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Double Feature of horrible movies today. Jack and Jill AMC Burbank, CA 10am 15% full Trailers: Paranorm: no reaction The Lorax: some laughs The Pirates: some laughs Arthur Christmas: no reaction Movie: Wellp, just another horrible Adam Sandler movie. I don't understand why he sucks so bad these days. It's just a continuing downward spiral of movies that arent even half way watchable, starting with Grown Ups then Just Go With It and now this. All of which have the same director. These movies are so cheap for laughs and try so hard to be funny. Yet, for some reason, the audience was cracking up through out. Parents were laughing. Kids were laughing. Old people were laughing. I'm pretty sure I had a striaght face the entire time. The acting is horrible. The gags are terrible. Just a poorly put together film in all departments. I wish Adam Sandler would make a good movie, but I don't see it happening any time soon. D Theeeen I saw another bad movie. The Twilight Saga: Breakind Dawn Part 1 AMC Burbank, CA 12pm 90% full Trailers: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol: No reaction. Still looks awesome. The Woman in Black: Some laughs at Daniel Radcliffe. The Vow: some chatter and laughs. Snow White and the Huntsman: No reaction Movie: I've been forced to see all of these movies with my girlfriend and they never do anything for me. She doesn't really like them either and we both have not read the books. I feel like nothing happens in these movies, or atleast nothing memorable happens in them. I can barely think of anything that happened in the movie or any of the previous movies. They all seem to mash together. I do remember the acting being pretty bad/cheesy. There were I guess some funny parts that the audience was cracking up at through out, but I didn't find anything too funny. I smiled a couple of times maaaaybe, but that's about it. Some cheesy parts that I do remember shaking my head to were probably at the beggining when the two vampires jump up into Bellas bedroom window to get Edward to go celebrate his bachelor party, when the wolves were talking, and any scene that had Jacob trying to show emotion. Anyways, the audience loved it and cheered at the end, and I just find it rediculous when a shitty movie gets cheered for at the end and makes tons of money. Just makes me sad. Oh well... C-

The Descendants Arclight Cinema, Hollywood, CA. 4:30pm 45% full Trailers: Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close: No reaction. Sick of this trailer. Carnage: Some laughs. Shame: Little bit of chatter when ppl saw the NC-17 rating, then silence. Movie: The audience seemed to enjoy it for the most part. A lot of old ppl were laughing through out, but it was kind of a depressing movie. I was expecting it to be better after all of the positive reviews its received. Clooney, although nothing special, did a pretty good job. His performance was definitly not oscar worthy. He basically just does a lot of staring and acts regular ol Clooney-like the rest of the time. The older daughter was pretty hot though. I'd like to see her in more films. Her friend in the film was supposed to be the comedic relief as the dopey, surfer/ stoner boyfriendy character, but he felt very generic and his comedic moments were not that funny. The movie was decently enjoyable, a bit boring, few moments of humor, a couple interesting scenes and characters, standard performances from a talented cast, and lackluster story archs. It's worth renting with your girlfriend on a weeknight when she has to go to bed early to wake up for work in the morning. She'll either stay up through out the whole movie, or fall asleep halfway through. Either way, she aint missin much and you can just tell her what happens in the morning. And she wont feel like she ever needs to see it again, but she can tell her co workers she watched The Descendants the other night and it was an okay movie. B-