Heathers 1989
Written: Oct 23 '03
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| susidee34's Full Review: Heathers |
Well, yeah, but, for sure, narly, FINISHED – that’s the best thing I can say about this movie.
Certainly there had to be some social comment deemed from this movie but I’ll be kicked in the fanny if I can figure it out. Stay away from psycho guys in school? Watch out for the new guy in the lunchroom that pulls a gun on you – and shoots it? It’s ever so endearing to join the brain dead girl group that has three members named Heather and one named Veronica? Some one please clue me in.
Heather #1 is just plain nasty, spiteful and mean. Heather the cheerleader is NOT a leader but a follower and ends up trying to play the lost little girl. Heather Duke, the only one with a last name apparently, will do anything required to remain in the ‘in crowd’. That leaves Veronica, school brain child that lives on the perimeter of the group, has former friends that definitely aren’t IN (like Betty, had to chuckle on the Veronica & Betty reference), and really, she wants to be there but doesn’t want to do what is expected of a HEATHER.
As she drools over the new stud muffin in school, J.D., she catches some flack from her Heathermates, but then again they are only interested in college boys or the football team. You know the type. Turns out old J.D. is a bit of an enigma himself. His first day in the lunchroom catches him watching the Heathers as they Heatherize the current laughing stock at school, Martha ‘Dumptruck’ Dunnstock. This is right before he pulls a gun out of his pants and shoots the two jocks giving him a rough time. Sure, it was only blanks. ONLY BLANKS? And they didn’t even expel the creep.
And we wonder where the kids get ideas to haul a gun off to school and wipe out the kids that ruffle their feathers. WHY WASN’T THIS MOVIE PULLED AFTER THE ONSET OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS? [OOPS …… sorry, the soapbox tripped me up a minute]
Without further comment from me about the IDEA of the story, I’ll continue on the analysis of the script and acting. The key players are Winona Ryder as Veronica, Christian Slater as JD, Shannen Doherty as Heather Duke and two blonde bimbos as the other Heathers.
Some refer to this as a dark comedy, or black comedy. I personally didn’t see it as humorous but that’s me. Slater was a high point in the movie because I don’t think he took one iota of it seriously. However Ryder was her usual do-nothing self, the part wasn’t nearly as good as the one in Beetlejuice if that gives you the slightest hint. Shannen Doherty is just a completely incompetent actress, in fact you can’t even call her an actress. The Heathers, Lisanne Falk and Kim Walker were justifiably killed in the movie.
In its defense, the movie was crisply shot with good continuity. Camera angels were clear, vocalization was good, scenery was decent. The jabs and curt one liners offered by the group of kids was certainly well done, I believe I’ve heard some of these comments in the halls myself.
Directed by Michael Lehmann and written by Daniel Waters, Heathers would obviously appeal to the crowd that flocks to Goldmember, Stripes, Van Wilder, etc. It won the Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Award for best motion picture and the Independent Spirit Award for best first picture. The most common thread of music through the movie was Teenage Suicide, Don’t Do It by Big Fun.
The DVD also carried the ‘making-of’ featurette and interviews. I didn’t bother with either one.
I was highly disappointed in this movie and the social significance of it.
Thanks,
Susi
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