Hmmmm…shmaltz.

Maybe the reason Boreanaz succeeded where Gellar failed is because he realized quite quickly he needed to go back to television. His first couple of attempts – Valentine and the Crow movie – were almost worse than what Gellar had done. The girl just over valued herself, burned some bridges and now … well … her career is fucked

Quote: "inchoate rage" —> Ahh, that's the stuff. Great article. All through Buffy it was obvious she had her eyes on the greater prize of movie mega-stardom, Oscars etc (TV being "too small" for her ambitions maybe?). I guess there's always that ace-in-the-hole of a Buffy Movie/Playboy Spread Combo to fall back on…

Right. Successful David Boreanaz with his awesomely on-the-bubble, might-not-be-renewed-because-of-poor-ratings Fox procedural and several direct-to-DVD sequels. Yeah, he's totally more successful than that fledgling Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred in a box-office smash that broke $100,000,000 and a few other widely distributed Theatrical Feature Films — while also having had a multimillion dollar advertising deal with at least 2 major cosmetic companies. Have you ever considered a career in data analysis, Devin? You absolutely wouldn't be awful at that. Cause you weigh all the facts, and never let forced irony skew reality.

I think something was missing out of this synopsis… "Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, works in Eastern Europe."…..Banging Polish and Russin Hookers while cultivating a modern day slave trade… "Taking the kids to school one morning"… i.e. taking a shit…., "Helen is killed in a car accident."… The guy John hire to kill the old battleax accidentally drives through the bathroom wall…. "Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe"… John is doing the fucking and tearing…. "John is unaware that his wife has died." ….. The hitman damaged his phone after dropping it in the now vacant toilet and can't call him to tell him the good news…. " As he tries to reach home"… his new palace in Moscow… "Helen must stand by helplessly as she remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death."… Let's face it she's dead and John is having the time of his life. Now that's a synopsis

I don't know what you're talking about, Devin. She was the shit* in Scooby Doo

*total sarcasm.

cruel intentions was pretty good.

admit it, you still have that placebo song lurking in some dark recess of your itunes playlist…

Do you ever write anything that isn't boiling over with hate? How can hate so much and live? I'm sorry your mommy didn't love you enough but please seek help.

I would like that movie synopsis much better if after her doctor tells her she only has a week to live she goes out to kill all those who have ever wronged her. Then, at the end of the week when she is still alive and realizes the doc lied to her, she kills him to. Instead of having to deal with the aftermath she decides to finish the job she started at the beginning and attempts suicide again… just to wake up in a prison hospital.

That is something I would pay to see. And by pay, I mean watch when it gets on DVD and get it from Netflix.

I really enjoyed Sarah's performance in The Grudge 2 – the part where she hit the cement.

I thought it was funny in comment #4, where it says "Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred in a box-office smash that broke $100,000,000 and a few other widely distributed Theatrical Feature Films…". Movies can make $300,000,000 and it can still have absolutely nothing to do with who's in it. What the poster didn't mention is that "The Grudge" came around during a time where it was sort of able to ride on the coattails of "The Ring" and the whole trend that that movie created. It also produced a sequel that was nowhere near as successful that rolled over and died quite quickly. And about those "few other widely distributed Theatrical Feature Films"? What the hell does that even mean? That covers way too much ground to be considered a reason to consider someone to be successful. As far as David Boreanaz is concerned, he appears to have had more post-Buffy/Angel success because he seems to have a better idea of what his limitations are. He's a TV actor and can carry a TV show, and he's stayed in his comfort zone for the most part. I'm no fan of his really, and "Valentine" and that "Crow" flick were God-awful, but he was hardly the only thing wrong with those and they could barely be considered HIS movies.

Sir, you can't call Mr. Coelho a "semi-mistical self help guru". Well, he's a fully mistical self help guru!

(Oh, and he declared he's a magician too. Only his powers are ones that only work when no one is looking…)

@Comment #11, aka unknown user, who I shall refer to as Devin until proven otherwise. How exactly do you define success as an actor? I define it as 3 things. 1) Money. Since SMG was in larger movies that were actually released to theaters — that actually had budgets — she pulled in proportionately large paychecks. 6million for The Grudge, according to IMDBPro. In a list of highest salaries for TV stars working in 2007, David Boreanaz didn't even place — the lowest spot was help by Sally Field, who pulls in $100,000 per episode of Brothers and Sisters. Or around $2.5million a season. Meaning that Boreanaz makes less than Sally Field, and so significantly less than than SMG. 2) Exposure. Bones doesn't do terribly well in the ratings, and is running the risk of cancellation. If you asked a person on the street who David Boreanaz is, most wouldn't know. Whether or not Gellar carried The Grudge, the movie was still a huge success, and she was exposed to a huge audience of moviegoers. If you asked them about Sarah Michelle Gellar, most would know her as Buffy, and they'd know her from her Neutrogena commercials, and they'd know her for The Grudge and Cruel Intentions. 3) Marketability. DB has been in one show and 4 ultra-low budget movies, none of which saw national theatrical distribution, since Angel ended (also disproving the argument that he's recognized his limits as a TV star? he's actively developing at least 2 film rolls currently). SMG has been in 10 movies since Buffy, all of them had, or will see, a wide release. Seems to me, if she keeps getting cast in major movies, she has at least some marketability. Not to mention, she is the national marketing spokesperson for Vaseline. It doesn't seem to me, based on the figures, that the argument can be made for David Boreanaz being more successful than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

I'd make an argument that Alyson Hannigan is the most successful Buffy alumnus. The American Pie movies and a steady gig on How I Met Your Mother, which I hear is pretty popular. I don't watch it, but it's supposedly the next Friends or whatever. Try not to hold Date Movie against her.

It fills you with 'incomplete' rage? Did you mean choate or you just getting started on the rage thing?

I don't have a career!

Devin, some days I love your writting. Other days (like today), I would compare it to SMG's movie career.

Devin, thank you so much for spoiling this. You have given me my two biggest laughs in the last month. First the Michael Rooker abusive father line and now "Spoiler! Fuck this book!".

I've been playing the old Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game on my xbox, and I noticed SMG is the only one in the cast who is too much of a cunt to provide voice for the game. I don't even like the show beyond this silly game, but c'mon everyone else is there. What a snob. Even better, the actress they got to do the voice sounds just like SMG, because when you're a stuck-up cunt with little talent, it's pretty obscene how easy it is to replace you. They probably just threw a brick out the window with the casting information embedded on the side and gave the part to the first blonde slut it hit. More hate!

Geez Josh can you spell misogynist much you moron

She's one of those TV stars who bit the hand that fed her and banked on a movie career that didn't materialize. If there's public resentment toward her, it's because she certainly did kill off the series and rather callously at the eleventh hour.

I'm thinking she was at the reunion because her schedule was a lot freer than she anticipated. Now there are younger TV actresses on hit series. Buffy is still fresh and popular, but Gellar herself seems awfully five years ago.