Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A perfect late night guilty pleasure. Always will be.

There's something so cheesy that makes this film excellent

I wonder every now and again how this movie would have turned out had Joss Whedon gotten what he wanted. His original script eventually turned into The Origin but I'm not so big on 2D Buffy.

Thank God Joss Whedon decided to revisit this concept for TV. The film is worth seeing if you are a fan of the show, but its principal redeeming value is as a curiosity.

Joss Whedon's youthful ideas got hijacked in this version. Not that it did his career, or even Buffy premise, much harm...

So this is really clunky & beyond unpolished, & it does a fabulous job for the first 20 minutes or so of making Buffy a supremely unlikable heroine, but it does get a little bit better. To be honest, I don't see why it has such an awful reputation- it's not good, but not so terrible either. Kristy Swanson does a good job as Buffy, even if Sarah Michelle Gellar would do it better, & this early version of the character has a pretty decent arc. The story's a mess, though, so...yeah. Just iffy.

Worth watching on one of those days when you're sick and kinda don't care what you're watching.