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Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Give it a Chance...(one or two teeny spoilers)
I think people can be a bit hard on parodies. It's goal is not to make sense it's to poke fun. I think this movie definitely acheived the goal of making complete asses of the idiots that keep churning our highschool teen fodder. I am a 2nd year film student and everyone once in awhile I like to get away from Citizen Kane and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to see something that requires no brain power. This is that movie. Although it does take a small amount of brain power to recognize that the disgusting bathroom scene is a variation of a scene from Detroit Rock City. Remember Anthony Michael Hall? Well, I do and I was in stitches when the name of the lunch room was The Anthony Michael Dining Hall. I am 19 years old and I am a huge fan of *some* John Hughes movies. I thought the jokes about his movies were the best part of the whole movie. Granted, there are a few scenes that were so lame I had to close my eyes to keep a headache from coming on. But all in all this movie was actually pretty smart. It pointed out a lot of things in movies that really ticked me off and most of them happen to be Freddie Prinze Jr. movies. So don't go expecting Magnolia or The Loss of Sexual Innocence. Just take it for what it is: Another movie with a stupid title that makes you laugh (i.e: like Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo) *Rating: 7 1/2 out of 10*
Jailbait (2000)
Am I the only one who thinks this movie is a ripe heap of GARBAGE?
I've just finished watching what I feel is the most painfully unfunny film of the decade. I thought 'The Watcher' and 'Whatever It Takes' was bad, but no, here comes 'Jailbait'. Who cares if it's on MTV, DVD, or TLC...it's junk! The acting is bad. The situation is stupid. The virginal girl's Voice Over is so annoying that it sounds like a Valley Girl raking her nails on a chalk board. I don't think I laughed once throughout this movie. The smarmy lawyer was the absolute worst part...oh, and the dad offering to masturbate with his son. Grrreat. Don't compare this to John Waters. Why? Because John Waters is actually funny. His trashy characters are believable and at least have more than one dimension. Skip this. *ugh* I give this film .5/10 (no, not five...there's a decimal before it)
Dead Beat (1994)
Not Exactly Dante or Shakespeare But Entertaining enough...
I am the Queen of Quirk so I was able to appreciate this off beat film.
I had never even heard anything about it before. I just found it for $5 in the discount Video Box. Anyway, it looked weird enough and it definitely is just that.
It's about a play boy named Kit (Bruce Ramsey) who is a total phony. He dyes his hair, applies powder foundation and wears flattened cans in his cowboy boots to make himself appear taller. Every girl is in love with him because he looks and sings like Elvis. He is seemingly serious about one girl though and that is Martha (Sarah Gilbert). Well, that is, until Kirsten comes on the scene (Natasha Gregson Wagner-the princess of offbeat films). She is a skank (just like him), she's insane and has something complex going on underneath (just like him). They are perfect for each other...for awhile.
This isn't just a love story though. Did Kit kill a girl awhile back and bury her out in the desert or is that just one of his lame, made up stories? Murders become a theme in the film towards the end and all the relationship humour is soon forgotten.
This film isn't exactly *amazing* but it's not completely awful. It's funny, it's entertaining and it has the campiness of a film from 1965 (that's when the film takes place). I give it 7/10 for quirk/weirdness.
Nowhere (1997)
a different kind of movie...
most people would look at this movie and think: "ok, this so isn't how teenagers are. Blah, blah, blah, etc." and they'd be right. This film is not meant to show people how teenagers are. It's meant to show what these teens are like, and they're played out to the extreme to get a point across. To make the movie more interesting, who knows? but there's a futuristic vibe to the film so maybe, what it's trying to say is: this is our fate. or maybe i'm reading into it too much and it's just a no-brainer movie. But Gregg Araki has always got his wheels turning behind the scenes. So everything's gotta mean something, right? :)
The Doom Generation (1995)
very, very, cool indeed...
ok, first off, the first time i saw this movie (i was around 15) i thought it was...different. That's all i could say. Then, 2 years later, i think it's one of the most original, entertaining movie i've ever seen. Most movies give you sex (american pie) and some violence (every other movie out now). But this gives you: sex*violence*whatever. now that is a good f**kin' movie. p.s: check out al Gregg Araki films!! The first one i saw was Nowhere and now I own them all. I'm hopeless hooked! :)