Butter (2011) has been making the festival rounds for a while now (our Skin Skout saw a screening at SXSW back in March), but the satirical comedy starring Jennifer Garner as a self-righteous housewife and Olivia Wilde as a home-wrecking stripper has just now released a trailer. We’ve got mixed feelings about this one, and here’s why: On the one hand, our Skin Skout reports that, despite the suggestive trailer and “R” rating, Olivia does not go nude in the film, a depressingly typical state of affairs for celebrity “stripper” roles (See also: Closer ). On the other, the trailer doesn’t mention the “good part” of the film, a girl-girl makeout scene between Olivia and Twilight star Ashley Greene . And that’s more than enough to make us melt (in our pants, of course). Butter hits theaters on October 4 , but you can see stars Olivia Wilde , Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone nude right now here at MrSkin.com!
Like the Paranormal Activity films and their cinematic ancestor Poltergeist , The Apparition takes place in what may be the least naturally atmospheric setting out there — suburban California. There’s something welcomingly off-kilter about dropping a supernatural tale in a location so inherently mundane. It’s straightforward enough to spin scares out of creaky mansions in remote areas, cavernously empty hotels and abandoned asylums, but sunny tract housing doesn’t naturally lend itself to spookiness, which makes it all the more immediate and unsettling when a movie manages to make such a thing work. It doesn’t, unfortunately, work in The Apparition , an incomprehensibly garbled, derivative attempt at a horror flick from first-time writer-director Todd Lincoln. The setting may actually be the most interesting aspect of the film, a sparsely occupied, recently constructed planned community in the Los Angeles suburb of Palmdale, where young couple Kelly ( Twilight- er Ashley Greene) and Ben (Sebastian Stan) have just taken up residence in a new house purchased as an investment by Kelly’s mother. With its shiny appliances, pre-installed flatscreen and near-identical exterior to neighboring buildings on the block, the Overlook Hotel it is not, but then it needn’t be, because the pair may have brought their haunting with them. The Apparition is inspired by the Philip Experiment, in which a group of Canadian parapsychologists in the ’70s invented a ghost, gave it a history and tried to imagine it into being by the force of their combined will and thoughts. The film presents a version of this experiment, done in faux aged stock, at its outset before skipping ahead to more modern footage of a recent, disastrous attempt to recreate the deed with scientific equipment, led by college student Patrick (Tom Felton — Draco Malfoy himself). The double framing story presents a captivating concept, of a spirit birthed entirely out of human belief, a self-reinforcing thing once it came into being and started scaring people. But the film essentially drops this idea after introducing it, as it does most of the elements it introduces. Whatever other problems The Apparition ‘s apparition has, bewildering inconsistency is its foremost. At first the spirit is flinging open doors and making banging sounds a la the aforementioned Paranormal Activity , then it’s causing dark stains to appear on the ceiling like Dark Water , then it’s sucking people into walls like Pulse , then it’s taking the form a jerkily crawling ghost woman right out of The Grudge . The apparition, it would seem, has no clear motivation and is of fuzzy origin, but it’s definitely a movie buff, especially when it comes to J-horror. That last scene in particular is such a carbon copy of Kayako, the ghost in Takashi Shimizu’s franchise, and so unlike what’s happened in the haunting thus far (everything has suggested it take the form of a tall, thin man) that it’s almost laughable, as if, having given up on more traditional scares, the apparition has decided to go international. Greene and Stan are both very pretty, and they’re fine actors who are required for the sake of the movie to do extremely silly things. Stan’s character, for instance, keeps his past connection to the spirit secret for no sensical reason, and tries to pretend the paranormal force that’s growing ghost mold on their ceiling and tying their clothes in knots has no interest in them. Greene’s character uncovers her boyfriend’s keepsake trove of videos and other evidence of the experiment gone wrong, and the first thing she asks him about is not why he helped summon some apparent demon thing but who the girl is in the photos with him — were they together ? The primary frightening scene in the film is also its biggest headshaker, in which Kelly is left alone in the house as the lights are shutting off by themselves, and rather than run outside or shriek for help, she uses a thermal imager to peer around the dark downstairs, the soundtrack running an accelerating, thumping heartbeat. It’s a good thing neither Kelly nor Ben are developed enough for the audience to invest in their safety as they heedlessly engage in such hazard-courting behavior, but without characters to latch on to, all that’s left are the scares and the story, neither of which amounts to anything. At only 82 minutes long, The Apparition is so lean you’d think it had to have been edited to bits somewhere, except that there’s no conceivable way that these pieces could have fit together to begin with. With no consistent mythology — at one point the characters drive and drive to take shelter in a Faraday cage that immediately stops working once they get inside — and few original thoughts, The Apparition is distinguished only in being what has to be the lone horror movie to set a climactic scene in a Costco. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Ashley Greene is some Florida trash groupie cunt who managed to scam her way into Hollywood, and who is now dressing like Florida trash….looking at her back fat hanging over her bra makes me feel like I am waiting in line behind some stripper trash at Walmart….all she’s missing a couple black babies with different daddies…but I think we can safely say the ghetto stripper trash with multiple babies in a broken home….probably has more morals and values than this Ashley Greene garbage….but here she is anyway cuz you idiots are sold on her….and can jerk off to her bra back…cuz you idiots are pathetic… TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
Or is she the Michele Bachmann of beurre ? The more I see of October’s Midwestern comedy Butter , the more I’m totally going to watch it and also maybe start etching masterworks out of breakfast foods. Watch the latest trailer for the Jennifer Garner-Olivia Wilde-Rob Corddry ensemble indie and see if you’re as charmed by the tale of an orphan, a housewife, a stripper, and various other quirky personalities going head-to-head in a butter-carving contest. If only Nutella had a bit more hold… Butter is directed by British helmer Jim Field Smith ( She’s Out Of My League , Episodes ) from the Black List script by Jason Micallef and co-stars Ty Burrell, Ashley Greene, Hugh Jackman, Alicia Silverstone, and 12-year-old Yara Shahidi. It hits theaters in limited release on October 5. [via Yahoo ]
I am too picky, I don’t think it is a gay thing, but half the Ashley Greene fans who read this site will be sure to tell me how fucking gay I am, because I find her nothing but a boring body, florida trash, whore who fucked the right people, who happens to be in a bikini, like so many girls I can google, who actually are hotter to look at….because I don’t need the media to dictate what Jonas Brother cokehead slut who pretends to be Christian is worth sticking my dick in, since all sluts are worth sticking my dick in, its jsut that some of them are more the kind I want to choke the fuck out while doing it, and Ashley Greene happens to be that kind…..She’s won some kind of lottery..cuz that face is weak sauce and so is the rest of her…a bikini or half nakedness won’t win me over bitch…you suck… To See The Rest of Ashley Greene in a Bikini FOLLOW THIS LINK
I know that I may or may not have been one of those people encouraging Twilight hottie Ashley Greene to keep working out, I like my women tight, but I think she may have gone too far. Here she is looking at birthday cards or some crap like that, looking a little too skinny in her spandex pants. I mean she still looks really hot, but that booty seems to have completely disappeared. What the hell? Enough with the deep knee bends, I think you’re good. It looks like one sinewy muscle now, she can probably jump really high or break twigs with that thing. She needs to get on the baseball player workout routine, how do their asses get so big? Somebody help her.
I know that I may or may not have been one of those people encouraging Twilight hottie Ashley Greene to keep working out, I like my women tight, but I think she may have gone too far. Here she is looking at birthday cards or some crap like that, looking a little too skinny in her spandex pants. I mean she still looks really hot, but that booty seems to have completely disappeared. What the hell? Enough with the deep knee bends, I think you’re good. It looks like one sinewy muscle now, she can probably jump really high or break twigs with that thing. She needs to get on the baseball player workout routine, how do their asses get so big? Somebody help her.
Jodie Marsh has tweeted more beach phtos. They look pretty much like the last installment . She should consider hiring a photographer. We need new angles, lighting and less clothing. Otherwise she’s wasting all that hard work she has put into her body. BTW, I have the new Galaxy and it takes great pics. Call me Jodie.
If you are into some skinny goodness here is Ashley Greene at the Nylon Magazine August Issue party. I don’t think there is an ounce of fat on her. I wonder if the girl ever eats? Don’t worry, I’m not complaining. That would go against everything I stand for. Anyway, I’d love to take Ashley out for a delicious iceberg lettuce salad. Hold the dressing.
Sound the AWKWARD ALERT, readers, the promotion for Breaking Dawn Part 2 is just beginning. In news that would typically leave Twihards jumping for joy, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are posing together as part of a new round of promotional photos in anticipation of the upcoming blockbuster. There’s just one problem… and his name is Rupert Sanders . With new photos emerging of Stewart and this director getting all frisky, and with news spreading that Pattinson has asked his ex to move out, fans are both curious and petrified of the impending media tour involving Twilight cast members. The major ones are all featured below, but all eyes will continue to be on the top two for the foreseeable future. Click each image to enlarge:
