Hard Candy - DVD

Hey it's the Sunnydale chick, and I just saw this after I saw the preview of it on 100 greatest scary movie countdown on utube (I like to watch this every Halloween, and as you know I do celebrate early...since the middle of September this year for me my guy and all my friends....who think it's really cool to celebrate early, I recommend it it's fun!) And I saw this preview on there(not sure why I hadn't noticed it before because it was REALLY good! 1st off something funny.....if you've seen Juno(and I'm sure most of you have.....) it's a lot like that jerk she's with in the movie....the one who later divorces jennifer garner I can't remember his name..) ironically enough she has a line in here just like And by the way I Hate Sonic youth it's just noise. I like how spooky and kick ass she is (like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 meets Echo from Dollhouse (especially in my favorite episode The Target) now if you've seen it the ends (of the movie and the episode are so close its kick ass! Echo is holding a gun at the guy who's been taking her on this scary movie like ride....holding this lethal bow and arrow...thinking how she's gonna fail...well of course she doesn't she kick his ass, before she hurls the arrow into his neck and he says a kick ass chick phrase I go by since I saw it Shoulder to the wheel (meaning live for the now, like at the beginning of the movie, when I had guessed she drugged him...pretty easy for The Scream Queen, plus she said; while she made special point of making these drinks; "Now we have the chance to have some REAL fun! And she can Definitely kick some ass (note the surran wrap scene) the whole odd plotline that he didn't do it (sorry spoilers) but like she says at the end "I don't care, cause you're not rooting for this creep anyway; funny blooper after he gets castrated in a SAW kind of way, he's wearing these tan khaki pants...okay fine...but there's not a drop of blood on them, and like Samuel Jackson said in Pulp Fiction (modified to fit of course) it would look like a Damn Maxi Pad! Not just like he was going for a walk to the nearest coffee shop or high school! Plus I love this ending (again sorry about the spoilers) but he's on the roof with her and by now we've learned he's not the Main villain, but he knows him. And she says "Don't worry I'll take care of it) Before shoving him off the roof hanging him. "Or not." She says then the movie ends as she's walking down the road wearing her red sweatshirt (that's my little red riding hood song reference I also wrote for my 1st movie for my favorite Werewolf flick Gingersnaps. ) and I smile cause you don't know who this girl Really is, but you DO know she's Everything she says she is, Revenge for Every girl who's Ever been hurt; and not only that; She's gonna do this again to every guy who has it coming! And even though I thought the castration part would be like the end of SAW , as the movies end(just the 1st one I hate the rest;) I love that one so much better....cause that.....just.....Kicks Ass! Read more

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Welcome to the candy store. That's what the Internet is, a candy store. You can get your candy from were ever you can imagine, like magic. The Internet is a wonderfull thing, but all wonderfull things turn wicked quite easily. A Thirty something man has been chatting up some young thing for three weeks now. It's perfectly legal for a grown man to correspond with a child, it's when they try to meet that things get sticky. Lensman319 (Jeff) and Thonggrrrl14 (Haley) decide they want a face to face, and meet up at a coffee shop. The scene opens with the young girl deeply enjoying a piece of chocolate cake. He comes into the scene as she groans with delight of the smoothness of her Boston Cream Pie. The two slink back into a more secluded part of the coffee shop, so they can talk more privetly. She is sweetness, as would be expected of a forteen year old girl. He is the experienced older man, bruteing with his smile. He woos her with talk of her maturity and brilliance. Upon hearing about a burned MP3 of a concert Jeff has back at his place, Haley insists upon comeing over. They unwind a bit with a few drinks, once there. But being the wise honor student Haley is, she insists upon mixing the Screwdrivers herself. Haley coos and fawns over Jeff as he tells her about his work, and his life. Haley mixes another round of drinks for them, and decides it's time for him to take her picture now. She dances around a bit, noticably intoxicated, and begins to strip, but not down completely. Jeffy starts to get less patient, and a little woosy. After a brief sputter of, "I dont feel so good." Jeff passes out. He wakes after a pause of darkness, and shortly realizes some one has strapped him to a chair .............. Want to see more? Then get this movie, its a keeper. Hard Candy is a wondefull thriller about Pedefillia and a much needed pay back. Aside from the extras, the only cast characters are Ellen Page (Haley), Patrick Willson (Jeff), and Sandra Oh (Judy). One of my favorite rants is about thirty minutes in: ........... (Haley) "She was so sexy. She was asking for it. She was only technically a girl. She acted like a woman. It's just so easy to blame a kid, isn't it? Just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman, does not mean she's ready to do what a woman does! I mean, your the grown-up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it! You don't encourage it. If a kid says, "Hey lets make Screwdrivers." You take the alcohal away, and you don't race them to the next drink!" Read more

Hard Candy is an alluring piece of shoestring-budget cinema. It takes the already engrossing subject matter of online predators and puts an interesting twist on it. The first 75-or-so minutes are truly unflinchingly powerful, but the story begins to lose it's edge in the final act and ultimately ends with an oddly unsatisfying climax. Honestly, one of the only things that keeps Hard Candy from being an especially gruesome Lifetime movie is it's incredible actors. On paper, Ellen Page's character would seem ridiculous and over-the-top. However, she completely harnesses her characters manipulative sociopathic behavior and makes it so convincing. Patrick Wilson is a great choice for a deeply-disturbed pedophile because of his good nature and genuine handsome face. At one point, his character says something along the lines of 'peoples faces lie,' and that statement couldn't be more true given Page's even more innocent, prepubescent looks. David Slade's directing has a very amateurish quality to it, especially some scenes that strongly reflect Slade's background in music videos. It's by no means terrible, but the film's style could have fared better in the hands of someone like Takashi Miike. Hard Candy is nothing groundbreaking, and its ending could have definitely been more effective, but Ellen Page's performance is enough reason alone to revisit this little gem. Read more

This is a brutal and unique thriller with AMAZING acting and great plot-pacing. The ending is abrupt, but very satisfying. Aside from the tiny plot-holes that you probably won't notice your first time watching, this is an amazing film that all lovers of dark media should try. Read more