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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Too embarrassing to watch, we walked out
This film is terrible. The plot is slightly rusty, but works in a loose and light hearted way. That is the best aspect of it, everything else is terrible! The acting is shocking, the extras vomit out the lines as if they have never spoken before, and Hugh Grant and Sarah Parker seem as if they are reading the script for the first time. Nothing about it works.
We got about 2/3 of the way through it before we had to leave, it was too embarrassing to watch, covering our faces repeatedly in sheer exasperation at how bad the acting was, and the predictable story meant there was no need to stay for the end, so we went to HMV and bought some good DVDs for less than the price of the cinema ticket.
If you are a middle aged woman that is not an avid cinema goer or film watcher, so has no concept of acting or how shabby this film is compared to so many other, this film is probably for you, as they seemed to be the only people laughing when we were in there.
Derren Brown: The System (2008)
Rubbish
This is a very poor attempt to try and turn a simple 10 minute trick into a story. The acting is terrible, and you are treated as if you are stupid, with stuff being told to us, then the subject pretending to be told by Derren to make it look like its real. The whole idea behind it is flawed, that every person would check their email and respond in 24 hours, and then no question their telephone being anonymously 'tipped', along with the persistent pretence that its all 'real' makes you feel like you are being taken for a ride, and they must think you are stupid to believe it.
The whole thing could easily be explained and demonstrated in 10 minutes, and should be a large part of an episode with other stuff, just like Derrens series 'Trick of the mind'. Instead you are forced to sit there through a painful 40 minutes of acting that is stretched over an completely unbelievable story, that presumes you must be an idiot and will believe it.
I am a great fan of Derrens work, a large number of which are very cleverly faked or with actors, but also with a lot of psychological brilliance, but this programme does not mask it one bit, making it all just tiresome and insulting to watch.