Comments on: Going To Bat For “Jennifer’s Body” (Review)

By: Anthony T

Anthony T — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:19:16 +0000

Your review was right on the money. I had the same feeling after walking out of the theater. The film didn’t feel like a horror film at all, as I thought it was more of a dark comedy. The development, the characters and the clever dialouge helped saved this film from becoming disappointing, as I was going into this film from a horror film prespective.

Thankfully I changed gears midway through and viewed from a regular presepective that I usually do for more serious films, as the film is more enjoyable from that prespective.

By: fallon

fallon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:42:35 +0000

Yeah, I just can’t understand why it pulled it’s punches, AT ALL. I was just reading Arrow In The Head’s interview with Diablo Cody, and she said that the director is actually a huge horror fan, which blew me away!

Another interview clip you might find interesting re: Fox’s talent haha… Just read this from Fox’s interview in Rolling Stone.
“It’s a cool movie, but I don’t think anybody’s going to walk away from it and go, ‘Wow, she’s really talented.’ I don’t think it will propel me to a different level. Even I don’t know how much talent I have or what I’m capable of. At best, someone might say, ‘She was different in that movie than she was in Transformers.’ I did an OK job. But I don’t see myself accomplishing something amazing with it.”

So yeah. PROOF.

By: Todd Sheets

Todd Sheets — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:56:03 +0000

I have to say that I liked your review and I agree – I gave thej film a 60/40 – I liked 60 percent – but most of the 40 I did not like is Megan Fox. I wish that she would never be in a movie again. They could have dressed a blow up doll and it would have more emotion. She is a no talent and with someone else in the film in that spot, it would have been a vast improvement. Just like in Transformers 2, her screen time was just a huge annoyance. Funny in that film, she is in the last 33 minutes and has 2 lines. She should have stayed with the parents and gave us a break! And I also agree, the movie needs gore. Badly. It was basically a PG-13 withy soem bad language. The director said in an interview that she had to be very careful when to show gore and how to handle the scare scenes. Well – I guess she never figured it out. LOL. It’s an R-Rated Horror movie why try and be “tasteful” as she said? Screw THAT! More blood and this movie SCREAMS for some nudity – just stop the PC Bullshit and get nasty!