To celebrate my unpaid success (and since I don’t have any bones to go out on the town with, and PDX Pop Now! isn’t a 24 hour music fest) I have decided every Friday, I will watch a trashy movie, one that would be in the 99-cent bin, and take a Xanax and forget that I am not paid.
This week’s movie is the 1999 teen film Jawbreaker.
A brief description: Rose McGowan and a couple other slutty Mcsluts kill their best friend by kidnapping her and shoving a jawbreaker in her mouth. One girl decides that she has feelings and doesn’t care about being popular and leaves the group. Another joins it only to become a bitch-monster that wants to reign over Rose McGowan’s throne. A Carrie like prom scene in the end reveals who the ultimate culprit is. There are cameos of Marilyn Manson and Pam Grier (what the frak!?)
This movie is awful, but I love their outfits. So colorful! I wish I had the money to dress like them when I was in high school but I am pretty sure I would be sent home. Corsets and fishnets seem more appropriate for 82nd Avenue, not 2nd period.
Hey, Jawbreaker ain’t that trashy! If you’re into this, though, you should really check out Put the Camera On Me, a documentary about the director when he was a kid making movies with his brothers and neighborhood friends (and, you know, realizing he was gay). It’s ridiculously sweet and cute, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Interesting. More of a satirical attitude by an unpaid arts intern than any of the staff, uh, writers. And the editor won’t even let you build a portfolio by giving you a by-line.
Hmm. Your situation is not funny.
Next!