Cruel Intentions (DVD)

Enter Sebastian. A very handsome young man who’s father is very rich and away for the summer. This leaves him with the time to run around the city as your own personal playground in his classic Jaguar. With the reputation as a bit of a ladies man you are starting to get bored with the same old faces, same easily caught woman, there is just no challenge with them anymore. Next we have Catherine. An intelligent young lady who has a lot of responsibility ...
...impeccable reputation with both the staff and parents of her fellow students. She has a very well hidden vindictive and manipulative side which only her step brother Sebastian is aware of and gives herself hours of pleasure in orchestrating the downfall and general misery she can inflict. Then along comes Annette. Daughter of the new principle, she is a beautiful and wholesome young lady who prides herself in her self written manifesto proclaiming ...

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...including a direct-to-video sequel to Cruel Intentions and Cruel Intentions appears to be by far his best work. He adapted it from a famous French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses which has been directly adapted into films set during the period of the novel (18th century). I have neither read the book nor seen any of these films so I can not compare. However, the end of this film was a bit of a disappointment, it became a little too soppy and romantic. ...
...originality but the strength of the majority sort of gave this a pass. As already said the soundtrack was a great addition to this film 1 Every You Every Me (single mix) - Placebo 2 Praise You (radio edit) - Fatboy Slim 3 Coffee And TV - Blur 4 Bedroom Dancing (first recording) - Day One 5 Colourblind - Counting Crows 6 Ordinary Life - Barry, Kristen 7 Comin' Up From Behind - Marcy's Playground 8 Secretly - Skunk Anansie 9 This Love - Armstrong, ...

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Before you start thinking whether or not to bother reading YET another American teen flick review, this time it’s actually very good!. STORYLINE: The story revolves around the handsome, yet cruel, Sebastian (Ryan Phillipe) and his beautiful, yet sinister, stepsister Kathryn (Sarah Michelle-Gellar) and there little bet. If Sebastian manages to bed the new college headmasters daughter before the start of the new semester, he will get what he’s ...
...his most prized possession, his 1956 Jaguar Roadster. The film starts off with Mrs. Caldwell (Christine Baranski) introducing her daughter, Cecile (Selma Blair), to Kathryn – who is the College Student Body President. What they don’t know is that Kathryn holds a grudge against her because her ex-boyfriend left her for Cecile not long before. So she decides that she will befriend her and ‘teach her the ropes’ with the intention ...

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Anyone who has seen the 80s classic Dangerous Liasons will know what to expect. This movie has updated the tale to the modern day, and plays out the main characters as rich siblings who manipulate friends and acquaintances. The plot centres around a wager between Sebastian and Kathryn (step brother and sister), played superbly by Ryan Phillipe and Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy fame. Sebastian has to bed the new girl in town - if he wins then he ...
...The film is very enjoyable - plenty of twists and turns keep the audience guessing right to the last. But as with all my dvd opinions, this is a review of the dvd as a package, and not just a spoiler to the film. So what is the transfer like? The answer is very good - the 1.85:1 frame is crystal clear throughout, and gets a chance to show off during scenes shot in the bedrooms which are finished in superb blues or reds. The soundtrack is reasonable, ...

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...already wrote an opinion on Cruel Intentions I know, but the DVD is so good that I just had d=to write another one on the DVD itself! So, if you want to know what the movies about, this isn’t the place to get the info from, you’d be better looking at the opinions on the film itself. Right, so onto the DVD. What has it got that makes it so good in my humble opinion? Well you know when you either rent or buy a DVD and look forward to all ...
...view cruel intentions and are wondering whether to get it on VHS or DVD (well, obviously you should get it on DVD anyway) then you should really go for the DVD just for the extra features that it offers. Well worth the extra couple of quid if you ask me! ...

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...his prized Jaguar car. Cruel Intentions is directed by writer turned director Roger Kumble and is an excellent movie which should enhance the reputation of everyone involved. For the first time ever I've bought the CD soundtrack of the movie which features fourteen excellent tracks by Placebo, Blur, Marcy Playground, Fatboy Slim, Counting Crows, Faithless, The Verve, Blur and others. Gellar and Philippe also starred together in I Know What You ...
...chemistry between this great leading couple although they didn't have it all their own way with top notch performances by Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair. As a parent I wasn't sure about the 15 certificate - there's lots of explicit sex-chat and one or two scenes showing drug use but these are relevant to the plot and are eventually portrayed as "a bad thing" so the censors probably got it right. The DVD includes the usual actors film biographies, ...

joecon 13.02.2001 (14.02.2001) · Read full review
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...one of my favourite films. Even small characters are excellent such as Joshua Jackson whose character is innovative and very funny!It's a joy to watch, and although i've seen that Cruel Intentions 2 is coming out i definately wouldn't bother with it unless u'r just curious after the first one! ...

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...never seen Dangerous Liasons, therefore Cruel Intentions was of no adaptive inaccuracy and certainly no disappointment. I believe in the ideas of sex selling everything and I also believe in the concepts of beautiful people creating ticket sales, (Ocean's Eleven), however it also takes a little extra to bring it all together and make it worth your money. You need the electricity, the real sexiness, the good versus evil, the plot, the sub-plot, the ...
...it intriguing says a lot. Cruel Intentions may not be for everyone but it is certainly worth having a look if only out of curiosity. DVD Extras: Deleted Scenes: One excellent one, when Sebastian call Annette and the naked ladies are in the background. Audio Commentry. Music Video. ...

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With a high profile cast and a new low high street price this product is better value than ever. This black comedy has a certain reputation courtesy of a few select scenes.Despite this there is an intricate satisfying storyline. It is a story of two half-siblings; Kathryn and Sebastian from a rich family and their battle through sexuality and power games to gain the upperhand. Kathryn having been dumped is devastated to discover that her Ex is ...
...In her Anguish she requests sebastian to deal with the problem by seducing Cecille and getting her away form Court (The ex) Sebastian unimpressed by the lack of challenge for his charms in seducing such a girl refuses claiming he has bigger fish to fry. The bigger fish are a girl called Annette Hargrove the daughter of the headmaster at Kathryn and Sebastian's school. Annette recently having written an article on why she intends to wait [on having ...

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...is another great film) but cruel intentions is a completely different ballgame. The characters are must deeper and the plot much more then just boy meets girl. the plot is that sebastien (ryan phillippe himself) and his step-sister Catherine (sarah michelle gellar) generally lead cruel lives taking what they want, when they want. Catherine has recentely been dumped by her boyfriend and is highly bitter as she believes she has been dumped for quite ...
...to simply let this pass and so sets about ruining her ex-boyfriend's life via cecile. Sebastien meanwhile is on a mission of his own- to have sex with the new headmasters daughter, annette, before school starts (reese witherspoon). He believes this will do miracles for his reputation (which he values one of his top priorities) and makes a bet with Catherine that he can do it. They agree that if he succeeds, Catherine will have sex with him but if ...

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Cruel Intentions is excellent. The film is a modern day version of Dangerous Liaisons. The film stars Ryan Phillippe as Sebastian Valmont a seducer of woman who lives in a mansion in manhattan with his stepsister Kathryn Merteuil played by Sarah Michelle gellar (Buffy the vampire Slayer). Kathryn is annoyed when she is dumped by her boyfriend for Cecile (Selma Blair) and take her revenge by temping Sebastian to seduce and ruin cecile reputation. ...
...Witherspoon), the daughter of the headmaster. He and kathryn make a bet that sebatian can sleep with her. If she wins Kathryn gets his sports car, but if she loses sebatian gets Kathryn. So Sebatian go all out to win over Annette. I would recmommed this film to everyone who likes wickedness and lots a sex in their films. ...

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This film is a modern adaptation of the very famous novel " The Choderlos de Laclos's dangerous Connections " by Roger Kumble ... (Small paranthèse editor's note, I have just spent one hour to type my article and under excuse which I had forgotten to put it a title, and indeed I lost it then , please , excuse I of the continuation if it is not as well that the being would have been able to ...) One already knows the grace history to the book and ...
...Strangers (french humorists) for those that remember still themselves it, the tremendously dangerous connections with Jean Claude Vandamme ... For lack of Jean Claude Vandamme, this film enjoys a particularly exceptional distribution, one finds there Sarah Michelle Gellar, the blonde Buffy, vampire Slayer here in her original colour, Ryan Phillippe de Studio 54 and Remember you last summer, Reese Witherspoon (the withered cueiller) and even Charlie ...

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Cruel Intentions has the makings of a cult film! A reworking of 'Les Liasions Dangeroux' it sucessfully brings the story into the 21st Century showing how bitter and twisted rich kids entertain themselves in the school holidays by ruining the lives of others! Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar play step-siblings partaking in a bet - that 'Sebastian' (Ryan) cannot take the virginity from a girl who is publically 'saving herself' for marriage ...
...- aah!) If he wins the bet he gets the ultimate prize - his sister - the only girl he in the past could not have. If he loses he has to give up his pride and joy - his sports car. Initially Sebastian considers this to be an easy task and much of a game but surprisingly for him, love gets in the way. Sarah Michelle Gellar makes a sucessful transition from Buffy to a screwed up rich-bitch who is addicted to Cocaine and has her own private agenda as ...

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Sarah Michelle Gellar of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ fame plays Kathryn and takes the starring role in this sexy tale of seduction and betrayal, alongside her is Ryan Phillippe is stepbrother Valmont and is remembered for his role in ‘….know what you did last summer’ flicks. The two teenage reprobates play bored, uncaring and very rich stepsiblings from upper NY full of contempt for high morals, trust, other people and ...
...cast and superbly filmed with a storyline that moves along at a good pace and keeps you interested, particularly to see if our debauched pair will get their comeuppance. Anyway back to the plot, Valmont is bored of his easy past sexual conquests and has dangerously set his sights on the beautiful but virginal headmasters daughter Annette played by Reese Witherspoon. His sibling seizes on an opportunity to get one over on him and sets a wager that ...

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A remake of a classic story (Dangerous Liason), but with a fresh faced new look. The new hollywood brat pack is in full force in this sexy, stylish teen betrayal drama. Sarah Michelle Gellar leaves Buffy way behind her, with a change of image, she shows her range as the evil Kathryn. But this is far from a solo performance, she is backed up by four other hollywood up and coming stars. It may never be a classic, but it is compelling in its own way. ...
...the rich lifestyles portrayed but everyone will know one of the characters in their own lives. This DVD supports a strong interactive menu (why we all love DVD's) and the soundtrack positively rocks. It may not appeal to the wrinklies, but for anyone under 30 its a must see. ...

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