i never understood what the clich ?
" hell on earth " truly meant until very recently .
i 've just never experienced anything in my life which was
so terrifying , so horrible , so monstrously deplorable that it justified being termed as " hell on earth " .
after all , i 've never been to war , i 've never been the victim of any violent crime , i 've never really been broken hearted , and i 've never been audited ; so i really had no frame of reference as to people meant when they said that something was " hell on earth
" then i saw cruel intentions .
in a perfect world , i would be in charge of all the movie studios .
the very first thing i 'd do in this perfect world , would be to take every hollywood producer who thinks that setting any story in contemporary america with a 20-something cast playing teenagers and featuring a soundtrack ripped directly from mtv , and throw them in jail .
but it would n't just be your average jail , not even a maximum security installation .
i 'd have these producers ( and everyone else involved in the production of these films ) put in front of a war crimes tribunal and forced to beg for mercy for their crimes against humanity .
now you 're probably thinking to yourself : " is this really how bad cruel intentions is ?
"
the answer is no .
it 's actually much worse .
watching the cast of this motion picture atrocity try to act their way through roger kumble 's awfully written script is probably a lot like stabbing yourself in the arm with a chainsaw and then pouring salt on the open wound .
and then pouring acid on the salt .
i do n't know if kumble was trying to evoke comedy or tragedy out of his opening scene where marci greenbaum ( tara reid ) whines about having nude photos of her posted on the internet , but the only emotion i felt was sheer boredom
.
from that opening scene , where boring actor ryan phillippe tries to seduce tv actress swoosie kurtz , to the conclusion which i do n't remember because i had practically fallen asleep ; cruel intentions is truly " hell on earth , " right up there with war and tax audits .
is truly " hell on earth , " right up there with war and tax audits the only emotion i felt was sheer boredom who thinks that setting any story in contemporary america with a 20-something cast playing teenagers and featuring a soundtrack ripped directly from mtv , and throw them in jail i 'd have these producers ( and everyone else involved in the production of these films ) put in front of a war crimes tribunal and forced to beg for mercy for their crimes against humanity i had practically fallen asleep this motion picture atrocity try to act their way through roger kumble 's awfully written script is probably a lot like stabbing yourself in the arm with a chainsaw and then pouring salt on the open wound . and then pouring acid on the salt i never understood what the clich ? " hell on earth " truly meant until very recently it 's actually much worse boring actor so terrifying , so horrible , so monstrously deplorable that it justified being termed as " hell on earth "