[REVIEW] Crush

So I know somehow my review on A Crazy Little Thing Called Love blew this blog up, and that's fine, but I haven't really been writing any movie reviews in a while, so sorry if you've been reading this blog expecting my snarky comments on mediocre movies. I've watched alot, but never bothered to write (let's face it, uni lyf is tiring as hell and I've got more things to worry about than how great someone's acting is). But since I watched this somehow indie mediocre movie called Crush today I felt like I just had to bring back this review thing. Spoilers ahead peeps!

I kinda really ceebs you all

So anyway, while ACLTCL is about a loser girl's huge kinda creepy crush on a handsome guy then in the end we find that he actually likes her back and they skip to rainbowponyland or whatever; Crush is of a different caliber of cliche. This movie deals with a loser girl's huge kinda creepy crush on a handsome guy then in the end she tries to kill him. I mean come on, I know Lucas Till is hot and all but do movie writers really have no more fresh plot ideas?

So anyway, this quiet, withdrawn and mysterious girl called Beth (forgive me, it's actually Bess but who cares) moves to town and she luuuuubs dis super hot popular jock dude called Scott Norris (NORRIS??)  from her school. She collects the stuff he has used and leaves him secret admirer notes in his locker. But oh dear dis super hot dude has a equally-as-hot best-friend with benefits/gf called Jules! Oh noes! She asks her co-worker Andie for some advice and Andie's like lol dw I've done weird shit back in my HS days (it's ok errbody so have I) so leave me alone while me and my boss David flirt with eachother. So then it's implied that Bess actually does all these weird things like putting her English teacher in a coma because Scott borrowed a book from her and trying to smother Jules because well duh. So Scott goes up to her and confronts her telling her to leave him alone and she's a freak. Meanwhile this loser guy called Jeffrey also creepily stalks Bess because somehow it's acceptable to make losers like losers and hot people like hot people.

Ye I'm actually da creep. Didn't see that one comin' did ya?

But wait! A wild plot twist appears! Turns out ANDIE is actually the borderline-homicidal freak with a huge crush on Scott! OMG! So the part with Andie saying how she's super creepy before all makes sense! She's also a gigantic pedobear! So she brutally murders David and then locks Scott up in her basement (cliche detector over 9000). But coincidentally Bess comes to Andie's house to save Scott and Jeffrey then comes to stalk save Bess. In the end Bess gets together with Jeffrey and Scott gets back together with Jules.

Ok, so I have many problems with this movie. But let me say the positive things first. The movie did relatively well with its handling of suspense. I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. I gotta thank the soundtrack (though it feels like every horror movie has the same music) and camera angles (those stalker shots are overused but suspenseful as hell) for this.The plot was also kinda original, and I say kinda because plots like this are really just too overused. Also Lucas Till is hot, nuff said. The girl playing Jules also plays Aurora from OUAT so that's bonus points.

Sorry I'm so hot.

Onto the long barrage of problems. Firstly, Bess is freaking pretty. What's with movies making the loser girl all pretty and stuff? And the stereotyping. Why does Bess end up with Jeffrey and Scott with Jules? Because losers belong with losers? That's just stupid. And also whats with the whole "draw me like you draw her" thing? The fact that Scott is a brooding artist is never really implied so the whole thing came off as abit random to me. Nevertheless it's true what they say about this movie: a cheap suspensy horror film designed for bored teenagers.

So in conclusion: If someone has a crush on you, you should DEFINITELY check to see if they're a crazy yandere killer first. Otherwise be prepared to get locked up in a dark basement!