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Rocket Science (2007)
98 minutes of my life I wish I could have back
I really hated this movie, and I cannot imagine for a minute what the heck everyone sees in it. It was 98 minutes of plain old-fashioned pretentious cinematic torture. I was lured into it by all the critical acclaim, and I walked away feeling like I'd been utterly had.
Nothing was funny in this movie. It was all pain, pain, pain, one awkward, horrible, painful moment after another.
This is the kind of movie that could steer me away from the art-house cinema for good. I've just been burned too many times by movies like this, movies that are apparently made to cause people to suffer, and I'm beginning to wonder if the nation's movie critics are getting together and having a good laugh at all the people who they've sent to the cinematic abattoir of awfulness by recommending painful snoozers like Rocket Science.
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
A cinematic atrocity.
To give you an idea of how horrible the writing is in this movie, here's a sample. An alien guy who's apparently never been to Earth before, says to a fellow bad guy, "Now, is that any way to treat your number one draft pick?"
He's been on Earth for, what, fifteen minutes, and now he knows American sports slang?
This same alien being also is, apparently, and expert at driving subway cars, and likes to waste valuable time using his massive sword to smash innocent taxi cabs for no reason.
This movie should never be seen by anyone, ever, not even as a cautionary example. It honestly is one of the worst movies ever made by anyone, and is an embarrassing stain on the career of Sean Connery, worse even than the almost-equally-bad Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie he got roped into appearing in.