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Disturbing Behavior(1998)

post #1 of 11
9/4/10 at 2:17am
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"Meet the musical little creatures that hide among the flowers!"


Bruce Greenwood as a mad scientist. William Sadler as a hermit janitor who acts crazy so he can keep an eye on things. Katie Holmes was never hotter.

What's not to love?

Every time its on TV, I watch until the end or DVR it for later. It's a nice update of the Stepford Wives idea and has no illusions of being anything other than a pulpy B-Movie paranoid thriller, which is why I love it. Well-paced and fun. I read somewhere it was going to be an episode of X-Files and it definitely feels like it at times(There's a deleted scene where it's shown a faction of the government is funding the Blue Ribbon program.). The dead brother sub-plot doesn't really go anywhere, but whatever. I want a sequel where Nick Stahl is a teacher at that inner-city school at the end.

Any other fans?
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post #2 of 11
9/4/10 at 5:27am
I seem to recall they cut a ton out of this(maybe as much as a half hour?) before release. I might be wrong. There was a longer cut on laser as I think, but IMDB doesn't have any info on it, and it may just be all the deleted scenes reinstated.

Working with very fuzzy memories here, it's been a while. I do remember Nick Stahl being a standout in it, though, and yeah, it did have a X-Files vibe going on(I figured that was just due to the director).
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post #3 of 11
9/4/10 at 12:05pm
I remember a really young James Marsden in there as well, and Nick Stahl's monologue about the different high school classes that was one of the best of it's kind I'd ever heard and for some reason it's never quoted and I never get into the movie when it's on TV early enough to catch it.
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post #4 of 11
9/4/10 at 12:27pm
It is a fun movie. I just don't buy Katie Holmes as "the girl from the wrong side of the tracks." She did look good in leather pants.
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post #5 of 11
9/4/10 at 12:37pm
I didn't buy it either, but I liked watching it.
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post #6 of 11
9/4/10 at 1:05pm
Holmes had all the best, ridiculous lines in this thing. Calling everything "razor" and of course "Who put the acid in my spam?"

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Originally Posted by Nexus-7 View Post
I seem to recall they cut a ton out of this(maybe as much as a half hour?) before release. I might be wrong. There was a longer cut on laser as I think, but IMDB doesn't have any info on it, and it may just be all the deleted scenes reinstated.

Working with very fuzzy memories here, it's been a while. I do remember Nick Stahl being a standout in it, though, and yeah, it did have a X-Files vibe going on(I figured that was just due to the director).
The only deleted/alternate thing I remember reading/hearing about was a different ending where they find Stahl, dying, and he reverts to his normal self. Lamenting that he'll never see NiN in concert of all things.
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post #7 of 11
9/4/10 at 6:47pm
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I remember a really young James Marsden in there as well, and Nick Stahl's monologue about the different high school classes that was one of the best of it's kind I'd ever heard and for some reason it's never quoted and I never get into the movie when it's on TV early enough to catch it.
Nick Stahl is great in it. I actually find it a little upsetting when he becomes a Blue Ribbon. And yeah, his monologue at the beginning is great.
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post #8 of 11
9/4/10 at 7:21pm
I liked the young (?) leads, even if Marsden seemed way too old for high school and Holmes way too hot for a wrong-side-of-the-tracks Goth gal, and I can dig the concept but this is painfully overwritten. That Nick Stahl monologue outlining the various castes works in theory, and I like Stahl's delivery, but Rosenberg clearly wants to pull a Daniel Waters and come up with his own elaborate teen lexicon. Doesn't quite work, though.

Oh, and I fucking loathed Stahl's albino sidekick. How'd he make it to the end?
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post #9 of 11
9/5/10 at 6:13am
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The dead brother sub-plot doesn't really go anywhere, but whatever. I want a sequel where Nick Stahl is a teacher at that inner-city school at the end.

Any other fans?
Yeah I do have a bizarre affection for this movie. The dead brother subplot would have had meant more but they cut a 20 second scene for........some reason thats unclear. Remember when Mardsen takes that gun from Nick Stahl? Well he hides it in his room. His mother is cleaning in there and finds it. Fearing her son will kill himself they way her first son did she enlists her son into the blue ribbon program. But when you cut that scene and the blu ribbons show up at his house to recruit him it just seems out of place and makes the parents seem evil for no reason. Also it it plays into the the whole misunderstanding/overprotection/control of adults theme. That speech about why he killed himself is still in the movie right? I can't remember.

Favorite line: WHY NOT?!!!!

Most hated line: Conserve this fluid boy.
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post #10 of 11
10/1/10 at 11:32pm
Why the brother kills himself is in the movie.

Stahl's last words being bummed he will never see NIN live would have been a better ending.
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post #11 of 11
10/6/10 at 7:17pm
I watched this and loved it a few times when I was younger, I have fond but hazy memories. This thread is making me think it's time for a re-watch.
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