>>"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" is based on a book of the same name. Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but my husband enjoyed the book.
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>>"Cowboys and Aliens" was actually a fun movie, assuming you went into it with no preconceptions.
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>That's a high requirement. I tried, for a brief moment, to pretend that I never saw a cowboy movie or that branch of SF flick where they have rubber stuff over their faces.

(shrug) I don't think you need to go that far but, as an example, when the latest Godzilla came out people were screaming "That's not Godzilla" because it wasn't a guy in a rubber suit. My husband and I went to see a movie about an irradiated lizard that grew to huge size and tore the living crap out of Manhattan, and that's exactly the movie we saw.

We often will rent movies on the 'how bad can it be?' scale (based on critics). Only two, "Inspector Gadget" and the second "Zorro" have been truly that bad.

There again, there have been many movies that the critics hated yet the public has liked. Almost to a man, critics panned "John Carter", yet almost every person who went see the movie and wrote on-line about it had almost the same thing to say: "We don't know what movie the critics saw, but it wasn't the one we saw".