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Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

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That isn’t brimstone we’re smelling on Ghost Rider. It’s something else.

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Yeah Johnny, it’s got a Hemi. Too bad the rest of your movie is such a broken-down lemon.

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Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

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Though a scant 100 minutes long, After Earth feels longer and slower than your average PBS pledge drive.

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Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

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You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

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Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

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Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

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Is this what we’ve been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season’s other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they’re painted blue?

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Not even Ian McKellan can bring it to life… and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix.

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Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

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At least it’s not in 3D.

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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

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Robbing casinos? Shit, these guys should be in charge of Katrina relief!

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Fee. Fi. Fo. Meh.

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Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

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Rarely has the phrase "going through the motions" felt more fitting.

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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

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