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Urban Legend (1998)
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4/03, 5/25
5/25:
What a fucking dumb movie Urban Legend is.
And it takes place in college with only one person, a black female idiot at that, handling security?!? There
are barely any students shown when they should number in the hundreds. Why would there be a boarded-up building
on the campus?
Anyway, I was thinking of '4' until the final twenty minutes. The killer is shot in the chest and falls
out of the window from three floors above yet survives intact afterwards? Um...yeah. In the meantime, what are
the odds of some people wearing the same coat constantly?
You shouldn't believe people when they say the movie is predictable. It's not. There's no way of knowing until the
end. When the killer was revealed, I was like, "Impossible. Everything was done by a man." Then again, why
murder everybody but Natalie who was primarily responsible for the death of a male driver during high school?
The rest had nothing to do with it, but they were most certainly losers.
Ironically, Rebecca Gayheart didn't learn much from the film. In 2001, she was behind a stopped car somewhere
in Los Angeles and lost her patience, deciding to get around it in a hurry. Just right after, she fatally
struck a nine-year-old boy who was chasing a soccer ball. As a result, she pleaded no contest to vehicular
manslaughter and was given a three-year probation, and her Hollywood career was pretty much finito afterwards.
All in all, if you saw I Know What You Did Last Summer, you've
seen Urban Legend without having done so.