Quote of the Day

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I really enjoyed this brief piece over at io9 on how the slutty girl-on-girl marketing for Jennifer's Body didn't do the film any favors, box-office-wise, mainly because the writer agrees with me that the film's underrated and full of charm and didn't deserve the sound rejection it's received. Choice bit:

"... the ad campaigns were aimed at straight young men, who are the core audience for most movies starring Megan Fox.

But the problem is that Jennifer's Body is not an ejaculatory explosion movie like Transformers 2. It is a horror movie, which means its built-in audience is already predominantly female (stats show that horror movie-goers are often over 60 percent women). Megan Fox is also not the main character; and she's not the boy hero's plucky sidekick (there are no boy heroes in this movie). Instead, she's the toothy, gory, puke-soaked object of repulsion and disgust. In short, she is the monster.

And she's a very specific kind of monster, too. She embodies one of the scariest demons who haunts girls' dreams: The popular, pretty girl who pretends to be your friend while secretly trying to steal your boyfriend, your pride, and your life. Written and directed by women, Jennifer's Body is a film made in a women's genre about women's problems. It's a movie about why women want to stab Megan Fox in the tit with scissors."

I have no doubt the film will find an audience over the years on DVD (or whatever ways we're watching movies in the years to come). I wanna watch it again right now after reading this article. My tit.
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