cruel intentions back in cinemas

The trouble with Cruel Intentions is that the story doesn't really work in a modern setting. Dangerous Liaisons works because in that time, in that culture, a person's whole life could be destroyed by a scandal like having an affair or not being a virgin when you get married. The people are playing with serious fire, and they get seriously burned.

In Cruel Intentions they try to update scandalous behaviour to the modern day, but honestly most people are just going to shrug and say "so what". The only thing that is really going to hurt SMG's character is when people find out she's on drugs, but a rich white kid who does cocaine? She'd do a few weeks in rehab, a few dozen hours of community service, make some speeches about how she sinned but now she's found jesus and is saved, and wind up more popular than ever.

I like the film, some, but it just doesn't have the bite of the original because we live in an age when nobody really cares about the stuff these kids are doing.