Showing posts with label Movie Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movie Reviews. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2009

Jennifer's Body was Hot, but the Script was Not!


I just saw Jennifer's Body and clearly there were some issues with the writing on this one!!  I don't know whether to appreciate Diablo Cody's high school lingo sarcasm, or to actually hate it alltogether?!

This sexy thriller starts with a young girl named Needy (Amanda Seyfried) narrating as she goes about her day in a Correctional Facility.  Needy explains how she can't be the girl she used to due to the event that led up to imprisonment; CUE flashback...  
Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) is the most beautiful, conceited and popular girl in her town and her unlikely best friend and bookworm Needy has always stuck by her side since the sandbox. Needy becomes less inclined to be at her BFFs side when Jennifer gains an appetite for human blood after a terrible fire at their local bar.  Needy begins to connect the dots as her male classmates begin to be brutally and mysteriously murdered ans must stop her bloodthirsty friend before she reaches her boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons).  

While Megan Fox wasn't too bad in this film, her words were just unitelligable, high schoolish slang!!  I don't of course blame Megan for this horrible jargon, but I don't know what Diablo was thinking?

It was meant to be a sexy horror film with a wicked sense of humor, but I was laughing mostly at the horrible high school language that was going on!  Was that Diablo's plan?!  While every line in Juno was polished nicely, the results here are a bit more hit and miss.  It's obvious that Cody was going for a reversal of women-playing-the-victim type of film, however I wasn't sure of her percetption of high school lingo...

Slang like, "Freaktarded", "He's really Salty", "You're just Jealo", "You're giving me a wetty"...  I mean where is this coming from?  The entire movie was full of these distracting ridiculous phrases that I forgot this was a teen horror film!  

Cody scored some satirical points for the manner communities handle tragedy as they used the song from the band that started all the chaos (only known to Needy and Jennifer) Low Shoulder as their anthem for strength and rememberance...  However, the script definitely needed some help...

I started to think Jennifer wasn't the villian here, Cody's script was.  

This is why I didn't go Greek...


So, I just saw Sorority Row... yes I'm a little late, and I rememberd why I decided NOT to pledge during college.  UGH

"The bonds of sisterhood are unbreakable" HA, even if you all are under attack by a crazy psycho who hates your sorority due to a accidental murder???  HA eff that!  Independence is such a great quality to possess.

So, if you don't know the story a handfull of BFFs in Theta Pi decide to pull a prank on a dude who cheated on one of their "beloved" sisters.  The prank has their "beloved" sister Megan (Audrina Patridge) die at the hands of the prankee dude.  Things turn sour between the girls Ellie, Cassidy, Jessica, Claire and Chugs (Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung and Margo Harshman) as they decide what to do with the body.  As predicted, they simply toss the body in a well/drain thing and act like nothing ever happened.  (like we haven't seen that before)  

AS months go by, the girls carry on with graduation and sorority life (PARTIES).  Cassidy is the "responsible" one and distances herself from the rest of the girls as she didn't agree with what they all did with Megan.  (There's always ONE survivor right?)  
Well, at the day of graduation there is well a party at the Theta Pi house and of course people start dying at the hands of a mystery killer who's weapon is pimped out tire wrench similar to the one that killed their sister.  So the BFFs start freaking out and dying one by one after they all receive texts of the murder scene on their phones.  (shows what day and age this movie takes place huh? TEXTS OH NO!!!)

Well, after the girls start getting killed off one by one, turns out the mystery killer is someone you wouldn't think at all... which was weird, not exactly a great tactic on the directors part.  There's predictable and then Totally OFF THE WALL! (it didn't make sense even as the killer monologued)  

So there.. three girls survive and the day is saved YAY! Greeks can sleep/drink at ease.  

First of all, Audrina Patridge was in this movie... WHY? I don't know.  Maybe the director chose her cause she never looks at the camera.  HAHA 
Second, poor Rumer Willis.  This was her big break and it had to be THIS movie? Bruce should've warned her about the script...
Third, any movie about Greeks is just hard to watch cause its always the same.  Beer/Booze and half naked wasted collge actors running around being well... college greeks. 

I saw this online.. so I didn't waste my money, but man.... I'll ever get those 2 hours back.  :(

Sunday, September 27, 2009

All About Steve's train wreck


Okay, so I'm not gonna write about this one long at all...

The movie was just trying to be funny toooooooo much that it hurt to watch.  Poor Sandy Bullock was just acting like a fool, (not her usual funny fool self we all know and love) but just a FOOL!

Bradley Cooper was just eye candy in this film since there were no other good looking men in it, and acted very well as any scared-to-death-of-a-stalker-bitch should be.  
It got to a point in this film where I just couldn't stand to listen to her character, Mary talk or anyone else in the film actually.  My mother started to SNORE!  (not kidding)
The only funny parts were the non-chalant humor that was thrown in...  The rest was just pitiful.  I hate to say it Sandra, you're my girl and all, but ummm this film.... I can't have your back when the critics come hollarin...

Save your money all you Sandra Bullock Lovers... Save it, save yourself!!