The movies I watched on my way back from HK. Yup they were that bad.

(M) The Break-Up. (Peyton Reed, 2006) Grade: D+

Thoughts: Tour guide Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) spots art dealer assistant Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) at a Chicago Cubs game and decides they are going to date. So begins the train wreak that is entitled The Break-Up. The happy times are in the opening credits and the actual film is them fighting and arguing and breaking up (for no apparent reason). I never got why they didn’t talk to each other about their problems. Instead, the characters felt it was good to express what they should be telling each other to their friends, family members and co-workers. It was like watching two people in high school break up instead adults who have careers and a mortgage. The supporting cast was misused as well. Joey Lauren Adams could have done more as well as Jon Favreau, Vincent D’Onofrio and the wonderful Jason Bateman. What a waste of film space and the disturbing part is the movie made $118 million at least.

(M) Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. (Justin Lin, 2006) Grade: D

Thoughts: Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) is a bad boy sent to live with his Navy father in Japan. There he meets Twinkie (Bow Wow), who introduces him to a world of Japanese drifting and car racing. Mix in good girl Neela (Nathalie Kelley) and bad villain Drift King (Brian Tee) and you have the third installment of Fast and the Furious. Oh and yes I have seen all these movies (please don’t ask why), so it made sense I watch this. The movie is awful and I won’t even go into why, however I did respect the drifting part because if you see it live it is pretty impressive. Oh and I like how Sang Kang (Han) is actually Korean but I guess he had to pretend to be Japanese and young (he is 34 in real life).

(M) John Tucker Must Die. (Betty Thomas, 2006) Grade: C-

Thoughts: John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) is dating three girls at the same time – Heather (Ashanti), Beth (Sophia Bush) and Carrie (Arielle Kebbel). They find out about each other and with the suggestion of new girl Kate Spencer (Brittany Snow) seek revenge on John Tucker. I found it interesting that they downplayed Brittany Snow’s character role when they were marketing the film and went with a whole different angle. The actual movie was about Kate finding friends and a love interest and NOT about John Tucker and how the girls wanted him to die. Brittany Snow did a good job with her character and I wish they focused a bit more on her love interest with John Tucker’s brother and less on the other girls but whatever.

Count: 124 movies