This is a must watch movie. I just ordered it on demand, and watched it. I want to buy it as soon as possible! It's so freakin great. It's now my favorite movie. http://hardcandymovie.com/
It's okay, sorry no.. actually, it's good, but it's not amazing. Thought the ending was a total disappointment in fact. Brilliant acting though.
omg i just seen this last night!!! i thought it was great. that young girl gave i think one of the best performances ive ever seen
Hard Candy Ellen Page was brilliant!! Perhaps the most brilliant performance I've ever seen from a young Teenager. She had me totally believing in her character, even after her radical 'about-face. If the ending was a little disapointing, I think it was because the writer needed a motive, and it was Ellen Page's motive that was disapointing and weak. I think it would have been more realistic if the writer had simply expanded the film's pervasive 'Orwellian anti-sex league' morality subplot into Ellen's true motive instead of grasping for a more 'politically-correct' motive.
Ellen Page made Hard Candy watchable. If she wouldn't have been so strong and convincing, I don't think the film would have held my interest. To see the roots of Ellen Page's career, check out a Canadian show called "Trailer Park Boys." It's on DVD, and it's kind of the other side of Reno 911.
i thought it was pretty good. not my favorite. not the ending i wanted. the last half hour wasnt great. what i did like about it is that it was nothing that i expected. the preview for this film gave me a completely different impression. B+
Wow...just watched it. Very convincing acting by both leads, and a novel storyline, combined with above average pacing and suspense, but with a less than satisfying ending. Overall, worth a rent. Carpe omnious, indeed...
We rented it a couple of nights ago, it was a great movie. I loved the acting in it, it was increadible. Like everyone else I felt a little disappointed by the ending. "THAT ONE PART" and I think everyone here knows that I'm talking about made my jaw drop a little bit. I have never seen anything like that in a movie.
I like the ending, I don't see what was the problem with that. the question that remains is.. do you think the rope was short enough to break the neck or was it long and the guy hit the floor. I love the ambiguity of the movie, I think the rope was long and the guy lived... why? because Ellen Page's character knew how ashamed of who he was, was he... and that a greater punishment would be for him to live with the one person that he cares about knowing who he really is. The whole movie was a mind game, I love mind games. I do think it was a great job by the actors they carried the whole movie, it was full of tension and the director's job was excellent too.
A friend and i hired it out thinking it would be a awesome horror, how wrong we were but i still thought it was a great movie and the girl gave a excellent performance
It was a good movie, but I woudn't say I was blown away by it... I've read somewhere that male and female reactions to the movie have tended to differ slighty, which is an interesting point... There is that underlying uncomfortable feeling throughout the film, whether that's due to the subject matter, or the performances of the respective actors, I can't quite fathom quite yet. Maybe needs a repeat viewing...
Wow, I never thought of it that way. All this time I was thinking she just wanted him dead and his girlfriend finding out about his pedo stash. Indeed, it would be worse for him if he lived, and now that you mentioned it, she did seem like she was fooling Jeff into thinking that he would be better off dead by marketing it to him as an 'escape'. So many questions...but the one question I've been thinking about since I saw this movie is which one of them should we sympathize with? Hayley turned out to be one hell of a psycho, but are her actions just? Jeff is a flaming pedophile but at the mercy of Hayley, should we feel sorry for him?
