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American Mary (2012)
Let me think of a few words to describe Mary...
Hmm... Let's see...
BORING, PREDICTABLE, UNREALISTIC and STUPEFYING.
If you want more words, you can also use WHAT, THE, HELL, WERE, THEY and THINKING (in that order). And of course there is the word UNFINISHABLE.
I tend to finish the movies I start watching even if they are a bit on the lame side but fortunately I decided to stop watching this one halfway through. Please note that, this review is only about the first hour of "American Mary" but believe me when I say this, the way it was going it was not going to get any better in the last 30 minutes.
I am not going to describe the movie plot here and spoil it for the people who want to watch it. Obviously there are people who are capable of enjoying "Mary", otherwise this would not be rated this high on IMDb. Simply put, this movie is the story of a surgeon (medical student) who faces some circumstances that makes her use her skills with the scalpel in a bit psycho-ish way. Sounds fun, am I right? Yes, it could have been, but it is not! "Not even a tiny bit fun?" you may ask. Let me put this bluntly, it is not fun at all!
"American Mary" could only be a tiny bit fun if you have nothing else to watch or do and if you are completely bored, but you can always put some clothes in the dryer watch them roll instead of watching this. I know I am being very harsh here but I have no sympathy for this movie because it made me waste a good one hour of my evening with its bad script, predictable plot and unrealistic acting; an hour I would have otherwise spent watching a good horror movie, something like "American Psycho".
I heard the actress who plays Mary (Katharine Isabelle) went to study surgeons in a real hospital to help her realistically play the character of a surgeon. I wonder where she went, maybe to a medical school for Barbie Dolls because her acting is nothing but realistic. The other cardboard cut-out people in this movie are no better (I think that was a problem with the script and not the acting) but the best script in the world would not have fixed the bad acting of the main actress.
If you ignore the plot, script and acting, one more thing I found upsetting was the way body modification (and the subculture that surrounds it) depicted in this movie, and if you are interested in body modification practices, you would too. When Mary asked "Have you ever heard of body modification?" it made me cringe (not in a good way).
If you think I am saying all this because of the "disturbing/shocking" nature of this movie, let me tell you, a disturbing movie doesn't put me off, I enjoyed Martyrs (which I rated 7/10) which is one of the most disturbing movies ever made (imo). To be honest, the so called "disturbing" scenes in this movie are kind of lame and toned down. That's one more thing I found lame about "Mary". When I was watching this movie, the only thing it disturbed was my need to watch it till the end and the only thing that was shocking was that it has a rating of 6/10 (at the moment) on IMDb.
Just My Luck (2006)
Great concept Not so great movie
I like to call myself another victim of the magic of advertising. Once I saw the trailer of "Just My Luck", I thought it would be great. Since, I liked "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" by the same director, I thought this movie would be something like that. However, I was very wrong
The main problem with this movie is its script, which is very immature and predictable. There's nothing new to see here and you can predict almost everything. I even guessed the ending of this movie as soon as I saw the scene where "Katy" and "Ashley" talk for the first time. If you are into movies, you will too...
If you overlook the silly script, then there comes the bad acting. What is wrong with Lindsey this time? She is totally overacting her part and the actresses who play as her two friends are not any better. It is as if they are doing roles of fairytale princesses. However, in my opinion, Cris Pine does his part well.
However, I am not saying that this movie is 100% garbage. It has two or three enjoyable scenes, but that's about it. In my opinion, "Just My Luck" has a great concept, if it was not for the childish script and bad acting this could have been a very entertaining comedy.
Private School (1983)
One of the worst sex comedies ever!
When I sat down to see this movie, I thought it'll be a great experience like "America Pie" since it has a promising starting sequence with a great song performed by "Harry Nilsson". But I was completely wrong. It's one of the worst sex comedies ever made. (Just my opinion.)
"Private School" tries to make us laugh with very immature jokes. Of course, it has some scenes that can be categorized as "funny". But, when you take this movie as a whole is a disaster!
I recommend watching this movie if you wanna see some nice *tits* cause that's the ONLY good thing about this movie.