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Sometimes You Have To Help People In Spite of Themselves!
Munch-tastic!
I loved it!

Mom & Daughter
Great jobs done by Hewitt & Hessman.
Wonderful!

Mom & Daughter
Great jobs done by Hewitt & Hessman.
Wonderful!

a feel good party moviefavorite line
Kenny Fisher(Seth Green)- are you crying.oh no baby please!, you are far to fine to look so sad.
Can't Get Enough Of This Movie!
Can't Hardly WaitCo-written and co-directed by a pair of newcomers, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was titled "The Party" up until about a month ago) is essentially a shameless rip-off of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," an insightful period piece set in 1976 about suburban Texas teens carousing on the last day of school.
There are also bits and pieces here from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "American Graffiti," "Animal House," "16 Candles" and even the ancient "Bye Bye Birdie," but most of the ideas come from Linklater's movie.
We get the "Bye Bye Birdie" connection right off when Elfont and Kaplan stage a non-singing variation on "The Telephone Hour" from that film, in which one teen gossips to another, spreading the word that the graduating class' golden couple, Top Jock Mike (Peter Facinelli) and Homecoming Queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), have broken up. Mike is going off to college and now has no time for high school girls.
This leaves the field open for Preston (Ethan Embry), an introverted, brainy kid who has nursed a crush on Amanda for four years and now plans to take action. Interwoven throughout the all-nighter are several missed encounters between Amanda and Preston, as well as subplots about a white kid who thinks he's African American (Seth Green), a geek (Charlie Korsmo) and his two sycophants (characters who are direct steals from "16 Candles") and the class cynic (Lauren Ambrose), the only intelligent person on hand, whose favorite quote is Oscar Wilde's "A true friend stabs you in the front."
Actually, the young cast works wonders with this material. There really isn't a bad performance here, with Embry, Ambrose and especially Hewitt turning in impressively self-composed work. The filmmakers tease us with Hewitt's character, at first only showing her in bits and pieces (sort of like Godzilla in its movie). But once Hewitt gets her first movie-star close-up, the audience went wild and applauded as if she were the Meryl Streep of Teen Trash.
Hewitt is a sweet, pleasing presence who almost redeems the junkiness of the movie surrounding her.
There are also cameos by TV's Jenna Elfman ("Dharma and Greg") as an erotic dancer and Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), who's funny as "The Yearbook Girl," a dweeb intent on getting as many autographs in her yearbook as possible. And Jerry O'Connell ("Scream 2") pops up as a former high-school prince who has gone to pot.
He's playing the role that Matthew McConaughey nailed so perfectly in "Dazed and Confused," a film also noted for early screen appearances by Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Rene Zellweger, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Jason London and Joey Lauren Adams. You might want to check it out. It achieves what "Can't Hardly Wait" only timidly hints at -- the giddy class structure among teenagers.
It also makes partying look like a lot more fun.


a feel good party moviefavorite line
Kenny Fisher(Seth Green)- are you crying.oh no baby please!, you are far to fine to look so sad.
Can't Get Enough Of This Movie!
Can't Hardly WaitCo-written and co-directed by a pair of newcomers, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was titled "The Party" up until about a month ago) is essentially a shameless rip-off of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," an insightful period piece set in 1976 about suburban Texas teens carousing on the last day of school.
There are also bits and pieces here from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "American Graffiti," "Animal House," "16 Candles" and even the ancient "Bye Bye Birdie," but most of the ideas come from Linklater's movie.
We get the "Bye Bye Birdie" connection right off when Elfont and Kaplan stage a non-singing variation on "The Telephone Hour" from that film, in which one teen gossips to another, spreading the word that the graduating class' golden couple, Top Jock Mike (Peter Facinelli) and Homecoming Queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), have broken up. Mike is going off to college and now has no time for high school girls.
This leaves the field open for Preston (Ethan Embry), an introverted, brainy kid who has nursed a crush on Amanda for four years and now plans to take action. Interwoven throughout the all-nighter are several missed encounters between Amanda and Preston, as well as subplots about a white kid who thinks he's African American (Seth Green), a geek (Charlie Korsmo) and his two sycophants (characters who are direct steals from "16 Candles") and the class cynic (Lauren Ambrose), the only intelligent person on hand, whose favorite quote is Oscar Wilde's "A true friend stabs you in the front."
Actually, the young cast works wonders with this material. There really isn't a bad performance here, with Embry, Ambrose and especially Hewitt turning in impressively self-composed work. The filmmakers tease us with Hewitt's character, at first only showing her in bits and pieces (sort of like Godzilla in its movie). But once Hewitt gets her first movie-star close-up, the audience went wild and applauded as if she were the Meryl Streep of Teen Trash.
Hewitt is a sweet, pleasing presence who almost redeems the junkiness of the movie surrounding her.
There are also cameos by TV's Jenna Elfman ("Dharma and Greg") as an erotic dancer and Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), who's funny as "The Yearbook Girl," a dweeb intent on getting as many autographs in her yearbook as possible. And Jerry O'Connell ("Scream 2") pops up as a former high-school prince who has gone to pot.
He's playing the role that Matthew McConaughey nailed so perfectly in "Dazed and Confused," a film also noted for early screen appearances by Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Rene Zellweger, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Jason London and Joey Lauren Adams. You might want to check it out. It achieves what "Can't Hardly Wait" only timidly hints at -- the giddy class structure among teenagers.
It also makes partying look like a lot more fun.


At least she was in this one!!
A teenagers must-see!!!
Predictable, silly but immense fun

Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre bookSo, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.
IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.
Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.
Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.
I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movieI know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...
A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.
I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.
A Good Scary TimeAfter a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.


Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre bookSo, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.
IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.
Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.
Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.
I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movieI know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...
A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.
I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.
A Good Scary TimeAfter a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.


Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre bookSo, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.
IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.
Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.
Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.
I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movieI know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...
A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.
I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.
A Good Scary TimeAfter a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.

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