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Summary: "Gossip" Movie Review
Review: Gossip is a psychological thriller set in the stereo-typical urban university setting, with a not-so stereo-typical cast. Lena Headey and James Mardsen (Xmen) pair off, weaving intricate plot twisting action through the course of two hours. In her journalism class, Headey decides to begin a rumor about a couple, Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) and Joshau Jackson (Skulls) having sex at an after hours club. The gossip spreads rapidly, and when the rumor gets back to the girl she must decide if it really happened. The plot is well-developed, the casting is genuis and the setting is done well. The loft apartment shared by Mardsen, Headey and a third roommate will make the most artistic person jealous. This movie is NOT your usual college-slash em' two hour waste of film.
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Summary: Hot Gossip
Review: This is one of my favorite movies, it's well directed and has a good message at the end and James Marsden is so hot. I'm wondering why people found it confusing because it was pretty straight forward... I'm in my 20's and don't get the comparison of it being a "12-17" crowd thing, it makes me wonder if people who say that even went to college...like drinking and partying doesn't happen..get real. I think the biggest problem is the touchy issue of the rumor being spread having to do with date rape. Overall the movie is worth seeing, the acting was great and I also liked watching the commentary.
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Summary: Liar Liar
Review: Oh well, another teen movie...This one, however, has an agenda and manages to deliver a message about the power of rumours and lies in today`s world (particularly in a US Campus). The plot focuses three college students, a pretty, arrogant and rich boy, a curious and smart girl and a reserved, shy artist-wannabe. These journalism students create a gossip just for fun (and also for a work they had to make), but its consequences end up being more serious than what they first thought.Yes, the movie`s premise isn`t bad, yet its execution is not very interesting, delivering a contrived morality tale that, despite some attempts at being hip and surprising, doesn`t dare to go beyond a typical afterschool special. The direction is nothing special, the soundrack is decent and the acting is just a collection of cute faces that present flat and cardboard characters. "Gossip" is watchable but unsubstancial, an average teen movie that lacks edge and a good script (the ending is particularly ridiculous and childish). Still, some highschool students out there may like this nonetheless, since they probably can relate to it. Anyway, spread the gossip: this flick is worth skipping.
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Summary: Good...but not great 'gossip' to spread.
Review: While the premise of the movie was interesting, and the cast was good looking, it's a movie you might want to see once but not again. 'Derek', 'Jones' (the only female) and 'Travis' live in Derek's overly lush apartment with rent that had to range in the high thousands every month ('Travis' doesn't even have the money to pay his side of the rent.). Though we're supposed to be convinced that everything is covered by Derek's trust fund. They're college students (Freshmen even.) but old enough to drink. Derek has a full bar and the three go to clubs and bars more than twice in the movie. Derek seems to have a thing with saying "Let's all just have a drink." The three decide to spread a rumor for a class and track it's progress and how much it's changed when they hear about it again. The rumor itself was, at a party all three and many other students attended; a rich girl named Naomi has sex with her date Beau in a bedroom upstairs. Naomi is supposed to be a sweet and celibate girl and as it turns out, she can't remember a thing anyway from the party. Accusations, bad versions of the rumor and fights ensue because of this. Which leads to Jones starting to feel bad, especially because it was her idea to start a rumor for class. But the rumor itself was thought up by Derek. Travis...does all the work it seems. He's the artistic and loyal one of the three. Travis is the only one we see recording any facts for the assignment from endlessly making graphics that show these events happening and putting them on his wall (Derek: "What are you going to do, turn in your room?") to recording students' thoughts, while Jones fights for 'the truth' behind events that take place or have taken place and while Derek revels in his lifestyle, bar and popularity with women. There's many plotholes in this movie and you'll either be annoyed or draw your own conclusions. Norman Reedus (Travis) is really the most experienced and talented actor in this movie and it's too bad he did get a small part even if he did play it well. And I find it amusing that he was referred to also as a young new actor when he has done a good ten movies before this one and was 29/30 when filming 'Gossip'. (Even though he can still easily pass for mid twenties.) James Marsden was impressive to a degree as was Edward James Olmos, everyone else while attractive, I was only impressed by on a mediocre level. The DVD was good for the special features including the full club scene with Poe singing "My Lips Are Sealed" and Tonic's video for the movie only including 'Travis' and clips from the movie. The alternate ending on the DVD makes much more sense than the one they chose. The ending left us bored, questioning and frustrated because the movie was good and intriguing (Albeit not very realistic.) but the ending was a let down. See for yourself, like the DVD says; "'Gossip' can turn you on, or it can turn on you."
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Summary: Talk Isn't Cheap!
Review: A group of college students; Derrick Webb (James Marsden), Cathy Jones (Lena Headey), and Travis ( Norman Reedus) decide to do a college project about gossip. They decide to create a rumor about Naomi Preston (Kate Hudson, if I read one more time someone mention she's Goldi Hawn's daughter I'll scream! We should all know this by now!) and her at the time boyfriend Beau Edson (Joshua Jackson), claiming the both of them had sex durning a party. So, now with their "story", they make sure they're able to spread it at school. We are then able to see just how gossip "works". We hear people make up things by adding things to the story they weren't told! I myself I'm not someone who likes to gossip, so the whole idea of the movie was very interesting. I was really caught in the movie. I enjoyed watching the characters, and thought everyone gave a good performance. I must admit though, I was able to preict the ending, but, I won't spoil it for anyone else. If it wasn't for the fact I was able to see the ending coming, I might of given this a higher rating. I think this movie will be able to entertain a lot of people. The screenplay by Gregory Poirier and Theresa Rebeck is intriguing. It was, I thought, a very original story, that had a lot going for it. Teens will enjoy the movie more I think, because, I think it's aimed at them more (the young cast and characters, the setting on a college campus). This is something "lite" and fun to watch with your friends.
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Summary: a predictable thriller
Review: gossip is really predictable and it really got stupid and the camera views and the acting went dry. it helps with the help of Norman Reedus(Deuces Wild, Boondock Saints and Blade2) and Eric Bogosian(Undersiege2, a bright shining lie and igby goes down).if you watch closely, the emotions of Lena Headley are great and im saying this in a sarcastic way. James Marsden is basically a washout in this
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Summary: Boring and Stupid
Review: A very boring and stupid film about college freshmen with a kindergarten maturity level. The movie is horribly slow to get to the point and is riddled with nonsense dialogue: I've heard better lines in "Fast Times At Richmond High" thank you. Altogether a very forgettable film that has a lot of talk about nothing. Don't believe the great reviews about this film: you might like it if you're a 14-17 year-old fantasizing about how "cool" college life might be with all the "cool" people and "parties." If you're not in that category, skip this boring film and save both your time and your money.
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Summary: Avoid any rumors that this DVD is worth watching!
Review: "Gossip" is no better than most "thrillers" aimed at the 12 to 17 crowd, although considerably less profound and lacking a true meassage. Part of the problem is that the film never comes across as particularly convincing, either in its setting or in its characters. The film takes place on a college campus in NYC filled with the types of students that make the rest of us feel as if we wasted our own college years attending boring lectures and writing lengthy term papers when we could have been having so much more fun creating scandals and toppling any authoirity figures who block our path. These "students" could not compete with avid 4th graders, lacking any kind of discipline required to achieve academically. Their main purpose of attending classes is to be abreast of the current "rumors" going around. This film is a mixture of a modern day Pippi Longstocking, Peter Pan and Beaver Cleaver. The motto: Let's all be obnoxious kids forever, and let everyone else try to figure out what in the world we will be doing 10 or 20 years from now (if we're still alive). There is no positive message in this slapped together piece of teen exploitation. Don't let your kids see this!**
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Summary: Hipness to spare...
Review: So, yeah, the script for "Gossip" probably could have used one or two more drafts to hammer out those plot gaps and that sorry excuse for a "twist" ending...but what the movie lacks in sense and plot it makes up for in style. This is truly a "hip" movie. Everything from the talented young cast, to the cool setting (I'm going to say New York City because there is a reference to the meat-packing district and it's probably supposed to be Columbia University from the looks of the tree-lined campus), and even the trendy loft apartment occupied by the trio of leads: Jones, Derrick, and Travis; complete with high ceilings, exposed brick, a glass minibar, and the coolest tea kettle I have ever seen. Travis's artwork is very urban and post-modern and Eric Bogosian is the ideal professor of the 21st Century: cynnical and full of sarcasm. See this movie not for the convoluted plot but rather for the ambiance of cool/hip/trendy that flows throughout most of it.
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Summary: Shhhh....
Review: Being a huge Kate Hudson fan, I had to see this film despite horrible reviews. "Gossip" centers around three college students; Derrick (James Marsden), Jones (Lena Headley) and Travis (Norman Reedus) who start a sexual rumor about a virginal-yet-icy classmate Naomi (Hudson). At a party, Naomi and Beau (Joshua Jackson) go in a room alone and he leaves. Naomi is found passed out. Jones, Travis and Derrick circulate the rumor around campus that Naomi and Beau had sex, then that turns to rape. Naomi, being drunk, doesn't remember much of the event and believes that she was raped. Hush....no more, you have to see it for yourself! My only complaint about the film is that it does not fit into a genre, is it teen or not? The actors are in their early to mid-20s (ideal for teen movies) and the ending was very confusing and WEIRD. Overall, it wasn't that bad. It's better that a lot of other, um, teen movies.
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