Odd to see this posted now. I expected Christmas films or something to start, not going back to Halloween film
Wait is this the film reaction for today cause I seems like its an old Halloween stream?
OH MY GOD ITS YOUNG NEIL. HOW DID I NEVER SEE HIM
It’s like someone had an interesting screenplay and then MTV vomited on the script.
Jennifer’s Body is so much fun. I first saw it when it came out and didn’t think much of it, but overtime I grew to really love it.
love this movie! it’s truly the only movie I enjoy with Meghan Fox as an actress.
Interesting choice for the first December movie lol. Why’d this take over a month to get uploaded?
so confused by this setup and then i was like “oh the costumes so this is from the halloween stream”
There’s actually a fair bit more to this movie than it seems, including Megan Fox’s role specifically. In this movie she plays someone who is taken advantage of because of her appearance/sexuality, who is treated as disposable and a means to an end. Who in turn tries to use her sexuality to take control, because that’s all people (boys) see when they look at her anyway. This is something Megan Fox has talked about relating to a lot. That in a sense it was cathartic to play this character and kind of feel like she was, in some way, fighting back against those who always try to see her only through the lens of her sexuality.
Honestly, I find it really funny/strange that you kind of said the point was just that Jennifer is hot. Like, this movie largely bombed at the box office because it was marketed toward horny teenage boys that just emphasized how hot she was (despite that the writer/director was making it to be aimed at a teenage girl audience). But she spends a lot of this movie vomiting like in The Exorcist, and chowing down on boys’ innards. It’s not particularly sexy. Beyond that, it’s also about the kind of intense, toxic friendships that some teenage girls have with each other. Ones that very often blur the line between platonic and romantic. Jennifer is honestly more dependent on Needy than Needy is on her, because Jennifer uses Needy to try to feel better about herself (again, she’s deeply insecure). It’s not a healthy relationship, but it’s an interesting and complex one.
Which doesn’t mean that you need to love the movie or anything. There’s plenty of jokes that don’t work or dated moments, but I get why it’s a cult classic. And I DO think there’s actually a lot more to what it’s saying than you guys are giving it credit for, and a lot more intentionality behind the jokes that do and don’t work. Honestly, there are some really great video essays out there about the movie that I’d recommend checking out. In particular “Jennifer’s Body and the Horror of Bad Marketing” by Yhara Zayd.
here are some real life bands i found that have weird/offbeat/bad/odd/nonsensical/uncool names:
AFI
Agent Orange
Alkaline Trio
Balance and Composure
Beach Fossils
The Buttertones
Cage the Elephant
Cat Signs
CH3
Choking Victim
The Dickies
Dr. Dog
Foxygen
The Frights
The Get Up Kids
Guttermouth
Homeshake
Joyce Manor
Mike Watt
Mount Eerie
Morrissey
Moving Units
No Parents
Pinback
Plague Vendor
Saves the Day
Senses Fail
Set Your Goals
Sheer Mag
Silversun Pickups
The Stitches
Streetlight Manifesto
Sunflower Bean
Taking Back Sunday
Tijuana Panthers
Together Pangea
Turnstile
3OH!3
The All-American Rejects
Armor for Sleep
Boys Like Girls
Bright Eyes
Bring Me the Horizon
Dance Gavin Dance
Dashboard Confessional
Death Cab for Cutie
Four Year Strong
The Garden
Glassjaw
Hawthorne Heights
HorrorPops
Lil Huddy
Ice Nine Kills
Jimmy Eat World
Knocked Loose
The Linda Lindas
The Maine
Manchester Orchestra
Mayday Parade
Meet Me at the Altar
Millionaires
Mom Jeans
Motionless in White
My Chemical Romance
Neck Deep
Pierce the Veil
Pvris
The Ready Set
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Royal & the Serpent
Senses Fail
Sleeping With Sirens
The Starting Line
State Champs
Story of the Year
The Story So Far
Taking Back Sunday
Thursday
TV Girl
Underoath (weekend 2 only)
We the Kings
Wolf Alice (weekend 1 only)
The Wonder Years
The Used
5 Seconds of Summer
The Academy Is…
AJJ
All Time Low
Beach Bunny
Bowling for Soup
Ekkstacy
Fenix TX
The Front Bottoms
Games We Play
Goldfinger
Gym Class Heroes
Hot Mulligan
Knuckle Puck
Less Than Jake
Lit
Magnolia Park
Motion City Soundtrack
Movements
The Movielife
MxPx
New Found Glory
No Pressure
The Offspring
Pierce the Veil
Plain White T’s
Relient K
Rise Against
Saves The Day
Say Anything
Set It Off
Simple Plan
Something Corporate
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thrice
Tigers Jaw
Turnover
Waterparks
Yellowcard
Zebrahead
lawlZ remember fappin to this back in the day, ahhh the memories
weird flex but ok
eric yawning when chip died, had me HOWLING wayyy too funny
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Odd to see this posted now. I expected Christmas films or something to start, not going back to Halloween film
Wait is this the film reaction for today cause I seems like its an old Halloween stream?
OH MY GOD ITS YOUNG NEIL. HOW DID I NEVER SEE HIM
It’s like someone had an interesting screenplay and then MTV vomited on the script.
Jennifer’s Body is so much fun. I first saw it when it came out and didn’t think much of it, but overtime I grew to really love it.
love this movie! it’s truly the only movie I enjoy with Meghan Fox as an actress.
Interesting choice for the first December movie lol. Why’d this take over a month to get uploaded?
so confused by this setup and then i was like “oh the costumes so this is from the halloween stream”
There’s actually a fair bit more to this movie than it seems, including Megan Fox’s role specifically. In this movie she plays someone who is taken advantage of because of her appearance/sexuality, who is treated as disposable and a means to an end. Who in turn tries to use her sexuality to take control, because that’s all people (boys) see when they look at her anyway. This is something Megan Fox has talked about relating to a lot. That in a sense it was cathartic to play this character and kind of feel like she was, in some way, fighting back against those who always try to see her only through the lens of her sexuality.
Honestly, I find it really funny/strange that you kind of said the point was just that Jennifer is hot. Like, this movie largely bombed at the box office because it was marketed toward horny teenage boys that just emphasized how hot she was (despite that the writer/director was making it to be aimed at a teenage girl audience). But she spends a lot of this movie vomiting like in The Exorcist, and chowing down on boys’ innards. It’s not particularly sexy. Beyond that, it’s also about the kind of intense, toxic friendships that some teenage girls have with each other. Ones that very often blur the line between platonic and romantic. Jennifer is honestly more dependent on Needy than Needy is on her, because Jennifer uses Needy to try to feel better about herself (again, she’s deeply insecure). It’s not a healthy relationship, but it’s an interesting and complex one.
Which doesn’t mean that you need to love the movie or anything. There’s plenty of jokes that don’t work or dated moments, but I get why it’s a cult classic. And I DO think there’s actually a lot more to what it’s saying than you guys are giving it credit for, and a lot more intentionality behind the jokes that do and don’t work. Honestly, there are some really great video essays out there about the movie that I’d recommend checking out. In particular “Jennifer’s Body and the Horror of Bad Marketing” by Yhara Zayd.
here are some real life bands i found that have weird/offbeat/bad/odd/nonsensical/uncool names:
AFI
Agent Orange
Alkaline Trio
Balance and Composure
Beach Fossils
The Buttertones
Cage the Elephant
Cat Signs
CH3
Choking Victim
The Dickies
Dr. Dog
Foxygen
The Frights
The Get Up Kids
Guttermouth
Homeshake
Joyce Manor
Mike Watt
Mount Eerie
Morrissey
Moving Units
No Parents
Pinback
Plague Vendor
Saves the Day
Senses Fail
Set Your Goals
Sheer Mag
Silversun Pickups
The Stitches
Streetlight Manifesto
Sunflower Bean
Taking Back Sunday
Tijuana Panthers
Together Pangea
Turnstile
3OH!3
The All-American Rejects
Armor for Sleep
Boys Like Girls
Bright Eyes
Bring Me the Horizon
Dance Gavin Dance
Dashboard Confessional
Death Cab for Cutie
Four Year Strong
The Garden
Glassjaw
Hawthorne Heights
HorrorPops
Lil Huddy
Ice Nine Kills
Jimmy Eat World
Knocked Loose
The Linda Lindas
The Maine
Manchester Orchestra
Mayday Parade
Meet Me at the Altar
Millionaires
Mom Jeans
Motionless in White
My Chemical Romance
Neck Deep
Pierce the Veil
Pvris
The Ready Set
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Royal & the Serpent
Senses Fail
Sleeping With Sirens
The Starting Line
State Champs
Story of the Year
The Story So Far
Taking Back Sunday
Thursday
TV Girl
Underoath (weekend 2 only)
We the Kings
Wolf Alice (weekend 1 only)
The Wonder Years
The Used
5 Seconds of Summer
The Academy Is…
AJJ
All Time Low
Beach Bunny
Bowling for Soup
Ekkstacy
Fenix TX
The Front Bottoms
Games We Play
Goldfinger
Gym Class Heroes
Hot Mulligan
Knuckle Puck
Less Than Jake
Lit
Magnolia Park
Motion City Soundtrack
Movements
The Movielife
MxPx
New Found Glory
No Pressure
The Offspring
Pierce the Veil
Plain White T’s
Relient K
Rise Against
Saves The Day
Say Anything
Set It Off
Simple Plan
Something Corporate
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thrice
Tigers Jaw
Turnover
Waterparks
Yellowcard
Zebrahead
lawlZ remember fappin to this back in the day, ahhh the memories
weird flex but ok
eric yawning when chip died, had me HOWLING wayyy too funny
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