The House Bunny (omg!)

[redfiretruck]

Okay, so the other House Bunny thread was closed and I wanted to start this for people who still want to talk about. So, I for one cannot wait for this! I mean, it's Katharine McPhee's acting debut! Plus I just adore how in the morning Anna Faris goes "good mornign Pooter- you're looking dapper today!" This movie should be adorable!

[Danger^Cart]

I hope you die...

...some easter eggs.

[toes]

Okay, so the other House Bunny thread was closed and I wanted to start this for people who still want to talk about. So, I for one cannot wait for this! I mean, it's Katharine McPhee's acting debut! Plus I just adore how in the morning Anna Faris goes "good mornign Pooter- you're looking dapper today!" This movie should be adorable!

What the hell?

Seriously?

"Adorable?"

.....?

Are you high? YOU ARE HIGH AS A FUCKING KITE!

[BanksIsDaFuture]

The fucking mods on this site are out of control, I feel like I'm in 1984 or V For Vendetta.


Anyway, I will see this because Anna Faris is hot as hell and she's pretty funny. And Emma Stone looks to be quite good at improving now thanks to Superbad. Like the clip they showed on Leno looked improved as hell but it worked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik5W43FPEh4&feature=related

[chasingbanky]

The fucking mods on this site are out of control, I feel like I'm in 1984 or V For Vendetta.



I'm gonna have to disagree with your detective work there Bank... We've got some pretty (I might say TOO) lenient forums... That is, unless I missed some kind of major crackdown over the weekend.

This movie does sort of have an adorable vibe going for it though.

[redfiretruck]

What the hell?

Seriously?

"Adorable?"

.....?

Are you high? YOU ARE HIGH AS A FUCKING KITE!

Eww, no. Drugs are gross and (mostly) illegal. Back on topic- I'm hoping this takes the box office next week, but I could honestly see it going any way, with it being the end of summer basically.

[pablo_super1!]

Eww, no. Drugs are gross and (mostly) illegal. Back on topic- I'm hoping this takes the box office next week, but I could honestly see it going any way, with it being the end of summer basically.

It looks decent. Anna Faris is hot and so is Emma Stone. When I watched the trailer I laughed a few times.

But no way in hell, in a million years will this be number 1# in the box office this weekend, I say it'll be number 4. Plus I haven't seen much marketing for this flick.

[Smiert Spionam]

Hahahahahahahahaha

This redfiretruck girl is always good for a laugh :D

[Le_Big_Mac]

This is why I wish I wasn't also 15.

[redfiretruck]

This is why I wish I wasn't also 15.


As of yesterday, I'm 16.

[Le_Big_Mac]

As of yesterday, I'm 16.

That's even worse. Happy birthday though.

[redfiretruck]

Happy birthday though.

Thanksmuch ^^

[xseanymacx]

I would do filthy, filthy things to Anna Farris.

[miguel_montes]

^^ And to Emma Stone and Katherine McPhee. At the same time. :)

[FireCaptain4]

I would do filthy, filthy things to Anna Farris.

Now here's a guy on my same wavelength.

[poopontheshoes7]

No love for Kat Dennings?

I think she's the hottest of the group. Love those big eyes.

[Lady Stardust]

I rather not watch the movie.
Sounds embarrassing.

[DaMovieMan]

As much as the title, the concept and everything else about this film screams humiliation and "chick-flick".....it looks geniunly funny from the trailers and that clip that was posted from Leno. I'll probably rent it sometime along the way...

[Smiert Spionam]

No love for Kat Dennings?

I think she's the hottest of the group. Love those big eyes.

Plus she got dem tig ol' bitties....

Still prefer Emma Stone though. Something about her just does it for me....

[poopontheshoes7]

Plus she got dem tig ol' bitties....

Still prefer Emma Stone though. Something about her just does it for me....


Emma and Kat are both gorgeous. They are beautiful but not in the traditional hollywood standards. I'll watch that Infinate Playlist movie just for Kat Dennings:D

[ZMoney08]

Come on this movie looks terrible.

It's saying that hey even though your smart and probably have good personalities they only way to get ahead in life and have fun is to be just like every other blonde haired doll out there. Come on anyone else see the problem here.

[sbunn10]

the cast is hot, but the movie looks like shit. Definately not going to see this.

[Bourne101]

Come on this movie looks terrible.

It's saying that hey even though your smart and probably have good personalities they only way to get ahead in life and have fun is to be just like every other blonde haired doll out there. Come on anyone else see the problem here.

Yeah, in the trailer when Emma Stone says "Now we can be the best version of ourselves," it sounds sooo wrong. It's basically saying if your really smart and are going somewhere in life, stop what you are doing and turn into a slut.

This movie looks like a steaming turd on a stick.

[RicochetShaw]

That's even worse.

What do you mean by this?


I eagerly await your response, LBM.

[Tweek]

This movie looks like a steaming turd on a stick.

Yes.

[Le_Big_Mac]

What do you mean by this?

That I'm younger than somebody who has high expectations for this movie.

[RicochetShaw]

That I'm younger than somebody who has high expectations for this movie.



That's still rather unclear, and I'm still not getting what you mean here. I have a high suspicion, but what I suspect entails disrespect to a fellow schmoe (as well as an inflated sense of self), and I'd be foolish to think that, right?

[Lawgick]

Watched the trailer, looks funny.

BUT...

It also sends a controversial message.

The question is, is it the wrong message?

Do women need to doll themselves up to attract most men? If a woman is smart and funny but looks frumpy, sloppy, or strange does she have a less of a chance to attract most men?

If we're honest about this I think the answer to both questions would be YES.

Is it right? NO

Reality? YES


Are most women attracted to smart, intelligent, funny, nice guys with no social skills or confidence? NO

Is it right? NO

Reality? YES



Conclusion? You tell me...

[Le_Big_Mac]

That's still rather unclear, and I'm still not getting what you mean here. I have a high suspicion, but what I suspect entails disrespect to a fellow schmoe (as well as an inflated sense of self), and I'd be foolish to think that, right?

I'm not attempting a personal attack on redfiretruck. Shit, I wished her a happy birthday! I'm just saying this movie looks like a piece of crap to me. I don't even need to watch the trailer to formulate that opinion. And I'm not being arrogant. My opinions about movies like this are rather common.

[Badbird]

This movie is so not what I was expecting.

I read a little blurb some time ago talking about a movie about an aging Playboy Bunny who was kicked out and thought it was going to be some kind of dramatic true story.

Hello!

Not so much. Anna Farris is cute and funny, but, um, no.

[toes]

My girlfriend is going to drag me to this. Which is cool. Cause I get to see some Kat Dennings. MMMmmmmmmmMMMMMMM

[xseanymacx]

It's saying that hey even though your smart and probably have good personalities they only way to get ahead in life and have fun is to be just like every other blonde haired doll out there. Come on anyone else see the problem here.

I fail to see a problem...

[chinton]

I walked out halfway through.

I still love Anna Farris although I find it sad she is always more enjoyable than the films she's in. Someone fire her agent.

[NathanRomano]

"Hence, we will learn to .... Somethin"

"YEAH! HENCE!!!!"

Like, is that, funny?

[Lawgick]

Hahahahahahahahaha

This redfiretruck girl is always good for a laugh :D



truth:rolleyes:

[JCPhoenix]

I still love Anna Farris although I find it sad she is always more enjoyable than the films she's in. Someone fire her agent.

I completely agree with this...It's odd that she can play such a self-aware role like in Entourage and still go on and get such horrible gigs.

[Derrida]

Remember the boardroom scene in Aliens when Ripley says ""Did I.Q.'s just drop sharply while I was away?". I bet it all started with the release of The House Bunny...

[dellamorte dellamore]

It came in first on friday , it's time to start the bashing , wait it has already begun ;)

[Incarnina]

Since the Reviews forum seems to be barely visted (10 topics in the past two weeks), I think this may be the right place to post my official review of the film. . .and, as far as I can tell, the only real, fully-fleshed out review of the movie anywhere in these forums. I really need to get it off my chest.

Let me preface the review by saying that I did go to see this film with four female friends. I got a call from one of them asking if I wanted to see it, and I agreed, only because I genuinely like Anna Faris. Looks-wise and acting-wise. I knew the movie was probably gonna be stupid, and I expected it. But it's different once you actually sit there and watch the shit unfold.

OK, so. Faris plays Shelley, a Playboy bunny who has been living at the Playboy Mansion since she was 18. On the morning after the night of the 27th birthday celebration, she is kicked out of the house for being "too old." Luck is with her though, as she stumbles across a college sorority house with 7 ugly/socially unacceptable/different/wierd girls. If they don't get 30 pledges by a certain date, then they'll lose the house, and the sisterhood. So, Shelley puts herself into the position of Housemother for the girls, and she turns them around into popular girls.

Following a very basic formula, The House Bunny[I] still manages not to "do it right" or "do it with its own sprinkling of seasoning", but rather, it takes the tired formula of turning ugly into beautiful and just makes it WRONG. As I was watching the vomit-inducing montage of the girls being dolled up by Shelley (played to the tune of that fucking Avril Lavigne song "Girlfriend", no less), I was thinking about how such a message is damaging to all the 13-16-year-old girls in the crowd around me, and that this movie just instills what Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and all of these other wanna-be popular bitches want girls to be. Popular because you're attractive. And that's what the message of the movie was.....until, of course, after all amazing things the sorority does to get people to notice them, a sabotage occurs, and shit goes down the drain, and then they realize that they were changed for the wrong reasons, blah blah blah....and end up adopting half their own style and half of Shelley's in the end. Still, I've grown to be very intolerant of films where the initial message is "be pretty and attractive, and people will notice you!", and then take it back in the end, saying "You know what, be yourself." Fuck it, girls that are the target of this film are too stupid and impressionable (ESPECIALLY in this day and age) to learn the lesson at the end. Meanwhile, at home and everywhere else, they're bombarded by pressure, media, etc. One film's ending message won't make the difference.

Moving on. . .

Why is it that the ugly-turned beautiful girls get all the ridiculous attention (all SEVEN of them...just SEVEN) and yet, all of the other hundreds and hundreds of really attractive girls on the campus are completely ignored? I graduated college, and there were so many naturally attractive girls I lost count. So this film is telling me that just because there was a change in a few chicks, they should all become lusted after? No thanks, I'm gonna pay attention to the girls that REALLY don't get the attention they deserve -the ones that are doing their own thing and not trying to be at the top of the fucking popularity charts like these greedy assholes did. "Ooooh I'm ugly and ignored!!! WAHH" But then.... "Oh wow, look at all the attention I get now!" Why? If it's your personality that nobody liked for one reason or another, throwing on heaps of makeup (as Shelley did) won't change you as a person; don't kid yourself.

Ahh, this is my rant on youth today, as it seems. But this was the perfect film to drag it out of me. This movie alone defines the problem with teenage girls today and doesn't really have anything good to say about it in the end. I [I]know I'm over-analyzing a dumb, cutesy movie. But it's a perfect example of how not to target teenage girls, is all.

As for Anna Faris, she played the role well. Blonde, air-headed...and that got tedious after half the movie. Like, REALLY tedious. I stopped laughing at the jokes because she was just getting on my nerves. To her credit, Anna plays an air-head extremely well. Four Scary Movies, Smiley Face, and this. But please, if you're going to be the leading lady in any more movies....can you try not to be typecasted next time? I know she can play other types of characters, and I think that this role was the nail in the coffin for her playing dumb characters. Enough is enough, let's see some different characters from you!

As a parting note, the "misfit" girl who was pregnant was the most attractive girl in the entire movie for me. Low-key, attractive, without ridiculous amounts of makeup...she's the one to look at, as opposed to the 10,000 other fake chicks in the movie.

I hope you all understand where this review is coming from, and that you find the meaning in it. Thanks.

[Worthystevens]

I haven't seen the movie. But holy fuck, it's just a movie, not an afterschool special.

[Incarnina]

^^^ I know, hence the "I know I'm over-analyzing this" special mention.

It's just not this movie though, it's any "ugly-turned-pretty" movie. This one just really rubbed me the wrong way.

[rob the many]

That's still rather unclear, and I'm still not getting what you mean here. I have a high suspicion, but what I suspect entails disrespect to a fellow schmoe (as well as an inflated sense of self), and I'd be foolish to think that, right?

I think you'r miss using your power sir. I respectfully point out the fact he said nothing that needs you to come to the rescue for. A good mod knows the difference between a flame war and a simple comment. What trying to say is with great power comes great responsibilty. Just remember that. please. thank you.

Oh and about the movie I wiil see it but when the dvd comes out. And that's only because it comes form sandler's production company.

[Ratlehed]

As I was watching the vomit-inducing montage of the girls being dolled up by Shelley (played to the tune of that fucking Avril Lavigne song "Girlfriend", no less), .


I HATE those scenes. I was thinking this might be a rental because I like Anna Faris and this isnt a Sacry Movie sequel. But I really dislike "transformation" scenes like that. I already seen this same movie before. So it doesnt sound like I am missing much.

[dellamorte dellamore]

I still can't fathom why or how directors still feel the need to utilize video montages in the 21st century , those things should have died and been buried in the 80s , that decade was full of them . At least the filmmakers of that time period can be forgiven , music videos were a big influence back then since they were something new , so almost every fekkin movie , especially comedies would have a couple of sequences with characters engaging in some random nonsense with some music playing in the background , it was a cheap way to advance a story with a threadbare plot , like a cheesy rocky montage sequence .

I absolutely loathed them back then ( not at the time , but looking back i can't stomach them now ), and they induce a gag reflex when i see them in modern day films , please let them die , for the love of all that is good and decent , i don't ever want to see another video montage / time passage , music video in another film ever again .

[boiledeggs456]

when i was watching dark knight, the ONLY thing i could think about while christian bale was doing his batman voice was when anna faris would be like "harmony" or "natalie" hahahahaha, i kept laughing to myself about it because i am extremely lame