Impressive! Feels like Gossip Girl the Movie.

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	• Cruel Intentions [Blu-ray] Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe Columbia Pictures, 2007 average customer review:based on 484 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Impressive! Feels like Gossip Girl the Movie.

I didn't expect much from this film. I just picked it out of curiosity, and to my surprise, I enjoyed this movie. It was better than I thought. I felt watching a movie version of Gossip Girl. I am always fascinated by high society, and with all that power, how it can affect one's life.

The movie does have subtle message, but for me, it was jut about learning the art of seduction. :)

Pretty cool.

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i was very pleased with the quick delivery and the condition of the merchandise.

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Cruel Intentions

Returned the product unopened. Did not care about seeing the blu ray version. I heard from other viewers that the blu ray version has no picture quality improvement.

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A Favorite From My Teen Years

"Cruel Intentions" fascinated me as a teenager. It was the first time I saw such a sexualized yet still passionately romantic story with such moral ambiguity on film. It was also the first time I saw a story of redemption aimed at my age group, and found myself really sympathizing with Sebastian's character. And even then, I recognized that the soundtrack was fantastic.

However, now looking at this movie as an adult with vastly more film-watching experience, I can't help but think I gave the movie a bit more credit than it deserved. Stylistically it's still stunning, but the writing and acting wasn't as good as I remembered. Many of the scenes from the beginning, all the way to the middle, of the movie fall flat. The infamous Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blaire kissing scene really feels contrived and gratuitous, and a lot of it just doesn't feel like it flows naturally. For the most part, Selma Blaire gives a really weak performance, but that is likely as much a fault of the script as it is her acting.

At this point, in watching the movie, I was scared that I was about to realize that one of my favorite movies from my teen years, in reality, sucks. However, something happened about half way through. The writing caught its stride, the story blossomed and, driven by the beautiful soundtrack, the main character of Sebastian goes through huge character moments that really, really worked well. And the climax and ending scene of the movie simply couldn't be better. Is it as good as I remembered? Certainly not. But it also really is still a strong movie that had a bit of an unbalanced and weak beginning through middle. The second half of the movie and the soundtrack (which is literally the best use of music I've seen in a film) totally make up for that. It's no longer one of my favorites, but I'd still watch it again.

7/10

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Columbia Pictures Cruel Intentions (Blu-ray)
Sarah Michelle Gellar ("I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Scream 2",TV's "Buffy The Vampire Slayer") and Ryan Phillippe ("I Know What You Did Last Summer", "54") sizzle as a pair of unscrupulous siblings in a deliciously sexy tale of seduction, revenge and conquest. After cleverly seducing and ruining the reputationof an unsuspecting classmate (Selma Blair, "Can'tHardly Wait", "Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane"), the sparks fly when Kathryn (Gellar) poses the ultimate challenge to her insatiable stepbrother Sebastian (Phillippe): deflower the Headmaster's beautiful, virgin daughter Annette (Reese Witherspoon, "Pleasantville", "The Man In The Moon"). If he fails, Kathryn gets his most prized possession, but if he succeeds, Sebastian gets to possess and bed Kathryn. The stakes are high, but for Sebastian, the payoff is feverishly irresistible and before the summer's over, no one will escape their relentless gameof cat and mouse until one of them is bitten by the most unlikely sensation of all ...love.

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