>>>"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.
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>(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.
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>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.
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>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".

My dad took my daughters to "Inspector Gadget" one year when they went to Maine a few days ahead of my wife and me. "You owe me," he said.

I had to look up "John Carter." From the trailer it does not look like my cup of tea but I won't diss it without having seen it.