100 Girls
100 Girls
R | 01 September 2000 (USA)
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Matthew, a college freshman, meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a blackout. He never sees her face, but instantly falls in love. In the morning, the power is restored, but the "dream girl" has vanished. All Matthew knows is that she lives in an all-girls dorm. He sets out on a semester-long journey to find his mystery girl among a hundred female suspects. Could it be Wendy? Dora? Arlene? Patty? Cynthia? Or the 95 other girls, any of whom could have been in that elevator with Matthew.

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The Grand Master

For some reason I hired this out on video and I know that I had made a big mistake after 10 minutes. I found this movie to be that uninteresting I decided to watch a majority of the movie on fast forward.What can I say about this movie? Like I said before, it was very uninteresting and I didn't care for it at all.I guess the main reason why I disliked this movie is because it was a chick's flick, and it wasn't something that appealed to me.Well you can't always judge a movie by it's cover.Not to worry, life goes on.Unless this type of movie appeals to you, you may like it.In the meantime, I am giving this the lowest rating possible.1/10.

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fred3f

I really enjoyed this movie but not because it was one of those great movies. You know what I mean by great movies? They speak to you on many levels, they bring you up and down in an emotional roller-coaster ride, they astound you with their displays of skill in direction, script, cinematography and acting, and they are innovative beyond belief. When you leave the theater, you think about them for days. Critics love them, professors explain them and students ponder over them. This is not one of those movies.Then there are other movies that are just enjoyable and make you feel good. They don't require a lot of attention to follow or figure out. You know where they are going but they have just enough of the unexpected to make the journey interesting. You know the hero/heroine will win out in the end, and you like that because that makes it safe to connect with the hero/heroine. When you leave the theater, you are happy because it is nice to think that life could be like that, and that things could work out.Some reviewers here have complained about plot holes and other things in the film. They miss the point. This is not a slice of life, a deep drama or complex comedy. It is a fantasy. If you are a guy, you can see yourself in Matt, and if you are female you see parts of yourself in the one or all of the 100 girls. The fact that some things are not probable only adds to the atmosphere fantasy in the film. After the first few minutes you already know that this is not real life. This is a myth about a boy and a girl. The boy is on a quest to find his love, and the girl is yearning presence shrouded in mystery waiting to be found. You know he will eventually find her; that he will go though improbable experiences which will test him and she will anguish over allowing herself to be discovered and revealed. We all have such quests, and such desires. You know that in the end he will win, and so will she and so will many of the other characters. It is an age old story that has been retold and retold for thousands of years, and it is one of mankind's most beloved stories. When it is over you feel happy and think that maybe things can be good for you too. That is a kind of magic that many "great movies" never achieve, but this one does. So if you see this movie, don't over-analyze it. Just go with it, and enjoy feeling good.

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solariumictv

Other comments have called this movie "intelligent" and claim that although our plucky lead is obviously too verbose to be believable, it's still a refreshing portrayal of the college-male psyche. Unfortunately, it takes a little more than a well-versed guy who has some strong opinions about men and women to forge a good romantic comedy.Either a rom-com is total fluff, in which men and women speak in bouncy blips of whitewashed cuteness, and everything predictably turns out OK ("The Holiday," "Because I Said So," or any other nonsense) OR it's the smarter kind, with men and women speaking like real men and women, and the relationship between them portrayed a little more real as well (i.e. "When Harry Met Sally" or "Knocked Up"). You have to pick one -- it can't be both ways. A movie in which young men sit around waxing sexuality needs a realistic plot to compliment its didactic "insights" into the real world of men and women, something like "Clerks" did. In this tripe, Matt's alleged brilliant perception is juxtaposed with an absurd, simplistic plot and the most one-dimensional stock characters since "Porky's." Are we supposed to take it seriously or not? The worst part is that while Matt's insight is totally subjective and problematic, it's presented as scripture with no one questioning it. At least when Randall runs his month with all of his crazy theories, Dante (and others) present discord. In this one, especially when so many of his opinions are presented as voice-over, there's no one to question it (i.e. he warns us early to always be wary of girls who don't wear makeup, and any guy who has a single female friend is left shaking his head in awe). We don't get any help from the female characters, who either smile and marvel at Matt's dogmatic spew (i.e. Wendy) or argue with him initially but then eventually come around (i.e. Arlene). He never grows or changes, and since his opinions are the only interesting thing about the movie (given that there's barely a plot), we're left feeling flat.I just can't deal with a movie whose writer apparently feels like the best way to endear us to his lead is to have Matt speak in a laundry list of angry-loner-guy sexist drivel and snarky "questions of life" like the ones that were floating around the internet circa 1998 (I was half expecting him to charm some girl by asking, "so, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"). Or maybe it'd be better to make us like him by having him sneak into girls' rooms under false auspices, dress up like a girl and lie to them, and never pay for either. Or maybe he should get all self-righteous and call his roommate sexist and then display exactly the same closed-mindedness that he condemns. Try not to be annoyed when he vents his anti-feminist "everyone is a sexist, guys and girls" idiocy in front of his demonized women's studies professor and ALL THE GIRLS IN THE CLASS immediately applaud him. Lucky Matt, the one guy who understands, lost somewhere in a mindless movie full of mindless girls.

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ell_wu

Teen comedies in general are pretty silly and stupid. Most of these movies know it and they don't even TRY to take themselves seriously.At least they're honest about it.100 Girls, on the other hand, tries to deliver "insight" into sexism and differences the sexes but really just goes out of it's way to show 2 hours of wishful thinking from the perspective of a "nice guy".Basically, this movie reduces men and women relationships down to such asinine levels it hurts. It first does so by reducing men down to 2 archtypes: Assholes and Nice Guys. Ron and Crick? Assholes, and both are just severely insecure with themselves. And of course, they're so unbelievably misogynist that by comparison, the main character's misogyny almost seems benign.But let's see what this kid does: He breaks into a women's dorm, invades half of their privacies, vandalizes half of the dorm facilities, and all this because he was looking for that one girl that he might or might not have met. Yeah, if that's not friggin' creepy stalker behavior, I don't know what is.And of course, all these women are just SWOONING over him. Not a single one finds him utterly creepy. Not one.OH yeah, and we have strawman of a professor, the feminazi of women's studies. Great. Another caricature born out of ignorance for the studies.ugh, at least American Pie had the decency not to include a goddamn manifesto in its dialogue.

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