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Hard Candy (2006)
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oh poo.
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"i think what grabbed me the most was the fact that all hell broke loose on the first night. A total massacre of a town. blood, screams, and sharp teeth. nearly everyone DEAD! and it was only the first night. so it became more of a small-town apacolyptic tale of bullying vampires. i thought it was a great film even though i'm not a huge fan of horror flicks. i loved the movie Hard Candy (2004) and when i saw that David Slade tackled this adaptation, i gave it a shot. and i'm greatful. "
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"I found myself squirming through the majority of this film, and that's a GOOD thing, considering the suject matter at hand. Number one reason this film is worth watching - THE ACTING. Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson are FANTASTIC actors, and with the cinematography consisting of nearly all close ups of the two actor's faces, it's crucial that they both hit the right notes with the dialogue, and indeed, they do not disappoint. There are moments of EXTREME discomfort for the viewer, so anyone who can't handle psychological tension might want to skip this film. For those of you who can, and those of you who appreciate two actors doing what they do best, check this film out. "
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Hard Core
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"WHOA Ellen Page, whoa. That was first.This is second. Even knowing what this movie was about prior to viewing it, I was still completely shocked. It was an edge-of-your-seat-where-the-he ll-is-this-going movie that had me too terrified to look away.Third and last. I recommend this movie. I do not recommend watching it on a train where other people around you may be able to catch glimpses of what's happening on screen, as my friend and I did. We more than once paused it, stared at each other in disbelief for awhile, debated whether to continue, and then started up again. Let's leave it at that. "
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Hard Candy
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"Hard Candy can be summed up by its poster: a young nubile girl, dressed in a little red (riding) hoodie, stands in the center of a giant bear trap. The imagery of the prey turned predator could not be illustrated more succinctly. For an idea this simple you might expect Hard Candy to be a fairly shallow film, and while it never strays from its simplistic premise, it does deliver that premise with an intensity and ferocity that is maintained up until the credits roll. From the initial meeting between 14 year old temptress; Hailey, and 34 year old fashion photographer; Jeff, the film defines it’s tense nature. Even though the coffee shop chosen as neutral ground bustles with slight activity, no one notices this oddly paired couple. Jeff plays his role of older seducer. He takes control of the conversation and makes use of the info he has gleamed from their online chats to dominate his prey. Surely throwing a young girl’s insecurities at her, to loosen her ... "
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"Changing technologies call for changing times. This of course includes alterations in cinema. Once something is factored into the routine occurrences of everyday life, it is inevitable reflected in film. Take for example the representation of video games in this year’s laughable Stay Alive, or wireless technology in Cellular. One integral part of the world today is the Internet. Despite its popularity, it has surprisingly not become the subject of many films since the dawning of the new millennium. Even horror films have failed to give the postmodern concept a decent stab. However, a title this year has finally utilized Internet technology into a premise with undeniable relentlessness. That picture is Hard Candy.I think at this point that America is aware of sexual predators, and how they take advantage of the Internet for sick ploys at molesting young girls and boys. Dateline NBC has even capitalized on the horrific sex crimes by hilariously humiliating these obese 40-yea ... "
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Page's Better performance.
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"It was the cover that caught me at first. Browsing Hollywood Video for something new. Something I hadn't seen before and on the new release shelf there it was, two copies of this film next to eight hundred copies of some big huge blockbuster (I can't remember what it was at the time, but i do recall it looked very unappealing). It was the first time I had ever grabbed a movie off the shelf without even reading the synopsis. I just said "this one" and checked out. It sat in my room a few days before I watched it, at night might I add. On my small 13 or so inch television with headphones plugged in. I wasn't aware at the time what I was getting into. And there it was. Fourteen year-old Hayley and 30-some year old Jeff. I'd seen these relationships before. I'd been in one of these relationships before, and I was honestly, digusted. A lot of the times I honestly, don't have a problem with Age differences when it comes to 20-some year olds or older, bu ... "
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"I hang out with all the pariahs."
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"There are so many wonderful things I would like to say about Juno. That its cast is impeccable, that its soundtrack conveys the perfect emotions, that its details ring both true and hilarious. But most of all, I want to say how good -- no, how GREAT -- watching it made me feel.Ellen Page plays the eponymous sixteen year old heroine with a startingly endearing blend of precociousness, arrogance, cynicism, feigned independence, and aloof self-determination that is so right in so many ways, I cannot help but declare -- after having seen her only in this, Hard Candy, and X-Men: The Last Stand (in my reviews for all of which I've swooned for this girl) -- that Page is going to be among the greatest actresses of her generation. It would have been so easy for a film like this to degrade into silliness or ugliness, and yet somehow, Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, and Page have colluded to create one of the greatest cinematic outcasts and one of the most unique, interesting, beguilling, ... "
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dateline predator with a twist
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"I have to admit, I'm one of them.... I'm one of the viewers who await anxiously for each one of those Dateline Predator shows to come on. It has been TV at it's finest. The moment one of these guys have been caught, well, I have to say.... TV doesn't get any better than that. So, when I watched this movie and it's interesting twist on the topic, I was filled with conflicting emotions. I couldn't decide whether to cheer Ellen Page's character or fear her. In a day when we pay lip service to the importance of protecting kids, I often shrug my shoulders and sort of retreat to the fact that kids will be exploited. As dark as this movie was, it was satisfying to see a seemingly vulnerable, would be victim stand up, and not only confront her predator, but open him up from the inside out and let him be exposed and have his deepest and darkest inner demons be revealed. And even though we see her cut open a little bit, this man's soul was left with deep ... "
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A hard nut to crack
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"The way I saw it, the whole point of the film was to have a jab at your own morals and, more interestingly, to demonstrate that nothing in life is black and white.The story is about 14-year-old Hayley and 30-something Jeff, who get to know each other in a chat room (seemingly serendipitously) and then proceed to meet in real life. While the film starts with the viewer thinking Haley is the one who shouldn't be meeting strangers, especially strangers as old as him, off the internet the roles reverse the further the plot develops - and Jeff realises Hayley's there after careful planning on how to punish him for what is at that point his assumed involvement in pedophilia and even murder. Hayley, played by Ellen Page, is by no means a likable character. She's very annoying, too smart for her own good and really hard to feel any sympathy towards. Jeff, played by Patrick Wilson, on the other hand seems like a reasonably normal bloke. He's well mannered and likable, and hey, he's even a p ... "
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A Discomforting Masterpiece
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"The pairing of a playwright and a music video director -- each making their first proper foray into feature filmmaking -- seems at once sensible and ill-advised. It's not inconceivable that the stylistic clash between the two sensibilities would be jarring, resulting in a finished product that is at best inconsistent and at worst incoherent. It also stands to reason, however, that in such a claustrophobic setting, a strong playwright would be uniquely capable of executing plot, character, and subtext through dialogue alone, and a director coming from advertising would be able to make it visually arresting with the location's limited pallette. Hard Candy is a sterling example of the latter, exhibiting a strong visual style which never overpowers the narrative. Particularly of note, though, is the performance of Ellen Page as Hayley. Having been one of the two good parts of the otherwise deplorable X-Men: The Last Stand (the other being Kelsey Grammer's turn as Dr. Hank McCoy), i ... "
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