list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Mean Girls on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Mean_Girls/233693/default.aspx Title: Mean Girls
Year: 2004
Director: Mark S. Waters
Plot: Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on. Much to her surprise, Cady finds herself embraced by a clique of rich and popular girls known to outsiders as "the Plastics," led by Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Weiners (Lacey Chabert), and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). While Cady is grateful for her new friends, it doesn't take long for her to realize how manipulative they can be, and she soon discovers she's violated an unwritten law when she goes out on a date with Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), who is charming, good looking...and Regina's former boyfriend. It isn't long before Regina and her pals are on the warpath, and Cady must face a level of vengeful behavior for which years in the jungle never prepared her. Joining Tina Fey in the supporting cast are fellow SNL players Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, and Tim Meadows. The screenplay for Mean Girls was based in part on Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, a book by professional youth counselor Rosalind Wiseman. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:11:49 GMTMean Girls2004Mark S. Waters<a href="/players/P___336261/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tina Fey</a> from <a href=/films/220811/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Saturday Night Live</a> wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady Heron (<a href="/players/P___241579/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Lindsay Lohan</a>) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on. Much to her surprise, Cady finds herself embraced by a clique of rich and popular girls known to outsiders as "the Plastics," led by Regina George (<a href="/players/P___334531/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Rachel McAdams</a>), Gretchen Weiners (<a href="/players/P___232257/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Lacey Chabert</a>), and Karen Smith (<a href="/players/P___384545/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Amanda Seyfried</a>). While Cady is grateful for her new friends, it doesn't take long for her to realize how manipulative they can be, and she soon discovers she's violated an unwritten law when she goes out on a date with Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), who is charming, good looking...and Regina's former boyfriend. It isn't long before Regina and her pals are on the warpath, and Cady must face a level of vengeful behavior for which years in the jungle never prepared her. Joining <a href="/players/P___336261/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tina Fey</a> in the supporting cast are fellow <a href=/films/247422/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>SNL</a> players <a href="/players/P___273694/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Amy Poehler</a>, <a href="/players/P___223152/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ana Gasteyer</a>, and <a href="/players/P___187026/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tim Meadows</a>. The screenplay for Mean Girls was based in part on Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, a book by professional youth counselor Rosalind Wiseman. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide91Tag Target (>10)69873http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t47745ad9u5.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Mean_Girls/233693/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_October_6_Revenge/625/35952/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Tizzy
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Post Date: 10/6/2008 7:06:19 PM
Body: [quote user="mercurial"] Well since probably my favorite film focusing solely on revenge was mentioned (She-Devil), I'm gonna have to go ahead and list those that pale in comparison. Jaws: The Revenge - The first Jaws is incredible, but not really about revenge. The fourth installment, with revenge blatantly placed in the title, is a great little B-movie that increased my fear of sharks and has made me vow to myself to never get on a floatation device that gets dragged behind a boat: cause you know great white sharks love that shit. I was recently able to see Machine Girl which was insanely gory and loaded with laughs. Premise: a young school girl gets revenge by attaching a Gatling gun to her amputated forearm and killing the bullies that picked on her and her brother. A Nightmare on Elm Street is more or less a revenge flick about Freddy killing the kids of those who killed him. Carrie gave mousy nerds in high school hope of becoming telekinetic and getting revenge on all those snot nosed cheerleaders and jocks. Death Becomes Her is all about revenge between two woman that continues throughout their entire lives. Dick presupposes that Deepthroat was just getting revenge on Nixon. Election is yet another meditation on revenge set in high school. Pick Flick or suffer the wrath of Reese Witherspoon! Friday the 13th. No explanation needed. Gladiator Maximus is all up on getting revenge. Hackers spends half the film getting revenge on those that dare to mess with computer nerds and their porn. Hard Candy was a very twisted revenge thriller. Jawbreaker and Mean Girls focus on big breasted teens plotting each others demise. Overboard has a lowly carpenter getting revenge on a bitchy debutante by surreptitiously making her into his wife and the father of his children when she gets amnesia. Rushmore has fantastic moments of revenge between Max and Mr. Bloom. The "Non-Fiction" part of Storytelling has a great bit of revenge at the end. The First Wives Club is a guilty pleasure about scorned ex-wives getting revenge on their husbands that left them for younger women. The Incredibles centers around Syndrome getting revenge on super-heroes. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? is some classic screen legend revenge. Lastly, Wild Things. Great B-movie with acts of revenge and lesbian trysts around every corner. [/quote] I see your Jaws: The Revenge, Mercurial, and raise you one Revenge of the Nerds. I'd also like to throw Heathers into the mix of teenage revenge movies, with very dark consequences.
]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:06:19 GMTTizzyWeekly Theme10/6/2008 7:06:19 PM[quote user="mercurial"] Well since probably my favorite film focusing solely on revenge was mentioned (She-Devil), I'm gonna have to go ahead and list those that pale in comparison. Jaws: The Revenge - The first Jaws is incredible, but not really about revenge. The fourth installment, with revenge blatantly placed in the title, is a great little B-movie that increased my fear of sharks and has made me vow to myself to never get on a floatation device that gets dragged behind a boat: cause you know great white sharks love that shit. I was recently able to see Machine Girl which was insanely gory and loaded with laughs. Premise: a young school girl gets revenge by attaching a Gatling gun to her amputated forearm and killing the bullies that picked on her and her brother. A Nightmare on Elm Street is more or less a revenge flick about Freddy killing the kids of those who killed him. Carrie gave mousy nerds in high school hope of becoming telekinetic and getting revenge on all those snot nosed cheerleaders and jocks. Death Becomes Her is all about revenge between two woman that continues throughout their entire lives. Dick presupposes that Deepthroat was just getting revenge on Nixon. Election is yet another meditation on revenge set in high school. Pick Flick or suffer the wrath of Reese Witherspoon! Friday the 13th. No explanation needed. Gladiator Maximus is all up on getting revenge. Hackers spends half the film getting revenge on those that dare to mess with computer nerds and their porn. Hard Candy was a very twisted revenge thriller. Jawbreaker and Mean Girls focus on big breasted teens plotting each others demise. Overboard has a lowly carpenter getting revenge on a bitchy debutante by surreptitiously making her into his wife and the father of his children when she gets amnesia. Rushmore has fantastic moments of revenge between Max and Mr. Bloom. The "Non-Fiction" part of Storytelling has a great bit of revenge at the end. The First Wives Club is a guilty pleasure about scorned ex-wives getting revenge on their husbands that left them for younger women. The Incredibles centers around Syndrome getting revenge on super-heroes. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? is some classic screen legend revenge. Lastly, Wild Things. Great B-movie with acts of revenge and lesbian trysts around every corner. [/quote] I see your Jaws: The Revenge, Mercurial, and raise you one Revenge of the Nerds. I'd also like to throw Heathers into the mix of teenage revenge movies, with very dark consequences. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_October_6_Revenge/625/35951/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 10/6/2008 6:45:27 PM
Body: Well since probably my favorite film focusing solely on revenge was mentioned (She-Devil), I'm gonna have to go ahead and list those that pale in comparison. Jaws: The Revenge - The first Jaws is incredible, but not really about revenge. The fourth installment, with revenge blatantly placed in the title, is a great little B-movie that increased my fear of sharks and has made me vow to myself to never get on a floatation device that gets dragged behind a boat: cause you know great white sharks love that shit. I was recently able to see Machine Girl which was insanely gory and loaded with laughs. Premise: a young school girl gets revenge by attaching a Gatling gun to her amputated forearm and killing the bullies that picked on her and her brother. A Nightmare on Elm Street is more or less a revenge flick about Freddy killing the kids of those who killed him. Carrie gave mousy nerds in high school hope of becoming telekinetic and getting revenge on all those snot nosed cheerleaders and jocks. Death Becomes Her is all about revenge between two woman that continues throughout their entire lives. Dick presupposes that Deepthroat was just getting revenge on Nixon. Election is yet another meditation on revenge set in high school. Pick Flick or suffer the wrath of Reese Witherspoon! Friday the 13th. No explanation needed. Gladiator Maximus is all up on getting revenge. Hackers spends half the film getting revenge on those that dare to mess with computer nerds and their porn. Hard Candy was a very twisted revenge thriller. Jawbreaker and Mean Girls focus on big breasted teens plotting each others demise. Overboard has a lowly carpenter getting revenge on a bitchy debutante by surreptitiously making her into his wife and the father of his children when she gets amnesia. Rushmore has fantastic moments of revenge between Max and Mr. Bloom. The "Non-Fiction" part of Storytelling has a great bit of revenge at the end. The First Wives Club is a guilty pleasure about scorned ex-wives getting revenge on their husbands that left them for younger women. The Incredibles centers around Syndrome getting revenge on super-heroes. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? is some classic screen legend revenge. Lastly, Wild Things. Great B-movie with acts of revenge and lesbian trysts around every corner.
]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:45:27 GMTmercurialWeekly Theme10/6/2008 6:45:27 PMWell since probably my favorite film focusing solely on revenge was mentioned (She-Devil), I'm gonna have to go ahead and list those that pale in comparison. Jaws: The Revenge - The first Jaws is incredible, but not really about revenge. The fourth installment, with revenge blatantly placed in the title, is a great little B-movie that increased my fear of sharks and has made me vow to myself to never get on a floatation device that gets dragged behind a boat: cause you know great white sharks love that shit. I was recently able to see Machine Girl which was insanely gory and loaded with laughs. Premise: a young school girl gets revenge by attaching a Gatling gun to her amputated forearm and killing the bullies that picked on her and her brother. A Nightmare on Elm Street is more or less a revenge flick about Freddy killing the kids of those who killed him. Carrie gave mousy nerds in high school hope of becoming telekinetic and getting revenge on all those snot nosed cheerleaders and jocks. Death Becomes Her is all about revenge between two woman that continues throughout their entire lives. Dick presupposes that Deepthroat was just getting revenge on Nixon. Election is yet another meditation on revenge set in high school. Pick Flick or suffer the wrath of Reese Witherspoon! Friday the 13th. No explanation needed. Gladiator Maximus is all up on getting revenge. Hackers spends half the film getting revenge on those that dare to mess with computer nerds and their porn. Hard Candy was a very twisted revenge thriller. Jawbreaker and Mean Girls focus on big breasted teens plotting each others demise. Overboard has a lowly carpenter getting revenge on a bitchy debutante by surreptitiously making her into his wife and the father of his children when she gets amnesia. Rushmore has fantastic moments of revenge between Max and Mr. Bloom. The "Non-Fiction" part of Storytelling has a great bit of revenge at the end. The First Wives Club is a guilty pleasure about scorned ex-wives getting revenge on their husbands that left them for younger women. The Incredibles centers around Syndrome getting revenge on super-heroes. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? is some classic screen legend revenge. Lastly, Wild Things. Great B-movie with acts of revenge and lesbian trysts around every corner. http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_Recasting_THE_BREAKFAST_CLUB_1985/563/32651/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: estela
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Post Date: 7/17/2008 9:21:22 AM
Body: This is a casting I would want to see on the big screen terrific choices [quote user="leeroy711"] The Breakfast Club Chad Micheal Murray (One Tree Hill) - Andrew Clark (The Athlete) Micheal Cera (Juno, Superbad) - Brian Ralph Johnson (The Brain) Justin Timberlake (Southland Tales) - John Bender (The Criminal) Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) - Claire Standish (The Princess) Ellen Page (Juno) - Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) Mathew Fox (Lost) - Richard Vernon (The Principal) Andre 3000 (Outkast) - Carl (The Janitor) [/quote]
]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:21:22 GMTestelaFilmgaming7/17/2008 9:21:22 AMThis is a casting I would want to see on the big screen terrific choices [quote user="leeroy711"] The Breakfast Club Chad Micheal Murray (One Tree Hill) - Andrew Clark (The Athlete) Micheal Cera (Juno, Superbad) - Brian Ralph Johnson (The Brain) Justin Timberlake (Southland Tales) - John Bender (The Criminal) Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) - Claire Standish (The Princess) Ellen Page (Juno) - Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) Mathew Fox (Lost) - Richard Vernon (The Principal) Andre 3000 (Outkast) - Carl (The Janitor) [/quote] http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Uses_of_Split_Screen/190/30512/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: nikolarulz
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Post Date: 6/4/2008 5:25:40 PM
Body: 1. Mean Girls - ridiculous and quite funny. 2. Kill Bill - pretty amazing, I agree. 3. Domino - It adds to the whole atmosphere, although the movie itself isn't very good. 4. Down With Love - There is a fantastic sequence while they are talking on the phone, it's hilarious! 5. And of course, the classic Pillow Talk.
]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:25:40 GMTnikolarulzTop 56/4/2008 5:25:40 PM1. Mean Girls - ridiculous and quite funny. 2. Kill Bill - pretty amazing, I agree. 3. Domino - It adds to the whole atmosphere, although the movie itself isn't very good. 4. Down With Love - There is a fantastic sequence while they are talking on the phone, it's hilarious! 5. And of course, the classic Pillow Talk. http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_Recasting_THE_BREAKFAST_CLUB_1985/563/28126/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 5/2/2008 8:18:17 PM
Body: The Breakfast Club Chad Micheal Murray (One Tree Hill) - Andrew Clark (The Athlete) Micheal Cera (Juno, Superbad) - Brian Ralph Johnson (The Brain) Justin Timberlake (Southland Tales) - John Bender (The Criminal) Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) - Claire Standish (The Princess) Ellen Page (Juno) - Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) Mathew Fox (Lost) - Richard Vernon (The Principal) Andre 3000 (Outkast) - Carl (The Janitor)
]]>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:18:17 GMTleeroy711Filmgaming5/2/2008 8:18:17 PM The Breakfast Club Chad Micheal Murray (One Tree Hill) - Andrew Clark (The Athlete) Micheal Cera (Juno, Superbad) - Brian Ralph Johnson (The Brain) Justin Timberlake (Southland Tales) - John Bender (The Criminal) Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) - Claire Standish (The Princess) Ellen Page (Juno) - Allison Reynolds (The Basket Case) Mathew Fox (Lost) - Richard Vernon (The Principal) Andre 3000 (Outkast) - Carl (The Janitor) http://www.spout.com/groups/Once_Again/Re_Mean_Girls/560/27590/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: minjoe
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Post Date: 4/21/2008 12:02:51 PM
Body: [quote user="lopezdash"][quote user="mercurial"]There's something about watching a bunch of pseudo-teenagers acting like pseudo-teenagers that is incredibly repellent. Upon first viewing of Mean Girls in the movie theater (yes, I went to the cinema to see it with the droves of high schoolers packing the theater) I actually was rather sickened and confused that I couldn't relate (only being a few years out of high school) to any of it. However, I couldn't help but love the pathetically unreal, but undoubtedly bordering on actual reality, nature of the whole thing. Cameos by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey definitely helped, but in all, I grew to love it and the spastic presentation of high school life it depicts.The plethora of stupid quotes "I wanna lose three pounds!" "Your face smells like peppermint," and fantasy sequences of high schoolers as African wildlife sweetens the pot. Any thoughts? Am I the only twenty-something male that finds Mean Girls appealing (in the not just scoping out young girls kinda way)? [/quote]I didn't watch it in the theater, unfortunately, but being a college student have watched it many, many times. It's interesting how some of the language used in the film has gained acceptance in popular culture (at least on college campuses). Phrases like "word vomit" and the word "fetch" are used a lot in my circle of friends. Films like Mean Girls and Superbad definitely adopt a cult-like popularity. I don't think I'll ever get tired of either. [/quote] Let me be frank, and honest--I love Mean Girls. How does it get better than Lindsay Lohan back when she wasn't addicted to coke, anorexic, or going on booze binges every night? What I like about Mean Girls is that, though it has its over the top teen comedy moments where you just want the campy dialouge to stop, it also has genius moments. Tina Fey is an incredible writer and comic and it comes as no surprise that her work on this movie resulted in some golden moments. Each of the characters is interesting and complex (in their own way) and the more I watch this movie the more I like it... Lohan and company did a great job in making a movie about high schoolers that didn't follow the exact same terrible forumla that was produced time and time again in the late 90's.
]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:02:51 GMTminjoeOnce Again4/21/2008 12:02:51 PM[quote user="lopezdash"][quote user="mercurial"]There&#39;s something about watching a bunch of pseudo-teenagers acting like pseudo-teenagers that is incredibly repellent. Upon first viewing of Mean Girls in the movie theater (yes, I went to the cinema to see it with the droves of high schoolers packing the theater) I actually was rather sickened and confused that I couldn&#39;t relate (only being a few years out of high school) to any of it. However, I couldn&#39;t help but love the pathetically unreal, but undoubtedly bordering on actual reality, nature of the whole thing. Cameos by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey definitely helped, but in all, I grew to love it and the spastic presentation of high school life it depicts.The plethora of stupid quotes "I wanna lose three pounds!" "Your face smells like peppermint," and fantasy sequences of high schoolers as African wildlife sweetens the pot. Any thoughts? Am I the only twenty-something male that finds Mean Girls appealing (in the not just scoping out young girls kinda way)? [/quote]I didn&#39;t watch it in the theater, unfortunately, but being a college student have watched it many, many times. It&#39;s interesting how some of the language used in the film has gained acceptance in popular culture (at least on college campuses). Phrases like "word vomit" and the word "fetch" are used a lot in my circle of friends. Films like Mean Girls and Superbad definitely adopt a cult-like popularity. I don&#39;t think I&#39;ll ever get tired of either. [/quote] Let me be frank, and honest--I love Mean Girls. How does it get better than Lindsay Lohan back when she wasn&#39;t addicted to coke, anorexic, or going on booze binges every night? What I like about Mean Girls is that, though it has its over the top teen comedy moments where you just want the campy dialouge to stop, it also has genius moments. Tina Fey is an incredible writer and comic and it comes as no surprise that her work on this movie resulted in some golden moments. Each of the characters is interesting and complex (in their own way) and the more I watch this movie the more I like it... Lohan and company did a great job in making a movie about high schoolers that didn&#39;t follow the exact same terrible forumla that was produced time and time again in the late 90&#39;s. http://www.spout.com/groups/Once_Again/Mean_Girls/560/26454/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 3/20/2008 9:42:37 PM
Body: There's something about watching a bunch of pseudo-teenagers acting like pseudo-teenagers that is incredibly repellent. Upon first viewing of Mean Girls in the movie theater (yes, I went to the cinema to see it with the droves of high schoolers packing the theater) I actually was rather sickened and confused that I couldn't relate (only being a few years out of high school) to any of it. However, I couldn't help but love the pathetically unreal, but undoubtedly bordering on actual reality, nature of the whole thing. Cameos by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey definitely helped, but in all, I grew to love it and the spastic presentation of high school life it depicts. The plethora of stupid quotes "I wanna lose three pounds!" "Your face smells like peppermint," and fantasy sequences of high schoolers as African wildlife sweetens the pot. Any thoughts? Am I the only twenty-something male that finds Mean Girls appealing (in the not just scoping out young girls kinda way)?
]]>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:42:37 GMTmercurialOnce Again3/20/2008 9:42:37 PMThere's something about watching a bunch of pseudo-teenagers acting like pseudo-teenagers that is incredibly repellent. Upon first viewing of Mean Girls in the movie theater (yes, I went to the cinema to see it with the droves of high schoolers packing the theater) I actually was rather sickened and confused that I couldn't relate (only being a few years out of high school) to any of it. However, I couldn't help but love the pathetically unreal, but undoubtedly bordering on actual reality, nature of the whole thing. Cameos by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey definitely helped, but in all, I grew to love it and the spastic presentation of high school life it depicts. The plethora of stupid quotes "I wanna lose three pounds!" "Your face smells like peppermint," and fantasy sequences of high schoolers as African wildlife sweetens the pot. Any thoughts? Am I the only twenty-something male that finds Mean Girls appealing (in the not just scoping out young girls kinda way)? http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/9/26006.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/9/2008 3:01:03 PM
Body: The true-story-based 21 comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds. In structure, it’s basically Little Caesar set in the world of card counting, which in fact isn’t illegal, yet in Vegas is viewed as being just as criminal as bootlegging was during Prohibition. There are a number of moments that exactly fit the mold of the crime genre and some moments that even seem specific to individual films (a short scenario involving new identities feels like a wink at a similar scene in Reservoir Dogs if you’re already thinking about gangster movies). But as interesting as the concept sounds, nerds just aren’t as entertaining as gangsters and blackjack and brains just isn’t as cool on screen as bank robberies and machine guns. Coinciding with the crime genre structure are the conventions of the geek-gets-popular genre (I guess as social climbing stories, they’re basically the same thing). The story centers on an MIT student (Jim Sturges) who works on robotics in his spare time with his nerdy friends. He’s recruited into a group of mathletes, headed by a behind-the-scenes professor (Kevin Spacey), who spend their weekends in Las Vegas getting filthy rich by counting cards at blackjack tables and playing accordingly. Like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls or Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, the popularity and power takes control over the new recruit. But it’s a weird twist, because here the popular kids are actually ubernerds, which is fitting in the world dominated by Bill Gateses and Steve Jobses. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:01:03 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/9/2008 3:01:03 PM The true-story-based 21 comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds. In structure, it’s basically Little Caesar set in the world of card counting, which in fact isn’t illegal, yet in Vegas is viewed as being just as criminal as bootlegging was during Prohibition. There are a number of moments that exactly fit the mold of the crime genre and some moments that even seem specific to individual films (a short scenario involving new identities feels like a wink at a similar scene in Reservoir Dogs if you’re already thinking about gangster movies). But as interesting as the concept sounds, nerds just aren’t as entertaining as gangsters and blackjack and brains just isn’t as cool on screen as bank robberies and machine guns. Coinciding with the crime genre structure are the conventions of the geek-gets-popular genre (I guess as social climbing stories, they’re basically the same thing). The story centers on an MIT student (Jim Sturges) who works on robotics in his spare time with his nerdy friends. He’s recruited into a group of mathletes, headed by a behind-the-scenes professor (Kevin Spacey), who spend their weekends in Las Vegas getting filthy rich by counting cards at blackjack tables and playing accordingly. Like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls or Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, the popularity and power takes control over the new recruit. But it’s a weird twist, because here the popular kids are actually ubernerds, which is fitting in the world dominated by Bill Gateses and Steve Jobses. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/mcharlie/archive/2007/8/21/18511.aspx Post By: mcharlie
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Post Date: 8/21/2007 10:41:57 PM
Body: i loved it absolutly loved it! there were some sexual parts but i loved it!
]]>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:41:57 GMTmcharliemcharlie Blog8/21/2007 10:41:57 PMi loved it absolutly loved it! there were some sexual parts but i loved it! http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/7/4/13073.aspx Post By: MovieBabe
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Post Date: 7/4/2007 11:22:00 AM
Body: By Tricia Olszewski The line-dance scene is rarely a good idea. The one in 13 Going on 30, Jennifer Garner’s vagina version of Big, is no exception: At a swank present-day publicity bash for a Manhattan women’s magazine, our not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman editor heroine, Jenna, tries to get the party started by requesting that the DJ replace his antiseptic house beats with “Thriller.” In tottering heels, a kicky dress, and makeup reminiscent of MJ’s finest era, Jenna rushes the dance floor and earnestly begins performing the clawing, head-dipping, completely awkward monster mash from her fave video. Slowly, others join her, until all the hip revelers are looking just as stupid/happy as can be. Taken out of context—the clip is being used to promote the film—the scene is nothing less than squirm-inducing. Within the movie, it’s not much better, yet because of the irresistible ebullience of Garner’s Jenna, it’s forgivable. So, in fact, is the film’s It’s a Wonderful Life–esque universe-hopping, as well as the many predictable turns it takes. Ditto for the faintly pedophiliac plot and self-empowering morals about not being a jerk and recognizing your true friends. Indeed, the success of 13 Going on 30 is due almost entirely to the giddy performances of Garner and co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays the grown-up version of Matt, Jenna’s girlhood neighbor. The two share a not-so-rosy past: Back in 1987, on her 13th birthday, the eager-to-grow-up Jenna (Christa B. Allen) submits to blackmail in order to get the cool girls, known here as the Six Chicks, to come to her party. When they play a trick on her that lands Jenna in a closet, blindfolded and awaiting her seven minutes of heaven with a crush as the Chicks make for the exits, she blames her nerdy best bud and new closetmate, Matt (Sean Marquette), for scaring them away. Matt, who has just spent three weeks building Jenna her own personal version of a Barbie Dream House complete with “wishing dust,” is naturally crestfallen. Jenna tells him to get lost and goes back to yearning to be “30, flirty, and thriving,” just like the pretty women featured in Poise, her favorite magazine. Jenna, of course, wakes up the next day blessed with a fab apartment, great bone structure, and the kind of rack that doesn’t hold mix tapes. At this point, of course, 13 Going on 30 stops making much sense. But it also starts being a lot of fun, as Jenna tries to improvise her way through her sudden life as a chic Poise editor. Garner’s playful, believable turn as the ever-adolescent Jenna is miles away from the action-girl persona that made her a star in Alias. Jenna is a just-right mix of silliness, timidity, and “I never!” bluntness that’s especially refreshing—and surprisingly attractive—coming from a woman who looks as if she’d sooner stick her Prada heel in your eye than giggle. But giggling is something Garner does plenty of here, often accompanied by general freaking out, a combination most entertainingly displayed in a love scene in which Jenna scrunches up both face and body as her boyfriend kisses her ear and then hides behind a pillow as he performs an awful striptease—right down to the tightie-whities—before finally entreating him to “Put it away!” Ruffalo’s genial, understated Matt is equally—and sorry, there’s no other word for it—adorable. Matt’s skepticism when he one day opens his door to find the grown-up and confused Jenna never quite dissipates, but after he informs her that they’ve barely spoken since that fateful day in the closet, he begins a slow, convincing transformation. Ruffalo’s expressions as Matt watches Jenna act like a nut—smiles at first tentative and cynical, then hopelessly smitten—are aching displays of his recognition of the girl he loved within the woman he loathes. Musically, the movie is a slightly less obvious version of I Love the 80s!, from the “Head Over Heels” intro to the “Crazy for You”–accompanied closet scene to Jenna’s undying devotion to Rick Springfield and Pat Benatar. (And when was the last time you heard Billy Joel’s “Vienna” played in its entirety in anything?) Good ideas, all, but 13 Going on 30 should really be commended for making appropriate use of yet another bad one: Liz Phair’s unsettling “Why Can’t I,” a dreamy bit of puppy-love wistfulness that starts to seem icky after you discover it’s being sung by a 37-year-old mom. Next to that, a little line-dancing looks positively brilliant. The cool kids in Mean Girls aren’t the Chicks but the Plastics, and the lead character doesn’t have to skip through time to learn how to deal with them. But otherwise, Saturday Night Live head-writer Tina Fey’s screenwriting debut offers life lessons very much like 13 Going on 30’s, albeit with an evil twist. Fey based her portrait of socio-academic hell on the ideas of Rosalind Wiseman’s pop-psychology study Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. The book views teenage girls as a species as mysterious as the apes, suggesting that their society boasts a natural order and ruthlessness that’s more animalistic than human. Helpfully, it also provides advice on overcoming stereotypes and the depression, eating disorders, and backbiting hostilities that accompany them. The movie’s sorta-anthropological basis, however, doesn’t much help to distinguish it from your usual tired teen comedy. The story of Cady (Freaky Friday’s Lindsay Lohan) is fairly typical: The 15-year-old is a new student at a Chicago high school and is trying to figure out which group to hang with. And Cady is really, really new, having previously been home-schooled by her parents in Africa. Cady is first taken in by the fringe, consisting of the punky maybe-lesbian Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and tubby gay boy Damian (Daniel Franzese). They warn her of the Plastics, and when the pretty newcomer is lured by the siren song of the ringleader, Regina (Rachel McAdams), Janis and Damian encourage her to infiltrate and sabotage. Mean Girls is saved from total ho-humness by Fey’s script, which contains some on-target parodies of the ridiculous stuff of high school: “Don’t have sex! Because you will get pregnant—and die! Here’s some condoms.” Director Mark S. Waters, who also worked with Lohan in Freaky Friday, is a little less original this time around, though, including scenes such as the slo-mo cool-girl parade down the hall and lighting the Plastics glamorously while keeping Cady & Co. unenhanced and “real.” Until about the film’s halfway mark, that is, at which point Cady stops being a natural teen and starts walking around with her boobs pushed up to her neck. The worst sin committed by Mean Girls is not its pratfalls or its fart jokes—it’s the movie’s blatant hypocrisy. Even when Cady does get the message that it’s better to be faithful to your real friends than to go around hatin’ in the name of popularity, her shirt is about two sizes too small and her long hair is flowing. Cleavage is rampant, and a talent-show performance of “Jingle Bell Rock” is nearly worthy of the adult section. There’s even a shot of Regina’s kid sister practicing her, uh, milkshake in front of an MTV-blaring television. So...whether you’re a mean girl or a good girl, it doesn’t hurt to be sexed-up and camera-ready? Somehow, I doubt that’s what Wiseman had in mind.
]]>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:22:00 GMTMovieBabeMovieBabe Blog7/4/2007 11:22:00 AM By Tricia Olszewski The line-dance scene is rarely a good idea. The one in 13 Going on 30, Jennifer Garner&rsquo;s vagina version of Big, is no exception: At a swank present-day publicity bash for a Manhattan women&rsquo;s magazine, our not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman editor heroine, Jenna, tries to get the party started by requesting that the DJ replace his antiseptic house beats with &ldquo;Thriller.&rdquo; In tottering heels, a kicky dress, and makeup reminiscent of MJ&rsquo;s finest era, Jenna rushes the dance floor and earnestly begins performing the clawing, head-dipping, completely awkward monster mash from her fave video. Slowly, others join her, until all the hip revelers are looking just as stupid/happy as can be. Taken out of context&mdash;the clip is being used to promote the film&mdash;the scene is nothing less than squirm-inducing. Within the movie, it&rsquo;s not much better, yet because of the irresistible ebullience of Garner&rsquo;s Jenna, it&rsquo;s forgivable. So, in fact, is the film&rsquo;s It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life&ndash;esque universe-hopping, as well as the many predictable turns it takes. Ditto for the faintly pedophiliac plot and self-empowering morals about not being a jerk and recognizing your true friends. Indeed, the success of 13 Going on 30 is due almost entirely to the giddy performances of Garner and co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays the grown-up version of Matt, Jenna&rsquo;s girlhood neighbor. The two share a not-so-rosy past: Back in 1987, on her 13th birthday, the eager-to-grow-up Jenna (Christa B. Allen) submits to blackmail in order to get the cool girls, known here as the Six Chicks, to come to her party. When they play a trick on her that lands Jenna in a closet, blindfolded and awaiting her seven minutes of heaven with a crush as the Chicks make for the exits, she blames her nerdy best bud and new closetmate, Matt (Sean Marquette), for scaring them away. Matt, who has just spent three weeks building Jenna her own personal version of a Barbie Dream House complete with &ldquo;wishing dust,&rdquo; is naturally crestfallen. Jenna tells him to get lost and goes back to yearning to be &ldquo;30, flirty, and thriving,&rdquo; just like the pretty women featured in Poise, her favorite magazine. Jenna, of course, wakes up the next day blessed with a fab apartment, great bone structure, and the kind of rack that doesn&rsquo;t hold mix tapes. At this point, of course, 13 Going on 30 stops making much sense. But it also starts being a lot of fun, as Jenna tries to improvise her way through her sudden life as a chic Poise editor. Garner&rsquo;s playful, believable turn as the ever-adolescent Jenna is miles away from the action-girl persona that made her a star in Alias. Jenna is a just-right mix of silliness, timidity, and &ldquo;I never!&rdquo; bluntness that&rsquo;s especially refreshing&mdash;and surprisingly attractive&mdash;coming from a woman who looks as if she&rsquo;d sooner stick her Prada heel in your eye than giggle. But giggling is something Garner does plenty of here, often accompanied by general freaking out, a combination most entertainingly displayed in a love scene in which Jenna scrunches up both face and body as her boyfriend kisses her ear and then hides behind a pillow as he performs an awful striptease&mdash;right down to the tightie-whities&mdash;before finally entreating him to &ldquo;Put it away!&rdquo; Ruffalo&rsquo;s genial, understated Matt is equally&mdash;and sorry, there&rsquo;s no other word for it&mdash;adorable. Matt&rsquo;s skepticism when he one day opens his door to find the grown-up and confused Jenna never quite dissipates, but after he informs her that they&rsquo;ve barely spoken since that fateful day in the closet, he begins a slow, convincing transformation. Ruffalo&rsquo;s expressions as Matt watches Jenna act like a nut&mdash;smiles at first tentative and cynical, then hopelessly smitten&mdash;are aching displays of his recognition of the girl he loved within the woman he loathes. Musically, the movie is a slightly less obvious version of I Love the 80s!, from the &ldquo;Head Over Heels&rdquo; intro to the &ldquo;Crazy for You&rdquo;&ndash;accompanied closet scene to Jenna&rsquo;s undying devotion to Rick Springfield and Pat Benatar. (And when was the last time you heard Billy Joel&rsquo;s &ldquo;Vienna&rdquo; played in its entirety in anything?) Good ideas, all, but 13 Going on 30 should really be commended for making appropriate use of yet another bad one: Liz Phair&rsquo;s unsettling &ldquo;Why Can&rsquo;t I,&rdquo; a dreamy bit of puppy-love wistfulness that starts to seem icky after you discover it&rsquo;s being sung by a 37-year-old mom. Next to that, a little line-dancing looks positively brilliant. The cool kids in Mean Girls aren&rsquo;t the Chicks but the Plastics, and the lead character doesn&rsquo;t have to skip through time to learn how to deal with them. But otherwise, Saturday Night Live head-writer Tina Fey&rsquo;s screenwriting debut offers life lessons very much like 13 Going on 30&rsquo;s, albeit with an evil twist. Fey based her portrait of socio-academic hell on the ideas of Rosalind Wiseman&rsquo;s pop-psychology study Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. The book views teenage girls as a species as mysterious as the apes, suggesting that their society boasts a natural order and ruthlessness that&rsquo;s more animalistic than human. Helpfully, it also provides advice on overcoming stereotypes and the depression, eating disorders, and backbiting hostilities that accompany them. The movie&rsquo;s sorta-anthropological basis, however, doesn&rsquo;t much help to distinguish it from your usual tired teen comedy. The story of Cady (Freaky Friday&rsquo;s Lindsay Lohan) is fairly typical: The 15-year-old is a new student at a Chicago high school and is trying to figure out which group to hang with. And Cady is really, really new, having previously been home-schooled by her parents in Africa. Cady is first taken in by the fringe, consisting of the punky maybe-lesbian Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and tubby gay boy Damian (Daniel Franzese). They warn her of the Plastics, and when the pretty newcomer is lured by the siren song of the ringleader, Regina (Rachel McAdams), Janis and Damian encourage her to infiltrate and sabotage. Mean Girls is saved from total ho-humness by Fey&rsquo;s script, which contains some on-target parodies of the ridiculous stuff of high school: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t have sex! Because you will get pregnant&mdash;and die! Here&rsquo;s some condoms.&rdquo; Director Mark S. Waters, who also worked with Lohan in Freaky Friday, is a little less original this time around, though, including scenes such as the slo-mo cool-girl parade down the hall and lighting the Plastics glamorously while keeping Cady &amp; Co. unenhanced and &ldquo;real.&rdquo; Until about the film&rsquo;s halfway mark, that is, at which point Cady stops being a natural teen and starts walking around with her boobs pushed up to her neck. The worst sin committed by Mean Girls is not its pratfalls or its fart jokes&mdash;it&rsquo;s the movie&rsquo;s blatant hypocrisy. Even when Cady does get the message that it&rsquo;s better to be faithful to your real friends than to go around hatin&rsquo; in the name of popularity, her shirt is about two sizes too small and her long hair is flowing. Cleavage is rampant, and a talent-show performance of &ldquo;Jingle Bell Rock&rdquo; is nearly worthy of the adult section. There&rsquo;s even a shot of Regina&rsquo;s kid sister practicing her, uh, milkshake in front of an MTV-blaring television. So...whether you&rsquo;re a mean girl or a good girl, it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to be sexed-up and camera-ready? Somehow, I doubt that&rsquo;s what Wiseman had in mind. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/funny/MemberTagFilms.aspxfunny
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