Cruel Intentions C/D

Everybody watches it, its just that nobody posts about it.

Classic

I have absolutely no recollection of watching this movie. :-( Ryan is such a Ken.

I thought it was good, but more in television way than a film way. If it had been the double-length first episode of a new series, I would have been excited to watch the rest of the series.

this movie rules

this movie is hilariously bad. I like watching Buffy being evil - it doesn't really work but she looked like she had a lot of fun trying.

I loved the Jag.

Ryan Philippe's in his pre-sleek N'Sync-era Justin Timberlake curly hair period, and it shows in his acting. Reese Witherspoon surprisingly effective playing a Nice Girl.

I will watch Buffy and Selma Blair kiss anytime anywhere.

Best Thread Ever.

Classic.

Classic

Whatever happened to Selma Blair anyway?

She was in Hellboy and The Fog.

I see, and also--according to IMDB--a bunch of indie movies no one's seen.

I tried to get my ex, a huge Dangerous Liaisons fan, to watch this for like 6 years. :/

...and she's divorced Ahmet Zappa as well.

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SELMA

BLAIR

oh, she was in Pretty Persuasion - that movie was a huge disappointment-slash-piece of crap.

it did feature her in a schoolgirl outfit dancing around for her creepy-horndog boyfriend Ron Livingston, as I recall

I miss the Reese Witherspoon of Freeway/Cruel Intentions/Election.

Fun movie, terrible ending. SMG not at all convincing as evil person, but not neccesarily in a bad way. Ryan Phillipe rub, as always. Selma Blair hot, as always. Next?

I do remember the chin. Boy can we forget the chin? I want to chop it off and let it roam on another planet.

Where is the love for
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196267/
and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391891/

Mimi Rogers -> The one who turned Tom onto Scientology. Serves her right, I guess. ;-)

This has been playing on HBO a bit lately and I re-watched a little bit of it to remind myself just how laughably awful the ending is. Also, the only time I've ever thought SMG was hot.

Reese Witherspoon surprisingly effective playing a Nice Girl.

wtf? she's like the pre-eminent Nice Girl actress of her generation.

Classic, but still nowhere near as awesome as Dangerous Liaisons.

"don't just look at it...SUCK IT"

wtf? she's like the pre-eminent Nice Girl actress of her generation

Have Freeway and Election slipped down the memory hole?

It's her evil chin.

If anything, those were the movies where she played against type, not CI. And her character in Election she was basically a goodie-goodie overachiever who just happened have gotten it on with her teacher (which, hey, really makes her a teacher's pet type with boundary issues). And she played a really wholesome and nice kind of ditz in Legally Blonde. The only time she really played a 'bad girl' was in Pleasantville, and she only seemed risque compared to the Leave It To Beaver types. (xpost)

Freeway and Election are exceptions to the rule set by the Legally Blonde films and Sweet Home Alabama.

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uh, except that those movies were made first?

Is Freeway good? I don't remember that movie at all.

also where does American Psycho fit into this...?

Reese is best when she's playing the goodie-goodie with a heart of pure black evil (a la Election)

Freeway is TEH BEST

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I'll concede that her first big movie was The Man on the Moon, in which she was goodness personified; but I first noticed how great she played bitches. And Alex's point – her character in Election she was basically a goodie-goodie overachiever who just happened have gotten it on with her teacher (which, hey, really makes her a teacher's pet type with boundary issues) – makes her into a villain in my book.

I think she just has the "nice girl" tag because of how she is in real life - the responsible young actress-mum, who goes on talk shows bemoaning the attitudes of her young Hollywood peers, the Southern girl made good etc etc

and despite all those other movies, Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama were what made her a household name.

except that those movies were made first

Roz said what I wanted to say.

I just don't understand how "playing against type" works in reverse

by definition, the "type" has to come first, chronologically

also I don't know anyone who's even seen Sweet Home Alabama

dude, most girls between 16-24 own a copy

Well Alfred just said that "her first big movie was The Man on the Moon, in which she was goodness personified," so there you go. Point is, I seriously doubt that, even during the brief period after Election but before Legally Blonde, that anyone would've really thought of her as more of a bitchy, femme fatale/villain type than a wholesome, heartland-looking cute blonde. All I was saying was Alfred acting like her goodie-goodie character in CI was some uncharacteristic role for her seemed weird to me. (xpost)

dude, most girls between 16-24 own a copy

haha guess I'll have to verify this with my "agents in the field"

that is the creepiest thing i've read on ilx today

and i read kenan's posts on the high heels thread

wow 5 years between Man in the Moon and Freeway?! weird

that is the creepiest thing i've read on ilx today

yes how dare I know people between the ages of 16-24 wtf

All I was saying was Alfred acting like her goodie-goodie character in CI was some uncharacteristic role for her seemed weird to me. (xpost)

Yeah, it's a purely personal reaction. I saw CI months after Election and years after Freeway, and it seemed such a shock.

It says lots about her range than she can convincingly play the Michele Pfeiffer of Dangerous Liasions and the Michelle Pfeiffer of Batman Returns.

I watched this the first time IMMEDIATELY after watching Dangerous Liasons for the first time, and I can't think of a better way to experience it.

This is maybe my favorite completely terrible movie.

At the time I sorta admired how blasé the movie's attitude was towards the two gay guys hooking up.

but then the gayness is used to adduce Ryan Phillippe's perversity, etc.

I agree she's got a good range and there was a brief period there where she was my favorite working actress, but she seems to have backed off of doing any really interesting roles lately. I dunno, maybe she's not getting any decent scripts or something.

haha i've seen election and freeway and i totally can't imagine Reese Witherspoon as Catwoman.

so is she still with the Gyllenhaal?

thankfully, no.

haha i've seen election and freeway and i totally can't imagine Reese Witherspoon as Catwoman

Substitute a chin for claws.

*meow*

I'm waiting for Reese to move into publishing and complete this trilogy:

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ALEX IN BALTIMORE, YOU'LL NEVER WALK THE LINE!!!

so is she still with the Gyllenhaal?

Actually she is. They've been photographed together. Sitting in her car and driving to her house. Look away now, Alfred: I am betting to have mad hott sexxx.

"It says lots about her range than she can convincingly play the Michele Pfeiffer of Dangerous Liasions and the Michelle Pfeiffer of Batman Returns."

What means this?

It means she's got the range of, dare we say, a Michelle Pfieffer.

she was pretty much a Nice Girl (or at least the patient, long-suffering wife variation thereof) in Walk The Line, too, wasn't she?

Replace sex appeal with chin, though.

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B-b-but buying milk three months ago one of the glossies said that "Reece" wasn't "ready for a serious relationship" so soon after the divorce!

ugh poor grammar

Jake Gyllenhaal hardly qualifies a serious relationship

I thought he was gay

I think casual sex offends his liberal impulses.

TALK ABOUT CRUEL INTENTIONS

I'm impressed that Ryan Phillippe's found himself a niche as a well-meaning feeb after this.

Gyllenspoon. Witherhaal.

how much of Ryan Phillippe's job offers came because he was the guy married to Reese Witherspoon though?

that last movie he made – the one with Chris Cooper, forgot its name – he held his own pretty well. It's the hair! The only actor I can think of who got duller when he got a crewcut was Kevin Costner.

Oh, I'm not saying he doesn't play a well-meaning feeb well.

I will watch Buffy and Selma Blair kiss anytime anywhere.

-- milo z, Friday, August 3, 2007 11:10 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haven't seen this since sophomore year of college shocker

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Oh hey, wasn't commenting on his acting talent. Just that practically every movie Ryan Phillippe has ever been in has bombed with the few exceptions - ("Crash", indie flicks no one would have watched anyway like "Igby Goes Down"). I always thought that the reason anybody ever offered him work was because his marriage was so high-profile.

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haha i just went to check the imdb for "Igby Goes Down" and apparently lots of people watched it. Even had an MTV nom. Damn.

actually, I meant that Ryan's more interesting as an actor since he cut his Justin whifro.

uh i still think he's pretty dull but then again I haven't seen that movie you mentioned. "well-meaning feeb" sounds about right.

Truth can be dangerous... trust can be deadly

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

Look out Ryan!! Tim Robbins is going to delete you!!

I saw some of that on TV awile back. Tim Robbins is...Bill Gates!

I had this rap-rock group with some friends and one pal had the line "i spit rhymes like the sesame seeds you tried to poison my shit with/ Claire Forlani, I'm not the dude you fuck with." ONLY people who've seen Antitrust would get it, which made it fucking awesome.

Oh man, that's almost as great as the LFO song.

uh, SPOILER!! Mods, please adjust thread title.

lol sorry!

"You're either a one or a zero. Alive or dead."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/quotes

Hey people, I have learned from bitter experience: do not try and claim on ILX that people enjoy Reese Witherspoon in feel-good conventional roles. I am still paying medical bills from what happened when I suggested this might be the case.

Is there a thread you can reference or was this just a really rough FAP?

I live with a woman who watches Legally Blonde pretty much every time it comes on cable, sometimes more than once a week, so I'm going to stick with my original opinion.

Another classic Reese "bad girl" role: Debbie Grund on King of The Hill

"She just wouldn't put down that junk food."

Also as Rachel's bratty sister on Friends.

Then again, she did play Becky Sharp as a plucky go-getter rather than a scheming backstabber.

I don't even want to look for the thread I'm thinking of. Let's pretend it never happened. Apparently that day I was like a handful of sand thrown at wallogina.jpg.

Oh, SHOW don't tell.

the thread, not wallogina.jpg, i mean.

Put that old lady back on...

"this is what i like to call 'quiet time'"

I had this rap-rock group with some friends and one pal had the line "i spit rhymes like the sesame seeds you tried to poison my shit with/ Claire Forlani, I'm not the dude you fuck with." ONLY people who've seen Antitrust would get it, which made it fucking awesome.

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lol

I had this rap-rock group with some friends

posts very much in character

Roger Ebert and Elvis Mitchell have at it

This was on last night, it was quite good.

Watched it too...

If there was ever a film that summed up the late 90s, this has to be it.

great use of bandwidth guys

I think I prefer it to Gossip Girl.

its weird, when this movie came out i definitely though reese witherspoon was more attractive than selma blair

great use of bandwidth guys

No, it was a broadcast and I watched it on a television.

this movie is always on tv, like right now it is on tv. pacey whitter is kindof hot in it

Pacey Whitter is hot in everything imo. Why do you think I watch Fringe?

j/k I watch Fringe because it rules. Also, because Pacey is hot.

I sort of love this movie though and Ryan Phillipe's voice is amazing.

idk maybe, i like him when he swishes it up tho. more guys should understand the appeal of swishiness. sarah michelle geller is such an asshole in this. why is my spellcheck underlining sarah?

lol ryan phillipes voice doesnt sound like it is coming out of him!!!

is fringe that thing w/ scientists and monsters?

x-post - I know - it's amazing! I remember watching it and being like damn that voice but then it doesn't really go with the rest of him and it kind of screws it up.

lol scientists - yes monsters - sort of

i think this is the only movie i ever saw w. him in it. its weird bc he was married to reese witherspoon right? and this was the only workable picture i had of their married life. i was like damn reese witherspoon is fucked up. i realise thats not how things work though.

Hahaha. Yeah, he was married to her and I think I know what you mean. It was sad when he died. I kind of want to watch this now even though it's pretty shit.

its funny because i had a conversation about how this movie is always on tv last saturday night and here it is again. it is basically always on tv. i remember my sisters friend made a tape of the soundtrack for me because i liked the skunk anansie song but i mainly liked it for the video where hot teenagers rob a 711 and have a threesome.

omg for a second there i was like "ryan phillipe is dead???"

RIP

Only his career.

btw i totally knew you would like this movie enbb

of course you did! <3

When that first came out Selma Blair kissing Buffy was a topic of conversation with pretty much every guy I know.

i have only seen cruel intentions 3.

my favorite ryan phillipe role is in gosford park where SPOILER he does this terrible british accent for the first half and you're like "lol ryan phillipe you have a terrible british accent" and then it turns out that his character is actually an american pretending to be british and none of the other characters are fooled by his terrible accent.

also at one point kristin scott thomas flirtatiously asks him to bring her some milk to help her sleep and he says "would that be howt melk... OR COWLD" as if there is legible innuendo there.

yeah i remember him in that but i had to look him up on imdb, thats a good movie though as long as you forget that stephen fry is in it.

i grew up with jeeves and wooster and can never dislike stephen fry but he's bizarrely broad (ho ho) in that movie. the fifteen minutes of it he's in are like abrupt sketch comedy.

he should be killed immediately

v harsh

<3 pacey witter

ok if surmounter posts this revive will have reached all of its intended audience

haha i love this movie

lol this is a compilation of pacey moments in cruel intentions (the person who made its entire account is compilations of pacey in difft things, also i am dying over her profile pic)

http://vimeo.com/3126480

did not notice the spartacus ref in this movie before, both it and clueless use it as shorthand for homo-movie

watched this pretty recently, selma blair is so fine

lol i forgot how hard philippe was trying to sound like malkovich in dangerous liaisons in this movie

lol yes!!

it's sort of endearing

watched this pretty recently, selma blair is so fine

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otm

the first time i ever went on a date i went to this movie and had to make the girl ask two sketch dudes to buy us tickets since it was R and then we watched it and she was like "why dont you put your arm around me" and the thing is i didnt even like her it was just cause everyone said we should go out so i put my arm around her and then broke up with her over email and she blamed my best friend nick and in the end she was kind of right nick did make fun of me for going on a date with her but he also told me to ask her out so

had the biggest SMG crush when I was growing up

idk maybe, i like him when he swishes it up tho. more guys should understand the appeal of swishiness

Sexiest jheri curls of the late nineties -- better than Justin Timberlake's.

It makes perfect sense that he made a pretty convincing convincing young macho actor in his last few movies. The swishiness helped.

breaking up over email at the time this came out is some pretty next level, posting from the future shit xxp

noodle8✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧

my actual email at the time

noodle8513 at aol dot com

thats a lot of noodles

you were born in the 13th month of 1985? wow

lol i was just thinking about this movie the other day and how i wanted to watch it again, but only cruel intentions 2 was on netflix instant play... it was so goddamn terrible, even by my pretty low tv-movie standards.

i think ppl like this movie bc its the one where buffy is *bad*

this is like the last movie buffy ever made.

i finally watched it

the funny thing about my having never watched it is that RP has always been my #1 crush

and yeah bc of that watching this movie was uh, intersting