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12 WESTERN CAROLINIAN GET A LIFE September 13, 2000 Movie Review 'The Watcher' — Not Worth Watching by Jenni Bartels Asst. Features Editor Here's the deal, folks. On one hand this movie sucked a big one. The plot was banal and predictable, the "psychological" angle was lame, not to mention VERY overdone, and the acting was poor. On the other hand, well... There is no other hand. That hand has been amputated and thrown to the wolves. The premise is a very basic, very typical approach to the stalker- thriller genre. A very pretty boy (Reeves) methodically stalks very pretty girls and kills them with piano wire (sounds like almost every urban legend I' ve ever heard). Piano wire? They could have been a LITTLE more creative. Our good guy has no life and no personality. All he does is get stoned, visit his psychiatrist, and chase after the skanky homicidal ruffian. I think Keanu Reeves ("The Matrix", "The Replacements") should publicly apologize to his fans for missing all of those acting classes. His trademark vacant ex pressions paid off to a point, what with his character being something of an emotionally disturbed nutcase, but otherwise he was dull and deadpan. Apparently, like so many other "polished" actors, Reeves decided photo courtesy Universal Pictures Smile and say "Stalker!" Keanu Reeves and his victim in "The Watcher." that he needed to take on a "more challenging role". In his case it meant not bathing for a month or two and wearing the same nappy looking black leather coat throughout the course of a downer film. His role as David Allen Griffin (apparently the writers are aware of that "three-name serial killer" cliche) was bland except for some dry humor sprinkled throughout this bummer of a flick. To his credit, however, he didn't say "Whoa!" once during the entire movie. I don't know if it was the slack ass writing job or Reeves, but his character didn't strike me as all that evil. He was more like the clown prince of homicide. He does all these goofy little dances (white-boy syndrome in full effect here), tells stupid jokes, and makes trite observations such as, "You're very pretty". He's a deep guy all right, and so incredibly eloquent to boot (insert eye roll here). And what can we say about Spader ("Sex, Lies, And Videotape", "Stargate")? James Spader's character, Joel Campbell, is a burnt out FBI agent from LA, escaping his past by moving to Chicago and joining a barbiturate-of-the-month club. He's a loser, to be quite honest. This attempt at the portrayal of a bleak man with a broken spirit could have been very intense, but it seemed that the writers wanted their audience to pity this man, and it just wasn't happening. Campbell is like the classic anti-hero of a Vonnegut novel. You just can't quite sympathize with or even like him all that much, yet you stay with him for reasons unknown. The difference between a Vonnegut novel and the script here is that the former has literary merit. The latter would make great toilet paper. Then there's Marisa Tomei ("My Cousin Vinny", "Four Rooms"), playing Polly, the only likable person in the whole movie. As a potential victim, she's the tro- The Watcher Directed by Joe Charbanic Starring: James Spader Keanu Reeves •* • ••••Sec it NOW • • • • Sec it relatively soon • • • Wait for the video • •Watch for it on USA • See it in Hell... Over and over agaii phy character, and the one the audience can justify transferring sympathy to. Oh yeah, and she's Campbell's shrink. Part one of trite movie psychology. Here's part two: Campbell and Griffin are JOINED. Ha, ha, ha. You see, according to Griffin, they aren't whole without one another. I guess it's that Jerry Maguire "You complete me" complex. All it really amounts to is an excuse for Griffin to start killing girls with piano wire again (we never find out WHY he ever did it to begin with). What struck me was how childlike Griffin was throughout the flick. He reminded me of a lonely little brother trying to get his older brother to play with him. The psycho-link between Mr. Good Guy and Mr. Bad Guy is their symbiotic relationship; they feed off of one another. While Campbell was in LA, Griffin gave his life purpose, and wallowed in the attention he was getting from Campbell. All in all, with its plot involving crimes against women, bad writing, ter- riblc direction, and crummy acting, I'm sure we can expect to see "The Watcher" on Lifetime within a year or two. Don't waste your money until then. Video Review We're Not Electing the Pope Here by Annie Sechrist Staff Writer Have you tried to watch television lately? After a thirty minute sitting, I counted nine campaign ads for persons running for elected office and only two mentioned anything about their own personal stands on issues. The clincher came from a candidate (who will remain nameless in order not to glorify his deeds) whose time slot is spent blasting another candidate for not running a clean campaign. He stresses this point by having a dump truck back over his own sign and then release the garbage. What symbolism. What guts. What a bunch of hypocrisy! Where did this all go wrong? Or maybe the easier question to answer should be where did the politician lose his way? In order to shed some light on the subject I decided to start at the beginning of most political careers and work forward. So I headed out to the video store to rent Election; which centers around an SGA race for president in an every day high school. It covered all the stereotypical candidates: the pretty-boy-rich-kid (Bush), the overachiever (Gore), and the person running just to spite all of them (Nader). And even in this race, you really don't hear much about what they stand for. The movie is really based on the subject matter of morals and ethics and the difference between the two. Irony must be hot in Hollywood these days. Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions) plays the role of Tracy Flick, the anal retentive go getter that makes you want to go and get a club and smack her upside the head with it. Remind you of anyone? Only this overachiever is annoying and stiff and no one likes her very much. The next nominee is a sweet but too bright Chris Klien (American Pie). Klien walks around the movie in a type of daze that reminds you of someone who is on coke, or at least experimented a little with it. Overall he seems pretty well intcn- tioned, but is so simple minded and easily influenced that his character comes across 4MIEHEW ftHCC -' i. * mu.wftm&coH indecisive. And even Witherspoon states in the movie, that without Daddy's money, Klien would be a nobody. The big wave maker is the final candi date, played by Jessica Campbell. Originally running to even up a score with her ex love, Campbell's character decides that her best approach in winning the election is full fledged anarchy. A bit flaky and definitely not a real contender in the race, Campbell is still able to throw out some of the best lines in the film. And yes, America, she is an avid supporter of marijuana (for movie purposes only). Overall, the movie didn't help much with clarifiying the problem with American politics today. There were only a few incidences of mud slinging and name calling, but manipulation and underhanded- ness were very prevalent, so that the corruptness was already in place long before they reached high school. Which leads me to agree with Matthew Broderick's sentiment in the movie when he says: "Some people will do anything to get to the top... and these are the people who are in the most need of being stopped." Besides, this was only a presidental election. We're not electing the Pope here.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2000-09-13
  - Date digitized: 2020-02-27
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
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