Everything that is wrong with Hollywood, plus Kate Winslet

Rating: 2/10 (7 December 2006)

It's not because I'm a guy. I enjoyed The Notebook right up to its contrived ending. I never pick on Titanic. When no one else is around, I am known to admit that I enjoyed Kate Hudson's performance in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I dragged my girlfriend to see Marie Antoinette. I am, however, a movie lover. And as such I could do nothing but twinge in my seat for the entirety of this film's 138 minute running time. Contrived plot. Cliché characters. Predictable scenes. No feeling for originality, chemistry, or realism. This movie was placed in theaters to drown lonely women in sugary fluff. So, if you are such a woman, and you have never before seen a film and care not for fancy film trappings such as screenplay, this film is for you. And only for you.