A Clue for Megan Fox: Trashing Your Audience is a Bad Idea
by Pam MeisterSomeone call the waaahmbulance: Megan Fox’s starring turn in the movie “Jennifer’s Body” didn’t do as well as she’d hoped and she’s looking for a scapegoat. Naturally, she turns to the unwashed masses in Middle America:
The actress tells The New York Times that her movie “Jennifer’s Body” tanked because “the movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.”
Actually, Megan, that pretty much eliminates anyone with an ounce of taste. Here’s more on the movie’s plot via IMDB:
Nerdy, reserved bookworm Needy and arrogant, conceited cheerleader Jennifer are best friends, though they share little in common. They share even less in common when Jennifer mysteriously gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local bar. As Needy’s male classmates are steadily killed off in gruesome attacks, the young girl must uncover the truth behind her friend’s transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches her own boyfriend Chip.

Oh my stars! This has Oscar and Golden Globe written all over it, and Middle American schlubs who shop at Walmart and enjoy a night out at Applebee’s couldn’t appreciate the delicate nuances of a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader? Well, that’s the hoi polloi for you.
A decent movie must have meat. Unfortunately in this one, it looks like Megan Fox ate it all.
I guess it didn’t occur to Megan, though, that gratuitously badmouthing many of the people who make your career possible isn’t exactly the best way to win fans apart from hormonally-charged young men. Here’s what she said about those same losers back in June, whilst Americans were breathlessly awaiting the cinematic triumph that rivaled “Gone with the Wind” called “Transformers 2″:
When asked how she would stop the ruthless Megatron from demolishing the world, Fox first said that she would “barter with him.” She then, however, went on to say, “… and instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”
Yep, there’s nothing like talking smack about a large portion of the movie-going audience, who work hard for the money that goes toward those $10 movie tickets. Remember, “artists” like Megan exist on a much higher plane than you and me, so they don’t have to worry about things like getting “value for your money” and can therefore spend a lot of time belittling the social mores of the very communities from whence most of them came. Burn those bridges, baby!
She must not brag too much about being born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Sounds a bit too “down home,” if you know what I mean. The poor dear attended a Christian high school and at the ripe old age of 15 was not yet a feminist! Thankfully she escaped that horrible place and went to Hollywood, where being a celebrity means you can do anything you want as long as the words “moral” or “tasteful” aren’t attached to it.
In her rant about “Jennifer’s Body,” Fox also takes a swipe at all the jealous females out there:
And other women hate her because “women tear each other apart. Girls think I’m a slut, and I’ve been in the same relationship since I was 18. The problem is, if they think you’re attractive, you’re either stupid or a whore or a dumb whore. The instinct among girls is to attack the jugular.”
I agree that there is a tendency for women to “attack the jugular,” as Fox puts it, when they are feeling envious or threatened. (Sarah Palin might have a word or two to say about that.) However, an actress of Fox’s caliber can rest assured that most of the criticism leveled at her has less to do with her looks and more to do with her severe limitations as an actress. Meryl Streep she ain’t.
I wonder why she is worried about being labeled a slut, considering her own take on women in Hollywood:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve only done a couple of movies, so you’re still mostly known as a sex symbol rather than an actress.
MEGAN FOX: It doesn’t bother me. I don’t know why someone would complain about that. That just means that the bar has been set pretty low. People don’t expect me to do anything that’s worth watching. So I can only be an overachiever. I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

So if other women think you’re a slut, Megan, remember: you should feel empowered, not degraded or insulted, by the label.
Reviews on “Jennifer’s Body” linked over at Rotten Tomatoes were mixed. Here’s part of one that caught my eye:
Jennifer is dead-eyed and impassive, but a good actress might yet have played her in a lively, knowing way. Fox’s dead-eyed impassiveness seems all too much her own.
Sorry, Megan, that wasn’t written by a Middle American or a woman, but a Brit named Edward Porter. Will the inhabitants of the UK be next on your list of people to insult?
But what do I know? As a female who isn’t a particular fan, it’s obviously because I’m jealous of her fabulous body and big-time Hollywood career. I must be one of those know-nothing Middle Americans.
See you at Applebee’s.






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from the mouths of babes…
even clueless, mud brick stupid like the unfortunate Ms Fox. In her inane and juvenile rants she is giving voice to the way MANY in her community feel. The blithe acceptance that tens of millions of their fellow citizens untimely, even horrific deaths would be 'ok fine'…
More Moet et Chandon for her, she figures. Shorter lines at Spago. No waits at the American Airlines terminal.
Pretty breathtaking, this…
If you don't go to her movies, you violate her freedom of speech.
That's how it works right?
I don't buy the whole she's happy to be a sex object statement. If she really were she'd be in a different film industry being 'empowered not degraded'
people will take some good natured ribbing, but when it is no longer in good fun and becomes real, people don't play along. Good luck with all that Megan. Just remember unemployed former hot chicks are a dime a dozen in you are in your 30's.
That movie was god awful……….And she was horrible!
Indeed, there is a life lesson in there somewhere – pure brilliance. I smell another Lohan in the making.
Megan is such a towering intellect! Three comments/questions::
1. Did they run out of saline when they put her implants in or did they just transfer the contents of her cranium into those bags?
2. If you blow in her ear, does it whistle?
3. I didn't realize you could be that vacuous and still walk upright.
Want to know who is a much more pretty and convincing actress with a stronger ethical compass whose work is far more important than Ms Fox's? Hannah Giles.
She's dumber than a bag full of hammers. All those tattoos she has are going to look really great in about 10 years.
She's not a good actress. She has a shelf life of maybe 10 years. So when her body starts sagging and the work dries up, what do you think the odds will be that she CONDEMNS sexist Hollywood for its cruel exploitation of women?
Thank you, Pam, for yet another spot-on assessment. To your point, I suppose Ms. Fox wouldn't object to Megatron demolishing her home town of Oak Ridge, TN, since that too is considered home to "white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America", as per her definition. How refreshing to see she has completely forgotten her roots and sold her soul to Hollywood. Another one bites the dust…Good riddance!!!
I so badly wanted to enjoy the transformer movie series but the overt sexuality made it so that I couldn't take my boys 10 & 12 to it. I won't even let them see it on DVD. I have older boys(adults) who told me not to take the younger because they felt it was in bad for kids. Sorry Megan. some of us in middle America have taste and discernment. I guess it is old fashioned morals. Hollywood might want to get some.
Wow, didn't know she could speak on her own – figured she was a robot.
Oh wait…
Anywho, she's already made her millions, it's no big deal for her at this point – just a matter of how much more she can acquire before she sags out of being pretty, which is a very loose description at best (I don't see it, guess I'm in the minority on the opinion of her looks).
I have to admit – it's always fun to watch a Hollyweird train wreck.
that is a sucker bet, you will not lose that one
Isn't this stupid bim from Tennessee, a state filled with "Middle Americans"? If she weren't being used soley for her looks, she'd be asking me what I want on my Big Mac?
Don't you know? It's our fault that she has such hatred towards conservatives.
Honestly, I forgot about her until I saw this post. Now, when I look at her, I see evil liberal hobbit fingers.
When she get older and less desireable looking she'll be done. Megan can you type? Anybody seen Sharon Stone lately?
As Andrew Klavin says, "You could roll her IQ on a pair of dice."
Middle america doesn't appreciate zombie-lesbian-cheerleader movies. I guess when you make a movie that only has appeal in coastal art houses, you shouldn't be surprised that the box office is low.
Shows you how much I know, I would have thought that Hollywood would market this type of movie exclusively to middle America, claiming it was too low brow for the enlightened coasts with their wireless internets and running water.
not the sharpest bulb in the deck to be sure.
About as sharp as a sack of wet mice. (Hat tip to Foghorn Leghorn.)
She is a beauty, of that there is no doubt, but she is also an idiot which kind of negates the first.
Ah well.
She can walk upright because those funbags are filled with Helium, not saline!
I didn't even know who she is until I read this. There was a Transformers 2?
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I remember someone phrased a question once. Can't remember where, but it was "Who has the body of a goddess and the mind of a child? Demi Moore!" I think we can pass that torch to this moron. Except the overabundance of tattoos. She'll look like a weathered billboard as time goes on.
Andrew is wise.
“The actress tells The New York Times that her movie 'Jennifer’s Body' tanked because 'the movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.'”
Yeah, I'm not buying it… It's more likely that Megan Fox was told to say to say those words to the New York Times by Diablo Cody.
No offense, but those pics just reek of STD's.
Aw, Megan and Shia completely interrupted my scenes of nonsensical giant robot fights in both Transformers movies!
….that's not sarcasm; that's really all I wanted to see.
Yeah, the latest Transformers flick was the top grossing movie in America. And this was due to the success of the first film and the CGI not Megan Fox, who is just disposable eye candy by Michael Bay standards.
Sadly, Fox is too vain, dumb, or both to realize how quickly her fame will end.
I would suspect that she wants Oak Ridge destroyed. She seems the type to be sour about it, after all, they didn't hold daily ticker tape parades in her honor.
She's just another little girl that didn't make head cheerleader. Her vindictiveness towards her roots shows a petulant little girl that hates her former peers for not realizing how 'special' she was from the start.
Maybe because they got a load of her snotty little personality first.
“…the movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.”
Actually, this sounds like a compliment. I, for one, am proud NOT to be a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader.
"Someone call the waaahmbulance: Megan Fox"
Who?
Animated chicks are so much hotter than today's starlets. The animated ones are 'way more' real.
Clooney is from Kentucky. His father was a newsman in Cincy.
My aunt worked for the same company as his father, and I always suspected Clooney of being the striped shirt kid who tried to steal my animal crackers when I visited my aunt at her work.
HA HA HA HA – this is for that filthy Mordor orc Rashid who tried to proselytize his moon-good worship on this site in an earlier post:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4173
"Syriac or Syro-Aramaic gradually gave way to Arabic after the Arab conquest of this region, but when the Koran was composed, Arabic did not yet exist as a written language. Author Ibn Warraq estimates that up to 20% of the Koran is incomprehensible even to educated Arabs because parts of it were originally written in another related language before Muhammad was born, if Muhammad as he is described to us ever existed at all, that is."
Rashid, tell your Mouth of Sauron we do not barter our lives for the threats of his kind.
Half-way thru the second line of the plot summary was suffiicent to say, "What a load of … what moron actor or actress would be stupid enough to sign on to this pathetic piece of … "
Well … grudgingly have to admit that Megan Fox was smart enough to get her paycheck deposited in the bank, while the studio with all the hot-shot vetters and business people who approved it can't comprehend why there's no audience for their latest cinematic eau de toilette. Gads. Must have been DOZENS of people who had to sign off on, "Oh, yes! THIS will make money FOR SURE!"
Noo. It's the stupid audience's fault. Just giving the slugs what EVERYONE knows they WANT.
Thanks. I knew it was one of them, but they're neighbors and it's close enough for government work.
Agreed. Similar to how liberals hate their American roots – as eveidenced by the President's apology tours throughout the world, the overt PC spin by the MSM regarding Maj. Hasan and the Fort Hood massacre, etc. Enough already…at least Johnny Depp, who hates America as well, left the country and lives in France. I just wish more in Hollywood and the liberal left had the intestinal fortitude to join him!
RobertB,
You echo John Nolte's commentary on how Hollywood is MORE sexist than it was in the 1950s:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/1...
I wonder how she can explain the success of Zombieland? That movie was smart, funny, broad-scatter fun!
I'm a christian conservative from middle America and I went to see it. Why you got to swipe me, Megan? I figured the dialogue would be good with Diablo Cody writing, and I am a Brody Jenner fan. I liked the movie, kind of a cult B movie. Megan was fine and Amanda Seyfried was great. Just focus on what you can control Megan, like improving your craft, and quit insulting people.
Ok, Jennifer's Body looked like it sucked… plain and simple… I don't care if her character was a lesbian nor do I care that she was a cannibal or a man-eater… It lacked a decent psycho-thriller plot that I love to watch and it lacked decent actors to play in the mediocre film… :/ I would rather watch a mediocre film with decent actors than a decent film with mediocre actors and Megan Fox is a part of the latter rather than the former.
Well, I'm a woman, so I must be jealous. But she seems generic to me. Sarah Palin is much hotter in her mid-40's than Fox is now.
Not a fan of the first one, disliked the second even more. Take some terminator, fart jokes, matrix, and inconsistancies from the first movie. Mix thuroughly, half bake, add CGI, and Presto! A piece of c*ap.
“the movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.”
And anyone who can discern good movies from cinematic crap.
Ok but this really is not the topic at hand
if you post it here the guy you are trying to insult won't see it
Actually, I will probably Tivo or see this one on Netflix. Maybe it will cause a few chuckles.
…She must not brag too much about being born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Maybe the background radiation explains the malformed thumbs and room temperature I.Q.
The more I see the description "man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader" the more I think that this movie needed Bruce Campbell.
“the movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.”
gee, it's not often you see flyover country get accused of having an excess of taste…
I didn't see it either. I haven't seen a movie in the theater since Casino Royale.
Pam, I'll see you at Applebee's – I'll buy!
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I think generic is the perfect word to put to her. She is not special, she is another pretty face in the crowd who slept with the right producer at the right time. Most of all, she will not be remembered. Kinda sad really, if only she had some grace.
I'll be there!
Can you say narcissist? They always blame everyone else for their failures but take ALL the credit for any successes.
No talent.. big boobs. That's all folks !
Boy stuff lik this gives you a new appreciation for old-line studio bosses like Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn , Darryl Zanuckand the Warners. They had their limitations but they would never have allowed a performer like Ms. Fox to go anywhere near a microphone without a script, an agent and at least six PR guys. She's an incredibly beautiful young woman but seems to have the emotions, perceptions and cognitive skills of a seven-year old. If she can't score a hit by appearing as a zombie-lesbian-cheerleader then her career is already in trouble.
As a Left Coast native male, I have my share of the "I'm too good for you" female types pretty much everywhere I go, not just on the big or little screen. I can tell you they're all pretty much the same.
They like being the center of attention, as long as they approve of the attention giver.
They like wearing very little clothing and being stared at because of it, again as long as they approve of the guy staring, otherwise it's "what are you looking at, perve"?
They can't be bothered to learn anything in school at any level (not that California's school system is any good), yet they spend a great deal of time (ironically) mouthing off about "stupid" Republicans like Sarah Palin.
Then, when they're 40 and their "perfect" husband runs out on them for a younger version of well, them, and their "friends" are all to busy to care, and their skin is leathery from all the tanning beds and hours on the beach (mostly to get stared at), and they have nothing of substance to fall back on, they just don't understand how this could have happened.
Looks like Miss Fox has adapted well to her new playground.
You know, if you go back and look at the beauties from years past, not just Monroe, but Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and my husband's favorite, Donna Reed, you've got some gorgeous, glamorous and memorable women. I can't think of any currents actresses– at least off the top of my head– that have the timeless quality those ladies had.
Her quotes read like a whiny, self-loathing liberal from San Francisco. They all throw the Daily KOS / Moveon.org bumper sticker insults. They have nothing else.
i think music is the same. it kind of reflects our disposable culture.
"People don’t expect me to do anything that’s worth watching. So I can only be an overachiever."
Not really. So far in your career, you've performed exactly as expected, Meg.
You can roll negative numbers with dice?
gratuitously badmouthing many of the people who make your career possible isn’t exactly the best way to win fans
Quick, someone tell the President! This is information he really needs to know.
Tale away all of the plastic surgery and she's a typical college student except she has no brains
How does something like Megan Fox come out of such a nice place as Oak Ridge?
I don't find her that attractive, I don't find her that talented. I think, like many actresses in Hollywood, she's been pumping up her bisexual credentials to find favor there (this is easy–say you had a lesbian affair and you're bisexual but keep going out with men). Sadly this is what Hollywood's A List has become today.
Flash in the pan
you don't f*ck her for her brains
What a vapid, narcissistic, bimbo. Newsflash Megan baby, you are just another pretty face with store bought boobs who can be replaced by the next pretty girl exiting a Greyhound bus in Cali. Honestly, what makes you so G-Dam special? You kiss girls? Real original. You spew out hatefilled left wing rants? Way to get you point across. Why don't you save the time and effort and go do another pictorial for Maxim, you are to be seen and not heard, ya see, that's how it works when your carreer is a mis-mosh of movies where you are cast just to show more skin. Leave the political commentary to the intelligent boys and girls.
"You could roll her IQ on a pair of dice." – Perfect, I couldn't have said it better myself.
to riff on an old blonde joke:
What do you get if you put twenty lookalike lefty starlets ear to ear?
A wind tunnel.
What do you get if you put twenty lookalike lefty starlets ear to ear with a conservative woman on the end?
An echo.
When I read her comments I would not go to second movie, didn't buy the first one in Blue Ray, didn't go to the second one and will not buy the Blue Ray for the second one. WHY trash your customers? Political views are fine. Everyone has them. But there are hundreds of dumb sluts, I mean beautiful actresses who could play this part. Why hire someone who is going to insult 50% of your income source?
When you figure it out, please let me know.
…like the Elaine Benes character from "Seinfeld", "I'm not a Lesbian! I just hate men!" While a fictional character, Elaine may be a bit more polished than Megan Fox (no "tats" for one thing) but just as whiny, self-absorbed, and irritating – the only guy she could hang on to was Puddy, "the only honest car mechanic in New York City".
My brain in her body….the sky's the limit. I wonder if I could create some sort of device with a collender and a couple of jumper cables? How hard could it be? I think she's got maybe a single sputtering brain cell up there.
Megan Fox is the headliner on my list of Really Beautiful Women I Don't Find At All Attractive. Beautiful, yes, but stupid and arrogant. That cancels out her other charms for me. That and the tattoos so ugly that Lil' Wayne would reject them.
She joins others in this Hall of Shame: Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johannsen, Natalie Portman. Sigh. Such a waste.
the second picture of her shows like no emotion. it just look like her jaw's locked in position and she needs help. help of all kinds.
i'm currently striving to become an actress and i can say for a fact that if i ever become as famous as ms. fox, i'm literally going to laugh in her face. she reminds me of all the girls i can't stand at college :/
What the HELL were they thinking? Seriously? Good gawd.
Honestly, that's the tackiest premise I have EVER seen for a movie, And I've seen a good amount. But I am willing to bet that even such a godawful premise could be turned into fine art indeed if put in the right hands with the right resources and the right treatment.
None of which it would get.
But here's a challenge: if forced to, how would YOU handle this cannibalistic man-eating lesbian cheerleader clusterfark so that it actually becomes watchable, or even good?
I thought Maxamus Prime sat on her in Transformers II
C'mon guys, we all know that the new "enlightenment" comes only with a complete abandonment of morals and taste.
…does she not realize that "man-eating" and "cannabalistic" mean the same thing?
Congratulations, John Nolte! Your piece yesterday, on why actresses are worse off today than in old Hollywood, was just completely confirmed by Megan Fox's own words. To wit:
"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded."
Women as sex symbols only – check!
Women objectified – check!
Acceptance of liberal spin on this – check!
This would be hilarious, if it weren't so sad.
I have no idea who this idiot is, but you're right………..today's actresses *cough* *cough* *cough* wouldn't even have made it past the casting couch, back when Hollywood studios actually made movies that were enjoyable to watch. The bottom of the barrel actresses, back through the silent era, had better acting skills and were better looking……………SANS PLASTIC SURGERY !
This moron is really audacious. Saying we "flyover county" corn bred dimwits cannot understand or comphrend her movies!!! Well, her movies arent exaclty Shakespeare I hate to tell her. She is another actor living in a fantasy that thinks she is above all the rest of us. Another wannabe elitist. I could care less for her or her dumbass movies.
I like Megan Fox's comment about empowerment…in my family, whenever we come across someone whom we believe to be a total whore (or just dresses like one, which 9/10 times means they are or aspire to be), we call her an "empowered woman". We've been doing it for a couple years now…it's really hilarious to call a woman that to her face and watch as they light up from what they think is a big compliment.
It's also funny to watch the look on my wife's face when I refer to her friends as empowered women as I let her in on the joke…probably not a great idea, but I still laugh at it
Even her cleavage is lacking!
A man-eating lesbian cheerleader?
I go to movies to escape reality dammit!
I'm at the point where if I see a movie starring one of these nut jobs (especially when I pay $8+), my conscience is racked with such torment that the only way to feel any sort of relief is if confess my sin to my religious leader. Just knowing that I've lined the pockets of somebody like this is more than I can bear. Can't even remember the last time I saw a Sean Penn movie, but if I ever were to do so, I don't there would be any redemption for me because that man is without a doubt, the most vile of all the leftist Hollywood ilk.
Ouch.
I think I'll go home now…there's no way I could do better than that…
My son said it best…"I wanted to see giant robots ganking each other, and they had to go and ruin it with dialog…"
THE best curves in that movie were on the Camaro…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present today's "non-sequitur award winner…
She wasn't in it…
she may be more ~talented~ laying down (wink, wink)
Hold the presses!
No Boffo Box Office for a Bimbo Slasher Flick? naw, couldn't be…
Bruce Campbell…
Sam Rami…
I used to think she was exceptionally hot…then she started talking…
I see a Hillary Duff decent and a Lindsay Lohan sharp stop at the end…
for someone you all seem to not care for, she sure does get your attention. keep writing about her Pam, you're just another sucker.
> The actress tells The New York Times that her movie “Jennifer’s Body” tanked because “the movie is about a
> man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America.”
So she's saying that man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleaders are only native to the coastal regions of North America?
Another butt ugly liberal babe trying to tell a Foxy Lady how to do it !!!!
Yes matter of fact she was in " LAVO " a night club here in Vegas over the past weekend, and still looks smoking hot !
Fox's inability to comprehend that her movie might have just sucked is astounding. It failed for the same reason that Gigli failed: it plain sucked.
I personally don't think Megan's Body's failure is due to here moronic comments, but people actually using good taste for once in her career. The Transformer movies were carried by the SFX, not by Fox (as much as she likes to think that it was her doing).
This is just another example of a starlet with a huge ego. Sad, really.
There is this rush to cash in a quite hypothetical market for anti-conservative jokes – but the pond is getting smaller, and with this herd of talentless "comedians" recycling the same thing there is no future there –
I can't see Fox rolling further – there is no there there, and being vocal and liberal posturing doesn't help her anyway.
My bet is that in one year or so we'll see her mug-shot for stealing from Neiman, then… whatever, the same detox with Shannon Doherty –
Meat – over – next -
I doubt it. You would still have to overpay(dinner and a movie) for a bad performance(she knows she is pretty, so you'll have to do all the work).
Ya, true. $8.50 plus junk snacks and no kiss at the door would be cheaper.
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