[.ca] Smokers (Widescreen/Full Screen)

A modern masterpiece!:
Not since "A Clockwork Orange" has a movie been so emotionally gripping...so memorable...so brilliant. I never thought I'd see another movie of that caliber ever to hit any screen ever again, but I was proved wrong. Along came...The Smokers. *pauses in awe* The other day, when I was at my local video store, I noticed a copy of this wonderous flick in the 99-cent bin. (Actually, several copies.) I looked at the cover. Three girls standing, trying to look threatening! I cried "MARVELOUS!" and applauded right then and there. I got funny looks from everyone in the store, but I didn't care. I bought it, took it home, and popped it in my DVD player. 5 minutes later...I had to shut it off, just to regain my senses. The grainy photography...the outlandish makeup...the glorification of weed...the stoned laughter...NO ONE HAS EVER PUT OUT SOMETHING AS BEAUTIFUL AND GENIUS AS THIS!!! After I got myself back together, I once again hit "Play". What a feast for the mind! This is to sight what Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" is to sound! And when I heard the brilliant line "And to all a good high!", I shut it off once again, ran outside to my porch, and proclaimed, "I, MR. BUCKLEY, HAVE JUST HEARD THE BEST LINE EVER USED IN A MOVIE!" and got funny looks from the neighbors. But that was okay. I went back in and hit "Play". Well, it was magnificent. The whole building burning down in the end was a stroke of brilliance. In case you don't understand, this whole movie was to lambaste politics as a whole...biting satire about the state of affairs the economy is in. And for that, it is genius. If you believed a word of that review, then please do me a favor and jump off of a tall building. And make sure to take this wretched, boring, mundane, nonsensical, idiotic piece of claptrap "movie" with you. Oh yeah, and go ahead and click the "Not Helpful" button.

couldn't make it through the whole movie...:
ick - just bad...too bad for words. stay far away from this, umm, I guess you could call it a movie. anymore effort in this review would be more time in my life I'll never get back.

Worst movie ever. Really.:
How a script this bad ever made it out of an introductory creative writing class is beyond me. I would love to meet the idiots who put this together. They must be rich. Terrible writing, directing, acting.

How did this movie ever make it to film???:
Bad acting, bad camera work, bad script, bad plot. Bad everything. My sister rented this movie because she wanted to see girls kicking guy's butts. Instead, it was so bad we all had a good laugh over it. The plot isn't in the least bit inspiring or powerful. Supposedly it's about girls taking back power from guys, when in fact they don't seem to have anything to gripe about. Two of them are virgins with no apparent reason to need to get back at guys. The one who isn't a virgin went out and did some older, rich, married jerk in his limo, then wonders why he wouldn't give her his number? Is this a good reason to feel "used" by the male sex? The rest of the movie is supposed to center around this, but this quickly gets pushed aside so that other minor and unimportant underlying plots can be developed. The typical nerd boy=nice boyfriend plot is overplayed. The butt kicking consists of one hilariously unbelievable rape scene before being pushed aside. Most of this movie was just not believable. From the rape of a guy (did they give him viagra or something?) to the twisted Russian Roulette scene. Like these girls would really do that? Come on. It gets worse. Even after feeling "used" by the married rich guy, the girl meets with him again. He rushes things and she (finally) decides she wants to get out of the situation. She screams for help, but the limo guy does nothing. She falls out of the limo, only to be raped on the hood of the limo, in front of the driver, in the middle of the street. Despite the fact that a rape scene should be powerful and have some kind of effect on the story, nothing comes of it. The wussy girl in the group sneaks off to have sex with some guy, then decides she doesn't like it and tells him to stop and hits him with her gun. That only turns him on (because what do you know... these guys like bondage!) and she shoots him in the neck, killing him instantly. She runs and hides the gun in their dorm, only to confess anyway. But no one believes her except one woman, and no one believes this woman either. So instead of the girl being caught, she is put on drugs. What? Then there is the fire scene. For some reason one of the girls decides to set off the smoke alarm. It's not mentioned why. One minute the girls are being interviewed one by one about the murder, the next they are setting off smoke alarms? But then she magically falls or something, sets a shower curtain on fire, and gets her dress stuck in something you never see. Instead of ripping it or taking the dress off to escape from the unnaturally quickly growing fire, her friend comes and saves her (also not shown how) only to be trapped when a flaming piece of the roof falls on her. She can't get out and burns to death. What? Not only that, but the firemen let the escaped girl's nerd boyfriend come in to the burning building with them? The firemen don't even rush to save this girl. Although honestly, I wouldn't save her either. Now we're supposed to be sad the girl died. Instead, you are left wondering what this has to do with anything. Normally, tragic deaths in movies have something to do with the plot or meaning of the story. Her death was played up as if it put a some kind of closure or moral on the movie. Instead you just wonder where the plot went. And in the end, the wussy girl marries unhappily and the other marries the nerd right after graduation. Way to be independent, gals. This movie doesn't even live up to a teen angst story. It completely misses the mark with whatever point it attempted to make. Don't bother.

A waste of time and rental money.:
It really was all that bad, except it really had nothing to do with feminism. Haha. The plot is weak, and the actors really horrible. Some of the scenes may make you want to shake a finger, because really, they mostly are just ***** teenage girls; but the majority I just recomend a sick bag. Yes it really was that bad.