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Old 02-14-2006, 10:13 AM   #46
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Are there some screencaps or files to see CC's work?

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If Lifetime is the channel for women, and the programming folks there think that's what most of us want to watch.... Ugh! The underlying themes were awful! Like Bex said, "sexually aggressive girls are crazy/criminals," and like Penny said, "stick with your own kind." :shakes head: Sad, sad, sad.
It's somenthing universal.... the major part of the channels for women treat us like idiots. You're a women, you WANT to watch how to make a good dinner for your hubby when he gets home, how to make something to decorate your house with "your own hands", soap operas, etc. And in terms of movies, it's the usual suffering good girl (and virgin or at least she only slept with one or two guys of course) gets the boy at the end. Not to mention when they go with the "thriller" movies..... I read books to my 5 years old niece that had more twists than those movies.
And for men's channel, they got the porn at night, the cars and sports, etc. And you could think, "okaayy, is the stereotype: men wants cars and boobs only and women wants cooking lessons and cheesy or stupid movies".... Yeahhhh, that's sooo accurate ..
But also, at least for FX in latin America, the "men channels" have series like: Titus, Arrested Development, X-files, NYPD Blue, Rescue me, My name is Earl, Deadwood... while we get a soap opera and some Melissa Gilbert's 80s movie......WTF?!!!!!!!

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Old 02-14-2006, 11:00 AM   #47
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Some of you guys found more deep than I did in FWD.

I had hoped for more, but everything was just suface. The characters had little depth, and the dialog was uninspired. It came across as a typical hurriedly made, cheap movie. Too bad.

I love Charisma, and she was astonishingly pretty in the movie, but it was not her best work.

(I do think the red robe scene, where we see Charisma turn back and look seductively over her shoulder, was an homage to VM, though, don'tcha?)

Oh well. So much anticipation. So much let down.
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Old 02-14-2006, 11:16 AM   #48
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Yeah, I guess, although it's not much of a twist for the cop to (shock!) be the Good Person. But Gloria was soooo grating and self-absorbed for an hour and fifty-five minutes that having her turn out to be the big fat heroine who gets the (dumb, wishy-washy himbo) guy in the final 120 seconds sort of fell flat. I dunno, maybe that's me.
Not just you, it totally fell flat for me too, kind of why I was routing for Laura to kill them both and get a way with it.

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If Lifetime is the channel for women, and the programming folks there think that's what most of us want to watch.... Ugh! The underlying themes were awful! Like Bex said, "sexually aggressive girls are crazy/criminals," and like Penny said, "stick with your own kind." :shakes head: Sad, sad, sad.
Very sad indeed.

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I found myself wanting to see more of Laura's inner life. I don't know much about true schizophrenia, but doesn't it have some serious physical, mental and emotional implications for the primary personality?
That was actually the biggest cheat in the ending. We don't know what happens to Laura. Does she ever come back? What about Louise? So many questions left unanswered and in it's place we get the himbo and the self-centered cop lady smooching.
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Old 02-14-2006, 11:25 AM   #49
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So over-all, is it worth trying to catch at all? I assume it will eventually make its way up here to Canada (it was shot in Montreal, and I think the production company has some sort of deal in place with the Canadian movie network), but it may not be for many months, so I'll have to actively make sure I'm keeping an eye out for it. Based on some of the comments, it doesn't seem like it will be worth the effort.
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Old 02-14-2006, 11:30 AM   #50
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It's not something I would watch again, However, if you're willing to watch something just for CC then yes.
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Old 02-14-2006, 11:31 AM   #51
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So over-all, is it worth trying to catch at all?
Ehhh, I'd go ahead and try to watch. CC looks gorgeous and gives a sympathetic performance. Just don't expect anything deep, because the writing ends up avoiding depth at every cost.

Be warned, though, the film's underlying OMG CLAS W0RF4REZ!!11! meme makes Veronica Mars look subtle by comparison. It's not pretty.
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Old 02-14-2006, 12:17 PM   #52
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One question. I remember that the articule announcing CC doing a Lifetime movie say it was based on a book (White Silhouette?) and that her character was a catbugglar called Samantha. (even at IMDB were posted both FWD and WS). So .... the articule was wrong? They didn't get the rights to use the book? Or is this was another different movie and the press mixed both projects? Because, maybe they're planning to do that movie later
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Val, that wasn't an article, that was someone on the board who'd found a book called Flirting With Danger at Amazon and thought the movie might be based on it. As it turns out, all they had in common was the title.

"White Silhouette" was listed at IMDB as an alternate title for the movie FWD.
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Old 02-14-2006, 12:34 PM   #54
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Val, that wasn't an article, that was someone on the board who'd found a book called Flirting With Danger at Amazon and thought the movie might be based on it. As it turns out, all they had in common was the title.

"White Silhouette" was listed at IMDB as an alternate title for the movie FWD.
Thanks, now I remember..... So no hope for CC as a catbuglar
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Old 02-14-2006, 12:40 PM   #55
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Also, did anyone else go "Aww" when he kissed her tummy? I got a total WitW flashback. ;-)
*raises hand* Serious flashback. *sniff*
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Old 02-14-2006, 12:49 PM   #56
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*raises hand* Serious flashback. *sniff*
I'm such a curmudgeonly old shipper, I went, "Hey! You can't do that! That's Angel's territory!" :sniff: Makes me sentimental and everything.

Platy, I'd recommend it just so you can say you've seen everything in CC's library. But like Penny said, don't expect much. It truly is a Chuck-Norris-film-for-chicks.
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Old 02-14-2006, 12:54 PM   #57
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If Lifetime is the channel for women, and the programming folks there think that's what most of us want to watch.... Ugh!
There's a lady at work who is addicted to the Lifetime/Oxygen movies. She watches them all, and says she totally loves them. So when I was stuck in the hospital for a month, I watched a few of them to see what all the hubbub was about. I must admit that they made me cry as well. Of course my crying was more from the pain of trying to gouge my own eyes out than any love for the films. No one should get enjoyment out of three Tori Spelling movies in a row.

I totally forgot that CC's movie was coming up, and from the sound of it, I'll just sit here and wait for the screencaps as opposed to catching the re run. It doesn't really sound like my cuppa tea.
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Old 02-14-2006, 02:18 PM   #58
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after viewing CC''s parts of the movie again, i have a few more things to say

damn, the woman has an ass, if she stood on her head, you could sit a glass on her butt cheeks. J-Lo has nothing on her, and that goes for the rest of her body, and her acting also

it was nice to see they used a couple of the same sex positions i used in my fanfic, (but i used so many positions, they would be hell-bent to not use a couple of them)

i would much rather see CC in a romantic comedy, a full comedy, or a real kick ass part, but over-all i was very happy with her performance.
she ranged from happy, to sexy. to angry, to crazy, and excelled at them all

but i want to see her as a snarky kick-ass woman, i wanted to SEE her as that cat burgler from the book

it sure is a let-down, all that waiting, and now with her 2 appearances on Veronica Mars being postponed, i have nothing to look forward to
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I'll watch anything CC is in but this was a pretty dopey flick.

She was Hot as always, but she needs to be in better fare.

I tolerated it but that came to an end when the southern accents came out.

As a southern good ol' boy, it's ALWAYS bad when non natives fake it.

Her effort was not offensive as most are, but it's NEVER a good idea.

Worst ever- DeNiro in "Cape Fear"

Anyway like they say any exposure is good exposure.

And like Freakface would say more skin exposure is always good

Also, I think she may be a bit more lean now in 'Veronica' than when this was shot. Thats great too, but no more, cause there needs to be less anorexic chicks in ALL flicks.
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Old 02-14-2006, 03:57 PM   #60
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Also, that guy? Was the stupidest. himbo. ever. Could he have been more "Lead Me Around By My Dick"? He's like the blond in the horror movie who gives her b/f a blow job and then goes down in the basement to see what the noise is.
And what's the lesson for our poor meat puppet? Apparently that he could have avoided all that nasty trouble if only he were better at taking direction from the strong (shrill, controlling) woman already in his life.

I guess the men in the audience are to absorb the received truth that "All women are control freaks so, aaahhh, better the control freak you know, or something."

Oh wait, men don't watch these movies, do they?

Aaaaaanyway. CC is A Good, and I'm looking forward to "Voodoo Moon" a lot more anyway. But I wanna see Charisma doing more comedy. Comedy is totally her business.
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