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All in all I nuch prefer DL but I agree with some posters that DL's weak point is death of Madame de Tourvel. But the performances of DL is miles ahead of CI plus the incredibly fine filming of DL puts it well ahead of CI as a cinematic experience.

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Hampton: Respect, esteem, sophistication, subtlety and depth.
Kumble: Trash, sexploitation, superficiality and desecration.
come ondon't hold backhow do you
really
feel?.
FTR: I concur.but for the saliva-bridge-kiss between SMG and Selma Blair, "Cruel Intentions" is a point piece of filmmaking.
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I don't want to be rudebut what are we discussing this for? Cruel Intentions is frothy, forgettable crap. It's something you watch on a Sunday afternoon because nothing else is on the television. Dangerous Liaisons is truly excellent; it is also based on the book "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Everything that happens in DL, pretty much happened in the book, including Tourvel's death.

Me too! I was just about to say that while I love DL (cannot stand CI) I just love Valmont. Colin Firth looks so good in period pieces.

// Reese Witherspoon's character being alive and one upping Catherine was just annoying and cliqued. //
I hated that part. So very Hollywood. That's why I liked DL - the ending, while melodramatic, was a little more closer to what would have happened in real life. There were no happy survivors.

I believe DL is LEAUGES better than CI though the latter is still pretty good. The end of CL is complete BS, I d it. Sebastian's was random and Reese Witherspoon's character being alive and one upping Catherine was just annoying and cliqued.
King Arthur: One, two, five!
Sir Galahad: Three sir!
King Arthur: THREE!

Ummmmy little sister who is a junior in high school much prefers DL to CI. Actually, she considers CI 'a mediocre teeny-bopper' movie in her own words. It really all depends on a person's tastes. Not all young people like the same things you do. You shouldn't assume that just because you like something that every other person your age will like it too. And I was in college when CI came out. I was not that much older than the characters, but I still preferred DL too. But then, I love period pieces like DL and Sense and Sensibility.

"Only an American would find Cruel Intentions better. Fact." by gben
What a stupid prejudice!
I was the one who started this board in the first place, and I'm brazilian

Only an American would find Cruel Intentions better. Fact.

OBVIOUSLYthe yougner generation would find CI better because we were bought up around itNow i actually haven't seen DLbut knowing me. I wopuld still like cI much betterI'm only 15and i jsut boguth CI cos i heard it was goodand i loved it.My mum has seen DL.we each want to see the other movieit's quiet funny actually But older generations would appreciate DL because it's was made for that age group.but then there are some others who love different ones.
I'm only saying all of this out of experience

Cruel Intentions is good but Dangerous Liasons has the edge. Glenn Close is far superior to Sarah Michelle Gellar, plus their motivations are different. In Cruel Intentions its just a game for Kathryn while for Isabelle de Merteuil it is her method of survival.
Wild! I was absolutely Livid!

Cruel Intentions was the high school version of the story. While Ryann Phillipe had some good moments and there was some fun nudity it was still a pre-pubescent-arent we naughty-version of the story. Sarah Michelle Gellar can only hope one day to be as good an actress as Glenn Close (or even Annette Benning in VALMONT). Gellar in CI is so totally amateurish that it is almost funny. Sure she is a striking looking young woman (even if a little chipmunk cheeked and nose-jobbed)but she cant begin to compare in acting chops to those who have preceeded her in the part.
Its still a fun movie to watch on certain levels but it cant compare in performace or story quality to DANGEROUS LIASONS.

My favourite version of the story is Valmont!
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. Mmmmm, Colin Firth!
But both DL and CI are good.

Of course, Glenn Close isn't Playboy's "Bunny of the month". The less you do'nt want to have John Malkovich plasterers next to yours. They still pretend to be attractive. That's why they're actors.

She is a women of a certain age wich is high desitd and respected in french culture. She is at her peak. look at eht eFirst lady of france or denuave(sp) or any of the other french greats, they were not anororexic 15 yr olds

I happen to think most of the men found her attractive because she was a very very rich widow during political and economic hard times (the brink of the French revolution). She would have been a good sugar mama.
Also, it looks to me that the casting directors were looking through paintings and other artwork of the period, as well as acting ability when casting the Marquise de Merteuil. Glenn Close looks like what 18th century Europe considered beautiful a woman with long cheeks on the plump side, a small mouth, a rounded forehead and chin, and a long straight nose (the more aquiline, the better). Nowadays, we'd put that 18th century beauty on the lemonade diet, get her cheeks liposuctioned and stuffed with fake knife-hilt cheekbones, inject her lips with collagen, put her through jaw surgery to straighten her chin, and whittle her nose to a third of its original sizeunless it was truly aquiline, then it would be a fourth!

Although I much prefer DL, I'm happy I first saw CI. That being said, CI doesn't hold a candle to DL

off course it's politcally correct to like the original "tradtionally accepted as better" verson and not the "commercial" Hollywood" version cuz dangerous liasons was not commercial at ALL!!!
thats sarcasm
Cruel Intentions IMO had its merits but u have to give Dangerous Liasons its due. It WAS the reason why cruel intentions had soo much of its satrical dark humor. I personally like both, but i like CI more.
They don't send people like me to hell. I'd end up running the place."

I, being he youngin' that I am, saw Cruel Intentions and at the time I thought it was the best thing since slicwed bread, but then I saw Dangerous Liasons and I was blown away. I love Glenn Close's performance and It's definetly one of my favorite films ever.

I enjoyed bothbut I prefer DL
Cruel Intentions is the poppy fun light version while DL is darker, and for the more mature audience.
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I think they both give great performances. I find Gellar completley believeable, I know girls liek her (although obviously not to that extreme). Her use of eye rolls and mutterances under her breath give her that extra human dimension and make us realise that although highly intelligent, she is still just a teenage girl, playing at being a woman.