"Hard Candy" -- anyone seen this movie?

[GRIFFIN1]

Every couple of weeks, I'll go to Rotten Tomatoes and look for new movies that are about to be relaesed on DVD that have a decent rating. Movies with good ratings get added to the Netflix queue. I didn't bother to read about this movie, so I didn't have a clue what it was about before I started watching it. The fact that I didn't know what the movie was about made it much better. It's a suspense/drama type moive, so it really helps if you don't know the plot of the movie.

The movie was... different. After I watched it, I got my girlfriend to watch it, and she liked it too. She then passed it on to another girl she works with who also liked it.

Please don't post spoilers if you have seen this movie. If you haven't seen it, then rent it without reading anything about it.

 

[SaltBoy]

It's a movie that makes me glad I'm not a pedophile.

 

[xospec1alk]

great movie. loved it.

 

[NuclearNed]

I haven't seen it, but I'm picturing a blaxploitation flick with a trash-talking afro chick named Candy as a police woman.

 

[mitaiwan82]

Great movie...watched it since it had good ratings on RT also

 

[iRONic]

WILL WATCH AGAIN A+++

 

[0roo0roo]

it has kitty pryde from xmen 3

 

[GregGreen]

I have the DVD but I haven't watched it yet...

 

[Chunkee]

its okay...the cinematography was kind of cool...

jC

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
it has kitty pryde from xmen 3

kitty pryde FTW

 

[Arkitech]

great movie, it rocked

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: GregGreen
I have the DVD but I haven't watched it yet...

yea same here will get around to it sooner or later heh

think she's actually 18 now

 

[Rogueverve]

its pretty cool. kinda like the audition only maybe not as gruesome.

 

[Printer Bandit]

at one point i kinda felt bad for the pedo guy.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: GRIFFIN1
Every couple of weeks, I'll go to Rotten Tomatoes and look for new movies that are about to be relaesed on DVD that have a decent rating. Movies with good ratings get added to the Netflix queue. I didn't bother to read about this movie, so I didn't have a clue what it was about before I started watching it. The fact that I didn't know what the movie was about made it much better. .

I agree. Based on your post I just added it to my queue, and since I agree with the "knowing less = better" philosophy I'm not going to read the rest of the thread until I watch it.

 

[Pepsi90919]

it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: GRIFFIN1
Every couple of weeks, I'll go to Rotten Tomatoes and look for new movies that are about to be relaesed on DVD that have a decent rating. Movies with good ratings get added to the Netflix queue. I didn't bother to read about this movie, so I didn't have a clue what it was about before I started watching it. The fact that I didn't know what the movie was about made it much better. It's a suspense/drama type moive, so it really helps if you don't know the plot of the movie.

The movie was... different. After I watched it, I got my girlfriend to watch it, and she liked it too. She then passed it on to another girl she works with who also liked it.

Please don't post spoilers if you have seen this movie. If you haven't seen it, then rent it without reading anything about it.

the thing that concerned me is that she was really ~15 when she did the film, and she was looking at his 'piece' up close and personal (his underwear was off). Plus it really did look like she was handling his 'piece.'

then again, dakoda north is doing a movie where she's graphically raped. (she's ~10 in real life.)

 

[Gravity]

sorta twisted....not sure I really liked it.

 

[John]

My fiancee and I really liked the movie. Too bad Sandra Oh had a worthless part.

 

[bondboy]

Just saw this movie. Very intense indeed. Just one question....

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From wikipedia:

She pretends to castrate him, with much detail, while he watches the operation "live" on a TV near him. The operation is really a tape, and the blood and testicles she removes (and grinds down the garbage disposal) are fake.

Was it fake? I didn't notice anything in the movie to indicate it was fake.

 

[ScottFern]

Originally posted by: bondboy
Just saw this movie. Very intense indeed. Just one question....

*********** SPOILER **************














From wikipedia:

She pretends to castrate him, with much detail, while he watches the operation "live" on a TV near him. The operation is really a tape, and the blood and testicles she removes (and grinds down the garbage disposal) are fake.

Was it fake? I didn't notice anything in the movie to indicate it was fake.

He took off the metal clip that was attached to his balls(to simulate the wound being closed) and they show him at the end taking the video out of the VCR.

I think he was numb so thats why he didn't know if it was real or fake.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
It's a movie that makes me glad I'm not a pedophile.

..no doubt. Ellen Page is frightening. Suspension of disbelief from someone so young.

 

[Kev]

I thought it was awful. The girl's acting was sooooooo bad that I couldn't get past it.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: Kev
I thought it was awful. The girl's acting was sooooooo bad that I couldn't get past it.

she was pretty bad...overacting...not at all natural...kind of amateurish

jC

 

[TheChort]

worst movie I've seen in years
The entire movie was like a paid advertisement by "Mothers Against Pedophiles." At times the girl just stares at the camera and lists off all the reasons people shouldn't be pedophiles.
Especially when she spews out crap like, "I am every girl that has ever been preyed on by a pedophile" :roll:


**SPOILER**







Then when the guy kills himself at the end, I just stared at the screen in shock because I had no fvcking clue as to why that just happened. Walking out of the theater, I had absolutely nothing to say because I still couldn't get over the shock of the guy killing himself. Even to this day, whenever I think about it, I realize what an unneccesarilly dumb ending that was.