Reviews

If I hadn't known any better, I would have sworn this movie had been filmed in my own hometown.

Yes, it is very stereotypical, but then again, so are most high school students. (William's character looks very familiar . . .) Any more "deep thoughts" would have absolutely ruined the film, so the Angel Stripper scene and the scene where Mike gets advice on college women (although the latter was a tad untrue, in my experience).

I went through a whole range of emotions during Can't Hardly Wait, even if the characters didn't seem to. There were no dramatic (read: "changing"; not "sad") characters, but this was not meant to be a dramatic film. It was meant to be a nostalgic look at the graduation parties of the 90's, and that's exactly what it accomplished.

There were some incredibly hilarious moments that were very much worth watching.

I graduated from high school last year (1997), and I'm not ashamed to say I didn't mind seeing this film again and again.

This film is highly recommended to anyone who graduated from high school within the last five years. Anyone not in this category should leave this film alone; they just won't get the point.

This film is not for children.

This film is for the open-minded lover of all-things-abstract. Someone who wouldn't mind spending a whole Saturday in an art gallery, admiring Monet. If you are not one of these people, do NOT go to see "What Dreams May Come". You will be bored out of your skull, due to the lack of action, gunfire, explosions, etc.

This film is also for the person who has studied more than one form of religion, or at least is very open-minded to interpretation. Again, if you are not one of these people, do NOT go to see this film. You will be insulted that your version of Heaven and/or Hell was not the one portrayed.

This movie took a basic plot and ran away with it. I was stunned visually by the dazzling sfx, stunned emotionally by the brilliant character development, and stunned intellectually by the onslaught of new ideas, presented before me on a golden platter.

Personally, I LOVED this spectacular film. It has changed my life. I highly recommend it to anyone with an open mind and an open heart.

I love a good vampire flick; who doesn't? But this one left me cold. It was, in a nutshell, stupid.

It didn't live up to its promises of comedy or horror, but chose to give viewers a lukewarm serving of both.

This film is definitely NOT worth seeing. Watch the TV show instead.

If you watched TV cartoons AT ALL in the 80's, you'll LOVE Dexter's Lab! A genius who can solve world problems but can't solve the problems of being a kid whose big sister picks on him, Dexter is someone every adult can relate to (though children might find it difficult to "get" the jokes), and remember being as a kid.

Watch for the brilliant, sly references to MTV's "Real World", old-school 80's commercials and cartoon flashbacks (when action figures were REALLY action figures), and Japanimation.

I highly recommend this show to anyone over the age of 18 who grew up with a merciless older sibling and still remembers "how it used to be".

Most all of the critiques on this (far-too-easy-to-register-to) page have been eloquent and precise. Some of them haven't, but that's not the point.

James Cameron is a helluva writer/director/producer when it comes to action sequences. That's why the "sinking scenes" were so incredible, sfx-wise; but the audience was not allowed to care all that much about any characters but Jack and Rose.

The dialogue was cheesy, but I expected that. That's how people talked back then. I didn't expect it to remain that way for the entire three hours, though, and I certainly didn't expect Cameron to "modernize" Jack and Rose 's speech, while leaving everyone else's alone. But perhaps that was just from the cardboard-cutout way DiCaprio and Winslet spoke their lines.

James, shame on you. There were at least a half-dozen REAL tearjerking romances you could have used as your main story, but no. You HAD to go and insult all those people that died for nothing on Titanic and invent a romance of your own that was so totally FAKE, a five-year-old could have seen through it.

Then you added a few goofs of your own that will go down in history as the truth (see the Disney version of Pocahontas to know what I mean). You insulted heroes; men and women that gave their lives so that others might survive to tell the story, just to get a few onscreen laughs. Example: "We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen. Tell my wife in New York I did my best doing my duty" is one of the sweetest lines ever uttered (by Ben Guggenheim, for all you non-historical-buffs), yet you cut out the last line and then dared to put stupid words in a dead man's mouth: "But we will take a brandy, chap!"

Which I should have done before walking into the theatre.

I know Cameron is laughing all the way to the bank, but still: for the ridiculous budget this film received, he could have looked over his script JUST ONCE to remove all the obvious errors and blunders.

At the Oscars, Cameron made such a fuss about how much he cared for the deaths on the Titanic. What a crock. If he'd really cared (about anything but the stinking Oscar), he would have: 1. gotten decent actors for the parts of the two lovebirds instead of a couple of kids designed to draw preteen girls to the theatres in droves; and 2. removed the sex scenes from the film, as they had absolutely nothing to do with the Titanic tragedy and were put there for the sole purpose of making the people who fell asleep during the first hour-and-a-half wake up.

Oh, and someone get DiCaprio a dialogue coach.