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Clearly this movie is terrible


But that's why I like it! I have a weird liking for Barrymore's early cheap B movies.

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Care to elaborate on what made this a "bad" movie?

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Haha. I love Drew Barrymore, but she was so terrible. All the other actors were poor and unbelievable. Weak script. Nothing special in the cinematography. Lack of quality audio. Just simply a fail attempt at a modern Lolita. No need to further justify the obvious. If you think otherwise, props to you, but you need see more movies of superior quality - you will be blown away.

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actually the cinematography in this movie is pretty obviously great, not surprised to see its cinematographer doing major movies now

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I thought the movie was pretty good. I don't see why people would consider this bad, specially on how the current films are nothing but generic commercialized crap.

I've been watching a lot of films from the 90s and there is something about those films that left you thinking, wondering and had some kind of deep impression in me. Seems that they all concentrated on what they wanted to show and make people feel. Movies were for sure not made for everyone, which makes them even that much better.

The current films try to please a general audience by having a little bit of everything and at the end you get nothing...

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Agreed. And it seems the OP was trolling due to the single poorly typed reply. I need to stop responding to that foolishness.

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If you read my first post, I said I liked it. I just don't like typing essays on IMDb like some others users seem to enjoy doing. Besides, what I said was purely my opinion. Even if I wrote a long justified reply, you would not feel any differently about it.

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You don't eat things that you find terrible tasting, now do you? If you liked the movie, then you actually find it rather good. Twilight is terrible, do you also like it? I don't. But I do like Poison Ivy, so it's good by me.
How can you not aprreciate the beautiful visuals, climatic settings and especially the magical score? That sounds like a pretty decent movie to me. The acting is far from terrible by the way. Everyone did great and believalbe in their roles.

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Do you like The Damned?

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Agreed. Terrible but totally enjoyable, much like Far From Home which features a 13 year old Drew in a wet t-shirt.

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Well it's a thriller. And the plot is a bit thin but the scenes are very well shot especially for the budget they had. It's more average than terrible.

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I would not so much describe this film as terrible as I would absolutely ridiculous.


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