Cruel Intentions

I watched a tonne of films i've never seen last night, and although most of them were girly (being at a girls house, oddly enough) at least a few were decent films. As much as at the heart of them is the purest good, and there is a love story unfailingly in every one, i have no intrinsic hatred of films that are designed for females.

This film, above all others, pretty much states fully my feelings on why these films should be watched without too much resistance. The pretense of Cruel Intentions is simple, a man takes a bet (on the possible loss of his '56 Jaguar Roadster no less) that he can fuck the new headmasters daughter (who, being Reeses Witherspoon, is fairly good looking anyways) before school even starts, starting his reputation a-rolling before the year even starts. The whole story gets a bit confused when he wants to fuck his step-sister in return, but you know how these things go.

This is a simple story, and as much as it would have been a frankly TERRIBLE film if that was all that was involved I genuinely enjoyed the film. The intertwined stories are interesting, and the plot twists obviously to be expected with a brother and sister (played by a young Sarah Michelle-Gellar in various scanty outfits. FIT) infatuated with eachother but in an eternal power struggle to control one another were actually slightly shocking at times. I guess i've come to be able to predict the type of film i enjoy, this was a nice escape.

I can't write a review of this film without mentioning how outrageously bonerific it was. It was surely made with men being dragged to the cinema in mind, there were some fantastically lacking costumes and Sarah Michelle-Gellar had a lesbian make out scene with a stupid but fit girl whose name i've forgotten. The film at times was positively gratuitous, and god damn would that have kept me going long enough to watch the film even if the rest was a shitstorm. Which it wasn't.

So, all in all, a good film. I'll give it... 6/10. It was a film that, if in female company who disliked guns, violence, gore and obsene nudity entirely out of context i would crack out. It was enjoyable enough that if i were in the mood i may even watch again, albeit not alone. I wouldn't crack it out alone for fear of cracking one out alone.