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Originally Posted by Dixie Normos

John Tucker Must Die (0 stars)

Replaces Wicker Man (the remake) in spot number 2 in top 3 WORST movies I've ever seen. Actually, it very well may be the worst movie I've seen, but I haven't watched anything with Jessica Simpson in it yet.

Acting? Bad
Plot? Retarded in the cruelest sense of the word

Give this one a miss if you value your time and self respect.

Oh come one, seriously? I'll admit I'm biased when it comes to John Tucker, but the worst movie? There's like a gazillion worse movies! I'm guessing you haven't seen Zabriskie Point, Cloverfield, Kisna: The Warrior Poet, Catwoman, Fantastic Four, Jumper, Date Movie, Dorm Daze, My Super-Ex Girlfriend, The Haunting, The Musketeer, Rumor Has It..., Soul Food, anything by Uwe Boll or Paul W.S. Anderson let alone the holiday classic Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, etc, etc....

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Originally Posted by greysfang

I just watched Eastern Promises. It was pretty good, the best part was seeing Viggo's interesting bits

Wait what?

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Originally Posted by MarieAntoinette

"The last King of Scotland"- Finally saw it, it's a great movie, and very interesting too!

I'd find it interesting too, if it wasn't a total lie... I'll admit Forest's performance was very good, but that's the only thing the film's really got IMO.

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Now what I've seen (yeah I know, it's been a while, but I'm no longer on holiday):

Jumper, at the cinema => I went to see this with rather low expectations as everyone I know who's seen it has badmouthed, and I still came out somewhat disappointed. People have been piling on Hayden and Rachel's "awful acting" as the problem, but I disagree. Their acting is fine, if not amazing, and the whole cast does a decent-to-good job. The problem lies partly with the fact that the action scenes could have been done a whole lot better (what happened Doug Liman?) and mostly with incredibly lazy screenwriting courtesy mainly of Simon Kinberg (let's check: xXx2, X-Men 3,... yup, we have our man!). Indeed, the film doesn't have nearly enough backstory, exposition and closure...The guy just "jumps". At the very least, Jumper confirms a few things: Rachel Bilson is really a nobody (the credits: Hayden Christensen...Samuel L. Jackson...and Jamie Bell...JUMPER...Rachel Bilson... ), Jamie Bell sure has grown since Billy Elliot and AnnaSophia Robb has a very bright future ahead of her if.

Wild Bill (1995), by Walter Hill, on DVD => Um...ok...this one was f-ing weird, I couldn't make much sense out of it. I mean sure, I got the general plot, but the movie itself didn't make much sense.

About Schmidt (2002), by Alexander Payne, at home => The film is well made, but I don't know if I'd really recommend this pretty depressing American middle-class tale. Payne's similar segment in Paris Je T'Aime was a lot more effective, in my opinion.

Om Shanti Om, by Farah Khan, on DVD => This reincarnation-based romantic dramedy was a huge success in cinemas, but I failed to get al the hype and positive buzz. There were a few somewhat funny bits but it was pretty uninteresting overall.

Cloverfield, at the cinema => Ugh, a complete cinematic turd. No offense to those who liked it but this movie has nothing. It's just an overhyped crapfest, an already strong top contender for my "Worst Movies Of 2008" list. I always stay till the credits finish rolling, and here I had to literally force myself to stay in my seat. I felt like booing at the screen. It's really weird though. It seems that there are periods where I mostly watch good to really good films (like a couple of weeks ago) and periods were they all happen to be shit or mediocre or uninteresting (like now).

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, at the cinema => A good film. Well made. Just not great. Certainly better than Burton's last (the craptastic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, watch the Gene Wilder one instead), but I think that Burton's movies these days are "too Burton" (which was a big problem in Corpse Bride, for example). You just feel that he's done before, and better too. That being said, once again, it's well made. Some of the songs are pretty catchy (Johanna, Pirelli's Miracle Elixir), the acting is good, the whole affair is well done... It just doesn't have that something which propels it upwards. I don't think it would make my Top 10 of 2007. Maybe my Top 20, but I'm not sure either.