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Author Topic: Jennifer's Body (2009) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 09-20-2009 10:57 PM                        CINEMA: 13th Avenue Warren, Wichita, KS AUDITORIUM: 19 PRESENTATION: Kinoton 35mm, Dolby Digital, THX PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None RATING: Two and one half stars (out of four) THE PLOT: An indie band takes a shortcut to making it big. Wackiness ensues. Well, we've got a part horror, part dark comedy, part high school drama here. Jennifer is not quite a zombie, not quite a vampire. The best parts of the movie are the sex scenes...one great inexperienced teen sex scene, and one with quite possibly the hottest girl-girl kiss ever. One of the funniest lines in the movie is Jennifer's comment about anal sex. Having said that, there's also no nudity. I guess they were hoping to get a cult classic out of this, and I don't think they will. But as teen high school horror flicks go, it's a pretty good effort.  |  IP: Logged Karl Borowski Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sulking in GameFAQ Forum Registered: Sep 2009 posted 09-21-2009 12:51 PM                     Six Reels 102 min. DTS/DTTS/Dolby/SR Potential Problem: On IN #3, I think, the internegative from which our print was struck, the IN not only appears to have been particularly dirty (lots of white dust and dirt flecks, but there was actually damage to the point that they crudely cut out a piece of a scene, with a particularly-noisy lab splice. On second thought, they don't always send each reel from the same IN, so I am going to have to go back and manually check tonight. Again, it was on the 3rd or 4th reel that I saw this. Maybe our print was made near the end of the IN's run. Can anyone else confirm this?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-21-2009 04:08 PM                     Wow Karl...that sounds like a GREAT movie. Please use the 'SPOILER' feature in future though so as not to give so much away to those who may want to watch it.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-22-2009 04:09 PM                     An OK way to spend some time, but nothing to get excited about. Amanda Seyfried is WAY better looking than Megan Fox, and a much better actress. The lack of passion shown by Megan really hurt the film...she needed to be much more darkly sensual instead of preppy cute. Script is weak with some tired teen cliche's. This one gets a "C".  |  IP: Logged Karl Borowski Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sulking in GameFAQ Forum Registered: Sep 2009 posted 09-22-2009 06:25 PM                     John: Thanks for jumping all over me for posting in the incorrect thread. Maybe when I am a "film god" I will be immune to making mistakes, but, in the interim, can you please cut the new guy some slack? Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-26-2009 10:29 PM                     Not bad, but needs titties.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-05-2009 11:18 PM                       Thanks for saving me a couple of hours, Chris! John, you are TOOO funny! LOL! Karl.. don't worry. Everyone gets ribbed at first. It's a rite of passage; an initiation of sorts. Just roll with it, and you can pick on the next guy.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-05-2009 11:34 PM                     quote: Karl Borowski John: Thanks for jumping all over me for posting in the incorrect thread. Maybe when I am a "film god" I will be immune to making mistakes, but, in the interim, can you please cut the new guy some slack? Thanks. A simple 'oops' would have worked just as well for you.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-06-2009 12:03 AM                     quote: Thanks for saving me a couple of hours, Chris! Actually, Sam first mentioned the lack of nudity. That's a deal-breaker for me. What the hell kind of dying teenager movie leaves out the obligatory naked titty scene? We have a tradition to uphold! This is the R-rated movie of today. We'll have some bloody violence to get the R-rating even though broadcast network TV could air something just as gruesome. How about an episode of Gray's Anatomy where a patient's neck wound is showering the ER with a geyser of blood? In the old days when we were kids we would have pin ups of sexy women on our walls. What are kids supposed to do these days, pin up bloody crime scene photos?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-11-2009 04:08 PM                       Bobby, that's an interesting comparison. In the old days, they'd show a titty and a bush or two for an R rating... Btw, my apologies to Evil Sam for overlooking his nudity comment.  |  IP: Logged Paul J. Neuhaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Iraq.. Again! Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-15-2009 12:59 PM                     I'll admit that I only watched this one to see Megan Fox.. But Damn this was time I'll never get back and god I wish I could! Friends don't let friends see this movie!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-15-2009 01:30 PM                        quote: Bobby Henderson This is the R-rated movie of today. We'll have some bloody violence to get the R-rating even though broadcast network TV could air something just as gruesome. It's kind of strange how almost all of the "nudity" in mainstream R-rated films today is of men, and is often done for comic effect by using old disgusting men. (See "The Hangover") This is NOT a welcome trend!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-15-2009 03:52 PM                     Also, see (or more importantly, don't) 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-15-2009 07:23 PM                     I think Observe and Report really pushed unpleasant looking nudity to a new extreme. Observe and Report was Rated R for "pervasive language, graphic nudity, drug use, sexual content and violence." I had a bad feeling that "graphic nudity" blurb meant that it was not the good (attractive female) kind of nudity. And I was right! On the upside, you do get to see some exposed female breasts in a dressing room. That's not much conciliation for what else you get to see.  |  IP: Logged

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