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Summary: The New Cult Classic!
Review: "The Smokers" is by far the first film I've seen that truly shows chics for all they are... the good, bad, and ugly. It's a very cool, stylized film, with great preformances by Thora Birch and Dominique Swain. It's a total ride. Girls are going to love this film. And guys... this is us... you finally want to understand chics... here it is. Heehee.
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Summary: Sex, Guns and Rich Teenage Girls
Review: A movie about 17-year-old girls and sex - without nude scenes? (This is not typical Hollywood.) A portrait of three misguided girls poisoned by the malaise of life at an idyllic, midwest boarding school succumb to the polictically correct ideals of contemporary US culture, and declare themselves to be no longer victims of men. They make a pact and begin a revolution to avenge all women, and regain the personal power robbed from them. So starts their campaign of rape against the male student body. However, this is no feminist film. Even armed with a handgun, the girls find themselves unable to take the power they crave away from the boys.This is a powerful and introspective film about what it means to declare oneself a victim, or even to declare oneself a victim no more. The Smokers raises serious questions about our actions and responsibilities, and leaves the viewer struggling to find the answers.
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Summary: Exagerated, but still hit home
Review: As a grad of a residential high school, this movie was exagerated in every way, but I still connected with it emotionally. No one I went to school with was that wealthy or had quite that much freedom on campus, but the craziness was definately there. This movie takes the actual experience of residential high school cliques, sex, drugs, violence and exagerates it, but IMHO doesn't distort it. My husband didn't like it though.
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Summary: How did this movie ever make it to film???
Review: Bad acting, bad camera work, bad script, bad plot. Bad everything. My sister rented this movie because she wanted to see girls kicking guy's butts. Instead, it was so bad we all had a good laugh over it. The plot isn't in the least bit inspiring or powerful. Supposedly it's about girls taking back power from guys, when in fact they don't seem to have anything to gripe about. Two of them are virgins with no apparent reason to need to get back at guys. The one who isn't a virgin went out and did some older, rich, married jerk in his limo, then wonders why he wouldn't give her his number? Is this a good reason to feel "used" by the male sex? The rest of the movie is supposed to center around this, but this quickly gets pushed aside so that other minor and unimportant underlying plots can be developed. The typical nerd boy=nice boyfriend plot is overplayed. The butt kicking consists of one hilariously unbelievable rape scene before being pushed aside. Most of this movie was just not believable. From the rape of a guy (did they give him viagra or something?) to the twisted Russian Roulette scene. Like these girls would really do that? Come on. It gets worse. Even after feeling "used" by the married rich guy, the girl meets with him again. He rushes things and she (finally) decides she wants to get out of the situation. She screams for help, but the limo guy does nothing. She falls out of the limo, only to be raped on the hood of the limo, in front of the driver, in the middle of the street. Despite the fact that a rape scene should be powerful and have some kind of effect on the story, nothing comes of it. The wussy girl in the group sneaks off to have sex with some guy, then decides she doesn't like it and tells him to stop and hits him with her gun. That only turns him on (because what do you know... these guys like bondage!) and she shoots him in the neck, killing him instantly. She runs and hides the gun in their dorm, only to confess anyway. But no one believes her except one woman, and no one believes this woman either. So instead of the girl being caught, she is put on drugs. What? Then there is the fire scene. For some reason one of the girls decides to set off the smoke alarm. It's not mentioned why. One minute the girls are being interviewed one by one about the murder, the next they are setting off smoke alarms? But then she magically falls or something, sets a shower curtain on fire, and gets her dress stuck in something you never see. Instead of ripping it or taking the dress off to escape from the unnaturally quickly growing fire, her friend comes and saves her (also not shown how) only to be trapped when a flaming piece of the roof falls on her. She can't get out and burns to death. What? Not only that, but the firemen let the escaped girl's nerd boyfriend come in to the burning building with them? The firemen don't even rush to save this girl. Although honestly, I wouldn't save her either. Now we're supposed to be sad the girl died. Instead, you are left wondering what this has to do with anything. Normally, tragic deaths in movies have something to do with the plot or meaning of the story. Her death was played up as if it put a some kind of closure or moral on the movie. Instead you just wonder where the plot went. And in the end, the wussy girl marries unhappily and the other marries the nerd right after graduation. Way to be independent, gals. This movie doesn't even live up to a teen angst story. It completely misses the mark with whatever point it attempted to make. Don't bother.
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Summary: Not Even 1 Star!
Review: BAD, BAD, BAD!! Yes these things happen in real life (unfortunately), but that's why we have the news. If I'd known what this film was really about I would not have rented it! But sadly there was little hint at what was to come, and what was to come was pointless! Unless you get off on seeing girls (attempt) to rape guys, play with guns, do drugs, get raped, shoot guys, set buildings on fire and then go up in flames.... STAY AWAY!!
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Summary: Horrible Movie...Only Thing...
Review: Being a guy I wanted to see hot chicks, instead I saw a buch of hot guys. This is a bad movie. The only thing that made it good was Joel West and Oliver Hudson. They are so hot, it's too bad it couldn't save this piece of garbage.
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Summary: A Cult Film? Yes, But That Doesn't Save the Project
Review: Easily becoming a candidate for THE cult film of 2001, "The Smokers" will shock you; not because it is off-beat, odd, unconventional, or even outlandish, but because it is simply awful. And fans of Thora Birch, please listen. The story is about three girls (its leader, Dominique Swain in "Face Off" and the newer "Lolita") living in a dorm at a school somewhere in country of America, and feeling dissatisfied with their life, they decide to do something radical: so radical that I couldn't believe what I saw. They are sort of intimidated by boys (so they think), who always get what they want in their love and sex with girls, so, the three start their own revolution. Of course, things get out of control, and before they knew it, troubles ensue. Intersting? Only on paper. The result is a mess. It is shot without wit, humor, or sarcasm to sustain an entire film; all boys are hunks who think about nothing but having sex with girls (except an obligatory geek who wears glasses). Dialogues are impossible (one character talks about California as a place where they have "giant mosquitos"... so what?) and irrelevant, but the most depressing thing is its too ridiculous development of story. For example, see those girls, as a revenge to a boy, try to rape him, sticking a gun to his head (on a heap of corn). Reasons? As far as I know, it's because he ditched one of the girls rather unceremonious way. Or watch another girl shoot a gun in a boy's head because he gets too excited during sex at a prom night. What happens next? Nothing. No police. As if nothing happened. Because nobody believed her story!! I know words such as sub-text or irony, but I don't think I can find them here. It is because all things are done most bland way, and you just see the girls swear, cry, complain, and even kill (and in one scene, one of them utters a line that is very offensive after her knowing her prospective love turned out to be a gay), but nothing can be accounted for in a reasonable way. Because of setting of three girls in school, you might be reminded of "Heathers" but at least that film had a certain kind of power and wry humor, thanks to Christian Slater and Wynona Rider. But here ... don't ask me. And editing is bad so sometimes I had a trouble to follow the story. (Believe me or not, I watched it twice.) Finally, about the appearance of my favorite actress Thora Birch. She appears twice as a sister of one of the girls, but too briefly, so fans don't say I didn't warn you. And both times she wears a strange paint make-up on the face, so I first could not recognize her. I like her, I like "Ghost World" (great!), but I couldn't find anything good for her career here. Sorry.
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Summary: The new Cult Classic!
Review: Finally a chic flick without all the wimpy girls. These girls are cool. It's very stylish and great preformances by Thora Birch and Dominique Swain. I loved it! And guys... you want to see what girls are all about... this is it!
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Summary: What's the point of this movie?
Review: From the reviews, this definitely sounded like something I wanted to see. Girls taking back what's rightfully theirs from deceitful arrogant men who use women for sex. But I watched this twice and still couldn't figure out the plot. Interesting idea, but it was never developed. The girls are still weak and break down for men. The fire at the end didn't even fit with the rest of the movie and the ending was incredibly inconclusive. I felt empty and used after this movie, just like the female characters in them. It made no sense and had no substance.
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Summary: Worst movie ever. Really.
Review: How a script this bad ever made it out of an introductory creative writing class is beyond me. I would love to meet the idiots who put this together. They must be rich. Terrible writing, directing, acting.
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