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Hart of Dixie (2011)
A Silly Romp That Should Have Been Much Better
So we're supposed to believe that a silly, shallow ditz could make it through medical school and internship? That small town southern girls do nothing but parade around all day in frilly clothes? That a doctor comes to town and starts humping with the town hunk without a trace of remorse?
This is a bad, bad show. I was hoping for a funny and sophisticated "fish out of water" series, like Doc Martin. Instead I got a piece of crap intended to tittilate the lowest common denominator. If we're going to have a woman doctor, let's have an intelligent woman, not a dingbat.
Anne (2017)
A Travesty!
I've long been an admirer of L.M. Montgomery and the Anne series, and thoroughly enjoyed the Disney series over and over. I decided to watch this version out of curiosity, just to see how they possibly could improve on the original.
They can't.
They've removed all the sweetness and humor that made the books and the 80s version so endearing and expanded upon the darkest elements...Anne's life of slavery, the nastiness of children and adults, and the cruelty toward orphaned children in the 19th century. They have essentially turned a delightful and uplifting story into a horror movie.
Yes, the cinematography is flawless, and the actors are certainly not at fault; but, please! read the original first. It's criminal that this could be someone's first exposure to Anne of Green Gables.
Shame on the executors of Montgomery's estate for allowing this to happen!
The Do-Over (2016)
What Did You Expect?
I should have known better when I saw the Adam Sandler credit; after all, he's made a career out of terrible movies. However, once I started I had to continue out of curiosity, just to see how abysmally awful it was going to be. There's plenty of noise, guns, violence, anal insertions, and more nipples than you'll ever want to see, held together by a plot that may have worked under better hands. Sandler plays a jerk (what else is new?) and Spade his patsy. I found it hard to care what happened to either one of them!
Do yourself a favor and find something that requires a few more IQ points!
You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
An example of everything bad about Hollywood
Evidently someone decided that since they had Technicolor available they could remake It Happened One Night. June Allyson, who was 39 when it was made, is dreadfully miscast as a rich brat who runs away from her father. Jack Lemmon tries his best to make it work, but even he must have cringed when singing the lame musical sequences. The black and white of the original mirrored the gloomy darkness of the Great Depression, and the rich brat's handing the last of their money to a hungry woman was a big turning point of the whole movie; none of that here. When will Hollywood producers learn that you can't remake perfection?