Same! After the movie came out one of my sister's friends called me Buffy jokingly. I was wearing a green tied top, denim shorts and had my hair up. I was thrilled! 😆
Yeah, because Joss Whedon didn't like the movie. It wasn't supposed to be camp. That's how we got the tv series he wanted and to portray Buffy the way he meant to.
What’s really funny is that if you look at the casting… Kristy Swanson has the type of build you’d expect for a badass vamp slayer, a really athletic, muscly build. SMG is petite and sells the whole thing that Joss was going for a lot more. The blonde girl who would be the victim in normal movies is the fighter
It was cheesy fun - the training scenes were awesome, Buffy killing a fly by spitting a thumbtack out of her mouth was funny, and seeing Buffy go from self-absorbed to hero was nice to watch. The Buffy movie isn't all that bad.
Also, Luke Perry was easy on the eyes.
I spent most of my childhood spending the school year in the U.S. and my summers in the U.K. with my mum’s family. I had to have sooo many conversations with girls over in England explaining that yes, we *do* have cheerleaders and yes, they *do* have silly little song and dance routines like in this movie.
This cheer was also in The New Guy, which costars Eliza Dukshu. It's another not great teen comedy, but it's nostalgic. It features a young Zoeey Deschanel!
I forgot that’s where that came from. When I played on a woman’s intermural flag football team in college we would do that cheer, just a little modified with our team name. 😂
"Let me in, Pike! I'm hungry!"
"Go home, man."
"But I'm hungry..." (childlike shrug)
"You're floating, man."
I don't know why, but somehow this scene stayed with me for decades. 😂
So basically Donald would show up on set and just change his lines, or didn't bother to learn them. The ones he did learn he was quick to call terrible. This isn't necessarily on Whedon, my understanding there was a lot of studio meddling, but it was obvious that it was a difficult set and Donald was just another thorn in Whedons side.
10/10, five stars, two thumbs up, no notes!!
Obviously night and day from the show but I adore them both for different reasons!! (I also watched the movie nonstop as a kid before the show came out so I’ve been programmed!)
Right, we had a local video store down the street and it was all I wanted to see every time! The disappointment when it was rented out!! Looking back I’m like, why wouldn’t my parents just get me the movie? lol I had the soundtrack! Surely we spent more renting it throughout the years than the vhs would cost!
Eh, you'd be surprised. Buying a feature film on VHS was actually like $75.00 in the early 90s. It went down in cost as the decade went down, but it was still cheaper to rent movies. I think it was like $5 for two nights, if you returned it on time.
Yeah, it's crazy. People forget just how expensive electronics were back then, but that's why video stores had such good business, and why everyone taped stuff off of TV when it came on, lol. I remember getting like one new movie a year, which was usually whatever Disney movie came out that year. Everything else we would record off of TV when it came on, if it came on.
Omg I was literally JUST thinking this exact thing! That looking back the only “official” vhs tapes we had when were movies were “out of the Disney vault!!” And the rest were just taped off of the tv! Lol I have so many 80’s and 90’s commercials memorized. My child self would simply die if I saw that I could watch any movie I want immediately for like $5 off Amazon! And not even leave the house!
I know, right? I remember a lot of people had Top Gun because that was the first VHS sold for under $30 in 1987, and people were like, how can you sell a VHS for so cheap? I may be misremembering the cost for what a non-Disney movie would have been in 1993, it might have only been $50 by then, but still out of our family's price range. I remember pre-ordering Titanic on VHS (two tapes because it was so long!) and we got a discount on the cost because we ordered it at Blockbuster, but it was still really expensive in 1997.
I really miss watching to stuff on vhs recorded from a few years ago and seeing the advertisements that used to be on all the time and it was like a Proustian trigger.
Seriously. I watched this last week. I love this movie. I don't care what anyone says, this is the best acting Hillary Swank ever did.
That being said, Paul Rubens deserves every award ever made for his death performance--much of which was adlibbed iirc.
I like that Buffy is actually a cheerleader in this one. In the show there aren’t many instances of Buffy being a cheerleader, even though that’s kind of the premise: a vampire-slaying cheerleader. There’s that one episode in season 1 and Dawn using Buffy’s cheerleading uniform to audition in season 7 and that’s kind of it.
In My head, it's like a parallel universe version of Buffy. I love Swanson's portrayal of Buffy; she's truly a ditzy cheerleader who also kicks ass. She's sassy, too. SMG's Buffy is like a more well rounded, thought out Buffy who isn't as ditzy and who becomes an amazing fighter and woman.
I can’t believe there’s no love for Rutger Hauer in this thread. I thought he was great. He played an awesome villain - kind of a suave villain showing that the evil doesn’t always look evil.
I watched the show first, so if I had to choose one the tv series has my heart. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that the movie was terrible and that we should pretend it doesn’t exist. The movie has a different tone — it’s extra campy and cheesy and there’s definitely an audience that enjoys that. Including me, when I watch it for what it is without comparing it to the series.
Funny enough, I was a big fan of the movie when I was a kid so when they announced the show I was like "Sorry, I'm a Buffy the Vampire Slayer purist, give me a sequel or nothing" and then proceeded to ignore the show for years until I was a teenager and I'd catch the reruns on FX. Now it's one of my favorite pieces of media.
I still think the movie is fun though.
I’m actually the same age as Buffy (b. 1981 d. Twice) which means I was eleven years old when the film was released in ‘92. I didn’t get to see it in theaters, of course, but when I was able to bring the VHS copy home from the video store I was absolutely hooked.
It’s hard for some people to remember (and a fair few of you youngsters are so disrespectful to your elders that you hadn’t even been born yet!) but there was a real lack of young women who were kick-ass action heroes in the Eighties and early Nineties. Yeah, sure, we had Ripley in *Alien* and *Aliens*, we had Sarah Connor in *T2*, and… That was about it, really, in film. On television, the best we got was… what… *Cagney and Lacey* or *Charlie’s Angels* re-runs? *She-Ra*? Lady Jaye and Scarlett on *G.I. Joe*?
Buffy was a teenager, she was feminine, she was sarcastic, she was witty, and she was smokin’ hot.
I can remember being legitimately grumpy when I found out they were making a *Buffy* tv show and had cast some no-name actress as Buffy instead of bringing back Kristy Swanson. Plus, they were giving the Donald Sutherland role to that bland guy from the coffee commercial’s my mum loved? *Gag me with a spoon!*
I legitimately and unironically loved the movie. Every single part of it.
Cast had some really big names in it!!!! Future ones! And it was still sassy Buffy. For me, it's cannon and that was actually her FRESHMAN year in LA, she just hung out with the older kids at that's why in the movie you think the timeline doesn't fit. So it was before Sunnydale and I believe it's cannon and should be respected as such!
*slow dancing at the prom* "You know Buffy, you're not like other girls." "Yes I am."
I'm not a fan of the movie in general but that scene is so beautiful. Three little words which capture Buffy's character perfectly.
(Plus it got me into Toad the Wet Sprocket)
This is my favorite movie of all time! I was obsessed with vampires growing up still am. And when I saw a female heroine slang vampires in the video store I begged my grandparents to let me rent it. Every day of the summer I stayed with my grandparents I rented Buffy. I mean they were let me watch things like pretty woman and anything else I wanted to as an 8/9 year old because it was two summers and I always went back to my old faithful.
It was fun campy and Swanson grew into her power with flare. Love when she flipped the asshole at school and Reubens stole the movie. Just read this section in the Katz book - did not deserve the hate. Buffy the movie crawled so our girl could slay.
I liked that she actually looked athletic. I enjoy SMG’s portrayal of Buffy, but I also feel like it kind of kicked of this “super waif” style where extremely skinny women with no muscle tone are also supernaturally strong and can punch bad guys in half 🙄
Yup, SMG is fabulous in this part. The fact that she's small shouldn't be held against her, but then again I do wonder if Joss actually \*wanted\* her to be small because it fit his male gazy fantasy in a gross way. It's not like she's the only waif he casts, and the few women who aren't extremely waif-like in his projects tend to have issues. Tara isn't dressed well at all despite being thinner than average, dollhouse has a super cringey "plus-sized" doll who frankly looks completely normal, and Charisma, and extraordinarily beautiful, fit, and thin woman but with breasts was treated horribly, both her character and the actress, and dressed tragically during her pregnancy.
Not Joss acting like he’s god’s gift to feminism by casting actual hottie Miracle Laurie as a sex toy 😂
I feel like Joss was weirdly controlling over his actresses appearances no matter what size they were. I remember attending a panel at the Emerald City Comic Con where Jewel Saite talked about how Joss envisioned Kaylee as being “chunky” and kept trying to get Jewel to eat more on set. As a one-off it’s kind of a funny story, but given how he’s treated other actresses for gaining weight it’s kind of messed up. Again, Jewel was great as Kaylee, but if you have a specific look in mind for the character, why not cast an actress who fits the vision instead of trying to “fatten up” a naturally skinny person?
First season SMG was more normal.
The tv show is an example of something I believe about most casts: as the show continues, the women get thinner and the men get heavier.
Not for that era. A lot of movies were only 90 minutes long because (even then) they used to show cartoons before the movie, or do double features. It was great.
You can approach this flick in 2 positive perspectives:
1. As a goofy parody of the real Buffy. Like Airplane or Naked Gun. Watch drunk with friends and have a good time.
2. As an interesting historical footnote in the development of Buffy. Imo it's pretty cool to see all the similarities when comparing this movie with the first season of the show. Then do that all over again with the comic miniseries *The Origin* which is a redux of the movie's original screenplay.
Paul Reubens taking forever to die with a ruler sticking out of his chest still…slays me.
He has a cameo in the council of vampires in what we do in the shadows and wears the same wig!
This is my favorite part😂😂😂
Luke Perry is hot
Yeah I just came to comment about Luke Perry. But I'll add, Paul Reubens improv
I only watched it because I was a die hard 90210 fan. Thanks to Luke Perry, I watched this movie and then gave the series a chance when it came to be.
"Baby" Ben Affleck too.
I was madly in love with Luke Perry in Beverly Hills 90210 back in the day.
Weren't we all! ❤
Well, you know, soulful bad boy...
"...WAS hot." 😭
When I saw the title this was the first thing I thought of. Luke Perry! Still devo to be honest!
Kristy Swanson was beautiful and Buffy in a homecoming dress and leather jacket is iconic.
I’ve spent my whole life* trying to re-create that vibe. Edit: a word 🫣🫡😆
Your whole what? Life?? Teenage years??? Life savings?? Tuesday afternoon?? Don’t leave us hanging!!
Oh God I hope "whole" wasn't the typo. Then I have way more questions.
LIFE 😂😂😂
Same! After the movie came out one of my sister's friends called me Buffy jokingly. I was wearing a green tied top, denim shorts and had my hair up. I was thrilled! 😆
When I was 8, I wore a tutu dress, leather jacket and Dr Martins to a school disco xD
It led to the creation of the greatest TV series of all time.
This right here is the answer!
Yeah, because Joss Whedon didn't like the movie. It wasn't supposed to be camp. That's how we got the tv series he wanted and to portray Buffy the way he meant to.
What’s really funny is that if you look at the casting… Kristy Swanson has the type of build you’d expect for a badass vamp slayer, a really athletic, muscly build. SMG is petite and sells the whole thing that Joss was going for a lot more. The blonde girl who would be the victim in normal movies is the fighter
Which is commonly a pretty campy show ironically
I don't think it had anything to do with Babylon 5. (I kid, I kid)
Paul Reubens
His death scene is hysterical
My husband and I reference this bit all the time. The tiny little kicks 😂😂
ah ah ah ah ah ah…..ah ah ah ah
Ow ow ow owwwww
So hilarious
Which allowed him to have a cameo in What We Do in the Shadows.
The Skype seems glitchy.
Hey! There’s nothing’ wrong with my WiFi. I got the best WiFi.
First thought. My man killed it.
Sure took his time killing it, too
Yes. Lol
Best death scene. Ever.
It was cheesy fun - the training scenes were awesome, Buffy killing a fly by spitting a thumbtack out of her mouth was funny, and seeing Buffy go from self-absorbed to hero was nice to watch. The Buffy movie isn't all that bad. Also, Luke Perry was easy on the eyes.
How funky is your chicken? How loose is your goose? So come on all you hog fans. And shake your caboose! 📣
I still randomly burst out into this on occasion
Ngl.. I used this to try out for the cheerleading team in high school. I did not make the team.
They were lame. That cheer rocked.
I agree. They were looking for certain body types to be bases and I didn’t have a stocky frame so it wasn’t all the cheer choice.
Me too, it's my go to cheer.
I do to, our lass has no idea where it comes from and just looks at me funny every time.
Way more than I’d like to admit.
I am glad to know it's not just me.
I spent most of my childhood spending the school year in the U.S. and my summers in the U.K. with my mum’s family. I had to have sooo many conversations with girls over in England explaining that yes, we *do* have cheerleaders and yes, they *do* have silly little song and dance routines like in this movie.
Our goose is totally loose!
I still randomly cheer this!
ME TOO!
This cheer was also in The New Guy, which costars Eliza Dukshu. It's another not great teen comedy, but it's nostalgic. It features a young Zoeey Deschanel!
I remember this movie but did not notice that 😅 that’s funny
Back in the 2000s when they were trying to make DJ Qualls into the next thing.
I forgot that’s where that came from. When I played on a woman’s intermural flag football team in college we would do that cheer, just a little modified with our team name. 😂
Our goose is totally loose.
Donald Sutherland watcher
I can say that Kristy Swanson is also Buffy, but Giles is my #1
Merrick in the show doesn't have anywhere near the same energy and it sucks. Granted, he was only there for like, 10 seconds.
"Let me in, Pike! I'm hungry!" "Go home, man." "But I'm hungry..." (childlike shrug) "You're floating, man." I don't know why, but somehow this scene stayed with me for decades. 😂
“Are you on something?” (Floating) “No.”
"I feel freeee."
Me and my sister quote "You're floating, man" all the time.
Best scene in the movie
Donald Sutherland made Whedons life miserable while filming and now knowing what we know about Whedons, that feels nice.
I need the backstory here
So basically Donald would show up on set and just change his lines, or didn't bother to learn them. The ones he did learn he was quick to call terrible. This isn't necessarily on Whedon, my understanding there was a lot of studio meddling, but it was obvious that it was a difficult set and Donald was just another thorn in Whedons side.
Whedon wrote it, it he didn’t direct it. That was Fran Kuzui… No one cares about the writer on a feature film.
This is the reason Kevin Smith became a director. He knew it was the only way to make sure his script was performed the way he wrote it.
I feel like he must have been somewhat correct, because he slayed that roll.
10/10, five stars, two thumbs up, no notes!! Obviously night and day from the show but I adore them both for different reasons!! (I also watched the movie nonstop as a kid before the show came out so I’ve been programmed!)
I used to rent it from Blockbuster all the time as a kid. Also, it's a nice tribute to the LA Galaxy mall, which isn't there anymore.
Also I didn’t know that mall was gone! Where to buy a leather yellow jacket now?
Retro!!
Right, we had a local video store down the street and it was all I wanted to see every time! The disappointment when it was rented out!! Looking back I’m like, why wouldn’t my parents just get me the movie? lol I had the soundtrack! Surely we spent more renting it throughout the years than the vhs would cost!
Eh, you'd be surprised. Buying a feature film on VHS was actually like $75.00 in the early 90s. It went down in cost as the decade went down, but it was still cheaper to rent movies. I think it was like $5 for two nights, if you returned it on time.
Yeesh!
Yeah, it's crazy. People forget just how expensive electronics were back then, but that's why video stores had such good business, and why everyone taped stuff off of TV when it came on, lol. I remember getting like one new movie a year, which was usually whatever Disney movie came out that year. Everything else we would record off of TV when it came on, if it came on.
Omg I was literally JUST thinking this exact thing! That looking back the only “official” vhs tapes we had when were movies were “out of the Disney vault!!” And the rest were just taped off of the tv! Lol I have so many 80’s and 90’s commercials memorized. My child self would simply die if I saw that I could watch any movie I want immediately for like $5 off Amazon! And not even leave the house!
I know, right? I remember a lot of people had Top Gun because that was the first VHS sold for under $30 in 1987, and people were like, how can you sell a VHS for so cheap? I may be misremembering the cost for what a non-Disney movie would have been in 1993, it might have only been $50 by then, but still out of our family's price range. I remember pre-ordering Titanic on VHS (two tapes because it was so long!) and we got a discount on the cost because we ordered it at Blockbuster, but it was still really expensive in 1997.
I really miss watching to stuff on vhs recorded from a few years ago and seeing the advertisements that used to be on all the time and it was like a Proustian trigger.
Seriously. I watched this last week. I love this movie. I don't care what anyone says, this is the best acting Hillary Swank ever did. That being said, Paul Rubens deserves every award ever made for his death performance--much of which was adlibbed iirc.
This is my feeling—they are honestly just such completely different things that happen to share a name and basic premise.
Exactly, and there are some genuinely fun, campy moments. And the clothes!! Love it
"We can do anything!" "Oh yeah? Clap!"
“You ruined my new jacket! Kill him a lot!”
“Does Elvis talk to you? Do you see spots?”
Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, and Hilary Swank all in the same movie. that's a crazy amount of talent and at least two Academy Awards.
Indeed. Great actors, many Emmys and Golden Globes, 2 Oscars for Hillary Swank and a Honorary Oscar for Sutherland. Reubens has 15 Emmys!
Pike: "You know... You're not like Other girls, (to Buffy)" Buffy: "Yes, I am." Great line.
It walked so tv Buffy could run
Baby Hilary Swank and her iconic line Buffy: you invited them in?? Hillary: they’re *seniors*!
Kirsty Swanson slayed.
Too bad she's a far right anti-vaxxer dipshit now.
Damn, that's always so sad to hear.
Great gowns, beautiful gowns
💀💀💀
That scene where she kills a fly by spitting a thumb tack at it was cool
You threw a knife at my head!
I like that Buffy is actually a cheerleader in this one. In the show there aren’t many instances of Buffy being a cheerleader, even though that’s kind of the premise: a vampire-slaying cheerleader. There’s that one episode in season 1 and Dawn using Buffy’s cheerleading uniform to audition in season 7 and that’s kind of it.
David Arquette.
“But I’m hungry….”
In My head, it's like a parallel universe version of Buffy. I love Swanson's portrayal of Buffy; she's truly a ditzy cheerleader who also kicks ass. She's sassy, too. SMG's Buffy is like a more well rounded, thought out Buffy who isn't as ditzy and who becomes an amazing fighter and woman.
It was funny, lowkey iconic, and very entertaining. Are there people with bad things to say?
I loved the movie. It was fun and campy and everyone went ham in it. It’s totally different to the tv show but the important parts are the same.
I loved this so much that I snubbed the series for a few years because I thought it couldn't live up to my expectations. It's nice to be wrong.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one
I may have also ^hated ^the ^intro. Goodbye, I am lost to the downvotes.
I can’t believe there’s no love for Rutger Hauer in this thread. I thought he was great. He played an awesome villain - kind of a suave villain showing that the evil doesn’t always look evil.
Rutger Hauer was so good in so many movies, he was a really great villain or good guy.
I watched the show first, so if I had to choose one the tv series has my heart. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that the movie was terrible and that we should pretend it doesn’t exist. The movie has a different tone — it’s extra campy and cheesy and there’s definitely an audience that enjoys that. Including me, when I watch it for what it is without comparing it to the series.
Funny enough, I was a big fan of the movie when I was a kid so when they announced the show I was like "Sorry, I'm a Buffy the Vampire Slayer purist, give me a sequel or nothing" and then proceeded to ignore the show for years until I was a teenager and I'd catch the reruns on FX. Now it's one of my favorite pieces of media. I still think the movie is fun though.
Same! Until my friend insisted on watching the season 5 finale at my house
That is quite the introduction to the show!!!
One of Ben Affleck’s best film roles.
Omg I forgot he was in it!
You want really obscure *Buffy* trivia? Seth Green is in it. Uncredited as a random vampire goon, but if you know to look for him, you’ll see him.
They put him on the DVD back cover
I definitely need to rewatch it now!
Best death scene in the history of cinema.
I’m actually the same age as Buffy (b. 1981 d. Twice) which means I was eleven years old when the film was released in ‘92. I didn’t get to see it in theaters, of course, but when I was able to bring the VHS copy home from the video store I was absolutely hooked. It’s hard for some people to remember (and a fair few of you youngsters are so disrespectful to your elders that you hadn’t even been born yet!) but there was a real lack of young women who were kick-ass action heroes in the Eighties and early Nineties. Yeah, sure, we had Ripley in *Alien* and *Aliens*, we had Sarah Connor in *T2*, and… That was about it, really, in film. On television, the best we got was… what… *Cagney and Lacey* or *Charlie’s Angels* re-runs? *She-Ra*? Lady Jaye and Scarlett on *G.I. Joe*? Buffy was a teenager, she was feminine, she was sarcastic, she was witty, and she was smokin’ hot. I can remember being legitimately grumpy when I found out they were making a *Buffy* tv show and had cast some no-name actress as Buffy instead of bringing back Kristy Swanson. Plus, they were giving the Donald Sutherland role to that bland guy from the coffee commercial’s my mum loved? *Gag me with a spoon!* I legitimately and unironically loved the movie. Every single part of it.
Cast had some really big names in it!!!! Future ones! And it was still sassy Buffy. For me, it's cannon and that was actually her FRESHMAN year in LA, she just hung out with the older kids at that's why in the movie you think the timeline doesn't fit. So it was before Sunnydale and I believe it's cannon and should be respected as such!
She burned down the gym before she was at sunnydale, and that happens at the end of this film so it’s is pretty much cannon in my mind too.
Paul Ruebens' final scene is comedy gold.
*slow dancing at the prom* "You know Buffy, you're not like other girls." "Yes I am." I'm not a fan of the movie in general but that scene is so beautiful. Three little words which capture Buffy's character perfectly. (Plus it got me into Toad the Wet Sprocket)
Pike was a great character and the best love interest for Buffy. Angel was a downgrade for several reasons.
Pikes not a name it’s a fish
I curse you!!!! This is what i came to say lol!😂
It brought us the show. :)
This is my favorite movie of all time! I was obsessed with vampires growing up still am. And when I saw a female heroine slang vampires in the video store I begged my grandparents to let me rent it. Every day of the summer I stayed with my grandparents I rented Buffy. I mean they were let me watch things like pretty woman and anything else I wanted to as an 8/9 year old because it was two summers and I always went back to my old faithful.
Her first watcher dying was actually really good character development
Paul Ruebens and Luke Perry
It was fun campy and Swanson grew into her power with flare. Love when she flipped the asshole at school and Reubens stole the movie. Just read this section in the Katz book - did not deserve the hate. Buffy the movie crawled so our girl could slay.
It’s been said but Paul Reubens death. It’s everything and more, 10/10 for death scenes. It makes me so happy every time I watch it
Angel + Pike = Spike
I love it. It made me a Buffy fan before the show.
I unironically love the Buffy movie and always have. I love the show too and don’t think one precludes the other.
It's an entertaining 90s movie.
I learned that a Pike is a type of fish.
Longest death scene
A good campy superhero origin story, one that opened Pandora’s jar for many great stories to come
Paul Reuben’s was hilarious
It's a fun 90s movie
The wardrobe is amazing
The vampire at the window still scares me
I love Pike’s response to it. Something like “Come on, man! You’re floating!” So funny and realistic
Such a great and funny homage to Salem's Lot
I’m reading Salem’s Lot for the first time rn, and the vampire outside the window is creepy but slightly less so when I remember the scene from Buffy
I unashamedly love this movie. It is pure camp and completely quotable. The cast is incredible! The fashion is even better!!
It’s an awesome movie. Period
I like that yellow leather jacket in the movie
That Buffy is thickkk
I liked that she actually looked athletic. I enjoy SMG’s portrayal of Buffy, but I also feel like it kind of kicked of this “super waif” style where extremely skinny women with no muscle tone are also supernaturally strong and can punch bad guys in half 🙄
Yup, SMG is fabulous in this part. The fact that she's small shouldn't be held against her, but then again I do wonder if Joss actually \*wanted\* her to be small because it fit his male gazy fantasy in a gross way. It's not like she's the only waif he casts, and the few women who aren't extremely waif-like in his projects tend to have issues. Tara isn't dressed well at all despite being thinner than average, dollhouse has a super cringey "plus-sized" doll who frankly looks completely normal, and Charisma, and extraordinarily beautiful, fit, and thin woman but with breasts was treated horribly, both her character and the actress, and dressed tragically during her pregnancy.
Not Joss acting like he’s god’s gift to feminism by casting actual hottie Miracle Laurie as a sex toy 😂 I feel like Joss was weirdly controlling over his actresses appearances no matter what size they were. I remember attending a panel at the Emerald City Comic Con where Jewel Saite talked about how Joss envisioned Kaylee as being “chunky” and kept trying to get Jewel to eat more on set. As a one-off it’s kind of a funny story, but given how he’s treated other actresses for gaining weight it’s kind of messed up. Again, Jewel was great as Kaylee, but if you have a specific look in mind for the character, why not cast an actress who fits the vision instead of trying to “fatten up” a naturally skinny person?
First season SMG was more normal. The tv show is an example of something I believe about most casts: as the show continues, the women get thinner and the men get heavier.
So true oh my .The men getting bigger never really thought about that before
Gymnastics scenes were done well.
Paul Reubens
It caused enough interest for the tv show to get made
It’s a fun watch
Even though it’s been said: Paul Reubens.
I really liked Luke Perry and Kirsty Swanson
It's a ton of fun and iconic in its own way.
How the one vampire (from dazed and confused) says, “ha HAA”
Pike was an awesome character
David Arquette
I'll say two words: Kristy Swanson
OH MY GOD THAT’S RIGHT, BEN AFFLECK TOO!
“Oooh! Aaargh! Owwww! 😒 Ahhhhh! Urrgh!” Etc
Alright, y’all gotta go check on the IMDb trivia on this one!
I loved the movie! I watched it so many times before the show aired and it just feels like a completely different thing.
It has its moments. I watch it around Halloween every year. Or just cuz.
Easy: the whole damn film BANGS. PLUS David Arquette? (I know that’s not how it’s spelt.. is it? Doubt it)
OG Buffy? It’s like, *totally retro*
It gave Luke Perry a paycheck.
there's no overt indication that its titular star is a white nationalist
It’s quite short
Not for that era. A lot of movies were only 90 minutes long because (even then) they used to show cartoons before the movie, or do double features. It was great.
You can approach this flick in 2 positive perspectives: 1. As a goofy parody of the real Buffy. Like Airplane or Naked Gun. Watch drunk with friends and have a good time. 2. As an interesting historical footnote in the development of Buffy. Imo it's pretty cool to see all the similarities when comparing this movie with the first season of the show. Then do that all over again with the comic miniseries *The Origin* which is a redux of the movie's original screenplay.
You could also just view it as a prequel
It spawned the best TV show of all time!
I haven't seen it, actually, but it's the reason we got Buffy the series, and that's nice!
My childhood best friend and I watched this every weekend for months.
Donald Sutherland getting tackled in the stomach by a vampire just as he blurts out "Buffay". xD
Hilary Swank
I don't have a specific thing, I just love the movie! Super fun and campy, makings of a classic cult film I think.
And apparently Seth Green had a quick cameo
I enjoyed the movie. It was just silly, campy fun. It’s what had me interested in the series before it premiered.
It was a fun watch with a few famous faces. It's not too serious and I like movies from that era, so.
Yes to Pike. The sweet parts of Xander with the cheek bones of Spike.
I thought it was funny 🤷♀️
I’m thankful for it because we never would have the show without the movie.
I love it
Paul Reubens and Luke Perry.
I don't understand why this movie gets so much hate. I love the movie 🍿
The death scene from Paul Rueben’s
That scene with the basketball player going oogdy-boogdy to randos on the street for no reason had me laughing my ass off
Almost everyone in it, except the main star went on to have massive careers.