Megan Fox may have been oddly cast as Sam Witwicky’s girlfriend in Transformers, but the role nevertheless heaved the toe-thumbed hottie into men’s dreams and women’s fears. But as the co-lead in Jennifer’s Body, there is no better fit than Fox. Chalk that up to the young actress having a knack for playing an aloof, predatory vixen — go figure! — and writer Diablo Cody’s (Juno) superb ability to give her characters the wittiest, sharpest of tongues (not to mention teeth). Less perfect is the overall story. While Jennifer’s Body will gift you with terms like “wetty” and “freaktard,” there’s less to take home from the narrative. Lesbi-gay (that’s another term for the film) director, Karyn Kusama (Æon Flux), succeeds at adding an excited style and pace to Cody’s story, which is BFF with the film’s one-liners.
God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in [...]
Courtesy of our friends over at ShockTillYouDrop.com comes the very first trailer for Jennifer’s Body, written by Diablo Cody and directed by lady-loving, Karyn Kusama; I don’t actually know if she’s gay, but she does have a pension for hot girl-centered films (e.g., Girlfight and Aeon Flux), and Jennifer’s Body falls in line. While Megan [...]
Michael Bay certainly has his own style of film-making and is the industry’s veritable man-child director running amok with big budgets and even bigger explosions. And while Bay usually does what he does well (which says nothing of it actually being good), he’s overdone it with his latest, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The preceding film in 2007 introduced audiences to Hasbro’s nostalgic toy-line in fitting blockbuster fashion, bringing childhood imaginations to life in a way few thought possible. That right first step, presumably, gave Bay the inclination to crank it up to 11 this time and overload Revenge of the Fallen with so much eye candy and fury you’ll walk out of the theater with ocular cavities and a general amnesia to the preceding two-and-a-half hours. We’ll call the condition “Bay Overdose,” which can be traced back to a number of the film’s afflictions.
