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The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
Blood runs deeper than Love...or Does it?
***MILD SPOILERS*** This film is so simple, and yet, it doesn't appear that way at all. When you first see the film you do not immediately understand that Jude Law is a vampire. I mean, to be ancient he has a definite boyish charm about him, as though everything still fascinates him. Indeed I believe that human's are what fascinates him. He must feed on blood, and I believe that he understands that women-due to his good looks and debonair qualities-are the easiest target. It's possible to say that he is a vampire with a soul, no, I think he is a vampire with the lingering sensation of a soul. Anyways, don't expect this to be like a guy all dressed in black-well he does wear a lot of black but some color-walking around at night hanging around ally ways for unsuspecting floosies. It's not like that at all. True, just like any other vampire, blood is his sustenance, on the other hand there is an interesting little twist in here that is pure ingenuity: Every time that he takes the blood, he coughs up a crystal, usually the size of a tiny nail. It's painful, and a little gross. Jude law fixes himself to appeal to his prey. Indeed if you watch he becomes what he believes every woman wants. In the beginning of the movie you see him with a female that is capricous and modern, and so he becomes just that. His sole purpose is to make them love him. Truly, utterly, and with all of the souls: love him. But every time it fails, and the women do not love him. Perhaps in their mind they do, but not their hearts. Jude Law's theory is that is he can find a woman, who will love him, and take her life, then his life will be...returned. He won't need blood anymore, and he won't get sick like he does when he can't get it. He meets Elena Lowenstein, she is immediately different. Even though she is lovely and intelligent like all the others. And so, Jude Law again changes, he becomes what he assumes she wants. And this time, this time it seems to work. During the film, there is a cop chasing him-for all the dead women showing up in England-and a gritty scene in the subway where he actually saves the cop's life. This is actually interesting, here is the 'villain' actually playing dual parts as the hero, indeed he also saves Elena Lowenstein from the same thugs in another scene. But the film is really about the girl, and the boy. You follow their lives in this short time, and you receive bits of them, and their realities, and you watch him trying to be like her. There is even a part where he tries to draw this symbol that she draws when doodling. In the end she discovers him for what he truly is, and still, she can't help but love him. He tells her that he has been looking for someone like her, someone to make the pain go away. And that every time he coughs up a crystal it is emotion, the strongest emotion that the woman he killed felt for him was what was in the crystal. He even carries around the black books throughout the movie with the emotions that all of the women felt for him such as: Hate, Sadness, Detest,. etc,.
This movie is a love story, plain and simple. If you can make it through all of the cobwebs and find the center you will most definitely adore this film. In the end, I won't tell it, love does conquer, but, not in the way you would want. All things must come to and end.
The Great Mom Swap (1995)
Perfect Teen Romance
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This is such a wonderfully romantic movie. They don't sale it! So I waited for it to come on T.V and am now the proud owner of a very scrambled version that I watch over and over again. The film is about two girl that are 15: Terry and Karen. Terry is middle class to poor, she is stuck in that tomboy zone, even though she has grown into a beauty, her father passed away and now she lives with her grandfather-played by the great Cid Caesar-and her mom-Rhoda from Mary Tyler Moore-at a deli they own. Karen is rich, she has two stuch up friends, and they like to dress alike?? Her parents are very busy, but they have a good marriage. She has a little sister and an older brother who sort of wishes he wasn't so rich and could be some mysterious person in black sitting at a coffee house reading the Crucible. And so Karen and Terry are rivals. They both are secretly jealous of what eachother is about, and think the other one gets a 'free ride' through life. After years of pulling pranks on eachother, Terry accidentally goes too far. Instead her prank gets the whole school shut down. Of course the Principle knows who did it, and so he decided to expel them. Easier said than done. Karens parents think she shouldn't have been expelled because her prank wasn't the one that shut the school down; Terry's mother thinks that her daughter was just defending herself and can't afford to lose any school. So a probation officer is brought in and gives them two options: A Pea Farm, full of hard labor, OR: They swap families for a month and learn to see life through the other ones eyes. Well you can guess which one gets chosen. A lot goes one, Karen loses her so-called best friends because her status is demoted from technically being 'poor' now. Terry is now teased more so for being on the rich side of town and riding the 'rich' school bus. But the best part of this film is the relationship that surprisingly forms between Terry and Karen's older brother David. David besides being so handsome, and smart. He sees something about Terry, like her sense of humor and I'm guessing her natural beauty that he just can't resist. The chemistry between these two people is amazing. And you just know that they'll one day get married. Prom ensues, with the witch of the highschool pulling a prank on Terry, and finally, a freindship and complete understanding of eachother evolves. Who knew? I LOVE THIS FILM!!!
I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
Scared Me To Death
I saw this movie when I was eleven, and I haven't seen it since. I was absolutely scared out of my wits, now as for the acting- -well it wasn't so bad! Sarah Chalke-who had a small stint as Becky no.2 on the Roseanne show-is very pretty, and a pretty talented actress, I know that the other guy who gave a review for this totally bashed it, but I saw it on T.V one time, and it was good enough for me to go searching about it on IMDB. The Story is basically about a teen age girl named Sarah who is very pretty, but a little strange. She lives with her single parent mother, and moves to a new town where she knows no one and has no friends- -excepting some strange curly headed blond kid-played by Ben Foster from the kid's show Flash Forward ever see it on Disney?-Who has a big crush on her. She likes the hunk in town-Who I think has great eyes if nothing else-played by Christopher Campbell-who just happens to be Neve Campbell's kid brother-Now of course the hunk in town has a super snotty girlfriend who makes fun of the somewhat strange Sarah because she's prettier than she is and her boyfriend is crushing on Sarah. Anyway! There is a serious witch burning legend about a girl that lived in Sarah's house and was accused of being a witch- -thus she was burned! Then as a joke Sarah is wrangled into being the 'Psychic' and some stupid teenage party or carnival, she doesn't have to be wrangled too much seeing as how she's in love with the hunk in town. So Turns out that kid's are being killed, lot's of them, and they die of natural causes--A Heart Attack! They are being scared to death by someone dressed up in a witch's outfit! Is it the dead witch's ghost come back for revenge? Is it Sarah? Is Sarah inhabited by the dead witch's spirit?! WHO WILL DIE NEXT!? Watch this movie! It was made for T.V- -but it is a down right scare-you-to-death, make-your-hair-turn-white! MOVIE! Final words: For a T.V Made flick FIVE STARS!