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Fear
(1996)
Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) is a good girl with a nosy, controlling father who won't let her do anything fun. One day after school Nicole sneaks off with her friends Margo (Alyssa Milano) and Gary (Todd Caldecott) to a happening cafe for hardasses. While she's there a tall, dark, handsome stranger catches Nicole's eye. Someone gives them a flyer to a club party (rave? I dunno did they have those in the 90's?). Margo is set on going , but Nicole can't because she already has pre-planned family outing to go to.
A few hours before her family outing was supposed to happen, Nicole's dad, Steve (William Petersen) has to go to an emergency client meeting. So, Nicole decides to join Margo at the rave. At the rave a riot breaks out and the mysterious stranger she saw before saves her. After spending most of the night talking Nicole and the mysterious stranger, David (Mark Wahlberg), begin a wild, passionate romance. Their romance quickly becomes rocky when David sees Nicole hugging Gary and he beats the crap out of him and gives Nicole a black eye. David is desperate to get her back and he eventually convinces her to come back to him.
Worried that David isn't who he says he is, Steve does a background check on him and finds out he lied about his past. Steve demands that David stay away from his daughter, but it only brings the two closer together. Their passionate romance finally meets an untimely end when Nicole accidently witnesses David and Margo having sex. This time Nicole refused to hear him out and David will do absolutely anything to get her back, even kill.
You Learn Something New Everyday...
 When a fight starts in a club it's only natural to start a riot.
Kids who live in foster homes grow up to lead murderous lives.
Zing!
" Isn't this the car they stopped making 'cause it, I don't know, blows up or something?" -Nicole to David (this is only funny because my father-in-law bought the same car [a Corvair] and had a ton of trouble with it)
Survey SAYS...
I can't believe how utterly dated this movie looks and it was only made 9 years ago. Okay, I guess that was a while ago, but it doesn't seem like 1996 should look to dated. It must be all the baby doll dresses and short mini skirts that sit above the belly button.
Mark Wahlberg really didn't come across as a believable psycho. In the beginning of the movie when he's really soft spoken and loving towards Nicole, it was totally believable. That's the kind of guy he can pull off. Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon had really good chemistry. They were a very believable couple. Mark Wahlberg a hardcore gangster however? Not so much. When he gives himself a prison tattoo that says "Nicole 4 Eva" with a dart and an ink pen across his chest, I almost died laughing. What the hell dude, this guy was in foster homes, not juvie. By the way, is Wahlberg a natural Bostonian? He had the cheesiest Boston accent I've ever heard.
One of the few things that I didn't understand about this movie was if David was so in love with her and so obsessed with her (enough to prison tattoo himself with her name) why does he cheat on her with her friend? I mean, he has to be in love with her. He had her family photo, her undies, a bracelet that said "Daddy's Girl" and that he carved into "David's Girl", her pictures all over his wall, and a bunch of wedding stuff. I can accept that he's just a little bit crazy, but even if he's crazy you'd think he wouldn't screw up the relationship like that. It just doesn't really make any sense. If he just wanted to take her virginity and make her corrupt or whatever, you'd think he wouldn't really care enough to have all that stuff. If they had maybe put more into David's past, sehis movie would've been a lot better. Saying he's psycho because he was moved from foster home to foster home doesn't really cut it for me as a big past reveal. He should've had something crazy happen to him to make him like he is. It would've made the movie more involving and less like "Meet innocent Nicole. Meet the big bad wolf David. Watch David be big, bad, and wolf-like and corrupt innocent Nicole." Another thing that totally flew over my head was what David and his friends did to make money. It was some dog courier service? There's one scene where Nicole calls David and they're driving somewhere and he's got a dog in his arms and another scene where some guys go to their house and said they were referred there for some dogs. My only guess is that the dogs were used for drug smuggling? It's not like they boy-o's were breeders or anything.
On a side note, Alyssa Milano proved that her acting skills limit her to being completely slutty. Besides Charmed, name one movie where she isn't half naked or slutting around. Although, you have to give Reese Witherspoon a hand. She's never done a slutty movie scene. The sex scene in Fear didn't even have one slip of the nip. Kudos, Mrs. Witherspoon, kudos.
All in all, Fear wasn't a bad movie at all. 80% of it is really good and totally believable, but the last twenty minutes or so are kind of stupid. None of it really makes any sense. If her dad believes that David is a psychopath, why would he go to his house and destroy all their things. You think a psychopath is going to be like "Wow, that sucks. Maybe he means it when he says not to sleep with his daughter." No, he's going to get all his goober “gang banging” friends to storm their house Idiot. Anyway, it's a good movie to watch for fun. If you like...90's clothing, girls getting fingered on rollercoasters, chest beating, flesh drilling, prison tattoos, Bush's Machine Head on repeat, and peace pipe stabbings, then this is the flick for you. As for us...we give Fear
That Wasn't so Bad Was It?
I was left Feeling: A-Ok
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