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Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 10-06-2004, 09:46 PM:

This movie's a pile of [bs]

I was so bored throughout this feature. I ended counting ceiling tiles to ease my suffering.

Formula of this movie was:
1 Minute of somewhat funny entertainment followed by
9 minutes of the most boring agonizing scenes imaginable.
(repeat 9 times)

I hated Ben Affleck before this movie and I hate him more after. He needs to stop acting and give writing more time & effort.

Avoid it if you can.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 10-06-2004, 10:14 PM:

say what you want, but he still got (and had the chance to ditch) Jenifer Lopez

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 10-06-2004, 11:29 PM:

How I know his movie sucks even though I haven't seen it:

Its a Christmas movie that comes out in OCTOBER!

Think about it - your a studio with this massive turd of a film. You know it wont compete in the dead heat of the holidays, but maybe, just maybe it will squeak a profit if you put it out way early and create some marketing woojoo to the effect of "Christmas comes early this year!"

I hereby nominate October as Holiday Movie Dump Month.
You couldn't PAY me to see this.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-21-2004, 06:40 PM:

quote:
How I know his movie sucks even though I haven't seen it:

Its a Christmas movie that comes out in OCTOBER!

How did I know even moreso that this movie would royally suck before I screened it? It had a CYAN track! No studio has released a good movie in cyan. It's too risky. They have to use their duds as guinea pigs to verify compatibility first. CYAN = GODAWFUL MOVIE

That being said Nate hit it right on the head. BORING!!!! Lordy, lordy, lordy was I freakin' BORED through this 4 hour marathon of a movie! It's like the writers fell asleep partway through writing the script, so the actors starting improving for awhile until the writers woke up and finished the movie.

Oh yeah, and Ben Assflex did a top notch lousy performance. I'd say it was his worst, if that is even possible. James Gandolfini did a good job with what he had, but that didn't save anything.

Avoid this movie like testicular cancer!

0.5 out of 5 stars

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-21-2004, 07:15 PM:

I'm supposed to avoid testicular cancer? SHIT!!!!

Posted by Don Anderson (Member # 397) on 10-22-2004, 02:59 AM:

They should re-name it SURVIVE THIS. Terrible x 3. Not exactly a family film, too many nasty things in it. Hah. Hah. Ben Affleck shows off his terrible acting skills.Hopefully this will put an end to his attempting to act. Christina Applegate is lookin' hot, Catherine O'Hara looks a little ragged, but still has it. What's with the RING 2 trailer attached to a Christmas movie??????? Direct to video by Christmas 2004!!! What a piece of crap. This trash will even make an athesist cramp over in pain. [bs]

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-22-2004, 02:05 PM:

Mine had a good ol' silver soundtrack. Which was funny cause of all the memo's we got about the cyan track.
Oh well.
The management thought it was "cute" so I figure we'll do alright with it. Some people are easily amused. I figure the tweeny croud will come for it. You know, the dumbass 15 year old girls who bought the "Mrs. Afleck" purse and hat. [puke]

EDIT: Needed a barf.

Posted by Jarrod Cocker (Member # 2773) on 11-08-2004, 05:29 AM:

Ha ha,

News today - Its been pulled from an Australian Theatrical Release.

... Just a couple weeks before it was due to open.

ha ha..