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    Jan 22, 2015#76

    ^I see 20% All critics, funny that the 3 fresh reviews are from Top critics

    damn that's arch I don't think that the reviews for Mortecai are that bad in Europe

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      Jan 22, 2015#77

      Negative:
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        Jan 22, 2015#78

        Both negative.
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          Jan 22, 2015#79

          Jennifer could give the performance of her career or make a career defining album and still get panned like she said they just look at your last name and categories you! Well let the numbers speak for them selfs this time.

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            Jan 22, 2015#80

            ^ I don't think it's true if they though the movie was good they would say it and I haven't read the reviews in details but doesn't look like most of them are trashing her performance or anything.
            This was never gonna get good reviews from the choice of director only but it could be fun and hopefully it will do well, but next she need quality.

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              Jan 22, 2015#81

              An interesting take on it:

              The Boy Next Door Is the Bad Movie Hollywood Needs Right Now

              Daniel D’Addario @DPD_

              10:36 AM ET
              Jennifer Lopez's new sexual thriller is clunky and ridiculous — but it's a rare movie about women


              On its face, The Boy Next Door is a perfect example of the very sort of movie that’s dumped in January. It looks cheaply made and has a plot hinging on provocation and contrivance far more than good sense or good taste. It’s, shockingly, the schlockiest possible iteration of the elevator pitch, “What if Jennifer Lopez had a one-night stand with her teenage neighbor, and then he got violent?” It’s hard to decide the movie’s best screamer: Is it that Lopez teaches “AP Classics”? That her paramour-turned-stalker knows how to remotely control printers, and uses this superpower to humiliate her? Any of the jaw-droppingly lewd come-ons in the film’s trailer? The Boy Next Door is not meant to be good. But its release should be applauded nonetheless.

              Let’s be clear: It’d probably be a victory for Hollywood if the projects it gave to actresses as charismatic as Lopez were better than The Boy Next Door. But many, many movies are as bad or worse; that is, The Boy Next Door is not exceptional in a film landscape where there have been three Takens. The thing is, most cheaply made bids at box-office success star Liam Neesons, not Jennifer Lopezes. What makes The Boy Next Door important is its subject matter and casting: It’s an explicitly commercial film focused on the (bizarrely unrealistic) life of a middle-aged woman.

              And for that reason, it couldn’t come at a better moment. At last year’s Academy Awards, Cate Blanchett, accepting the Best Actress prize, exhorted Hollywood to do better by its women, decrying “the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money.” A year later, the movie industry hasn’t gotten the memo. While the Best Actor nominees, drawn from a competitive field, each come from movies that met with wide acclaim, four of the five Best Actress nominees performed in movies that received no nominations in other fields, as if the Academy couldn’t figure out any way to honor a woman’s story, or maybe thought there weren’t enough stories about women worth honoring. (The fifth Best Actress nominee, by the way, was Felicity Jones in The Theory of Everything — a movie about the life of Stephen Hawking in which she plays supportive wife.)

              This phenomenon makes a sort of sense: There are far more movies made about the lives of men than about the lives of women, from the arthouse to the Marvel universe (where the announcement of a standalone female superhero movie had been very slow in coming). But it’s truly strange to witness how those films about women that are made get marketed. Julianne Moore’s Oscar bid Still Alice, for instance, is a viscerally moving film about the onset of illness, paced like an old-fashioned weepie and based on a best-selling novel. What failure of imagination led its studio to give it a tiny release, in New York and Los Angeles, rather than the major rollout that could have turned it into a genuine hit? If Jennifer Aniston and her studio were as confident in Cake as their zealous (and ultimately unsuccessful) Oscar Best Actress campaign implied, why did they hide the movie from the public? It’s still not in theaters, despite Aniston’s many interviews about how hard she worked to transform herself. The only actress this year who managed to merge critical acclaim, commercial success, and Oscar attention was Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, in which she plays a woman who habitually fakes her own rape in order to get back at men. That’s a particularly disturbing vision of womanhood — but it’s the one that Hollywood was okay with endorsing at the loudest possible volume.

              Say this for The Boy Next Door, a movie in absolutely zero danger of getting Lopez an invitation to the 2016 Oscars: It’s actually very kind to her character. Every action Lopez’s character undertakes is given clear justifications. She sleeps with her neighbor, who’s a student at her school, but it’s at a moment of extreme vulnerability as her marriage collapses, and the “high school student” is 19 (and looks 30). She then, quite rationally, explains over and over that she made a very bad mistake and wants to calmly move forward with her life; meanwhile, her neighbor puts her through hell. No film with this much violence against its female characters could credibly be called feminist, but Lopez gets every opportunity to defend herself, both against charges of child endangerment and charges of being too intellectual for her own good. (J. K. Rowling, she tells a callous date, studied classics. And she’s a billionaire.) The Boy Next Door‘s depiction of a woman who’s capable of making mistakes without allowing them to define her is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than viewers should expect.

              If we want better movies about women, we have to start with movies about women in the first place. The Boy Next Door wastes Lopez’s talents, just as much of the schlock classic actresses like Joan Crawford or Bette Davis appeared in wasted theirs. That was the price they paid for working in an era when enough movies about women were made that a few might be good.

              Lopez’s new project represents an earnest attempt to capitalize on a very real public hunger to see a woman at the center of a mainstream movie — not an indie, but an old-fashioned popcorn flick. Can either the boy-centric Best Picture nominees or the elusive Best Actress pictures say that? If every director, at every level of ambition, were making commercially ambitious movies about women, The Boy Next Door wouldn’t feel so perversely refreshing. But its director is one of very few who actually did.

              http://time.com/3670348/boy-next-door-m ... fer-lopez/

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                Jan 22, 2015#82

                It was actually great.^^

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                  Jan 22, 2015#83

                  Not bad review! I dont like it when she gets panned the movie was never made to be taken seriously or be acclaimed like jen said its a fun popcorn movie critics should remember that

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                    Jan 22, 2015#84

                    thanks, interesting article she has some good point.

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                      Jan 22, 2015#85

                      To those saying it's just a fun movie it's nothing serious.

                      At what point does she want to be taken serious as an actress? She's 45. She's been in the game a long time and hasn't had an acclaimed film since 98, not to mention a #1 Box Office hit as a lead in 10 years. You do the math.

                      Take it how you like, but this is only hurting her career even more. Her movie career choices is the pits.

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                        Jan 22, 2015#86

                        The only thing that is in pits here is you.
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                          Jan 22, 2015#87

                          Nobody will see this Welly and you know it. Stop sugar coating it. Her movie career has done far worse than the life support she's on in music.

                          The lack of awards from film should tell you that also. The girl can't even win an.MTV Movie Award. I mean...

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                            Jan 22, 2015#88

                            JLOz1FaNaTiC wrote:To those saying it's just a fun movie it's nothing serious.

                            At what point does she want to be taken serious as an actress? She's 45. She's been in the game a long time and hasn't had an acclaimed film since 98, not to mention a #1 Box Office hit as a lead in 10 years. You do the math.

                            Take it how you like, but this is only hurting her career even more. Her movie career choices is the pits.
                            I get you I think by now she should make better films but she doesn't really have many choices or offers, look at the huffpost interview where she talks a bit about that. Sure adding another bad movie to her resume isn't good but if it does well enough that something positive she hasn't had a hit in years some studios might say well people still want to see her on the big screen

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                              Jan 22, 2015#89

                              JLOz1FaNaTiC wrote:To those saying it's just a fun movie it's nothing serious.

                              At what point does she want to be taken serious as an actress? She's 45. She's been in the game a long time and hasn't had an acclaimed film since 98, not to mention a #1 Box Office hit as a lead in 10 years. You do the math.

                              Take it how you like, but this is only hurting her career even more. Her movie career choices is the pits.
                              But ya gotta wait for lila and eve sounds like jennifers got her teeth right into that role and this film with jennifer been a producer turns into a decent hit thats gonna be good for her career it will give her more credit that shes capable of actually producing hit shows/films... Look at feel the noise, EC,bordertown to whats shes producing now its a getting better (success wise) as a producer the better she gets the bigger and better projects will follow.

                                Jan 22, 2015#90

                                daisylo wrote:
                                JLOz1FaNaTiC wrote:To those saying it's just a fun movie it's nothing serious.

                                At what point does she want to be taken serious as an actress? She's 45. She's been in the game a long time and hasn't had an acclaimed film since 98, not to mention a #1 Box Office hit as a lead in 10 years. You do the math.

                                Take it how you like, but this is only hurting her career even more. Her movie career choices is the pits.
                                I get you I think by now she should make better films but she doesn't really have many choices or offers, look at the huffpost interview where she talks a bit about that. Sure adding another bad movie to her resume isn't good but if it does well enough that something positive she hasn't had a hit in years some studios might say well people still want to see her on the big screen
                                This jennifer can only work with whats she given! I still have a feeling lila and eve could turn out to be a golden globe,oscar worthy role or at least a critical acclaimed one

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                                  Jan 22, 2015#91

                                  So what?
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                                    Jan 22, 2015#92

                                    I prefer not to have my hopes up for Lila & Eve yet, we'll have some reviews next week so we'll know soon enough

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                                      Jan 22, 2015#93

                                      selena lopez wrote:This jennifer can only work with whats she given! I still have a feeling lila and eve could turn out to be a golden globe,oscar worthy role or at least a critical acclaimed one
                                      Hmmm I wouldn't bet on this.
                                      JLOz1FaNaTiC wrote:Nobody will see this Welly and you know it.=
                                      Ahem, I just came across this prediction:

                                      The Boy Next Door (Universal Pictures) - $19.5 million
                                      Playing in 2,600 theaters ($7,500 avg.)


                                      This is going to be her biggest opening in a DECADE, so I'm not really sure what you're talking about.

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                                        Jan 22, 2015#94

                                        nixy1991 wrote:
                                        selena lopez wrote:This jennifer can only work with whats she given! I still have a feeling lila and eve could turn out to be a golden globe,oscar worthy role or at least a critical acclaimed one
                                        Hmmm I wouldn't bet on this.
                                        JLOz1FaNaTiC wrote:Nobody will see this Welly and you know it.=
                                        Ahem, I just came across this prediction:

                                        The Boy Next Door (Universal Pictures) - $19.5 million
                                        Playing in 2,600 theaters ($7,500 avg.)


                                        This is going to be her biggest opening in a DECADE, so I'm not really sure what you're talking about.
                                        If thats true it will be her second biggest opening with her been lead!

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                                          Jan 22, 2015#95

                                          that would be crazy but Universal did a good job with the marketing

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                                            Jan 22, 2015#96

                                            Give The Boy Next Door this - they know who the audience is. The trailers are steamy and forbidden - catnip for the 50 Shades crowd. And really, who hasn't been there? My teenage neighbors hit on me constantly. This film, like the fella in it, will perform well, to the tune of $19.5 million.


                                            Hope its true im still gonna say $12-16 million

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                                              Jan 22, 2015#97

                                              I dont get my hopes up. Can't wait for first early weekend estimates tomorrow tho.

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                                                Jan 22, 2015#98

                                                2 positive reviews:
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                                                The perfectly cheeseball tone is so consistent and so effective that it couldn’t possibly be meant as anything less than broad entertainment. And it entertains so broadly that the audience – certainly the one in my theater – shrieked, cheered, jumped and even burst into periodic applause. The Boy Next Door works entirely on its own merits, eliciting exactly the audience responses it’s aiming for. You can argue that it’s not high art, but don’t pretend that The Boy Next Door isn’t effective.

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                                                  Jan 22, 2015#99

                                                  ^ I hope I'll enjoy it as much as that craveonline guy


                                                  official screen count: THE BOY NEXT DOOR will open in 2,602 locations this weekend.

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                                                    Jan 22, 2015#100

                                                    she got a 'zero' on metacritic by 'The Playlist' :lol:

                                                    http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... z-20150122

                                                    this is a mess :paperbag


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