Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life
A high school kid develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
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- Cast:
- Jeremy Sumpter , Lyndsy Fonseca , Kelly Lynch , Briony Glassco , Kyle Schmid , Krysta Carter , Benz Antoine
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A waste of 90 minutes of my life
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
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.
I can't even believe that a movie made in 2005 can feel so much like it came from 1999. The paranoia and utter Reefer Madness levels of insanity and incompetence are utterly baffling on too many ways to count. Cyber Seduction is a movie that FEELS like childless postmenopausal women who don't own a computer wrote it, and the pathetic attempts at "acting" ranges from desperate to just cringe- worthy...and this was before Lifetime started making cyberbullying movies and showing they don't even know what anyone under the age of 32 actually says or does. Like Rock: It's Your Decision, the film paints a total non-issue as THE WORST POSSIBLE THING A HUMAN BEING CAN POSSIBLY DO; he's, like, 15 and everyone treats him like a rapist for just looking at what amounts to soft-core porn. I'd say this is the perfect cannon-fodder for a Bad Movie Night but it takes itself too seriously for anyone to even try to make fun of it. If you actually have a brain, then I shouldn't have to tell you to stay away from this. I trust that you'll naturally have the necessary survival instincts not to even acknowledge this trite.
So my journey to writing this review has been long. Several months ago I walked in on my 14 y/o son and his best friend jerking off to porn. AWKWARD. I never limited my son's media access, we have cable, internet, and I figured if he wants to watch porn he'll find a way since he's the only one in the house who knows how to work that magic remote control, unlike me.So I started doing my Dad investigation on what is proper control and parenting wrt internet porn. In my teens it was Cinemax and HBO after 2am and my friends and I would stay up late to watch. I'm not a prude. Then I come across this flick.What garbage. If this is supposed to help parents with horny teenage boys, then it is a major fail.The whole writing is a mess. First of all you have your typical normal horny kid who discovers chat rooms and sites on the net. He watches them religiously in his bedroom, WITH THE DOOR OPEN. So one night Mom walks past his door, sees the Red Bull and she KNOWS what that means, and runs to her husband, wakes him up, and freaks out that he's looking at naked women on the net. She cries "Is that normal?". Oh god. I'm already losing my focus on this movie, because it is so out of normal human behavior.Then we begin the descent into the world of teenage porn addiction, or something like that. The boy is an all-state swimmer and right before a race, just to drive home the severity of his porn addiction, he's watching porn on his girlfriend's Iphone. I was a swimmer, and BELIEVE me, when I was a few minutes from getting up on the blocks in a tiny speedo in front of everyone, porn was the last thing on my mind. So unrealistic.Also, there are only two types of young women in this film: The Madonna and the Whore. No in between. No wonder this kid was struggling.This is just a terrible movie, and no parent should watch this for help. I loved Kelly Lynch doing a PSA at the end, this was the actress I fapped to as a 14 y/o in Blue Velvet who was naked the entire time.The message boards on this flick are hilarious. Speaking as a normal guy who looked at his fair share of naked women and men as a teen, porn is not BAD. I'd rather my kid fap four times a day, then become sexually active and get someone pregnant. He's now fifteen, and the number one rule of the house is: DO NOT GET A GIRL PREGNANT. It's the only rule, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm still stressing good grades and excellence in all other areas.Do not watch this as a concerned parent. It's only good for a RW chicken-little sky-is-falling dramatica. It could be humorous, except it wasn't the intention.
SPOILER ALERTA lot of people say this movie is all Christian propaganda. I don't think it is. It's a movie where the women save the men and where men are displayed as creatures of simplicity (porn, yeah).None the less, I was drunk today and felt like watching it. I watched it before when I was a kid and even back then I kept thinking "why does he not masturbate?" This young man spends so many hours in front of porn that it eventually ruins his life but he never gets it on. He never pleases himself. Is that a subliminal message?Another goof (or, maybe this is some kind of subliminal message too) is that the so-perfect-and-not-shallow-at-all mother of the family wants to take a trip in the beginning of the movie. The husband hesitates, and she leans on him and whispers in his hear "ill make it worth your while". Yeah, okay, hoe?Then afterward, she rants on and on about how women are more than just vaginas and breasts which Jeremy finds attractive in the movie.WHY does he kill himself? Is it REALLY, or has it REALLY, ever been that hard to stop watching porn? I don't get it, what kind of reality does the makers live in? WHY did that slut bang her head bloody when Jeremy rejected her? She was so popular and loved, she didn't need to bleed to convince people that Jeremy hit her.I think this is a movie people should watch at school. At least it showed me back in the day when I was 16 and it was new how to question film makers and scripts.Imm'a give this 2 stars, because of the hot slutty girl.
"Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life" is the type of Lifetime picture that premieres every once or two weeks dealing with the same matter about kids getting involved in adult activities and or partaking in adult materials. Obviously, given the title, the film is no different. This movie tells the tale of a successful high school sophomore that develops a deep, unhealthy obsession to internet porn. While this film has it's heart in the right place it is, at times, unintentionally laughable, so laughable that you would think it would have made for a good Saturday Night Live parody.As stated, this is not a bad film it's just that it feels uneven in some scenes. For example, when Justin Petersen's(played by Jeremy "Peter Pan" Sumpter)mother is talking to his father asking him if he fantasizes about other women, he replies back "Honey you fulfill all my fantasies and not just the sexual ones." Now when the writers wrote that line did they think that people would actually take that line of dialogue seriously? It is as if they couldn't think of nothing else to write so they decided to add that line in the script to further enhance the boy's growing problem with porn addiction.Another major flaw in this movie is that, the characters often did stupid things where you just wanted to yell at the TV, "Are you really that stupid?" Tell me how all of a sudden the school slut/popular girl, who happens to be a senior, would take interest in a shy, quiet goody goody sophomore. Also, would a person be that obsessed with porn that they would watch it, on their palm pilot while at a swim meet around hundreds of people? It just doesn't make any sense. I know in movies, you suppose to suspend disbelief but are they expecting us to buy this stuff?? Above all "Cyber Seduction" message is intended to be strong but it falls by on the wayside. Though not a bad film, whenever you need a good laugh be sure to check this one out.