Mr. Shoggoth said:
Agree with everything except "90's horror sucked".
What about Silence of the Lambs and Seven, eh?
Although those are more like thriller movies, but still.
Hmmm, well it's a decade later and the current decade always knocks the one before it to become "cooler" and achieve it's own identity. Back in the 1990s consider that people knocked 1980s horror movies (Video Nasties and all), now you see a lot of people looking back at them and realizing how much they kind of pioneered and a lot of those movies get more respect (so to speak) as classics. Hellraiser, Friday The 13th, and others all continueing as reasonably strong franchises in comic spin offs and such. We all know who Freddie, Jason, and Pinhead are, and it's probably fairly difficult to find someone who doesn't admit it.
"Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last summer", were fairly good and innovative even if they got milked with sequels. It's not surprising that they inspired imitators, though we're currently at a point where it will be a few years before anyone is going to really give them much credit. On some levels I think Moviebob himself is trying to be "hip" by knocking them. He is correct though that Jennifer's Body was NOT a great movie, and was cashing in on the wrong vibe at the wrong time.
As far as Meagan Fox goes, I think you have to view her as a 'B' girl. Moviebob acts like she's making some kind of pretensions of being a great actress or something, I have NEVER gotten that impression. Part of her appeal for me at least is that she's a hot girl who seems to be having fun doing science fiction and horror movies, and can make them a bit more bearable with the eyecandy. If she started making pretensions of being a great actress and trying to hold down "serious" dramas and chick flicks, I'd sort of agree with Moviebob, but in reality it seems she's doing the Julie Strain thing, which I kind of wish more actresses would.
Also to be entirely fair, I think that Moviebob pays too much attention to what she does wrong acting, rather than what she does right. To use Jennifer's Body as an example, she does manage to do a fairly good job in some of the monster scenes holding feral/animal-like poses. Her malevolent smirks are also fairly good, in the over the top fashion the movie is going for.
Yes, her co-star was more talented than she is as far as acting, but then again her co-star was arguably the protaganist in the story and got more screen time. The role Megan was playing was a bloody B-movie monster, it wasn't supposed to be a stand out dramatic performance.
As far as her being hot in a fairly "typical" way like a girl you can see at the beach or at a mall, that is exactly the point and why she's used. The roles she's put in are (duh) fairly ordinary girls that they want to be hot. In Jennifer's body she was supposed to be the quintessential hot girl you could find at ANY school (as a stereotype). She wasn't supposed to be an exotic, otherworldly beauty. She's good in that kind of a role which is what they use her for.
Now I doubt anyone read all this (especially Movie Bob) and I guess it comes down as a bit more of a defense of Meagan Fox than I intended, but the bottom line is simply that I'm glad to see someone doing these kinds of roles which frankly a lot of actresses would turn their noses up at.
I seriously hope she becomes the B-movie goddess of the current generation. She doesn't have to act well, simply make "fun" (if not "good") movies.
