Would I have to actually sit through the following:
Princess Diaries, Miss Congeniality (and sequel)
to claim them as truly bad?
Would like to ad to the list: Coyote Ugly and The Notebook. Here’s my review on why the notebook should be considered:
The Notebook is pure girlie-chick-flick. It had some touching moments right at the end, because it involved old people, and old people getting in on always makes me cry. What this movie made me realize is that sobbing like a kid gives you wings, and wings are important if you’re gonna fly over the grand-canyon-esque holes in the plot.
A brief summary of “The Notebook”: A typical love story about a rich girl (Amy) who falls in love with a poor boy (Noel), but is torn from him and the small town where she grew up by her parents who want to see her do better in love. The poor boy spends all the money he makes at the lumber yard to buy paper, ink and stamps and sends the girl letters every day for a year - which the rich-bitch mum secretly hides from her daughter. Because he does, he cannot afford to buy food - which explains how he stays so thin, I guess. The war comes, and both get involved. Noel fights and loses his best friend, Amy becomes a nurse and falls for a soldier in her ward, who happens to be a rich boy. He very quickly becomes part of the family, and proposes at an o-so-rich party. Meanwhile, Noel has come back from the war without a scratch to find that his father has sold the house, and combined with the meagre stippend he receives from the government, he buys an old mansion on the banks of the river and does it up. He then puts it up for sale. Now back in “The Olden Days” poor guys who redid houses could afford to advertise their house by getting their mug in front of the house and then advertise on the FRONT PAGE of the New York newspaper - which is where Amy sees him. So she goes back, screws his brains out, and then flips the fiance the bird and lives happily ever after… until she is old and is suffering from senile dementia. Noel and Amy have since married; had two kids, and somehow, Noel made enough money working at the lumber yard to afford a pension large enough to put his wife in a really posh nursing home… and move in to care for her!! He attempts to snap her out of the dementia by reading passages from her diary. She sometimes comes back for a few minutes… only to forget soon after. Apparently, Noel has been doing this every day for some time. At this point I realized I was watching 50 FIRST DATES THE SEQUEL. Adam Sandler was Noel, and Drew Barrymore was Amy, and both had been made up to look old.
Guys: don’t get pussy whipped into seeing this film.