With The Crush, Alicia Silverstone came on the scene with real star power, able to sell herself as the cute girl next door, the vamp, and the ugly sociopath. Between this and Clueless, she should have had many more prospects, but her star seems to have shone rather briefly. Now, I'm not gonna try to sell you The Crush as anything other than 90s trash, one of many thrillers about dangerously obsessive women to come in the wake of Fatal Attraction, BUT having not seen it since it came out, I can at least say it's memorable. I remembered a lot of moments from the movie - the wasps, Silverstone's seductions - but it still held nutty surprises like the carousel in the attic, and look, Tara from Buffy as the long-suffering best friend. I really wish they'd made more of the irony that Elwes' character works for a scandal magazine given what happens to him, but it's just not that kind of movie. The Crush still goes the extra mile by being relentlessly weird, and what one viewer could term stupid and unbelievable (I mean beyond Cary Elwes' terrible American accent), I would claim is the reason the movie is enjoyable. It also needs to be. It's what reminds us it's a crazy genre movie, not reality. As we much, today, acknowledge the role of pieces like this in the promotion of the toxic narrative about "false accusations".
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Cary Elwes' American accent is so awful.Siskoid
With The Crush, Alicia Silverstone came on the scene with real star power, able to sell herself as the cute girl next door, the vamp, and the ugly sociopath. Between this and Clueless, she should have had many more prospects, but her star seems to have shone rather briefly. Now, I'm not gonna try to sell you The Crush as anything other than 90s trash, one of many thrillers about dangerously obsessive women to come in the wake of Fatal Attraction, BUT having not seen it since it came out, I can at least say it's memorable. I remembered a lot of moments from the movie - the wasps, Silverstone's seductions - but it still held nutty surprises like the carousel in the attic, and look, Tara from Buffy as the long-suffering best friend. I really wish they'd made more of the irony that Elwes' character works for a scandal magazine given what happens to him, but it's just not that kind of movie. The Crush still goes the extra mile by being relentlessly weird, and what one viewer could term stupid and unbelievable (I mean beyond Cary Elwes' terrible American accent), I would claim is the reason the movie is enjoyable. It also needs to be. It's what reminds us it's a crazy genre movie, not reality. As we much, today, acknowledge the role of pieces like this in the promotion of the toxic narrative about "false accusations".