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Disturbing Behavior

Disturbing Behavior

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't buy it, rent it, or think about it.
Review: This was possibly the worst teen movie I have seen in years. It was unrealistic; I have never seen a teenager act, dress, or talk like they did in this movie. The plot was sketchy at best. The one redeeming quality of this movie was Katie Holmes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: cool movie
Review: I loved this movie. In respond to someones request for the movie, you can get it from columbia house now. It just came out, however you can't buy it in the store. Nick Stahl is very good in this movie and I would recommend it to anyone. Very hip and sexy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a great movie!
Review: This movie is a really good movie, it is a horror movie without the blood and gore, and is actually beliveable. James Marsden does a wonderful job portraying his charecter, and it is refreshing to see Katie Holmes doing all diferent sorts of roles.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent! Freaky, actors very talented!
Review: This movie was absolutly excellent! The first time I saw it I knew it was a winner. I can watch it over and over again, and not be tired of it. The actors ( Katie Holmes, James Marsden, and Nick Stahl) are extremely talented, and I would love to own this video! Unfortunatley, I have not been able to find it ANYWHERE! But I DO highly recommend that you go out and rent it- you will love it! And if you have any info on when and if it will be released, let me know @ violet819@aol. Go see it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Neat
Review: This isn't as scary as Scream, Scream 2, or IKWYDLS, okay it wasn't scary at all. But it was insanly clever. It also had good acting and some suspence. This is a movie for Fans of the X files and scream.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely Purrfect Movie
Review: Great movie. It has wonderful actors/actresses and a marvelously original plot.I love it!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Why I probably liked this movie
Review: My sister is a English teacher at a college, and she says the reason why I like this movie is, because Katie Holmes is in it. I almost cried at the conclusion of the movie, because it is both happy & sad plus the music at the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nick Stahl rocks my world!!!
Review: Nick Stahl Rocks my world!!! He was amazing. First time I watched it I was like WOW! but since it was a one night rental, I watched it about 5 times in that one day. I think there should be more pictures on the internet of Nick Stahl.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Unfairly maligned; slightly clumsy, not awful.
Review: Much has been said about this being a Scream ripoff. Here's my verdict based on my horror-film experience and my observation on the technical execution of Disturbing Behavior:

From screenwriting, directing and cinematographic points of view, Disturbing Behavior has NOTHING to do with ANY of the Scream movies.

Scream and Scream 2 were self-referential commentaries on the horror genre while frankly (and dare I say not very effectively) using the conventions of slasher films for cheap thrills. The value of the Scream movies was in the comedic elements: The wink-wink, nudge-nudge to people who know slasher films well. The impact of Scream, if it has impact on you, is strictly personal, as are the relationships of the characters. (If anything, Urban Legend is an extension of this approach).

Disturbing Behavior is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Sociological in its impact and its intention, broad (and often sketchy) in its character depictions, and completely uninterested in its own genericism, Disturbing Behavior is a conventional suspense-action piece. It doesn't rely on gore effects and slasher-film conventions; for example, one of the most disturbing scenes in Behavior is the scene of near-seducton that ends in masochism -- its impact comes not from physical danger (as in Scream and the slasher-film tradition) but from the concept. Same for the rest of the story -- the question is not whether these kids will get their heads chopped off; it's whether they can retain their own identity. And that is NOTHING that the slasher-film tradition offers because, as shown by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the forefather of all slashers, the slasher film's chief weapon is simple, straight-forward physical danger.

The look of Disturbing Behavior is more noir than slasher, and its storyline is a dead-serious social commentary. Kind of like a much less complicated version of 1984, and limited to young people instead of the whole society.

I actually liked Disturbing Behavior even if its faults are legion -- Marsden's questionable acting, the lack of real depth of the Katie Holmes character (though she tries for more), and a slipshod narrative structure. It's worth a look for writer Scott Rosenberg's bleak view of the institution of education.

Disturbing Behavior is no classic. But to lump it in with Scream (admittedly, the marketing campaign for Disturbing Behavior *did* try to cash in on the horror audience rejuvenated by Scream) is convenient, shallow, and an act of ignorance as to how the two movies respectively work.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Clever, modern, sci-fi, horror...
Review: Jimmy Marsden and Katie Holmes make this a pretty good movie with a cool plot. The story about students that turn perfect overnight by an operation. With Jimmy Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl


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