Megan Fox Steps in Jennifer's Body

[Episode29]

I read the script and again as stated before the movie take itself seriously like zero percent. I haven't seen the film yet but I read the script and from that I knew they were going to make it really campy.


In the script the way Diablo discribed the scenes was a lot more scary looking than the way it turned out on film honestly.

It's not really scary at all. It's more of a comedy-drama with horror tropes.

 

[CelticPredator]

I'll wait for the DVD.....regardless if I was interested...it's still Fox...and I cannot give Fox any money. However, I will give it up for Avatar.

 

[Crook]

Ebert briefly commented on Fox's performance:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/09/tiff_6_oy_vey_such_a_film_you.html

Fox did her career a lot of good with the two "Transformer" movies, but this is her first chance to really act, and you know what? She comes through. She has your obligatory projectile vomiting scene and somehow survives it, she plays the role straight, and she looks convincing in a blood-drenched dress with her hair all straggly.

 

[jaymes_e06]

^That's not bad. Thought he wouldn't like her no matter what.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Despite the haters looking to shake off the hate-spew on her, and nothing really coming out this week to compete, I expect this to be around $30 million this weekend.

I need to say this... Some of you are just really pathetic here. I can understand having a negative opinion and sharing it and moving on, but every horror themed thread on the hype for the past 6 months has been overflowing with *****e behavior and hate sport. It's really off putting that every Horror thread is full of posters I have on Ignore, and it's usually the same 5 or so people. Add in a co-star from Transformers, and the *****e comments multiply by 2. I'm just so fed up with it.

It has no chance of 30mil but I could see 20mil.

 

[omid17]

It had no chance of 30mil but I could see 20mil.

thank you, especially for a movie like this opening in Sept.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

thank you, especially for a movie like this opening in Sept.

Some people know nothing about the boxoffice and thats fine because it's not important but don't throw numbers about because you don't like the fact that some people think that Megan Fox is overhyped when she has shown no real ability to act.

It's hard to hit 20mil in September, let alone 30mil.

Please look at this list. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=09&p=.htm

Shia is bigger than Megan and his thiller "Eagle Eye" was more marketable than the horror comedy "Jennifer's Body" and it opened to 29.1mil...less than 30mil.

Megan Fox or not, horror coms are a hard sale. 15mil would be pretty good, 20mil and above would be great. 30mil would be nearly record breaking. Not impossible ofcourse but highly unlikely.

If the movie by-passes all conventions and opens with over 30mil, I'll admit that my prediction is wrong. And will be picking my jaw up off the floor, marveling about how many horny boys and men are willing to shell out cash to see a woman get amost naked when they can see a woman get totally nude for free on the interwebs.

 

[Dr. Evil]

From the box office projections this week, it's expected to finish behind "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

From the box office projections this week, it's expected to finish behind "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

I'm expecting it to.

(Right now) here are my predictions:

1. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"- 23-26mil

2. "Jennifer's Body"- 12-15mil.

 

[Nightmare]

the **** is cloudy meatballs..

 

[craigdbfan]

Childrens book which has now been adapted into a CGI animated fest of 3Dness.

Family fun for everyone.

Doing pretty good with critics though, as of now that is. RT has it at 100% with 9 reviews.

 

[omid17]

Some people know nothing about the boxoffice and thats fine because it's not important but don't throw numbers about because you don't like the fact that some people think that Megan Fox is overhyped when she has shown no real ability to act.

It's hard to hit 20mil in September, let alone 30mil.

Please look at this list. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=09&p=.htm

Shia is bigger than Megan and his thiller "Eagle Eye" was more marketable than the horror comedy "Jennifer's Body" and it opened to 29.1mil...less than 30mil.

Megan Fox or not, horror coms are a hard sale. 15mil would be pretty good, 20mil and above would be great. 30mil would be nearly record breaking. Not impossible ofcourse but highly unlikely.

If the movie by-passes all conventions and opens with over 30mil, I'll admit that my prediction is wrong. And will be picking my jaw up off the floor, marveling about how many horny boys and men are willing to shell out cash to see a woman get amost naked when they can see a woman get totally nude for free on the interwebs.

Amen

meatball movie im predicting over 30mill cause it's kid movie and in 3D

Megan's Body 10-15 mill

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Really? People think Cloudy is going to do that well? If Cloudy comes in over 20 million then Jen's body is going to do only 15million.

 

[Nightmare]

Wow, the kids movies just seem to go over my head nowadays I guess.

I plan on seeing this friday morning, so hopefully its atleast decent. Im going in expecting a decent popcorn flick.

 

[omid17]

Really? People think Cloudy is going to do that well? If Cloudy comes in over 20 million then Jen's body is going to do only 15million.

im thinking is goin to make a lot (meatball movie) cause who new UP was going to be any good, i don't remember seeing more than 2 tv spots for it and it turned out to make more than $68 mill over first weekend

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Up was Pixar. That's 200 million guaranteed.

3-D movies seem to be doing well and it's animated but I just didn't see all that much buzz around this. I've never even heard of this book.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I forgot about the 3D omid17. I should probably raise my prediction a bit.

 

[omid17]

Up was Pixar. That's 200 million guaranteed.

3-D movies seem to be doing well and it's animated but I just didn't see all that much buzz around this. I've never even heard of this book.

true

I forgot about the 3D omid17. I should probably raise my prediction a bit.

yup, i mean i remember how I saw G-Force cause it was in 3D and im freakin 20 yrs old, Meatball movie actually looks good, so i honestly wouldn't be surprised if it had a big opening weekend

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

true

yup, i mean i remember how I saw G-Force cause it was in 3D and im freakin 20 yrs old, Meatball movie actually looks good, so i honestly wouldn't be surprised if it had a big opening weekend

G-Force was a big hit so you weren't the only one. I actually didn't expect G-Force to do as well as it did. I have a hard time predicting kids movies so Meatballs could open to 40mil for all I know.

The high price of the 3D tickets could get it to 30mil but I'll go with 28mil for now.

 

[omid17]

G-Force was a big hit so you weren't the only one. I actually didn't expect G-Force to do as well as it did. I have a hard time predicting kids movies so Meatballs could open to 40mil for all I know.

The high price of the 3D tickets could get it to 30mil but I'll go with 28mil for now.

sounds legit

 

[Episode29]

Here's my review (It's a double review of JB and Sorority Row).

Considering the limited opportunities offered to young actresses working under the current youth-oriented Hollywood paradigm, it’s no wonder so many aspiring starlets wind up screaming for their supper. For where else, beyond romantic comedies, can promising talent find an opportunity to sidestep the Boys’ Club job postings for superhero girlfriends and comedic lust objects and achieve top billing in a boffo weekend-winning release? Strange then, that despite the ever-present supply of female casts and content, criminally few creatively inclined women in directorial or writerly positions, take the ultra-lucrative off-ramp into Terror Town. Due to the current release of duelling blood-spattered buffets, the genre is seeing its first true battle of the sexes in eons, with the hotly anticipated snark-a-thon shrieker Jennifer`s Body, overseen by Girlfight helmer Karyn Kasuma and Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody, facing off against the fetid Stewart Hendler-directed Slasher Sorority Row.

Although neither film is successful in crossing into the frightfully fruitful ground tilled and harvested by this summer`s Drag Me To Hell, Jennifer’s Body comes closest to providing the worthiest BOO! for the audience’s buck. Featuring Cody’s distinctive hip-to-the-max vernacular (my favourite line featured a shock victim being referred to as a “Zombie mannequin robot statue”), the film is a quirky yet under-baked hybrid of horror hijinx, sharp-tongued ironic comedy and John Hughes-ian teen drama which never quite gels into the anarchic giggle-and-jolt fest that it aspires to be. Still, it is interesting to watch the gifted behind-the-scenes pair attempt to mine art from demon vomit and exposed innards.

Megan Fox, no stranger to type-casting, stars as a nubile High School cheerleader transformed into a ravenous succubus after a run-in with a mysterious emo band fronted by a mascara-wearing Adam Brody. Now a vampy, trampy carnivorous force to be reckoned with, making insta-meals of the school’s lusty male population, Jennifer’s lone opposition is her insecure, frequently trod-upon best friend, the appropriately nicknamed Needy (Amanda Seyfried), a saucer-eyed wallflower unprepared for the role of town saviour.

It’s when highlighting this friendship that the movie works best, as it allows Cody – who cameos briefly cameos as a burnt out bar patron – to delve into the cruel and combustible nature of self-serving High School friendships. Even when the disappointing deficiency of scares becomes apparent, and the energy flags, the two central actresses, deftly mastering the scribe’s snap, crackle and pop dialogue, keep the film from flatlining with their charismatic and recognizable, if not relatable, characters (Fox even gets to stretch intermittently beyond her standard porn-doll mode, nicely selling Jennifer’s tragic side). The film also gives Adam Brody and J.K. Simmons, as a hook-handed teacher bearing an unspeakably tormented past, hilariously rich comedic turns.

Unfortunately, while Kasuma has made a good-looking flick, turning Vancouver into a supernatural Gothic wonderland full of portentous forests and glumly desolate suburban sprawls, she can never find a consistently effective tone, with the movie’s final third becoming mired in mucky melodramatics. Ultimately, observing the film’s rickety structure acts as a sage reminder that horror-coms are tough ventures to pull off, and that for every Scream, Evil Dead 2 or Shaun of the Dead, there are a dozen noble failures like Jennifer’s Body lying by the wayside.

Still, Kasuma and Cody’s effort is a masterwork compared to the aggressively stupid and vile Sorority Row, a remake of 1983’s The House of Sorority Row, which features a gaggle of detestable young Theta Pi sisters, headed by Briana Evigan and Leah Pipes, on the run from a hooded tire-iron-wielding killer after a morally bankrupt prank involving roofies, date rape and murder goes wrong (What if it had gone right?!). Whereas Jennifer’s filmmakers attempted to find humanity in their archetypes, Sorority Row’s cast of characters are people you’d chew off your arm to get away from, a batch of hateful harpies and jerks whose only joys are spreading VD and viciously mocking each other’s eating disorders, ****tiness and cosmetic surgery.

Director Hendler captures these obnoxious women through jittery, bleary camera-work , like a drunk pervert’s leer, often cropping off his heavily made-up and grotesquely underlit actresses’ heads in favour of grimy, sweaty close-ups of their chests and behinds. The film also boasts one of the most moronic and nonsensical culprit reveals in recent memory and unimaginative, insipid gore. Only Carrie Fisher’s campy prescence as a shotgun-wielding denmother keeps us from bolting for the exit.

Oddly enough, while Jennifer’s Body knows exactly how to portray the playful pin-up girl sexiness of its fetching stars, Sorority Row stews in its misogynistic tawdry trashiness convinced that mean-spirited nudity equates entertainment. Watching the two back-to-back, it becomes head-slappingly obvious that, as far as trendy teen horror flicks go, there’s an awful lot that Jennifer’s creators and their ilk could teach their male counterparts, as films like Sorority Row make me yearn for a day when the Scream Queens rule Horror-land.

Jennifer's Body: 2.5 out of 5
Sorority Row: 1 out of 5

 

[jmc]

Ebert briefly commented on Fox's performance:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/09/tiff_6_oy_vey_such_a_film_you.html

A little off topic but can someone explain to me why this Ebert fellow seems to be the first point of call as to whether a film is good or not in the US? I've never understood what sets this dude apart from everyone else but every time some anticipated film comes out everyone seems to clamor over what his review is.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

He is a good writer and knows movies really well...and had a popular televison show. Thats my guess on why some many people hold his opinion so dear.

Personally I don't agree with him most of the time and sometimes thinks that he has dumb reasons for liking and disliking flicks.

He is intitled to his opinion though I just don't listen to him.

Great reviews Episode29.

 

[jaymes_e06]

It's not really scary at all. It's more of a comedy-drama with horror tropes.

Which kinda sux cause the script made it a horror with laugh out load moments not as much a teen comedy. The script was dark and scary not just funny, although it was funny as hell. I'll wait till I see it to judge but if what your saying is true I will be kind of disappointing.

 

[terry78]

A little off topic but can someone explain to me why this Ebert fellow seems to be the first point of call as to whether a film is good or not in the US? I've never understood what sets this dude apart from everyone else but every time some anticipated film comes out everyone seems to clamor over what his review is.

Ebert is the end all, be all. Whether he likes a movie or hates it, he gives ample reason why. Pop culture in the states has skewered and parodied him for years, along with his now deceased partner Siskel. Plus, he recently had cancer surgery and can't talk or really move, yet he still reviews movies.