Quentin
I've never heard of this movie before, have you? It's very nineties, but I like it, I've watched it twice, which is saying something, compared to most of the other videos we've found, in the dumpster. The main character is a #$@%!& monster (in the human sense of the word), she's horribly manipulative and self serving. I think I like hating her, that is; I hate her, and I think I like to. Anyway, I've got a very strange and confusing clip I'm going to exploit the movie with, even though I enjoyed it. I'm using it mostly cause I like Fisher Stevens, but I'll explain that in a later post.
Ben
So, looking at the cover of this movie made me think that Sandra Bullock would be playing the lead role. I mean, her face is the background on the front, the logo on the sides, and she's shown in all the group shots. As you may guess, she's not the main character. While one could argue for equal footing, the main character is probably M.J..
M.J. is a manipulative, egocentric monster who screws up the life of all her friends and housemates. It's doubtful she even changes at the end, but that's not the point. This movie is more a snapshot of a group of young housemates, each trying to find their own way in the world.
I didn't really think the movie was going to be very good, but it surprised me. While it does seem to caricature the issues young adults face, I think it's realistic in the way it handles them. Rae Dawn Chong plays the selfish bitch well, and Fisher Stevens is fun to watch in his role as Alexander Midnight, Amanda's (Bullock) boyfriend.
This movie likes juxtaposition. There's one scene where a 'birth' is placed up against a death, and contrasts with an earlier rape, which is in turn placed among a couple of love scenes. All I could think about, though, was the movie "She's All That", where, in one scene, Freddie Prinze, Jr. pulls out this on-the-fly performance art piece with a hacky sack, which everyone in that movie loves, but is really the stupidest thing. Of course, seeing Fisher Stevens coming out from between a giant pair of legs and screaming his head off like a newborn comes across as kind of stupid, but is more entertaining, and definitely more believable as performance art.
M.J. is a manipulative, egocentric monster who screws up the life of all her friends and housemates. It's doubtful she even changes at the end, but that's not the point. This movie is more a snapshot of a group of young housemates, each trying to find their own way in the world.
I didn't really think the movie was going to be very good, but it surprised me. While it does seem to caricature the issues young adults face, I think it's realistic in the way it handles them. Rae Dawn Chong plays the selfish bitch well, and Fisher Stevens is fun to watch in his role as Alexander Midnight, Amanda's (Bullock) boyfriend.
This movie likes juxtaposition. There's one scene where a 'birth' is placed up against a death, and contrasts with an earlier rape, which is in turn placed among a couple of love scenes. All I could think about, though, was the movie "She's All That", where, in one scene, Freddie Prinze, Jr. pulls out this on-the-fly performance art piece with a hacky sack, which everyone in that movie loves, but is really the stupidest thing. Of course, seeing Fisher Stevens coming out from between a giant pair of legs and screaming his head off like a newborn comes across as kind of stupid, but is more entertaining, and definitely more believable as performance art.
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