The Girl Next Door (ADULT LANGUAGE!!!)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Feb 07 :: 07:16

We don't have a thread for this movies?

You know what just occurred to me? While Chris Marquette is in an Emile Hirsch movie that's out in theaters (Alpha Dog), a Paul Dano movie (Little Miss Sunshine) beats a Chris Marquette movie (American Gun) in the Independent Spirit Awards.

Chris has two dogs in that hunt. Fascinating.

Deb

OhGnarly · 25 Feb 07 :: 09:58

Weird how there was no thread for this. I didn't even notice.

I actually love this movie, which is strange because I've never been a big fan of teen comedies. I've seen it twice in the past month or so, and many times before, but I still laugh each time I watch it.

domesticelefant · 25 Feb 07 :: 13:56

Yeah, strange, I didn't notice that either. Ah well, now we have a thread.

But I still love that movie. LOL I mean, I'm not a big fan of teen comedies either, but that one's a classic. I've seen it several times now, but it still cracks me up so much. LOL

TeeJay · 19 Mar 07 :: 20:13

Apparently the German network PRO7 is showing the movie on Wednesday at 8:15 PM (prime time). Might be the German free-TV premiere, but I'm not sure. (I mean, the movie is only three years old......) And Anja tells me that they're showing TV spots for the movie all the time. Cool! Maybe we'll get some more German visitors to the site after that.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 19 Mar 07 :: 20:36

They do? I didn't hear about that yet. Well, probably because I wasn't watching very much TV recently, especially not PRO7, since they gave Numb3rs to SAT1 for the second season.

Maybe we should post it in the German section too, it makes more sence there than here. Besides, I won't watch the movie on TV since I have it on DVD.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Mar 07 :: 18:26

OK, I didn't know whether to post this in this thread or the Off Topic thread, but since the movie and the ad in question feature Elisha Cuthbert, I thought I'd put it here.

Before you read this, here's where you can look at the billboard:

http://defamer.com/hollywood/captivity/ … 245991.php

Jill Soloway
3.27.2007
Remove the Rating for Captivity (25 comments )
READ MORE: Courtney Solomon, Elisha Cuthbert

A couple of weeks ago I was driving my son to school when I took a left onto LaBrea, and, as usual, sat in traffic for a couple of minutes. As we waited for the construction bottleneck to ease up, we sang along with the new Shins CD. And then, at the same moment, we fell silent.

We were both noticing the same thing.

It was a billboard for a movie. There was actress Elisha Cuthbert, super-heavily made up-dare I say whorishly-- being used as the centerpiece of the most repulsive, horrifying, woman-hating, human- hating thing I have ever seen in public.

The first image had a black-gloved hand over her mouth, titled CAPTURE. Next, her eyes begged for rescue as her mascara ran and her bloody finger tried to pry its way out of a cage, titled CONFINEMENT.

In the next picture, titled TORTURE, she was encased in a strange mask, with tubes coming out of her nose, draining blood. Maybe. We couldn't figure out if it was tubes or a hook-that was another thing about it-you had to keep looking to figure out what the hell was going on.

The last frame was Elisha, may her career rest in peace after posing for this, hanging dead, lying on her back with one breast prominently displayed. The word in this frame was TERMINATION.

That night I had a nightmare about the billboard, and by the next morning, I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach. This wasn't just horror, this wasn't just misogyny... it was a grody combo platter of the two, the torture almost a punishment for the sexiness. It had come from such a despicable inhuman hatred place that it somehow managed to recall Abu Ghraib, the Holocaust, porn and snuff films all at once.

The next morning I decided to take a different route. Except this time I saw two more of the same billboards. It felt like they were EVERYWHERE, peppered all over my city. That afternoon, after the ride home with two more ten year olds in my car-one, a little girl, whose face I watched in my rearview mirror as she tried to make sense of the billboard. Now I was ready to take action.

Instead of making dinner and doing my usual after schooly things, I googled my way to the main number for Lionsgate, the video distributor of this film- and left a message for CEO John Feltheimer asking him to take them down. I sent the number to a few other people, and that night, hoped to sleep without a nightmare.

The next day, my email in-box was filled with hundreds of letters from people thanking me for giving them a place to voice to their feelings. Back channel operatives had sent me Feltheimer's private line and I distributed that one to the latest angry people. Lionsgate said they had nothing to do with After Dark and didn't approve the ads in the first place- they felt they had no responsibility because Lionsgate would only be making money from the home video sales.

That afternoon I spoke to Jill Simpson at the MPAA who told me that something really strange had happened the week before. She said someone had actually come in to their offices-a woman named Sherry Harding-with this exact artwork-and had shown it to them in person for approval.

Jill Simpson said that no one ever does that, things always come in over email and in attached files. No one ever walks in with art like that.

Of course, the MPAA saw the horrific-ness and told them they couldn't put it up.

And two days later it was up.

At the end of my very first tirade day, someone sent me the name of the main scumbag behind this entire operation: super-sociopath Courtney Solomon of After Dark Films.

A few hours later, Solomon called me. He insisted the fact that the billboards were up at all was a printer error. "We were all at ShoWest," he said, re: the distributor conference in Vegas that week-"and we had no idea they were even up!" Solomon apologized and said they would be down in two days, then offered to make a donation to a woman's organization.

He promised me the ones they meant to put up were soooooo much better, just a woman buried alive. He wrote me a long apology letter, insisting that these were "ideas submitted" but never approved by them in-house.

The next night, I met with about ten women and men, moms and TV writers and regular people, plus a rep from the city council, feminist organizers and peace activists-- in the library of my son's school, to talk. People shared their feelings and their rage, and some shared awful memories of violent crime and rape, memories triggered by this 4-panel publicly displayed snuff film.

In the library that night, we made a decision to wage a campaign to make the live up to what they're supposed to do in this case. Their stated consequence for violating their advertising rules is the removal of a film's rating. Without a rating, After Dark will not be able to show the film in American theaters, causing a loss of revenue-the only consequence that is truly meaningful to studios and advertisers.

It's about a week later now, and we have found out a lot of things.

It turns out these weren't ideas submitted to After Dark, but rather photographs art-directed down to the detail by the lovely Mr. Solomon.

It turns out it took them six days to come down instead of two. One of the billboards could be seen from the Ivanhoe schoolyard.

It turns out they're using our rage as links on their advertising campaign, calling it the film that caused all the outrage. It turns out that after the billboards came down, they replaced them with the proud outlaw message: Captivity was here.

It turns out that Moriarty, the authority on horror films on aint-it-cool-news.com, gave this movie the stinkiest possible review and they knew no one would see it so they did this to drum up publicity.

The Hills Have Eyes billboard is still up, of a man dragging a corpse in a body bag. The coming soon one-sheet for the delighthful Lionsgate's Hostel II is one of the indescribably repulsive things I have ever seen.

The good news is this: we actually are at a cultural moment where we have the power to say-- just as we have with porn and cigarettes-fine for those who want it, but please don't advertise it on our streets, on our way to school and work.

Anyway, the discussion and agitation continues at

http://www.removetherating.blogspot.com/

and we would love to hear from more people who want to weigh in, using our section. There's also info for where to send a letter or email to MPAA chairman Dan Glickman. The MPAA ruling is coming next week, and we are thrilled that as they make their decision, they are reading our thoughts on the blog. We are hoping they heed our wishes and that it is their plan to not only disable Courtney Solomon's pariah-complex ego machinery, but also stop all horror/torture filmmakers from advertising their vile fantasies in front of the rest of us .

What follows is Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon's awesome letter to the MPAA...

From: Joss Whedon
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:17 PM
To: Advertising
Subject: CAPTIVITY BILLBOARDS/REMOVE THE RATING

To the MPAA,
There's a message I'm supposed to cut and paste but I imagine you've read it. So just let me say that the ad campaign for "Captivity" is not only a literal sign of the collapse of humanity, it's an assault. I've watched plenty of horror - in fact I've made my share. But the advent of torture-porn and the total dehumanizing not just of women (though they always come first) but of all human beings has made horror a largely unpalatable genre. This ad campaign is part of something dangerous and repulsive, and that act of aggression has to be answered.

As a believer not only in the First Amendment but of the necessity of horror stories, I've always been against acts of censorship. I distrust anyone who wants to ban something 'for the good of the public'. But this ad is part of a cycle of violence and misogyny that takes something away from the people who have to see it. It's like being mugged (and I have been). These people flouted the basic rules of human decency. God knows the culture led them there, but we have to find our way back and we have to make them know that people will not stand for this. And the only language they speak is money. (A devastating piece in the New Yorker - not gonna do it.) So talk money. Remove the rating, and let them see how far over the edge they really are.

Thanks for reading this, if anyone did.
Sincerely, Joss Whedon.
Creator, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Go Uncle Joss!

That guy at Lionsgate who lied about this is despicable. But that's Hollywood for ya. And yeah, torture-porn, that's the word I was looking for. That's what I don't like about all these modern horror movies. No wonder they make me feel sick to my stomach.

Deb

deedee · 02 May 07 :: 04:15

woah that last post was intense.. i just yah.. i was just watching girl next door and i think i found another fav scene.. they are all on the way to the porn convention.. and there all calling there mothers..
"yah dont wait up its sokay ill watch shark night with u later its all week"
ELI: haha " I just wana bang hot chicks" thats honestly the hotest part int he whole movie lmao!! anyone else agree

TheCentralScrutinizer · 02 May 07 :: 06:21

You mean him saying, "I just wanna bang hot chicks" is hot? LOL! Once you've seen the movie it ceases to be hot because he never does and he probably could've.

Hot is the camper scene in season two of Joan if you project yourself into her skin when they're horizontal and just let yourself "feel" what he's doing to her. Gawd! :drool:

Deb

domesticelefant · 02 May 07 :: 12:04

herrommance · 05 Jul 07 :: 20:23

I love this movie. It is funy how he always talking about how he want to bang chicks cause when he has the chance he acks out of it. He is in soooo many funy scenes in this movie. I thought the "Eli Expirience" in the special features was absolutely hilarious.:lol:

deedee · 22 Jul 07 :: 04:01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kKqlVS3mgU just thought u guys would get a kick out of this its dubbed but haha kool!

domesticelefant · 22 Jul 07 :: 08:36

Bah, I didn't watch this in German for, like, a year. This is almost an offense. The dubbing ruins everything. I rather watch the English version.

TeeJay · 22 Jul 07 :: 09:46

Ugh. First time I'm seeing this dubbed. Chris's dubbing voice makes my toenails curl. :puke: But thanks for posting that. Now, someone make an English version of it!

-TeeJay

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 22 Jul 07 :: 15:09

Its weird because I used to think that The Girl Next Door would be the worst movie ever. Like I first saw the trailer when I was 14 years old. I thought I would hate it! I was bored one night though and my dad had it used on dvd. I had nothing better to do so I decided to watch it. After I finished watching it I thought it was amazing!! Nothing at all like the trailer makes it look. It became one of my favorite movies. Now I watch it at least once a week and its my favorite movie ever!!!!

domesticelefant · 22 Jul 07 :: 15:11

Yeah, the trailer makes it look like some kind of American Pie movie or something like taht. At least I thought so when I watched the trailer for the first time. But I still bought the DVD and I liked it way better than the AP movies! In fact it's my most favorite teenage comedy now. I can watch it again and again and it still cracks me up every time. The American Pie movies are boring after watching them more than twice in four years. Or so. Don't remember when I saw the last one. LOL

deedee · 22 Jul 07 :: 15:53

hhaha sorry for posting that vid i mean.. i thought it was cool sorry *le tear* we should go into production of chris marquette vids for youtube. i mean we know whats hot and whats good;)

TeeJay · 22 Jul 07 :: 15:56

Well, we already have your own Dorquette Demo Reel.

Don't apologize for posting that, anything Chris-sy you find will be welcome here. Even if it's dubbed. I just hate the dubbing. And I mean hate it. To a point where I didn't watch The Invisible in the theater because it was only shown dubbed. I can just barely tolerate it for some movies, but I can't tolerate it on anything that has Chris in it.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 22 Jul 07 :: 16:11

TeeJay wrote:

Don't apologize for posting that, anything Chris-sy you find will be welcome here. Even if it's dubbed. I just hate the dubbing. And I mean hate it. To a point where I didn't watch The Invisible in the theater because it was only shown dubbed. I can just barely tolerate it for some movies, but I can't tolerate it on anything that has Chris in it.

Yeah, same here. Hate the dubbing too. You don't know what torture it was for me to watch Alpha Dog in German! I was so happy that I was able to see the original version first! But yeah, there is no need to be sorry for posting that. It might be cool to watch for some (future) German fans, who can't speak English that good.

deedee · 22 Jul 07 :: 21:58

bah okay

Mutant_Enemy_Girl · 23 Jul 07 :: 03:18

I just watched the dubbed clip... different? lol
But I agree that the trailer makes it like some teen romp. I watched it because it was the only thing on TV, and afterwards I had to rent it so I could watch it without all the edits and commercial breaks. You can't help but laugh every time you watch it, no matter how many times you have before.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 23 Jul 07 :: 04:35

Absolutely true. I watch at least some of it every time it's on cable. Don't like it edited though. Well, I do that with Just Friends, too. And I probably would with JoA if it was in syndicated repeats somewhere. Lifetime, are you listening? Hallmark? TNT?

herrommance · 23 Jul 07 :: 04:44

Yeah I think I watch Just Friends and The Girl Next Door every other day. They never get old. haha!

deedee · 23 Jul 07 :: 05:36

everytime both of those are on tv.. which is bout once every 2 weeks.. i watch the editied versions.. then later on that night i watch the dvds. nerdface:) right here

TheCentralScrutinizer · 23 Jul 07 :: 05:38

When I need a CM fix, I usually do a second season JoA, or lately, Alpha Dog. :drool:

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 23 Jul 07 :: 09:43

Heres the best question ever I have for everyone! How can anyone at all ever get tired of any movie with Chris Marquette in it??

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