Im still angry...

Rating: 2/10 (22 February 2015)

I knew very little about this movie going in, other than it had good reviews and a solid cast. However, I felt almost immediately that there was something amiss, that this was going to be one of those soulless Hollywood movies that is so transparently commercial and sloppy that I almost feel like even the director was saying to himself "This is pretty weak stuff, but the masses will still eat it". Its formulaic drivel for the lowest common denominator. Just have a look at the list of goofs to see how many holes there were in this numb-nut of a movie.
I know this sounds arrogant, and Im sorry for that, but what are you people smoking on here that you would give this anything but a panning? Can you really say with any honesty that:
1. You cared in the slightest about any of the one-dimensional characters?
2. the way the media was portrayed was realistic in the slightest?
3. it was believable that all these locals would spontaneously band together to pray for someone who was completely out of view in the community up to that point?
4. any of the acting was at all believable? Academy award nomination for the Pike robot?
OK, maybe the cat was convincing, but you could also tell it was medicated to the hilt to prevent it running away from such an embarrassment...
5. the 'semi-foreboding' music that drones on didn't get on your nerves after a while?
6. the whole thing didn't go on way too long, while at the same time not even giving a feeling of the passing of time in the movie itself? For example, the Pike character drops off the grid, becomes a plain girl with a black eye eating junk food, then is back being miss perfect with Doogie Howser MD all within 20 minutes?
I could go on, but I need to go watch some paint dry now to get my intellect going again. IMDb needs some way to detect if people actually have a clue and add this into their rating algorithm. It would have prevented me from this lobotomization.