the show; I think Sarah Michelle Gellar is overrated and annoying, and overall the show seems to take itself too seriously.
The reason I like the movie is because it seemed to be laughing at its own mock seriousness, with plenty of cheeky jokes, like, "All I want to do is graduate from high school, marry christian slater, and die!". Kristy Swanson was a great clueless valley-girl.
(Again, I've never watched more than 5 minutes of the show, so of course I could be wrong, BUT) The characters on the show seem a bit pretentious, with this stupid seriousness of "oh my god, we're saving the world here."
I wish they'd have kept the original cast and format when they started the series.
Here it is straight. SMG's a brillant actress, Kristy swanson can't act to save her life, The vain vally girls in the movie don't come close to the Scoobies.Donald sutherland isnt a patch on Mr Giles. Every character on the show with an exeption on Riley is wonderfully fleshed out and so believavble. Whereas in the movie they are all more or less the same. The movie is the biggest,tackyist piece of crap ever made( i am not blaming it on Joss whedon he is an genius its not his falt the director and cast ruined it).And the tv show is so smart and wonderfully constructed with an exellent supporting cast. Alyson Hannigan and James Marsters rule!.The lame jokes or rare good moments can not save this movie or even compare to the tv show in any way.
shareThe reason the series is better is because it takes itself seriously. Joss Whedon wrote the original script for the movie as a dramatic horror comedy, but then the studio just made it a comedy. So, since Whedon was upset by this, he made the TV show. So, the reason the show should be taken seriously, is because it takes itself seriously. The show is still funny, too. Just because something takes itself seriously, doesn't mean it isn't funny. All I mean by "taking itself seriously" is that the creators took their job seriously, and tried to create something good. The filmmakers for the movie said "We're making a funny movie, not to be taken seriously." And on the show, Joss Whedon said "I want to make a funny show that is also dramatic, that people can take seriously."
shareThe movie was better..You could see Buffy developing from the shallow type to the chosen one and accepting her destiny better than in the series where she just complained and whined....Plus Pike was a better sidekick...I think if he'd been left in I might've liked the series better but Xander and Angel have already been done in other series where you have the girl who has a choice between the geek who'll never hurt her and the lame bad boy who broods and pouts and she chooses the lame bad boy....Plus I don't think Joss Whedon's dark vision for the movie or tv series back then would've worked as well anyway...If that movie had been done today the way it was back then it might've succeeded better...I think it's all in the timing...
shareWell maybe thats what you think, i disagree, However i maybe slightly biased because i watched and got to love the series first. But you can just see the difference in quality and for me there is no comparison. In the series Buffy goes through many changes and i think thst SMG's acting ability is far superior to Kristy Swansons. The reason why Buffy is a bit whiney at the end is because she has been pulled out of heaven and had to crawl her way out of her grave- Yourtelling me you wouldn't be cranky?. I don't think the acting from the guy who plays Lothos is very good, but overall i think that Joss Whedon wanted the film to be like the show with comedy,horror, action and drama but the director decided to turn it in to a cheessy camp comedy with a few of the dark bits left in that were not portrayed effectivly, Had Joss directed the film as well the results would have been better. I am glad the film didn't do that well as it lead to a second chance and produced a brillant tv show.
shareI think that the series is way better than the movie! I was to little to see the movie when it came out in '92, but I've seen it now and I didn't like how the vampires just fell to the ground but I understand that they didn't have good special efects back then. But I like Sarah as Buffy better than Kristy. The series was just way much better in my opinion than the movie.
shareThe movie was better.. You could see Buffy developing from the shallow type to the chosen one and accepting her destiny better than in the series where she just complained and whined.... Xander and Angel have already been done in other series where you have the girl who has a choice between the geek who'll never hurt her and the lame bad boy who broods and pouts and she chooses the lame bad boy....
ZFPeterson:
"Joss Whedon just turns out some utter drivel. I know where I'm coming from here; I've seen the pilot to Tru Calling."
Joss had NOTHING to do with Tru Calling.
There's no comparison. The Buffy film was not only VERY badly acted, it was also dull. Not in the sense that the plot didn't progress fast enough, or there wasn't going on; rather, it was just yet another teen movie with little or nothing to say.
Buffy the series, on the other hand, has so much in it that there's a whole academic journal devoted to it (www.slayage.tv). The series develops psychological landscapes like nothing else I've seen on television -- and on a par with great symbolist novels like Lord of the Flies and Moby Dick -- it broaches such subjects as existential angst, mental illness and the disaffection of youth post-graduation. Probably the most astonishing of all is the entire series seems to have existed in Joss Whedon's head before it was written -- as evidenced by the way that Dawn is foreshadowed in the dream sequence, as well as in many other scenes I can't think of at the moment.
The fact is, pop culture though it is, that Buffy the series is one of the greatest masterpieces of this century, and once people get past the fact that it IS pop culture, it will be hailed as such. And what is more, it will last longer than just about any other piece of pop culture.
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the movie is a pile of *beep*, the charcters are unbelivable and has less personality then an iron.....
buffy the series was excelleant, especially seaso 5, which was like the best of all the seasons thanx to clare kramer for her brilliant preformance as evil hellgod glory
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The movie is bad. But it is very entertaining. The show isn´t very good and contains laughable special effects and is very boring. indeed. The acting in the show is horrible, the characters annoying and nothing ever happens.
First of all, sorry for my bad english.
Quote by "boggajons": "The movie is bad."
Right.
Quote by "boggajons": "But it is very entertaining."
There are movies which are bad but entertaining, I wouldn't count Buffy here, but everybody has a right for his own opinions.
Quote by "boggajons": "The show isn´t very good"
And why?
Quote by "boggajons": "and contains laughable special effects"
Well, in some way you're right, the special effekts haven't been award worthy, but I it's not, like they had millions of dollars to blow, and actually, I prefer a well told story with bad cgi, than off-bloning effects but in a crap like the matrix.
Quote by "boggajons": "and is very boring. indeed."
Here, you're just wrong, look at the "Nothing ever happens"-part
Quote by "boggajons": "The acting in the show is horrible,"
Well, actually not, SMG is genius as Buffy (even tough all her movies suck, expite Cruel Intensions), you should watch the first act of "The Body" and then come back to talk so more - if you're still capable after watching it. And Alyson Hannigan as Willow, have you seen her in the final of season 6? If that wasn't great acting, what is? David Boreanaz as Angelus (personally I hated the Angel character in Buffy, while loving it in his own show, but Angelus was always great), Eliza Dushku as Faith, Anthony Stewart Head as Giles, James Marsters as Spike, Juliet Landau as Drusilla..., you won't find better acting in whole television and actually, you won't find it in the movies.
Quote by "boggajons": "the characters annoying"
For real? Actually, the only two characters I found annoying, were Riley (the black sheep of the buffy family) and Buffy herself, a great written, maybe even better played character, but not very symphatic.
Quote by "boggajons": "and nothing ever happens."
Well:
Angel losing his soul and turning into evil Angelus after (not to say because) sleeping with Buffy. - Nothing
Angelus killing Jenny Calender, who just made up with Giles, just to be found by him, laying dead in his bed, starring at him. - Nothing
Angelus getting his soul back, just to get send to hell by Buffy, because it's the only way to save the world. - Nothing
Xander and Willow making out, which causes the arrival of Anyanka, who would play a big roll in future plots. - Nothing
Faith accidently killing a human, getting screwed by a jerk calling himself a watcher (but then again, most if them are jerks, and of courese I LOVE Wes, but he WAS a jerk back than) and turning more and more evil, because of the many times, she got - or felt - betrayed. - Hell, that was nothing.
And I haven't even touched the big stuff (ever heard of Dawn?) - or Angel, so to speak (Darla pregnant, Connor, Holtz, Jasmine, Illyria, ya know?).
The thing is, most tv shows don't change at all (or just a little bit), and the only way to figure out, which season you're watching is by looking at the hair style of the maincast (ever watched nash bridges?). Buffy - and Angel - are so different, there's always something going on, you never expected (called surprises in some cultures, development in others), you just don't have that on other shows.
I can understand, that some people don't like the show, because it has vampires and is very dark at some points, but to say, that it's bad, because of lack of acting abillyties and bad stories, and boringness (WTF?) is in my eyes a big piece of *beep*.
To the movie, of course you can't compare them, but I don't see, where there was anything good in it, while the show simply blows you off.
And anyone, who doesn't get that, must have a chip in his head. ;)
Quote by "boggajons": "and Kristy Swanson is a lot hotter than Sarah Michelle Gellar"
Could it be, that this is the only reason why you prefer the movie? Well, anyway, I don't find either one of them hot, but Sarah can act, and Kristy can't, so no hard choice here.
Would you like my to lie to you know?
. The series develops psychological landscapes like nothing else I've seen on television -- and on a par with great symbolist novels like Lord of the Flies and Moby Dick -- it broaches such subjects as existential angst, mental illness and the disaffection of youth post-graduation.
I'm sorry, but the movie just doesn't compare. The show is way better. The actors are better and so are the characters. Angel is a much better love interest than Pike.
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The movie and the show are completely different things, and completely different genres. Whoever complained that the movie wasn't scary--uh, maybe because the movie was a COMEDY?!?! LOL.
The movie was a very light, funny, comedy.
The series was on a different level...although there was lots of comedy relief (thanks mostly to Xander), it was not a comedy series. It was more of a darker drama. Very different from the movie entirely. And it was meant to be different...the two are not meant to be compared. This reminds me of the "Blade vs. Buffy" post over on the series boards.
I personally love the series so much more than the movie, but I do own the movie and I do like it.
And all those who bash SMG...you obviously never have seen all episodes of the show. I seriously think that girl has lots of potential, and I would not be surprised at all if she won an Oscar someday, if she were to pick the right material. (too bad she married a guy who cannot act for his life lol)
Luke Perry I think is the biggest mistake of the movie. Swanson is good in the role of valley-girl Buffy, but I don't think that Swanson ever could have acted as the Buffy we see in seasons 5, 6, and 7 of the series. Whoever said Swanson is a better actress than Sarah, you're crazy.
"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time."
Compareing the movie and the series is like comparing apples and oranges. They changed so much in the series that the only thing they had in common was the main charcter. I like them both. The movie is not the greatest movie in the world but its an awsome cult classic and the series its very developed and something older audiences can enjoy.
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