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Jennifer's Body (2009)
Topic Started: Apr 21 2013, 07:36 PM (1,300 Views)
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A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

Seriously entertaining film here, with a great cast, yes I even liked Megan Fox in this. It has a great soundtrack, and while it does have some flaws, including literally no on-screen kills, I had a great time with this.
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Jul 14 2014, 02:16 AM
The song's "New Perspective." I think it's towards the end of the movie.
Oh yeah I actually remember it being in the movie now. :P
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The song's "New Perspective." I think it's towards the end of the movie.
Oh yeah I actually remember it being in the movie now. :P
I'm a big fan of Hole, so I got the soundtrack before I had even seen the movie.
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Frankly, this one became quite an enjoyable and entertaining creature feature. One of it's better elements is the rather fresh and original take on the possession angle which really does this one well. By using the possession to become a crazed flesh-eating demon with supernatural powers, there's a difference to this that causes a lot to like here in how she behaves to makes this a lot of fun. The ability to hover in the air, walk on the ceiling and utilize the lake as a regeneration tool are all pretty novel ideas and cause this one to feel pretty original at times. Likewise, that also extends to the rather fast and frenetic action along the way which really makes for an exciting and thrilling time here as this one tends to roll along at such an extended pace that it really gets a lot of its positives from this factor. The introductory scene to her condition, investigating noises in the darkened house with the phone call and then the discovery in the kitchen sets this one up nicely, and the rather frantic encounter within the flower shop makes this one incredibly exciting as the atmosphere of the location mixed with the suspense of the stalking along the rows of flowers comes together for a really enjoyable time. Other big action scenes from the opening accident at the concert along with the back-story explanation of everything and the final battle in the bedroom all creates a thoroughly entertaining amount of action in here, and along with the pleasingly graphic and bloody kills here makes this one's good qualities. There's a few minor ones in here that do bring this down, most notably the films' tendency to rely on hip-sounding lingo for the sake of attempting to be cool. There's numerous scenes of the two of them spouting off all sorts of hip lingo trying to be creative or original and comes off trying way too hard so it leaves the middle of the film really quite clumsy. Otherwise, the other flaw to this is the fact of it being a tease without being exploitative about it, tending to dance around the concept of her being a complete and utter sex-starved woman back back-tracking on really going full throttle on the whole problem, leaving it with dry sex-scenes and clumsily-edited scenes hiding these facets of the film. These manage to hold it down just enough, though.
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Glad you like it too. I feel pretty bad for the makers of this movie since most people just bash it because they hate Megan Fox.
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Either that or those early creeper shots of her topless swimming scene of her wearing pasties on-set and crying foul about her not being naked in the film. I remember there being a big deal about that as well.

But yeah, looking past that it's far better than expected and is certainly much better than a lot of theatrical stuff from 2009. I don't remember which ones did go, but that one was probably the one I liked the most anyway.
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Well...I still prefer quite a few other 2009 films to this but it's definitely underrated and I regret not seeing it in theaters. Curse you bad word of mouth and the fact that I wasn't 17 yet when this was released. (un)
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I found this to be pretty good when it came out. Not great, but it definitely did its job. Amanda Seyfried was definitely the standout, but even Megan Fox gave one of her few genuinely good performances. (You could say it was the role she was born to play... (lol) )

Regarding why people didn't like it, I do agree that part of it was because of the hate that Megan Fox was getting, but let's not forget the writer of this film, either. Diablo Cody was fresh off of winning an Oscar for writing Juno, a film that was already starting to get backlash at the time. When I read the negative reviews for this, one thing that everyone focused on was Cody's dialogue, and while I felt that there certainly was something of a "hipness for hipness' sake" to parts of it (the MoveOn.org line definitely isn't dated now, no siree (grin) ), many of the complaints were overblown IMO.
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Yeah, that might be another part of it. It's certainly one of the main issues I had with it as well, that trying to be too cool for itself is a major problem here. It could be a well-storm of all three facets:

1. General hating on Megan Fox in general.
2. Public reactions to the creative side
3. Butt-hurt fan-boys upset over the mis-marketed promotional materials

I think all those issues might have something to do with it all rolled into one. Luckily, only one of those is a reason to lower this one down, the others not so much.
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This is a fun movie. It's not good, but it's fun. It's not one of my favorites, but I enjoy it when there's nothing else to watch.

Megan Fox proves she actually can act, particularly in the scene where she
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I think this movie very much rips off the (much, much better) Ginger Snaps, though... Which is funny because Diablo Cody said in the commentary for Juno that she had never seen Ginger Snaps before when they were talking about Emily Perkins, who places the abortion clinic receptionist in it.

It's not a great film. At all. My main problem with it is that Diablo tried WAY too hard to make it a deep, meaningful, metaphorical film with some weird feminist allegory within it, but failed miserably... MISERABLY. Had they just stuck to the teen horror-comedy thing, there'd be less of an issue.

I think All Cheerleaders Die does virtually the exact same thing as Jennifer's Body, but better... And unlike JB, it actually manages to convey its feminist undertones a bit more eloquently.

Neither are brilliant films, though, and NEITHER can hold a candle to Ginger Snaps.

I give Jennifer's Body a B. Maybe a B-.
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I blame part of the backlash on a portion of fanboys having issues with how girly it is. Even though Twilight was extremely popular at the time, there's something off about the frequency that this movie was compared to it when it came out. There's definitely a (dumb) segment of horror fans that are going to get pissy over a horror film they think is "for girls."
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I remember hearing people complain about Sorority Row for that same reason; 'too girly and glossy.' (un) I don't really care for films with super gritty content, characters, and locations that have a really ugly glossy look/style to them but sometimes - like Sorority Row and Jennifer's Body - it actually helps the film (a little bit anyway, lol).
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Yeah. People did the same shit when the plot for 2013 Evil Dead came out, and they got even worse when Diablo Cody signed on as a script editor. "They're turning Evil Dead into a grrrlpwer movie!"

Sorry, but horror films starring girls doesn't automatically make it about girlpower or a girly movie.

With that said, Sorority Row is world's ahead of Jennifer's Body... But I still understand your comparison.
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I love girly movies, and I still thought this sucked *shrug*
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I like this movie, but I think it would've been much better if they didn't attempt to make it deep. Karyn Kusama is capable of deep films (Girlfight), and Diablo Cody is perfectly-capable of writing deep scripts (Young Adult, Paradise... Even Juno), but this is not a film that should've had some kind of deep feminist message hidden in it. It should have been a fun, violent horror-comedy about a hot demon high school chick who munches on boys and has a mildly-sapphic relationship with her nerdy best friend. That's all it had to be, and that's all it should've been. It could have been a cult classic if they hadn't tried to make it something deeper than it is.

But, hey... That's just my opinion.
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It should have been a fun, violent horror-comedy about a hot demon high school chick who munches on boys and has a mildly-sapphic relationship with her nerdy best friend. That's all it had to be, and that's all it should've been. It could have been a cult classic if they hadn't tried to make it something deeper than it is.

But, hey... That's just my opinion.


Hell, no. I'd be on board for that.
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After all the hate it got on release, I was surprised at how much I actually ended up liked it. I definitely didn't think it was too girly (or anything like Twilight), and I thought the 'glossiness' suited the tone of the movie. Most of the characters were likeable, and while it could have been gorier, it didn't really bring it down for me. I'd like to watch it again for sure, since I haven't seen it since it's release


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Didn't much care for it, but I am a fan of the Hole song from which it takes its name. What sunk it for me was the writing; Diablo Cody is a very good writer, but she's better with more character, whimsical type material than genre stuff. I have no opinion at all on Megan Fox -- I don't hate her, but I don't like her, either -- but I didn't feel her performance was anything worth noting here. Decent soundtrack, though.
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Diablo Cody dialogue is so annoying. Also, Fox is a horrible "actress"
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Apr 22 2013, 01:49 AM
I didn't like it. It's also way overrated.
I rewatched it with a friend, and it's grown on me. I still don't think it's anything great, but I was able to have some fun with it.

Alot of the dialogue is so cringe worthy
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