Blast (2000)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Martin Schenk

Writer:

Martin Schenk (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It's murder being young.

Plot:

Four teenagers pull a prank that goes awry.

Plot Keywords:

High School | Fall From Height | Pain | Dynamite | River

Cast

Liesel Matthews	...	Jessie 'Ears'
Blake Heron	...	Jonesy
Tony Denman	...	Corn
Adam LaVorgna	...	Shnetz
Denis Arndt	...	Sheriff
Ed Lauter	...	Swenson
P.J. Soles	...	Deputy
Erin Chambers	...	Nori
Tracey Walter	...	Zeke
Moultrie Patten	...	Ed
Jeanine Jackson	...	Principal Biggs
Melik Malkasian	...	Guard
Philip Haleen	...	Ike
Mark Cancio	...	Benny
Michael Dickman	...	Atherton

Also Known As:

Physical Graffiti (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content, violence and language involving teens.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Australia:R

Filming Locations:

Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, USA

Company:

Zeta Entertainment

Trivia:

The train trestle used in the film is part of the Vernonia-Banks Linear Park Trail. The trestle was burnt down in the 1980s. It was a major trestle used for the railroad to Vernonia's once-running saw mill that was well known as the world's largest at one time. The place that the group is seen meeting a couple times throughout the movie with graffiti on the walls is the site where the saw mill was, which is now known as the "Mill Pond" in Vernonia, Oregon.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Ears takes a bite of her hotdog she starts to chew. In the next shot she has nothing in her mouth.

Soundtrack:

Peppyrock

Honest comment from a user who DIDN'T work on the film

This film seemed more interested in getting teenagers to like it than in getting a story told. The music in the film is an obvious attempt at drawing in a younger audience...how else would you explain such "hip music" playing at such inappropriate times in the film? Often, the music is extremely distracting.

Not to say that there's much to distract us from...you get unrealistic teenage stereotypes that we're supposed to relate with on some level, dialogue written by a forty year old desperately trying to channel a 16 year old, and a painfully predictable storyline that wants to show us that people can change... dramatically... with no reason, thought, or logic involved whatsoever.

In the end, the film comes right out and says, "this was about reality". I'm not sure what that line meant...and i'm not sure that a hip soundtrack will help me through any of the incoherent babble littered throughout this film.