Wild Things
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...
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- Cast:
- Kevin Bacon , Matt Dillon , Neve Campbell , Denise Richards , Theresa Russell , Bill Murray , Daphne Rubin-Vega
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Sorry, this movie sucks
From my favorite movies..
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Wild Things stars Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Matt Dillon, and Kevin Bacon and this guidance counselor gets accused of raping one of his students and from there we have a detective, mystery, erotic thriller in one movie. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. There's so much more to this than meets the eye than just a boring erotic movie that can have too much erotic and not enough thriller and vice versa. But this does a good job balancing out these categories and don't get me wrong I enjoy a good erotic movie as much as the next person, but there has to be more to a movie than just one specific subject. This could also pass for an Alfred Hitchcock movie if he was still alive. The score is so well done that I was intrigued to see where this would take me and it got even better and better when I watched it. Everyone played there parts perfectly including Denise Richards whom I'm not a big fan of hers but this role was perfect for her and Neve Campbell will always be my 90s crush who displays the right amount of toughness and gothic without overdoing it. Even Bill Murray who isn't quite what you expect when watching this type of genre. The movie kept it short sweet and simple and not once was I bored or a scene didn't drag forever so we could see what the conclusion to this whole mystery was. Overall, the movie did its job it knew what it was going to be and this movie shows that all you need is a right cast, a script that's not too complicated to follow, and most importantly confidence and hats what this movie proves my point.
Good movie. I'm not knocking it. It's engrossing, it's rich in characters, it's just fun. Do you think we could have done without all the twists? At the time, it was just a sexy shocker, but once you were done watching it, the fun is over. Unless you were going to watch it again with someone else, just to see the shocked look on their face after one crazy twist is revealed after another, it just wasn't anything to write home about. Meaning, if you look back on it, you know you had a great time watching it, but when you look back on it, you can't deny that this is all very silly, very ridiculous, and just goes way too over the top. Story centers around a girl who accuses an older man of sexually assaulting her. From there, it just escalates into insanity, as the movie becomes more and more twisted, revealing more and more unbelievable twists and turns, that it gets to the point where by the time you are expecting the next twist, you're just thinking " GET THE (****) OUT OF HERE!" Bottom line: The movie lives up to its name. I would average this to be a 6.7 star film, I would love to round it off to 7, but certain factors that I cannot specify here, because it would ruin the film for you, I can only say that I am giving it 6 stars, as a few things dragged the rating down for me. ( After you're done watching, you will understand. Ending is satisfying, but....you will understand.)
Perversity is subversion. A subversion can be seen as something which is an offence, to something else. However, what makes matters very curious is when a force of nature is meant to be shielded from the offence.A shield is a protection: one force is a shielded reality, another force is an offence, or a weapon.The shielded reality isn't responsible for itself. The shielded reality is dependent. The weapon is obviously not the source of the dependence, and yet that's the only other reality. All that exists is the dependency, and the weapon.The weapon is anti-dependence. The dependence is anti-weapon. Anti-dependence is anti-interaction. The dependence is interaction. Anti-interaction is the prevention of interaction. The interaction is the prevention of anti-interaction.The prevention of interaction, is the creation of annihilation. The prevention of anti-interaction is the creation of interaction - the weapon is the creator of no interaction, the interaction is the creator of interaction.The interaction creates itself. The weapon to interaction creates itself. Interaction is behaviour. Behaviour is self-reliant. The annihilation of behaviour is self-reliant.Self-reliance is the antithesis of interaction - self-reliance is the same as the weapon to interaction and the interaction itself. Behaviour is self-reliance, regardless of anything. It's impossible for behaviour to not represent self-reliance, and yet despite this, in Wild Things it's meant to be a source of wonder and a source of art that self-reliance is shared between interaction and no interactionWild Things is a pathetically miscalculated movie, being almost the epitome of a movie having its own head up its own arse
I am unable to discuss the full storyline of this movie. My disk gave in about five minutes to the end, it was during the second of the revealing scenes after The End appeared on- screen. But I don't think Kelly is dead. No way.Herewith just my nomination for Denise Richards for the RavenGlam title Most Beautiful Girl On Film Ever. Yes, I have others contending for that title here at ElectricLadyLand, but certainly, Ms. Richards is a most viable contender. The "I was raped" tearful confession to her mother features the best close-up of a girl's face I have ever, and that is Ever, seen, and she was crying tears, so I am forever gonna remember this one, it is just bunny-nosed beautiful!As for the story, I would have preferred a more rock-solid male character. Oh, and laugh heartily now, but no freaking way could I take Neve "Julia PARTY OF FIVE Salinger" seriously - no way - she has proved she can only do one form of acting, ambling on in neutral gear, throwing in a regular fake little laugh. To think what was expected of her years and years ago when she appeared on the cover of Seventeen...Worth watching for Denise Richards alone. It is the one and final time that you truly, truly, truly get your money's worth...