I saw a scene from a movie that was so awful that I changed the channel in a hurry and I never looked up what it was. I can’t stop thinking about it.
Jennifer Lopez was in a room with a horse and a child. It was a very clean room, like a laboratory. The child was cowering on the floor by the wall. The horse was in the middle of the room. Jennifer was beckoning to the child. Then a timer started to go off. The little boy looked up at what looked like sheets of metal up above the horse. At the last second he ran over, pushed J Lo back to the other wall, and ran back to his wall. The metal things came down quickly and sliced the horse into several pieces, which just stayed in place. Then they separated out. Well, I guess they weren’t exactly sheets of metal, because you could see through the slices. Just the cutting parts must have been metal.
That’s when I checked out.
Sorry to make any of you think about this, now. It was just horrible. Why do people think up this stuff? What is wrong with people?
I saw that exact scene when I was flipping channels a few months ago. Has J.Lo been in anything worth a fuck since Selena [and that’s highly biased, I just liked Selena an awful lot]?
Well, once I saw her in that movie where she was an FBI agent or something and George Clooney had escaped from prison. Big mistake. I don’t like movies like that. I thought it was going to be a comedy. Really. I don’t like it when people get shot in the head. That’s why I never finished Fargo. Also thought that was a dark comedy. A little too dark for me. I only like dark chocolate. And dark purple.
Personally, I really liked The Cell. The horse scene, I could have done without. It made sense in the context of the movie, but I was expecting some extremely twisted things from the beginning. If you’d seen the beginning of the film you wouldn’t have stuck around either. You’re right in saying it’s a dark film. It is. But it actually has a nice ending. And hey, J Lo was shockingly good in that movie, relatively speaking. In my opinion, anyway.
That sucks you saw something that nasty. It was a part of the subconscious of a Deranged Psycho Killer. Lopez does reach the guy in the end and redeem him, more or less. She reached him through his dreams, therefore lots of weird and nasty visuals and bizarre scenery. I promise, the movie isn’t all bad.
Actually, for all her antics, she’s one of the few (only one?) who’s managed to be on top of the album chart and at the box office at the same time. And even though tabloid gossip makes her out to be a truly horrible person, she usualy comes across as very likeable on screen, and as a competent, if not good, actress. Certainly no worse than Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan and a bunch of other women you’d hire for a romcom, but not a Shakespeare adaption.
Most of her movies have been fluff, but Out of Sight was excellent.
The Cell disturbed me a lot. I had a very difficult time watching it. When there’s the scene with the boy ironing, it was just too awful for me to continue and I’d flick the channel and come back.
So - what the hell was that whole thing, his father saying ‘do it! She’s not your mother’ or something to that effect?
I clicked on this thread hoping it would be a scene from Out of Sight, so I could rave about it. Ditto what *Gaspode said (and mhendo, listen to your wife! ;)): it’s a stylistic, smartly scripted, charismatically acted treat.
I was rather enjoyably surprised by her in U Turn. Really enjoyed the entire movie more than I thought I would, come to think of it. You could tell ol’ Ollie was just stretching himself for fun and not trying to be the iconic director for once.
Methinks a Mod request to change the thread title to “The Accidental Jennifer Lopez Appreciation Thread” is in order if this keeps up…
