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The House Bunny (2008)
In the words of Etta James.....I would rather go blind.......
.....then to ever see this vile excuse for a comedy ever again....
I watched this movie in the hope that it was going to be a send up of typical gender stereotyping and make a mockery of the sexist ideals perpetuated through the media and Hollywood. Unfortunately this was not the case. I feel robbed of 2 hours of my life, initially it did look as though the film was going to prove to be what I had hoped when Shelley is evicted from the playboy mansion. However, I soon realised the movie was about to take an almighty nose dive and proved to be far worse than my worst nightmares. I almost could not believe what I was seeing when Shelly managed to become 'house mother' to the group of unoriginal 'misfits', another example of Hollywood throwing a pair of geeky glasses on a beautiful young woman, some piercings and oversized clothes on another joined by and allegedly unattractive and overweight girl and you have got your cringe worthy mix of All - American mis-fits, soon to be made over by their very own fairy god mother, Shelly. In an attempt to try and gain more female pledges the idiotic, nauseating character shelly decides the girls need to make themselves 'The Hottest girls on campus' in order to win pledges and boys attention, cue five minutes of makeover movie time and they are quickly transformed into what Hollywood deems beautiful and yet in reality look like a group of cheap street walkers. The irony of Shelly being dubbed Vapid, is ironic given how completely vapid the story and script of this film is. Add in the fact that Shelly is somehow full of amazing ideas to save these girls whilst running round in a thong and wonderbra, later to start attending college to become more intelligent whilst writing with a fluffy pen and piling up books in the library whilst wearing a pink mini skirt and you have the makings of one of the most mortifying 'comedies' I have ever seen. It is not only embarrassing, it's offensive, I mean, come on! What I found more shocking is that this movie is written by two women, this misogynistic, vapid, and altogether flawed 'comedy' is merely another example of how utterly insipid Hollywood movie making actually is, this unoriginal, offensive pathetic excuse for a movie is not only a waste of time, but it is actually quite worrying that things with such blatant sexism, gender stereotyping and irresponsible portrayals of how women should act to get male attention exist in today's society. When Shelly get's made under to look more intelligent, it only makes things worse, the idea that you are either hot and stupid or clever and ugly is the oldest, more unoriginal stereotype in the book - ARGHHHH! Do people actually still think like this? URGH there are not enough words to describe my hatred for this film, what's more is how these women allowed themselves to be involved in it and willingly exploit themselves, whether they thought they were 'sending themselves up' i don't know, it was all I could do not to reach for the fork from my dinner plate and gouge my eyes out. The writers of this film are another example of women perpetuating and promoting self exploitation amongst women - the whole message of this film is tired, weak, and above all BORING!!! Come on Hollywood, are you really that easily pleased? Yuk.
Dream Boy (2008)
Don't waste your time.....
There are so many things wrong with this film it is hard to know where to begin, but I shall start with the poor excuse for a script, at first it was difficult to decide whether it was the acting that was bad or the script, and then after about half an hour I realised it was both. Persevering in the hope that it would improve, I proceeded to waste another hour watching this poor excuse for a film, the sad part is it had the potential to be good, if only the script had done something other than hint at the issues it was attempting to deal with, barely scratching the surface of what in reality is a very serious issue. The awkward acting (Stephen Bender) portraying an awkward, and mostly cringe worthy portrayal of a teen struggling with not only his sexuality but his horrendous home life, to be fair it isn't his fault though, the weak writing left him little to work with, and very little dialogue, other then the odd feeble response to a question, and fain glance here and there at his co-stars there really was not a lot he could do. The depth of characters were about as deep as that which you would find in an episode of the hills, by the end of the film, other than the shoddy, and sloppy scene depicting his father attempting to abuse him we knew nothing about these characters as individuals, much less how they came to have such an 'intense' relationship, how they went from riding the school bus with each other to pulling each others clothes off in a grave yard is a mystery I think even Sherlock himself would struggle to fathom, yet we were supposed to believe in this relationship and it's struggles and somehow the emotional turmoil he was going through at the same time. To say the ending was a disaster would be an understatement, four boys on a camping trip, find a scary old house...all seems pretty cliché right? but to add in a rape scene for shock value seemed, vulgar, pathetic and illustrated just how poor the writing of this movie was, the fact that once he was dead his eyes moved several times as his co star was supposed to be sat mourning his loss was almost laughable. My review may seem harsh but I think if you are going to make a movie about something on this subject, and do it so poorly, you are opening yourself up to criticism. The writers were obviously trying to build themselves up as your typical quirky, indie film, edgy and mysterious, the only mystery in the end being how the hell it got made in the first place. Weak, poorly written and poorly executed, an insult to those who have actually gone through anything like this.