Body Shots
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In Theaters : 1999
DVD Release : 01 June, 2004 |
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Body Shots Customer Reviews
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So very, very bad.
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Body Shots (Michael Cristofer, 1999)
This refrain is getting old, so I'm pretty sure you can sing it with me now: this could've been a good movie, but...
Well, okay, I'm not entirely sure this could ever have been a good movie. We'll probably never know, given that the twisted, uncomfortable mess that we got is probably not on anyone's remake slate in the foreseeable future. Nor should it be. While the main story seems to revolve around the question of whether a famous football player (Jerry O'Connell, whose post-Sliders career has just kept going farther and farther down the tubes) raped a party girl (Tara Reid, whose career has never gotten out of those same tubes), the story is no more than a sidelight in the examinations of the lives of eight people whose relationships with one another come to be defined by the alleged event. And it's here that the nugget of that potentially decent film resides; who cares about the plot when you've got interesting characters? And to their credit, Cristofer and screenwriter David McKenna (American History X) do try to make the characters interesting. I have little doubt, actually, that they are interesting, at least to [...] twelve-year-old boys. To anyone out of adolescence, however, they're likely to be boring. There's a minor point of debate to be had as to whether McKenna meant to show these characters as juvenile and emotionally stunted, but there's no evidence that McKenna doesn't see them as mature adults, and it's that evidence that would have gone partway towards making them worthwhile.
But I'm spending far too much time talking about this movie, when I could be doing something more productive. Like reviewing a better movie. Or poking myself in the eye with a sharp stick. Either would be preferable to thinking about this horrible mess of celluloid ever again. * for Ron Livingston's character, the only bright spot in this pathetic movie despite being the stereotype of all stereotypes.
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