Alternative headline: Paramount Accidentally Reinvents Quibi
Happy Mean Girls Day to all who celebrate!
In observance of the date, Paramount Pictures launched an official account for āMean Girlsā on TikTok (at this link) ā and has made the entire one hour, 47 minute film available for free on the platform, broken up into 23 clips.
The bio for the official āMean Girlsā TikTok account says, āGet in loser, weāre going shopping.ā Mean Girls Day has become popular among fans of the 2004 film because of a scene where Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) asks Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) what day it is, and she replies, āItās Oct. 3ā ā as shown in this clip.
If you prefer to watch movies the old-fashioned way, āMean Girlsā is currently available on Paramount+ and free to watch on YouTube with ads (as well as available to buy via digital video stores like Amazon and Apple iTunes). The TikTok account links out to Paramountās website listing retailers that offer DVD, Blu-ray and digital versions of āMean Girlsā for purchase.
Co-starring and written by Tina Fey, āMean Girlsā stars Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese and Amy Poehler.
Hereās the synopsis of the cult-classic teen movie: After living in Africa with her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lohan) must brave the wilds of high school where she is taken under the wing of the popular girls, The Plastics, led by the cool and cruel Regina George (McAdams). āWhat follows is a treasure trove of sharp, witty humor that defined a generation, inspired a hit Broadway musical and popularized countless catchphrases,ā the studio says.
Paramountās musical movie of āMean Girls,ā based on the Broadway adaptation, is set for theatrical release on Jan. 12, 2024 (after it was originally planned to debut on Paramount+). ReneĆ© Rapp, Angourie Rice, Jaquel Spivey and Auliāi Cravalho star in the new movie, with Rapp reprising her turn as Regina George from the stage production.
Holy fuck they kept it horizonal but letterboxed it. Whyyyyy would you want to watch a full movie on 1/4 of your tiny phone screen?
Youād be surprisedā¦
Some people somehow donāt mind.
Fuck the people who do mind I guess lol canāt uncrop it and view it normally
Well itās free.
That sounds like an awful way to watch a movieā¦
And yetā¦
I bet you can watch it in only 6 parts on YouTube.
In 1 part on the high seas.
Somewhere David Lynch is in great pain over this being put out into the universe.
What does David Lynch have to do with Mean Girls?
Hereās the infamous quote,
In a clip from a special edition release of his 2006 film, Inland Empire, the director gets very heated up about people watching films on their iPhones. āIf youāre playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film,ā he says.
āYouāll think you have experienced it, but youāll be cheated. Itās such a sadness, that you think youāve seen a film, on your f**king telephone,ā he says, barely restraining his rage.
Heās not wrong
Ryan Reynolds: āBut why?ā
This will be directly tied to residuals; just waitā¦
