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this movie was crap-tastic.

posted 18 years ago by thebrutalitycontinues
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at times I will admit this movie made me laugh once or twice.but in my mind i kept going "oh jeezus...please have a point and get better"...but it didn't.

first of all...total rip-off movie. stealing elements from movies like lolita, election, to die for, and about a zillion other movies flicks over the past 50 or so years.how can you even derive pleasure from something that unoriginal and blatant?i seriously only sat through the whole thing to confirm my suspicions (and the fact it's 3 in the morning.hey,somebody's gotta work while you sleep) so that I may warn people never to see this movie in the future.like a time traveling richard roper but better looking and not old or gay.

second of all, the debate over who is right and who is wrong in this movie is beyond retarded.the fact is, the main character was a "smart" girl who took advantage, played off the insecurities of the other characters and used them for personal gain.if the other characters are at fault in any way, it's because they are idiots from Los Angeles poorly written by idiot people in Los Angeles (I live there, seen a lot of them).Because she went through with it, (either getting back at her dumb friend or as a way to get famous) it in fact makes her STUPID.Because anybody with that kind of supposed IQ wouldn't spend that much time doing something so trivial...even if they are 15...and if in fact that's the case, it doesn't warrant having a movie made about it.Anybody that smart would realize they're smart and take the world by the balls and not cook up some third rate scheme straight out of another lame "Wild Things" sequel movie.All the people on here that admire this character are just as dumb, shallow, and sad as this poorly written bulimic pseudo-Einstein Lolita slut-bag.

third, WORST ENDING EVER! "Oh, look, I'm crying because I can see all the bad things I helped cause, even though I wasn't smart enough to realize the sh!t I did was wrong throughout the entire movie.Poor me.Looks like I learned my lesson". END. Cut to credits?!?!?How is that gratifying in any single way?!Seriously?

Either way, there you go.I read posts on here, and whenever someone says this or any other movie sucks, people get on their ass and say they never list reasons.well there's some damn good, and true reasons right there.argue with me all you want.you won't convince me otherwise.i understand the movie.i got the message.and it sucks.if you like it, buy all the copies so i can rest easy knowing someone else won't have to see it.I just prey to the all mighty movie gods people read my post before wasting their time on this sad excuse for a movie....

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[–] pancake_repairman 18 years ago

You know it's a comedy, right?

[–] allienotali 18 years ago

i kind of agree with you....i just kind of thought it was trying to hard to be the wonderwoman of indie films, if you will. it came off as pretentious.

[–] eleanor_rigby84 18 years ago

I think that was a good argument for why you don't like this movie... I can't really say much about stolen elements as I unfortunately have not seen the movies you listed, but I'm sure it does have similar themes to many other movies.

It was somewhat poorly written (and very unrealistic at that), but I think the characters are more noteworthy than you give them credit for. You have especially misinterpreted Kimberly. Her actions were hardly unbelievable because of her IQ. In fact, many of the most devious criminals have very high IQs. They obviously didn't realize that they were smart enough to have a nice normal successful life; instead they used their intelligence for evil (which is certainly a word for what Kimberly did, considering the final outcome for all involved). The high IQ level could have even contributed to her problems, making her the stereotypical "mad genius". Of course, it would seem that the more immediate contributing factors would be her mother, her father, her step-mother, her brother's death, the boy who begged her for anal sex and then dumped her because of it, the next boy who dumped her because of the first, and countless others. I do agree that her scheme was poorly thought out and unoriginal as far as movie plots go. I haven't read through every post on this board, but I would hope that there aren't too many people that actually admire her. Perhaps some viewers understand her reasons, and maybe even sympathize with her, but regardless of her underlying psychological problems, she willingly did serious harm to many people.

I think you have misunderstood the ending as well. Considering what we know of Kimberly, it's pretty far-fetched that she was at all sad because of what she did to everyone else. More likely, she was upset because her own life hadn't improved the way she wanted it to. However, it could be, like in so many other movies, the ending was meant to be interpretted differently by each viewer.

I would certainly never try to convince you to like this movie. It is definitely not for everyone. I personally don't think that it's a classic masterpiece by any means. However, it must be pointed out that most of your "damn good" reasons for disliking this movie were hardly true. I would advise others thinking of watching this movie to go for it and make their own opinions based on the actual movie, and not one viewer's inaccurate description of it.