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Summary: YOU ARE ALL WRONG!
Review: ok, I AGREE this wasnt the best piece of cinema...however.. I think it deserves more than 1 or 2 stars. I agree with the person below who stated something to the effect, if it had Dominique Swain in it, how bad could it be? I agree, and that is why I rented it on DVD.So, the box describes girls wanting to get revenge on the guys who wronged them. And yes, i agree that, although that is what the box says, that is not really what the movie is about. But its watchable. I would say its a sleeper, more about friendship...so it went a little awry in its intentions, not the first movie to do so... I say, give it a try. there are MUCH MORE UNWATCHABLE movies out there...take it from someone who has seen over 1,400 movies...I can recall a lot more than this one that were unwatchable... But thats just my opinion...
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Summary: In a word, pathetic
Review: Please... spare me. High school is SO not like that. These girls should just be in a psych ward... an overdose of teenage angst. I had rented the movie, but you should wait for the after-school special if you want to see it.
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Summary: Better Than I Thought
Review: The first time I watched the DVD of this film, I felt confused by the plot, production values and general sense of having taken a chance on something which didn't make the grade. The second time, however, I noticed that there is continuity and beleivabilty and these seemingly frustrated young women are really not that much unlike a lot of people, young and old, who attempt to take a pro-actve approach to their problems. I have now consigned this film to the group to which I will periodically refer when in the appropriate mood and am glad that I took a chance on this one after all.
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Summary: A BRUTALLY HONEST FILM ABOUT LIFE!!!!!
Review: The Smokers is a very good movie and a very honest movie. It touches base on a lot of subjects. For example:life, love, rape, drugs, and even sex! Although it has a strange story, in one way or another you will be able to relate to one or a few characters in the film!
I can say this: this film brings us many great young stars and each do their best to bring this story to life.
Let's face it- life isn't always fun and happy and these things do take place in the world.
Also, to categorize this film as trash would be wrong because the fact of the matter is-these things happen!!!
I really enjoyed the film and if you decide to see it, watch it with an open mind and get in touch with reality!!!
This is a brutally honest film about life and what more can you ask for from a movie?
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Summary: Quirky, original, not for everybody
Review: The Smokers is about three teenage-girl-outcasts united by their own rebellion who decide to take revenge for their abuse by the the male gender. This movie is a black comedy! There are a few jarring scenes that are pretty hard to take (rape), but overall I found it a refreshing change from the usual teen slop served up by Hollywood. I would say avoid this movie unless you are one of those people whose taste in movies is so wide or so weird none of your friends trust you to recommend movies. But if you do like 'em weird then you might just like The Smokers.
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Summary: It doesn't get much worse than this
Review: The Smokers is by far one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The characters were horrible. Anyone who thinks this is how girls really are needs to meet some new people. The so called idea of girls getting back at low life guys never really makes any sense. It seemed like the director thought she was making some female empowerment message movie, but ended up putting the charactes lower than they were to begin with. This is one DVD that should definately be avoided. Fans of Dominique Swain should stick with Lolita.
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Summary: open minded
Review: The Smokers is one of my favorite movies of late.At first I picked it up because I am a fan of Dominique Swain{If you enjoy her I believe this is one her best roles}but after watching it I found that Thora Birch was also great in the few parts she was in. Busy Phillips and Kerri Lynn Pratt were ok but they have played better roles. To everyone who says the personality of the girls and their style is unrealistic, try going to a big city. Many girls act like them.I think teenagers will enjoy this film more. Those of you who keep mentioning that they "smoke too much" are probably too old to get the movie. The Smokers deals with issues such as gun use and rape from a girls point of view. For once instead of acting all scared, pouty, and why me ish like in every other movie, the girls decide to fight back. Though the self defense is taken too far with a gun I believe it is only a representation of the hate and vengeance some women feel after being raped. This movie also ties into the high school issues of friendship and peer pressure. the three girls are very different and come from different backrounds but have similar feelings in that they do not want to be weak women any more. I real enjoyed this movie and think that its a great watch for teenage girls.
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Summary: Pointless Dribble
Review: There is no true plot to this movie. It is genuinely meaningless. The movie centers around four girls who decide to teach men a lesson by assaulting them at gun point and rape them. Led by the sexual promiscuous member of the group, they set to first get "revenge" on one of the girl's boyfriends who just took her virginity. But here is where the movie comes undone. The guy did nothing wrong. He never raped or took advantage of the girl. She had what effectively amounts to buyer's remorse. Moreover, the promiscuous girl announces that their criminal actions were going to be done for "all women." With equal nebulous mindless indiscrimination, all men somehow become culpable for some baseless reason. The girls bumble their attempts, even somewhat humorously trying to arouse a young gay man. In the interim, the promiscuous leader, while having announced to her friends the worthlessness of the male race, goes out and pursues the worse examples of manhood, getting over her head with one married man, who brutally rapes her in front of his limo driver after throwing her over the hood of the car. The scenes erratically jumped from one to another with no smooth transitions or logical flow. Midway through the movie the original premise that the movie was based, namely punishing guys, disintegrates into a completely mindlessly undirected sequence of events. In one, the shrinking violet who just recently lost her virginity begins to have sex with another guy, but once again she decides she doesn't want sex with him and suddenly pulls out a gun and ends up shooting him to death. Perhaps this chick is just gay and doesn't know it or really is frightened by sex with men. But then again, why is she going with men and pursuing sex with them? The movie ends with the leader of the group burning to death in a comedy of unrealistic errors in trying to set off a fire alarm but inadvertently causes a real fire to rage through a school. That's it. That is the whole move. The whole, worthless, pointless movie. It makes no sense because there was no point to it. None of the female characters are coming across sympathetic. None were victims by anything other than their own stupidities. The leader of the group calls guys "mental midgets" but she ends up proving herself the smallest mental midget of all. The girls get themselves into their predicaments by mindlessly following an idiot and never once thinking or rationally analyzing the reality and truth of their lives in any honestly introspective way. Unlike the girls in the movie Foxfire, who are actually victimized and get revenge on their victimizer, you don't feel any sympathy for these mindless, witless wonders. The movie has no plot, the acting is awful, the editing is even worse, and the dialogue is horrifically unimaginative. The movie as a whole lacks any substance or purpose and never tells any kind of story. This therefore is NOT a movie but cinematographic masturbation.
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Summary: Chokers!! GAG!!
Review: This movie is just not worth the ninety minutes it takes to watch it. While the themes are extremely compelling and worthy of being voiced...everything just always seems to fall absolutely flat.
Scenes that should be incredible, are instead, dreadful as the the director fails miserably to in fact DIRECT the actors as to what to do. One scene where the girls attempt a mock rape is just silly.
Basically the ideas in this movie are very interesting, but this movie is devastatingly amatuerish in its execution of the ideas. Hence they lose any power they might have, had they been given a better platform.
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Summary: We started a revolution you guys...
Review: This movie obviously isn't a big-budgeted hollywood production. It's about three girls at an all girls boarding school who are fed up with the way that guys are treating them and taking advantage of them. They decide to fight back by doing things to them to get even and hopefully teach them a lesson. You see how when these girls feel invisible and hurt and repressed, what they do to feel empowered and stand up for themselves, but lose their friendships in the process, which was more important than guys in the first place. I don't know why everyone thinks this movie is so terrible? Not ALL movies are glossy overproduced and manufactured big names with the intention of just making money. Some people think that it's going to be a "feminist" movie and are upset when they don't see girls running around and beating guys up. Well as you can see, these girls figure out their own boundaries, and what "feminism" means to them. Whether it's by saving yourself, or giving yourself up, they find out from their mistakes.
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