infinite improbability

Brace yourself brightbill, I go off a bit on your critique of the notebook.

The notebook was possibly the most heart touching movie I've ever seen> this coming from the most cynical guy I know... me.
For starters: A movie can be predictable... the only movies that can't be predicatable are mysteries... it sort of kills the point
For seconds: I will give you it is somewhat emotionally manipulative... so what? That sort of situation, which I have witnessed first hand, my mother's parents, is just as, if not more, sad than the movie. I thought the movie captured the type of love a man has for the love of his life perfectly. And the bitter agony that goes alongside of watching your love drift away into an abyss that there is no cure of, unless you're Ronald Reagan's dumb ace son who seems to think stem cells will bring his father's memory back and give him a soap box to stand on...
For Thirds: Your next comment shows your weakness, a predetermined view of the movie. Frankly I think your review is somewhat tripe.
For Forth's: What is authentic emotion? How does one authenticate emotion? If you know, I'd love to know so please share it with the class oh master of the emotion. A movie in essence, is inauthentic emotion, its fake, its a movie. But if a person doesn't feel that emotion the movie attempts to portray is that the movie's fault? Or the viewers? I'd look more at the latter on this one... Truly great movies can be ruined by the people watching them. I know, I've watched truly great movies and because of my cynicism, bad attitude, or inability to connect with the people on screen I've ruined the movie for myself.

As far as dodgeball was concerned, that movie was tripe. It was a rehash of every ben stiller movie made. True Lance's part was great, as was David Hasselhof's but cameos do not make a movie.

The rest I haven't seen, but will probably agree with the rest of your diagonosisisisisis of them. I robot, i mean come on its will smith, go in with low expectations and you'll be fine. Anchorman... will ferrell is just funny period.

The bourne series was ruined in a way in the first movie. I haven't read the books but apparently the sniper that tried to kill him in the first one, was supposed to hunt him for the three movies. You can't kill your number 1 nemisis in the first movie, it sort of ruins it the chess game that is supposed to ensue for the trilogy, though I will agree the first one and most likley the second one will be fun action flicks enjoyable to the last bullet.

Sorry to fire on you, but I defend movies that make me cry. Movies that have made me cry to date (In order of teary eyed to lost control of my tears): Tommy Boy, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, In America, Saving Private Ryan, Glory and number one tear jerker: The Notebook.

Holton, I didn't want to write a long review of The Notebook, but since that's the only way to adequately explain my beef with the movie, I'll be writing a review and posting it in the next few days.

As for Dodgeball, yeah, it was about the same as other Ben Stiller movies, but I still think it's funny.

If, as you say, the sniper in the Bourne Identity was originally supposed to hunt for him in all three movies, then they really had things changed from the books. In the books, Bourne isn't really an assassin, he's a guy who went under deep cover to challenge this real assassin, Carlos, who, among other things, was believed to be the guy on the grassy knoll, and who had bought off people at the highest levels of power all over Europe and was selling state secrets to the highest bidder, as well as being behind all sorts of major assassinations in Europe. The character of Bourne the assassin was created to challenge Carlos and to try to draw him out to kill Bourne for moving in on his business. But, it all goes wrong when Bourne gets shot in the head and loses his memory and makes off with the millions in his Swiss bank account, making the CIA think that he turned. Then, in the second book, an imposter surfaces in Asia pretending to be Jason Bourne, and some stupid government bigwigs decide that the best way to get the fake guy is to send the real one after him, and since the real Bourne doesn't exactly want to have anything to do with them, they decide that the best course of action is to kidnap his wife (Marie, who was really a Canadian government economist in the books) and make him think that it was the people the fake Bourne was working for did it so that the real Bourne will go and get the fake one. Then, the third book is about Carlos coming to try to kill Bourne again, because Bourne is the only person he ever feared and he has been stewing for ten years about it.