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We've Got Good News And Bad News Regarding JENNIFER'S BODY...
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The good news is that Diablo Cody's horror/comedy follow-up to JUNO is, according to the below write-up, quite enjoyable. The bad, bordering-on-catastrophic news is in the reviewer's summary. I'll let you discover it for yourself.
The screenplay for JENNIFER'S BODY engendered mixed reactions when it made the rounds last year, but I thought it was a mostly clever blend of HEATHERS and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. For those of you who can't get with Ms. Cody's stylized patois, I doubt this will be the script that brings you 'round on her work; that said, the rampant gore and giddy deployment of horror conventions may keep some of "the haters" from hatin' so fiercely. The participation of Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox should also help distract from the Cody-ness of the piece.
Let's see what our bravely anonymous contributor thought...
Hey harry long time fan first time reporting to you guys..
well last night I went to a screening exchange advanced screening of Jennifer's Body (the new Diablo Cody written Megan Fox staring Horror/Dark Comedy) And although there were Non Disclosure Agreements Signed Mine well lets just say didn't get all the T's crossed and I's dotted but still please don't use my screen name if you post anything I'm sending you.
SPOILER (story)
So you have 2 miss-matched friends (1 hot popular (Jennifer) and 1 not so hot dork (named Needy)) (both girls) living in a small town "Devils Kettle" they go to a concert at their local hick bar where the hot one is destined to become the band of the nights first groupie (because they are from the big city) (lead singer is Adam Brody) but they wind up purposely burning the bar down with many dying so they can take the now intoxicated groupie (Jennifer) they take her and plan on sacrificing her to Satan so they can become famous but they got their signals crossed and she is NO virgin so since she isn't "pure" she doesn't stay dead once they leave and the spell kicks in for them she comes back to life as a part demon who needs to feed on people from time to time to stay young and pretty looking instead of the ugly corpse that she should look like. Main story revolves around her constantly scaring "Needy" by showing that she is evil like coming over in the middle of the night covered in blood and spitting up tar on the floor. And seducing and killing many of the boys from their school including needy's boyfriend. Finally ending with needy getting caught murdering Jennifer (caught by jen's mom in her bedroom) and subsequently getting her sent to an insane asylum which is where the story kinda starts off..now showing that in the final murder she was bitten by Jennifer before she was able to kill her she now has some demonic powers of her own and breaks out only to go track down the band from the bar for what she calls their final show.
Final Synopsis
Diablo Codys smart dialogue helps along what could have been a VERY campy film it is smart and funny all while still keeping its scary moments and plot. I know horror is a wide category that gets critics on all sides of the genre but this movie is enjoyable and keeps a fresh independent feel for horror. Special effects were done well for something that didn't even really need effects.
Great Cast
No nudity but some close calls
Overall enjoyable
B+
JENNIFER'S BODY is due out sometime in 2009.
well last night I went to a screening exchange advanced screening of Jennifer's Body (the new Diablo Cody written Megan Fox staring Horror/Dark Comedy) And although there were Non Disclosure Agreements Signed Mine well lets just say didn't get all the T's crossed and I's dotted but still please don't use my screen name if you post anything I'm sending you.
SPOILER (story)
So you have 2 miss-matched friends (1 hot popular (Jennifer) and 1 not so hot dork (named Needy)) (both girls) living in a small town "Devils Kettle" they go to a concert at their local hick bar where the hot one is destined to become the band of the nights first groupie (because they are from the big city) (lead singer is Adam Brody) but they wind up purposely burning the bar down with many dying so they can take the now intoxicated groupie (Jennifer) they take her and plan on sacrificing her to Satan so they can become famous but they got their signals crossed and she is NO virgin so since she isn't "pure" she doesn't stay dead once they leave and the spell kicks in for them she comes back to life as a part demon who needs to feed on people from time to time to stay young and pretty looking instead of the ugly corpse that she should look like. Main story revolves around her constantly scaring "Needy" by showing that she is evil like coming over in the middle of the night covered in blood and spitting up tar on the floor. And seducing and killing many of the boys from their school including needy's boyfriend. Finally ending with needy getting caught murdering Jennifer (caught by jen's mom in her bedroom) and subsequently getting her sent to an insane asylum which is where the story kinda starts off..now showing that in the final murder she was bitten by Jennifer before she was able to kill her she now has some demonic powers of her own and breaks out only to go track down the band from the bar for what she calls their final show.
Final Synopsis
Diablo Codys smart dialogue helps along what could have been a VERY campy film it is smart and funny all while still keeping its scary moments and plot. I know horror is a wide category that gets critics on all sides of the genre but this movie is enjoyable and keeps a fresh independent feel for horror. Special effects were done well for something that didn't even really need effects.
Great Cast
No nudity but some close calls
Overall enjoyable
B+
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Sep 25, 2008 1:04:12 AM CDT
I saw Drew at the IMAX screening of Eagle Eye tonight
by speed fricassee
I'll bet his review shows up soon. It's pretty good, not a masterpiece, but better than most Hollywood shit out there today.
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Jesus! I felt like I was reading a review written by a first grader
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Mori will be heartbroken.
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that bothers me, it's the praise heaped on her dialoge and how it's so "real" that bugs me, it's not bad, it just not real
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The more you know.
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...that's one helluva run-on sentence.
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and no nudity in a horror flick??? Not interested. If Blairwitch had some boob, it would be the best movie ever made. And you all know it hehehehe
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...You should of just asked Cody out, in your Chud review. Jeez.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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keeps them hidden??? that is terrible. i loved watching her lounge around, bikini clad in veronica mars, thinking, one day, when that girl wants her big break in h'wood...she'll let the puppies loose. please no...don't let her get by on talent!
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No nude Megan Fox. :(
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Damn you, Megan Fox!
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No creativity above. IDIOTS. Diablo Cody SUCKS . Of course it's going to suck. Just because Spielberg sucks her weiner you're expecting it to be good? Not even mediocre her work is.
Sorry Yoda rubs off on me everytime I see Empire like I did tonight. -
Sep 25, 2008 3:44:44 AM CDT
I'm assuming it's the "Cody's dialogue keeps it afloat" part
by industrykiller!
That's far worse than no nudity.
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The response every bit as cutesy and trite as that fucking evil film (yes we've reached THAT level of disgust) Juno. Sorry Cody, I don't give a shit if you're working for Steven Spielberg. yeah he made ET, 25 years ago. He also Indiana Jones 4, THIS YEAR. Guess who else works for Steven Spielberg? Michael Bay. So let's just go out on a limb and say that Spielberg is collecting people whose sub par productions fool idiots into thinking they are great.
And wow your name is on an Oscar, so is the movie Crash. And next time you get your name on an Oscar make it for a film that doesn't fake profundity at every turn and shuck and jive the idiot public into thinking they've just seen an insightful film when it fact it skirts insight EVERY FUCKING CHANCE IT GETS in favor of safe little bon mots delivered by it's ridiculously unrealistic main character.
And btw Black Kids are too much a novelty flavor of the month to be overrated. But they are overplayed on Indie 103.1....ahh that was cathartic -
Fuck!
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No ticket sale.
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Megan Fox seems like she's open to it, why the fuck not then?
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I've got a great idea for a teen comedy and trust me if she was in it she would be NAKED
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Goddamn it! How many times must we ALMOST see her nekkid? Playboy centrefold RIGHT FUCKING NOW please!
Ahem. Sorry. Wrong message board. Damn this lack of an edit button ;P
Can't wait to see this - looks like a good laugh. And what's with the JUNO hate - I haven't seen it yet, but is it really THAT bad? I mean, Kevin Smith has coasted by on smart-assed dialogue his entire movie career. JUNO can't be THAT bad, can it?
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and I even kinda liked Juno, except for the shit about her moving living room furniture around to people's lawns. WTF was that????
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no Juno is not that bad at all, sure at the end of the day it's overrated, but it's also (strangely enough) underrated because it's nowhere near as bad as the TBers will have you believe
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the lack of Megan Fox nudity in this flick, DAMN YOU DIABLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Is it so hard to use the Shift and punctuation keys on your keyboard, reviewer?
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Oh do come on. JUNO was TERRIBLE. Not just because of the ridiculously awkward and forced dialogue, but the undercurrent of man-hate and crypto-conservative anti-choice message. Cody writes like a 12 year old girl trying to copy Josh Whedon and failing -- EPICLY FAILING. But, then again, if I was a 12 year old girl, I probably would've loved JUNO... and Hannah Montannah...
I guess the only really good news is that two unbelievably hot chicks are in it? But they're not nude, so, FAIL. -
TO HELL!
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and I like B-movie horror. It sounds absolutely atrocious.
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If Kevin Williamson had written this people would be crawling all over themselves to jam knives into it. It's fucking Scream-esque psuedo hip postmodernism (at least 10 years too late), that comes complete with Cody's trademark cutesy dailogue. If one character gives a monologue deconstructing the conventions of horror then Williamson should sue the bitch. Instantly.
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Never ceases to amaze me, how when someone makes it in Hollywood with that one great script, and then they're given license and tons of cash for their weak and misguided "follow-up" scripts. If M. Knight is a shit bomb...then what does that make Diablo?
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I thought this news was going to be that Jennifer Connelly had decided to have her tits put back in.
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"And although there were Non Disclosure Agreements Signed Mine well lets just say didn't get all the T's crossed and I's dotted but still please don't use my screen name if you post anything I'm sending you."
are you fucking kidding me? seriouslyhowthefuckdoyouexpect
anyonetoreadthisshit.
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No nudity, and it sounds stupid. Thats that for me.
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Still, she is on the same road as Pamela Anderson... her hotness will only get her so far.
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This is one of those occasions where as soon as The Fox appears onscreen, all my critical faculties go out the window. I had to watch TRANSFORMERS 3 times befroe I realised there were robots in it. Megan Fox is a GODDESS, I tell you!
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stripper to stripper memoirist to screenwriter of shitty unrealistic tripe guised as realistic coming of age drama....I find her kind of annoying. Her columns in entertainment weekly are bad. But at least she is brave enough not to do the same thing over and over a la - Kevin Smith, Rodriguez, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Eli Roth, Etc....why do so many revere the Coen Bros? Because while thematically there are similarities in their films, they try to make a different flick each time out. Same for Michelle Gondry, Gus Van Sant, and Charlie Kaufman, all of whom I have no problems paying to see new work by, fully expecting something fresh and exciting.
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A place previously held by Jessica Alba who's star has waned considerably -- she's still gorgeous, but after several awful misfires, getting married, having kids, and being older than 25, she's pretty much done as a starlet who's sole talent is her physical beauty. Of course, the same goes for Fox -- as a hot chick who's sole talent is her looks, she'll be used up in 3-to-5 years, tops. I really, really hope she starts getting nude and then eventually does porn. Since porn is mainstream now, its only a matter of time before it become acceptable for popular starlets on the wane to start sucking and fucking on camera.
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B-O-O H-O-O.
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About as great as shoving skewers covered in salt up my peehole.
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OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
Just. OUCH. -
err, I mean eric the actor? try reading it with eric the midgets voice in your head.
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if you want to see the girl from Mamma Mia having sex for the first time and orgasming loudly, this is the movie for you
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an emo kid getting violently dispatched by megan fox- huzzah!
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To wit, I don't hate you. I don't spend much time thinking about you at all. I won't for the sake of fairness bring up you stripping and so on. I just think you're a terrible, terrible writer with a novelty shtick. You're basically the new Kevin Williamson.
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She can't necessarily act but she has the requisite stuff to be a movie star, some kind of presence. I think it's bizzare how most of my female friends think Megan Fox is the new hotness instead of hating on her, which in my unscientific rigor makes her the new pseudo Angelina Jolie. And there is that sort of bad side to Fox... She's also choosing interesting parts. Alba was never ever able to project much of anything, chose terrible parts, and frankly even to this day looks like a teenage sorority girl. If Fox has half a brain, I can see her becoming a younger Jolie.
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= uber severe satanic band fail. writer please do more in depth research.
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Let me get this straight: AICN talkbackers are assaulting syntax, grammar, and punctuation?
Yes, that review was an assault on the english language usually reserved for any given rap song, but why start there? These talkbacks are routinely filled with some of the worst uses of language I've ever seen.
It's like the pot calling the kettle stupid. I recommend that in the future we start flaming each other for poor grammar. That way EVERY talkback can be one long complaint.
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Which is to say... NOT AT ALL AND FILLED WITH IRONIC, HIPSTER-DOOFI LINGO.The performances in JUNO were pleasant enough, but that dialogue made me want to strangle bunnies.
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she is such a fucking snob. She's just another skank who shakes her ass and gets roles. She is about the farthest thing from an actress as there is.
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Forget what people think of Diablo Cody's writing. I think what bugs me is the belief by every person who didn't like Juno that everyone who did like it was somehow "duped". Like people can be fooled into liking something. Either it's your taste or it isn't. Haven't seen Juno; Probably will see it someday. But when I do see it, like everyone else in America and abroad, I'll form an opinion based on what I'm seeing, not based on critics or by internet 'rebels' who can't fathom that something they don't like can be appreciated by others.
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Megan Fox is ALMOST the hottest young(er) actress in Hollywood; those tatts are a dealbreaker though imo. I'm not against all tattoos, but hers are particularly unattractive, especially considering how gorgeous she is.
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I wanted to like Juno, but every time the lead character spoke I wanted to jam a pencil in her eye. Now I have pencil marks all over my television! That is not cool, Diablo Cody.Anyway, I was hoping she'd settle down and learn that less is more for her next film, but this review makes it sound like maybe she's as hyper-insecure as ever, which is a shame because I do think she's talented.P.S. Also, some nudity would have been nice. Come on.
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Apart from the one that says Brian above her ladygarden. Who, apart from guys named Brian, wants to look at that?
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Nuff said. Skippin' this.
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...called when Juno came out? Something about the parallels to another movie that had teen pregnancy and a character named Juno? This movie sounds a lot like the movie "Tamara." Horrid movie, I must say but it's about a girl who gets killed and comes back looking hot (instead of like a corpse) and exacts revenge.
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Sep 25, 2008 11:29:51 AM CDT
There is no 'hipster-doofi lingo' in Gilmore Girls
by franklin t marmoset
Voluminous references to pop culture old and new, but I never got the sense they were trying to be hipsters. Or Doofis, although I'm not entirely sure what that is.Also, dialogue is not supposed to be real. Nobody wants to hear real dialogue, it would be awful. We want stylised and entertaining dialogue, which is what Cody would write if she would just cool her jets and tone things down a bit. No one likes being bashed about the face.
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quirky dialogue that connects with the adolescents but will seem stale in six months, horror movie love, tv show in development, and totally gay
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Sep 25, 2008 12:40:50 PM CDT
Wow, I Thought This Was Where REAL Movie Fans Go... Semi-Nudity
by blhotz
How could all you "movie buffs" not be aware of the Megan semi-nude pics from this movie on the web. Hot, hot, hot! Complete upper body nudity except "coloring" (skin colored patches) of the nipples.
There's definitely NOT "no nudity".
...she's wet too ;).
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I mean I didn't expect Megan Skank to get naked because, for reasons defying all logic, she's too famous. But how the fuck has Amanda Seyfreid not taken her tits out yet?!!?!?!
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I liked the story, but hated the dialogue. Generally it is overrated. It did not deserve the win for screenplay or the nom for best picture.
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Lopez? Tilly? Jason Leigh?
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that question applies for both megan fox and diablo cody.
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...just be one of the college folks he talks about.....
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that having Megan Fox nudity would increase the amount of money it makes TIMES TEN?
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after all having written and released only 1 movie itis hard to get a true gauge of talent .....all in all though i liked Juno, i found it no more "over rated" than any of the other Oscar nominated films...it was certainly more enjoyable than No Country or There Will be Blood....indeed it was the only one I sat thru more than once
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Simply horrible
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...if you felt it was 'bad news'.
I really don't understand the policy here. Some of the administrators put spoilers in invisio-text. Some put up spoiler warnings and some people consider any sort of spoiler a boil on the site's ass. Why not come up with a consistent policy? -
"if you want to see the girl from Mamma Mia having sex for the first time and orgasming loudly, this is the movie for you"
Are you telling me you want me to spend $10 to see Meryl Streeps worn wrinkled twat get plowed on the big screen? No thanks. Her moaning probably sounds like Nicole Bass sitting on a juicer. -
because of the lead character. There were times when I just wanted to bitch slap her. It's the type of movie that attracts the kind of people who like the OC, or 21, you know that blackjack movie with Kevin Spacey. Those who like the teen drama misunderstood trying to be hip and smart assy kind of people. God i hate people like that, I have a friend just like that.
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I can't believe that this review was actually posted "as is." I mean, shit, I would be embarrassed-beyond-belief to have something as poorly written as that be seen on my site. At least tell the contributor that you're going to be editing it. You know, little things like adding in periods and maybe the mysterious comma. They'd probably appreciate the help in not looking like a total jackass.
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If JENNIFER'S BODY turns out to be a crappy film or a box office disappointment are you going to post another overly long and borderline psychotic rant on your MySpace page to apologize for scripting yet another ultra hipster sounding shitfest?Seriously, that MySpace rant of hers is embarrassing. Personally, I think Cody is overrated...her writing is vomit inducing for trying too hard to be hip and relevant...the rags to riches back story of her life that she still continues to peddle is likewise still full of lies created by a PR company...and I figure she's on minute 10 of her Warhol 15 minutes of fame. But you know what? After reading her MySpace rant now I actually feel bad for Cody. I feel bad for her being such an egotistical, deluded, hack-like, self-centered, pompous ass.Whoops. The minute hand moved. Sorry, Cody -- turns out you're actually on minute 11 and the clock continues to tick...
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You have a bright future, being used by gynecology teachers as a display of a giant pussy for their students.
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There goes this film's chance to challenge Titanic's box office. Speaking of Megan, read this article in which she declares that she once was in love with a stripper girl. http://edition.cnn.com/2008 /SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/16/people. megan.fox.ap/index.html
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