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Okay, my "blog theme" idea is slightly copied off of youtubers like GlamLifeGuru and Daily Grace. No shock there. I recently wanted to clean my room- and I wanted to watch a movie that I had already seen or something while doing it, so I looked on HBO Go and saw that they had the movie "Jawbreaker". I had never seen Jawbreaker, but my sister liked it and told me to watch it, like years ago... so I decided cleaning can wait, I'm going to watch this move. And it was a good decision.
So basically it's a high school comedy, but its a little on the darker side. It's not like a dark comedy like how Young Adult was a dark comedy or anything like that, but its certainly very dark. Its about this group of girls in high school that are basically like "the plastics" in mean girls. There are two that are sort of the "leaders" of the group and one is Courtney (played to perfection by Rose McGowan) , the really mean crazy controlling one and the other is Liz, who is really nice and beautiful.
So the movie starts on Liz's 17th birthday where Courtney and her other friends (Marcie and Julie) kidnap Liz and gag her with a jawbreaker. They then throw her in the trunk of Courtney's car and they see her later dead with the jawbreaker lodged in her throat.
Courtney wants to hide the fact that they killed Liz and Marcie is on her side, but Julie wants nothing to do with them. She thinks that they should just go to the cops and tell them everything.
Meanwhile, the nerdy girl Fern comes to drop off Liz's things and Courtney then makes a deal with her to give her a makeover and they give her a new identity Vylette. And it's just really funny how that all pans out.
I don't want to give too much of the plot summary away because, I mean its an older movie. It's from 1999 it isn't like people haven't seen it, but if they haven't seen it I don't want to totally give everything away. The movie has a theme of like candy and death, which is a strange theme, but that's really what the movie is about. It shows both the tragedy and the sort of candy-coated parts of high school. I also really like that it is never stated whether or not Liz's death was a murder or what happened to Courtney after the school finds out (spoilers... but I mean its more than 10 years old). I just thought it was really clever, and it was a pretty creepy movie, but it was a comedy and a really funny one at that.
I think that this movie is really underrated. When people talk about "high school movies" there are mentions of movies like Clueless, Mean Girls, Easy A, and Heathers, but I've never really heard about this other than from my sister. I liked it a lot better than Clueless, I wasn't a big fan of Clueless, but I can see how people can watch it over and over and over again.
I also hear that they're working on a Jawbreaker Musical, which I actually kind of want to go to. I don't really see a lot of musicals because you usually need some money to see musicals, but this one I'm excited about. And hopefully I'll see it.
So that's my review I guess if I were to give it a grade maybe 3 and a half out of 5 stars? There were a lot of plot holes and it dragged on at times, but I could deal with it because it was so good.
So there is my review. My next review will be on my new favorite podcast... I won't tell you what it is, but let's just say I hope the sheriff's secret police will let me tell you what it is ;)
Byeeee!
Shannon
Okay, my "blog theme" idea is slightly copied off of youtubers like GlamLifeGuru and Daily Grace. No shock there. I recently wanted to clean my room- and I wanted to watch a movie that I had already seen or something while doing it, so I looked on HBO Go and saw that they had the movie "Jawbreaker". I had never seen Jawbreaker, but my sister liked it and told me to watch it, like years ago... so I decided cleaning can wait, I'm going to watch this move. And it was a good decision.
So basically it's a high school comedy, but its a little on the darker side. It's not like a dark comedy like how Young Adult was a dark comedy or anything like that, but its certainly very dark. Its about this group of girls in high school that are basically like "the plastics" in mean girls. There are two that are sort of the "leaders" of the group and one is Courtney (played to perfection by Rose McGowan) , the really mean crazy controlling one and the other is Liz, who is really nice and beautiful.
So the movie starts on Liz's 17th birthday where Courtney and her other friends (Marcie and Julie) kidnap Liz and gag her with a jawbreaker. They then throw her in the trunk of Courtney's car and they see her later dead with the jawbreaker lodged in her throat.
Courtney wants to hide the fact that they killed Liz and Marcie is on her side, but Julie wants nothing to do with them. She thinks that they should just go to the cops and tell them everything.
Meanwhile, the nerdy girl Fern comes to drop off Liz's things and Courtney then makes a deal with her to give her a makeover and they give her a new identity Vylette. And it's just really funny how that all pans out.
I don't want to give too much of the plot summary away because, I mean its an older movie. It's from 1999 it isn't like people haven't seen it, but if they haven't seen it I don't want to totally give everything away. The movie has a theme of like candy and death, which is a strange theme, but that's really what the movie is about. It shows both the tragedy and the sort of candy-coated parts of high school. I also really like that it is never stated whether or not Liz's death was a murder or what happened to Courtney after the school finds out (spoilers... but I mean its more than 10 years old). I just thought it was really clever, and it was a pretty creepy movie, but it was a comedy and a really funny one at that.
I think that this movie is really underrated. When people talk about "high school movies" there are mentions of movies like Clueless, Mean Girls, Easy A, and Heathers, but I've never really heard about this other than from my sister. I liked it a lot better than Clueless, I wasn't a big fan of Clueless, but I can see how people can watch it over and over and over again.
I also hear that they're working on a Jawbreaker Musical, which I actually kind of want to go to. I don't really see a lot of musicals because you usually need some money to see musicals, but this one I'm excited about. And hopefully I'll see it.
So that's my review I guess if I were to give it a grade maybe 3 and a half out of 5 stars? There were a lot of plot holes and it dragged on at times, but I could deal with it because it was so good.
So there is my review. My next review will be on my new favorite podcast... I won't tell you what it is, but let's just say I hope the sheriff's secret police will let me tell you what it is ;)
Byeeee!
Shannon
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