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Crossroads (2002)
Not worth it
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Crossroads was just the run-of-the-mill "There's the guy! There's the girl! They have problems! They solve them! They get together!" kind of thing. I rented it because, well, I had basically rented every other movie I wanted to see in Blockbuster. It really wasn't worth the money. Britney Spear's acting was pretty decent- there was no noticeably bad scenes. I actually had more issues with her two friends' acting. Well, any way, it was useless to sit through the whole thing. 10 minutes into the movie you know the outcome. The plot is rather minimal, it only comes back to you every now and then. 3/4 of the reason for this movie seems to be, "Wow, listen to her sing!" Every few minutes in the movie they go off singing again. I also thought it was kind of funny the pregnant one was trying to become a famous singer. Kind of crazy. All-in-all, its really just pointless. I can only assume it was made to boost her fame.
No Such Thing (2001)
Cheesy
While in Blockbuster I saw this movie on the shelf and it looked pretty entertaining. I thought, like the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, it was a modern remake of an older story- in this case, the life story I had in mind was the Elephant Man. (*Spoilers are probably ahead, as I cannot make my point without making examples*) However, it is not really the case. The film opens with a rather cheesy monologue from "the monster." A woe-is-me kind of deal. The characters are pretty black and white. "He's good." "She's bad." The lead character, played by Sarah Polley, is an extremely innocent young woman whom everyone seems to push around. She is assigned to find the monster, and in a small voiceover she says she couldn't get a taxi because the bridge was threatened by terrorists, and shortly after she is mugged-sort of- more specifically, the woman who mugs her applies lipstick to her lips. She then boards a plane which crashes, leaving her as the sole survivor, and everyone thinks she's blessed. So, after some time, she ends up leaving, once again on her quest to find the monster. The monster himself, while he has killed in many instances in the past without a care, for some reason or another bonds with her and doesn't kill her. Afterwards, where they make friends despite the fact he killed her fiance (go figure), they head off and get quite a lot of media attention. Plots and twisted morals run thick, and pity tends to control your emotions in this movie. Overall, it was pretty substandard. The script is pretty poorly written. I'd probably give it a 4/10.