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Also, in real life listening to teens at a store or on the train or something always sounds less smart and more loud than teens in movie's do. But, of course, that's why they're movies and not, you know, documentaries.
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And I don't think that she's even really supposed to be attracted to her. She's trying to manipulate her, not expressing an actual romantic interest.
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I get that we're all glad it's not a super-sexualized, for-the-male-gaze-only moment and that it fits into the context of the film, but isn't this still potentially marginalizing an already marginalized group of people?
Again, not making a judgement call, I'm actually curious as to how it comes off in the film. Anyone who's seen it care to comment?
09/18/09
Hint: because it's funny.
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But I will put aside all of my wussiness and get my ass to the theater to see this. Partly because I am an unabashed Diablo Cody fan, and partly because it just looks awesome.
09/17/09
Think about it. We all know that Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, and Liam Neeson can act. He's Liam Freakin' Neeson.
But all of them turned out pretty terrible performances in The Phantom Menace, and if that was all somebody saw of them they likely would say they can't act.
What I'm getting at here is that Michael Bay can explode things really well, and that's awesome. But an actor's director he is not.
09/17/09
And good call on the Star Wars examples. I'm surprised almost any of those actors did as well as they did, given how little they had to work with. Even Hayden Christiansen is better than that (Life as a House).
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Yeah, the hammy acting made the films for me.
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Also, an aside: I'm getting sick of people talking about how 'unrealistic' the dialogue in Cody's movies are. I mean, I get it, because people don't use slang, jargon and inside jokes in most run-of-the-mill Hollywood dramas. But real people do! I was just recently cleaning out my old childhood room, and found a note where my best friend had listed every single inside joke we had in the 8th grade. Let me tell you, it would make "honest to blog" sound like something your grandma would say...
09/17/09
Later on in the class, I wrote a screenplay about three gamer girls playing Starcraft and my professor admitted he had no idea what they were saying. The way people in class read lines aloud showed that they had no clue either.
Subcultures have their own language, and teenagers are a pretty big subculture.
09/17/09
Plus, I grew up on Hughes movies and Heathers. There's honestly nothing in those that doesn't mirror Cody's teen "voice" somewhat. Heathers in particular.
I just don't get why people keep bringing it up. Okay, you didn't like it. Cool. There are many movies I don't like that many other people do. I don't feel the need to jump into every discussion about them and freak out about it. Unless it promotes something more problematic than quirky dialog. The reality is, no one movie can tackle every issue, every inequality, every problem with female characters/films, perfectly. And it shouldn't be expected to. Women get so little, I understand that people want that. But it's just impossible.
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I maintain that this wasn't really my fault, but who knows.
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But he gave it a 3 out of 4 stars, which is high for him, and had this, among other things, to say:
"It's easy to go on like this, but I'd be missing something. There is within Diablo Cody the soul of an artist, and her screenplay brings to this material a certain edge, a kind of gleeful relish, that's uncompromising. This isn't your assembly-line teen horror thriller. The portraits of Jennifer and Needy are a little too knowing, the dialogue is a little too off-center, the developments are a little too quirky. After you've seen enough teen thrillers, you begin to appreciate these distinctions. Let's put it this way: I'd rather see "Jennifer's Body" again than "Twilight."
It's a genre horror movie, and with the level of (imho, ridiculous and unearned hate around Cody) I was expecting a lot of reviews to go nuts. And if Ebert didn't like it, he would have said so.
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I also feel like...they -know- a lot of boys won't get it. But they're still getting their asses in the seats with Fox and the lesbian kiss. And then there's all that subtext, which they may or may not get...but that's not the point. The point is that it's -there-. That's what matters to me. They can't help what boys will or won't get about the layers of destructive girl friendships..but I'm all for movies that attempt to do that getting their money so they can make more.
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