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[andrewducker]

Just added this one to the archive. Ooh, I got to use the word apposite!

It's amazing how much the context of a film changes its impact. I loved Fight Club because I knew almost nothing about it before I walked into the cinema, I felt let down by The Matrix because so many people had told me it was intelligent and deep, I was put off U-571 by knowing that it was factually inaccurate and I can happily say that watching Trainspotting with your parents makes it feel like a whole different film...

I'd seen Gingersnaps a year or so ago, and it came across as a fun, smart horror flick. Nothing hugely special, but definitely better than the huge number of churned out slasher movies. Watching it with a couple of girls, however, definitely moved it up the scale a several notches.

Scenes which were merely background to me assumed new significance when they obviously resonated with the girls. The whole menstruation/puberty/transformation/lycanthropy metaphor seemed much more apposite and the whole mood of the film clicked into focus far better than when I watched it with an all male audience.

So, if you fancy seeing a darkly humorous take on the werewolf genre, where a young woman is cursed to an obsession with blood, strange physical changes, unexpected hair growth and mood swings that go just a little further than most, I recommend you pick this one up. Especially if you have someone female to watch it with.

Score: 6.5, 8 if watching it in female company.

ObQuote:
Brigitte: Are you *sure* it's just cramps?
Ginger: Just so you know, the words 'just' and 'cramps', they don't go together.
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Ginger: "No-one ever thinks chicks do shit like this. A girl can only be a slut, bitch, tease or the virgin next door. We'll just coast on how the world works."

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

I hated that movie. Not just because the references to femaledom felt shallow, but because it was *incredibly* predictable.

It was like 'She's All That'. The message is: Don't be true to yourself - instead, get a makeover and boys will love you for you you rally are, sort of.

It was clumsy. I was sorely disapointed. But coped. =)

Trivia

[(Anonymous)]

The creepy rat-faced younger sister, who was Beverly Marsh in the 'IT' miniseries, is apparantly 25.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a pretty good film totally let down by the rubber monster at the end. They should have stopped when she was at the cool maned toothed, clawed but still human shaped stage as that looked good and scary and way more realistic.

I'm suprised that you didn't mention the awfulness of the rubber monster.

"The whole menstruation/puberty/transformation/lycanthropy metaphor " is so obvious, not to say almost cliched that I'm surpised it took you watching it with women to get into it. I mean it's not like you haven't hung around with a lot of women.

There's nothing worse than some guy wondering if you are chewing his head off cos of PMT (nope) or just cos you are a bad tempered bitch (yup) or just cos he's done something idiotic (maybe).

I've got the right colour of hair though - undyed, as it is right now, it is a rather cool wolf-pelt-like silvery grey :-)