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No mention of how they were supposedly in puppy love? Just didnвЂ™t happen and now sheвЂ™s with a jock. Or, they could have made it so they had drifted apart over the years and changed, not that sheвЂ™s still his best friend, video calling him same as always. No indication she ever cared about being popular, I mean, she had a crush on the dorkiest kid at school.

Could have given 100 reasons that would have made enough sense for her to murder her bestie. What the hell? Even if you wanted her to turn, why be so lazy with it. No one believes Cole? Even if Bee had super natural abilities to clean in a hurry, how do you explain away the cops, the sacrifice? Also, whatвЂ™s the point of it? Cole would have had all kinds of mental trauma that could be used as a catalyst to say everyone thinks heвЂ™s crazy/disturbed/not cool. It was clearly more than 2 years, had to be for multiple reasons. The second one just took large dumps on the originals story. Watched the first one, enjoyed it for what it was, even ignoring the holes, like no one hearing the gunshots, the screaming, or why he hid under the house instead of just leaving? All told, The Babysitters represents a significant compromise on every level.I donвЂ™t know why this has bothered me so much.

(She carries Sam's suave elegance, has an equally distinguished countenance, and projects a similar aura.) If this film heralds the arrival of Katherine as a gifted new actress, one can only hope that she finds material more worthy of her abilities and intelligence, and that doesn't threaten to overshadow her dexterity as a performer. The director displays visual ineptitude as well - on many occasions, he'll cut to an obscure look shot (such as Leguizamo's character staring at a napkin holder that Lyner has rearranged, or staring at tiny wooden figures outside of a toy house in his basement) and we scratch our heads trying to determine what the characters are looking at - not a promising sign.To an astonishing degree, Waterston manages to rise above this material, and she reveals such subtle emotional changes in numerous scenes that one realizes she's inherited the acting chops of her peerless father. Everyone seems lost in a daze - what are their motivations, and what are they thinking? It is obvious, from the making-of interviews on the DVD, that Ross and most of his cast seriously wanted to impart depth and thematic resonance to the material as commendable as those intentions are, this never happens, and even the central theme that Ross cites in the making-of materials (using the film to explore the distinction between physical and emotional intimacy) feels two-dimensional and sophomoric. In terms of dialogue, several scenes from the first 40 minutes of the film feature characters stumbling through exchanges with one another, communicating virtually nothing, and leaving the audience baffled.

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Consider the first shot, the expository one that introduces Shirley to the audience - where she waltzes in slow-mo into a room full of unbridled teen-on-adult kinkiness, wearing an undersized, presumably wet T-shirt - or a topless lovemaking scene with Waterston and Leguizamo that leaves little to our imagination in terms of foreplay.Equally unforgivable is the complete lack of competence on the part of Ross, who seems incapable of providing coherent insights into his characters. And though it obviously could have been much more explicit (the majority of the sex is implied and not seen), the exploitative way in which Ross films Waterston feels wholly unforgivable. Instead, it leaves one with a sense of inescapable depression and nausea. One or two payments and a word to her friends later, and she's setting up business as the resident high-school madam, with eight or ten fellow students working for her - 'barely legal' prostitutes masquerading as babysitters.The picture feels as sleazy and as icky as it sounds, but suffers from too much naГЇvetГ© to become genuinely shocking, an effect it seems to desperately crave.

Those are the thoughts that come to mind while watching Katherine Waterston (daughter of actor Sam Waterston) portray babysitter-turned-high-school 'madam' Shirley Lyner in neophyte director David Ross's lurid melodrama The Babysitters.The film follows the travails of high-school junior Lyner, who culls the moneymaking opportunity of her life when she accepts a job sitting for the son of suburban couple Michael (John Leguizamo) and Gail Beltran (Cynthia Nixon), then lapses into an affair with Michael on the way home and accepts a substantial amount of payola for the babysitting assignment. In all of contemporary cinema, there may be nothing more disheartening than seeing a uniquely gifted and brilliant actress who opts to settle by debuting in sensationalistic, tawdry garbage.