lulibetcha Considering this movie was made in the nineties, where teenager movies were filled with the same stereotypes (an issue we're still dealing with), it's downright rebellious to portray a character like Buffy. Buffy is a cheerleader, a blonde bimbo who cares about nothing except her popularity and fashion sense. She's a beautiful girl, she knows it, she uses it and she has no regrets whatsoever. She's the typicall character portrayed as the villain in every teenage drama and yet, Joss Whedon made her the heroine. Imagine if the fate of the world had to rest upon the shoulders of a highschool cheerleader. This movie is riddiculous and hilarious, it plays with the steretypical women's roles in movies and it stakes them dead, making Buffy an iconic female character. I love this.

Leofwine_draca BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is the misfiring film version of the popular TV series, made a few years before it debuted. This one has some good ideas but a generally poor execution which makes it feel dated in that really cheesy 1990s way. A little of the humour is funny but the rest is purely a waste of time, unless you want to cringe with embarrassment upon seeing Rutger Hauer float to the floor on a wire.The film is very much a typical high school comedy loaded with supposedly witty dialogue with the addition of a few vampires, chief of whom is the annoying Paul Reubens. Luke Perry plays the edgy love interest, Donald Sutherland is wasted as Buffy's mentor, and Kristy Swanson doesn't make much progress other than being fit and athletic. It's interesting to see Hilary Swank playing feminine and against type early on in her career, and even Ben Affleck has a cameo. A shame, then, that the vampires are so silly and ineffectual, that most of the comedy is so obvious, and that the running time feels at least twice as long as it really is due to the dragged-out nature of the plot.

Ben Larson I watched Buffy the Vampire Layer with Kristi Myst before I watched this film with Kristy Swanson (Red Water). The first was basically a bore, and this was not much better.The most interesting feature of the film was the snapshot of totally vacuous girls in the high school. They were consumed with their own pleasures and had no clue how the outside worked. It was interesting to see Buffy transformed slowly into someone who was focused on something besides herself.Unfortunately, that was about all there was as the fighting with vampires was totally unrealistic and suited more to some teen movie than a true horror film.All in all, it was a bore except for seeing Donald Sutherland.

Joxerlives Lets start off where it really started with Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry back in 1992. The Good; Kristy is lovely, perhaps even more so than SMG, especially in her nightie. Love the scene where she rides the motorbike and some of the valley-talk. Principal Murray is also funny as is the 'What time is it?' gag. Love the idea that 'PMS is our secret weapon' Paul Ruebens is good especially his death scene. And that's pretty much it The Bad; Personally I think both Merrick and Lothos are way over the top. The Buffy/Pike relationship lacks credibility although it's interesting to think about Buffy/Oz? Angel is sorely missed. Kristy's lovely but nowhere near as good an actress as SMG. The finale is also not up to much. It's an OK film but it lacks verve The Other; Quite a cast, double Oscar winner Hilary Swank, Ben Affleck, Ricky Lake etc. Reputedly Seth Green has a small role as one of the vamps at the window of the dance who then gets kicked in the face by Buffy. You can certainly see the beginnings of the Buffy characters here; Pike=Oz Jennifer=Cordy Kimberly=Harmony Andy=Xander Cassandra=Willow (although she dies!) Murray=Flutie. No Ford from 'Lie to Me' though. The only characters to cross from the movie to the series are Buffy, Joyce, Hank and Merrick (in flashback in Becoming pt2). Joyce's 'What time?' line to Buffy is also repeated there but in a very different context. Joyce remarks to Buffy in 'Fear Itself' that she's not the social butterfly she used to be and also in WTTH that she's read parenting books. I saw Luke Perry in 'When Harry Met Sally' with AH and he was very good (and certainly still a hit with the girls). A shame we never see Pike again in the series although he does return in the comics. I don't really think the romance between him and Buffy works, we sorely miss Angel/Spike. If you look at the video cover it has both him and Kristy, by the time it comes out on DVD it's just her. Buffy later describes her pre-Slayer personality as Cordelia-like and she is. Ironically Merrick quotes Corinthians about putting away childish things but it's by clinging to her non-slayer life that Buffy is the most successful Slayer ever. She does recall the memories of past Slayers just as Dana does in Damaged so this is presumably something shared by all Slayers. Buffy says she aims to graduate, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater and die. By the end of Angel she's done 3 out of 4 (wouldn't it have been cool if they got the Immortal to be played by Christian Slater?) Now of course if Normal Again is real then Buffy's delusion starts at the point she 'meets' Merrick and ends at the final scene of Chosen (the Buffy comics her dreams and/or perhaps she writes them for a living?). On the plus side although none of her Sunnydale characters exist it means that folks like Cassandra she based them on are still alive so she still has her Scooby-Gang and both parents when she gets out of the asylum. And she can always find a new Faith and Angel/Spike and name her daughter Dawn. Lots of continuity changes. Vamps don't dust and can fly. Buffy doesn't miss the heart first time out as she later claims. It's much more overtly Christian with the Slayer clearly god's instrument. Buffy has a built in vamp-detector which is alluded to in the series but not so strongly (maybe it's more intense shortly after the Slayer inherits her powers?). More cruelty to cats! Good soundtrack from the Divinyls, they also did 'I touch myself' which Buffy recalls listening to in 'Lie to Me' What the fanficcers thought; Read a very clever one called 'The Class of 1992' where TV Buffy meets Movie Buffy on patrol one night, Movie Buffy who married Pike, had kids with him, has both parents still alive and together and never had to do any more slaying.Questions; Merrick says he is reincarnated but is that just him or all Watchers? Do Faith and co all have the birthmark Buffy had removed? I'll give it 7 out of 10 just for the sake of nostalgia