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The Runaways Teaser Trailer / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | December 17, 2009 | Comments (39)

MTV has debuted the new teaser trailer for The Runaways, the tweenerish biopic about the somewhat iconic ’70s girl band, which featured Joan Jett (Kirsten Stewart), Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) and Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton).

I won’t deny that, despite my initial skepticism with Fanning and Stewart playing punk rockers, that they most certainly look the part. I’m convinced, even, that Fanning will do the role justice. But I swear to God, if Kristen Stewart bites her goddamn bottom lip again, I’m going to hurl. I, at one time, actually thought she had some pretty decent talent, but I think I’ve seen everything she’s been in over the last few years, and I can safely say that her acting ability is fairly limited to mumbling and biting her lower lip, which has served the role in nearly every picture she’s made.

Joan Jett did not bite her lower lip. She might have bitten someone else’s, but she wasn’t mumbly emo pouty girl.

Also, the brief glimpse of Dakota Fanning’s cleavage in this trailer — not OK. Really not OK.

As for the movie — it’s hard to say from a 45-second clip. Looks sort of stereotypically biopic-y, to me.

Seriously. Not OK.


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Comments

thoroughly lame.

Posted by: gem at December 17, 2009 11:36 AM

This is a total gut reaction, but I think those girls were on drugs back then.

Posted by: Kballs at December 17, 2009 11:36 AM

Re Ms Stewart: don't forget the 'running my hand from my forehead
over her hair' thing. It's damn near constant.

Posted by: Ms MoMo at December 17, 2009 11:37 AM

Due tell...
Ha-ha.

Posted by: Eep at December 17, 2009 11:42 AM

Yes, but will Kristen Stewart mope thru the whole thing? That's her idea of "acting" after all.

Dakota can do better.

Posted by: dammitjanet at December 17, 2009 11:44 AM

The trailer looks good to me. I'll be watching this in the theatre. And, yeah, I don't really want to see Dakota Fanning boob, but she looks pretty awesome in this part. I'm not old enough to have seen Cherie Currie at the time, but I've seen her in the movie Foxes and Dakota looks the part for sure.

Posted by: Peanut_Butter_And_James at December 17, 2009 11:44 AM

"...and I can safely say that [Stewart's] acting ability is fairly limited to mumbling and biting her lower lip"

So, she studied at the Johansson School of Acting for Lip Fetishist, then? Fantastic. I think Stewart's addendum to the course of ABS (Always Be Slouching), will be a real game changer.

Posted by: Kayanne at December 17, 2009 11:45 AM

Ms MoMo: that running your hand through your hair thing is the most irritating actor tic. We watched State of Play last weekend and Russel Crowe did that constantly. It didn't look like an unconscious tic at all and was, in the words of Christian Bale, FUCKING DISTRACTING.

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 17, 2009 11:45 AM

"And I can safely say that her acting ability is fairly limited to mumbling and biting her lower lip, which has served the role in nearly every picture she’s made."

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you!

Now apologize for Star Trek...

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 17, 2009 11:46 AM

Kinda hard to judge a movie based on 33 seconds of actual movie footage, but...It's alright. Although I still have to own up to actually liking Kristin Stewart. Something about her just strikes me as endearing.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at December 17, 2009 11:48 AM

But I swear to God, if Kristen Stewart bites her goddamn bottom lip again, I’m going to hurl.

Is anyone else catching her doing exactly that at 31 seconds into the trailer?

Hurl away.

Posted by: branded at December 17, 2009 11:50 AM

Anyone else having trouble viewing the trailer? It saves me from Dakota's boobs, but now I'm curious about the rest of it.

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at December 17, 2009 11:55 AM

Hmm, must have appeased the internet gods, now it is working...

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at December 17, 2009 11:55 AM

damn it, I'm being mocked by this technology!

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at December 17, 2009 11:56 AM

Did Kristen bitelip/runhair in Jumper? Cos she was only there for like 30 seconds or something. If she did then, ummm, well, tsk tsk tsk?

Posted by: arrrghzi at December 17, 2009 12:08 PM

I saw her going for the lip, but no teeth. It was more of a pressed lips situation that might progress into lip-biting. Too soon to call it.

There was definitely moping, though.

Posted by: marya at December 17, 2009 12:13 PM

Cleavage? There was cleavage?

Posted by: , at December 17, 2009 12:23 PM

Oh, crap, why wasn't I a rock star????

Posted by: Bizarro Sofía at December 17, 2009 12:28 PM

Why is everyone messing with everything we hold sacred about Joan Jett? First it was the god awful rendition of "I Hate Myself for Loving You" that Faith Hill does for Sunday Night Football. If I have to hear that song again I'm going to shove a cherry bomb up Faith Hill's ass. Now we have Stewart playing her in what will probably be a shitty movie.

Poor Joan. At least she still looks like she could rock your face off and then fuck the shit out of you.

Posted by: Dave at December 17, 2009 12:39 PM

Dakota Fanning's old enough to be going to my High School, the cleavage thing is 36 kinds of creepy.

Posted by: George at December 17, 2009 12:41 PM

Hahaha, well, it's not a whole lot of cleavage anyway so I don't think it's too bad. She's such a little angel. I think/hope she'll continue to be great for a long time.

I'm sure I'll see this. My best friend loves biopics.

Posted by: becks at December 17, 2009 1:07 PM

Poor Joan. At least she still looks like she could rock your face off and then fuck the shit out of you.

Rock your face off while fucking the shit out of you. With encores. She scares me a little, in a good but very bad way.

And I'm not sure about the "Poor Joan." part. Much of her appeal, at least for me, is because she comes off as having done pretty much exactly what she wanted & had a blast. I know that in a drinking contest, rock-off, or cadge match my money's on Ms. Jett vs. any five US senators (Note 1) or room full of record company execs.

That goes for all The Runaways. Hell, 40 years from now Joan & company would beat the crap out of the New New Kids, 102 Degrees (Global Warming) and Jonas-Grandkids all at once, or clobber any three pop-tarts du jour with their backup dancers. (Note 3)

Then, they'd build an awesome hooka / bong from the walker parts & party down using their fallen foes as couch cushions, while chasing their meds with Jack from the bottle, and leaving three groupies a piece breathless and worn before picking up another batch for the tour bus.

On a slow day. The body grows tired, but badass is forever.

Joan Jett / Ted Nugent '12
Policies would be batshit, but the soundtrack album would rock!

Note 1
Excluding Lieberman or McCain. Seriously. Can't beat either of those guys into submission.

Note 2
Madonna or Keith Richards are a different story. Taking on the undead is a whole other problem. Need shotguns.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at December 17, 2009 2:00 PM

Thanks a lot for sticking "Cherry Bomb" in my head all day.

Also, Dakota Fanning must have had some sort of growth spurt, because she suddenly looks completely unrecognizable to me.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 17, 2009 2:13 PM

Note 2

I got a little excited there.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at December 17, 2009 4:14 PM

Meh. For my money (and I didn't even pay to see this one) the best 70s underground music biopic is What We Do Is Secret. Joan Jett is in that! Her character is asleep. Which is what I'll be doing through this movie.

Posted by: grace b at December 17, 2009 5:05 PM

I liked Stewart in Adventureland. She's built up some goodwill with me. I'll see it.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at December 17, 2009 6:02 PM

I won't lie, I like Kristin Stewart and I still feel like she's worth rooting for Dustin - don't give up the fight!

She's impressed me a few times (Panic Room, In the Land of Women, Adventureland) and since she doesn't say a word in the trailer and I only see her bite her lip once, I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt.

You can't deny, she's still better than all those starletards out there and CW pricks.

Posted by: citizen_cris at December 17, 2009 6:34 PM

I'll give Kristen Stewart this: she got Joan Jett to actually coach her during the filming of this movie and when Joan didn't think she was acting badass rock chick enough, she laid into her. That's one reason I actually am waiting to see this movie. No one is shitting all over Joan. If anything, Joan has shat on Kristen. That I approve.

Posted by: Peanut_Butter_And_James at December 17, 2009 7:16 PM

Dakota Fanning looks so much like Taylor Momsen in this trailer. I wonder how much heroin TM had to do to get over losing the part to her.

Posted by: Geetch at December 18, 2009 4:10 AM

I never expected Dakota to be tall, she seems like one of those naturally tiny people, but lately she looks about six feet tall. Maybe it's the corset(!!!!!!!!!!!)
This looks.....eh, KStew just inspire a reaction of 'meh' in me so overpowering that when I see her, I TOO start to bite my lip and shrug and roll my eyes in total disaffection with everything.
I'd like to see it, but like...I'll probably wait for it to come on TV.
Dakota will clearly be awesome though. Because she is Dakota

Posted by: Nadine at December 18, 2009 4:50 AM

*reads Bierce's Joan Jett post, tear trickling down left cheek*

Beautiful. Just .... beautiful.

Posted by: , at December 18, 2009 9:47 AM

Glad you liked it, Buc. Went ball-out on that one in your honor.

Oh yeah: Fuck Cancer!

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at December 18, 2009 11:45 AM

Remember, Lita, Cherie and Joan were all really, really young when they started out, like 14-15 years old. I totally wanted to be like them in the late 70s. I never saw the Runaways live, but I did see Joan Jett twice (after I was old enough to get into clubs) and met her both times. The second time was because we were dancing so close to the stage, her bass player totally slammed into my head with his bass and I got a bitchin' bruise on my forehead. She invited me and my best friend back stage to say sorry. That was pretty much it, but if she'd asked... rowr!

Posted by: Mrs Smith at December 18, 2009 2:20 PM

Please tell me this movie has full frontal nudity.

Of the female variety, please.

Posted by: fitzwilly at December 18, 2009 4:59 PM

WOW you ppl are idiots. She doesn't BITE HER LIP!!! She licks her lips! Like Joan Jett does! Damn shows you ppl don't know ANYTHING about Joan Jett at all.

Posted by: Jaclyn at December 19, 2009 1:15 AM

George, if Dakota Fanning is old enough to be in high school with you then stroke away. That tingling feeling your getting isn't the same kinda uncomfortable plaguing the rest of the guys on this site.

Dakota is closer to my DAUGHTER'S age then mine! That is why guys like me and Dustin say, "NOT OK"

Go ahead and stare at her as yet under-developed womanhood guilt free. You have our permission. We won't judge you.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at December 19, 2009 4:15 PM

And fitzwilly, I think Chris Hansen has some internet chatroom transcripts with your handle on them. Enter the kitchen at your own risk.

Posted by: L.O.V.E. at December 19, 2009 4:18 PM

I'm looking forward to this but mainly because of Floria Sigismondi's involvement, check out some of her music videos. More details and nice article about the movie here http://bit.ly/6FrZbn

Posted by: Chris at December 22, 2009 6:53 AM

Rated R for language, drug use and sexual content - all involving teens. So little chance of any nudity.

Stewart has several nude scenes in the upcoming Meet The Rileys.

Posted by: dan at January 8, 2010 9:59 PM





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