I think the coup de grace of that movie is that the writers obviously did little to no research about computers or hacking. Like, at all. The scene near the beginning where the two characters are fighting via the robots in the TV station that insert tapes? Who would design robots that can change out tapes for broadcast AND fight one another!?
I nominate 1995's "Hackers," starring Angelina Jolie and the guy from Can't Hardly Wait. (I know his name, but I won't dignify him by repeating it.)
A sample quote: "If you want to be elite, you have to do a righteous hack!"
http://tinypic.com/r/ir88z7/7
I really liked the first two acts of The Invention of Lying, but the third act was where the "train" (the movie, if you will) hit the "manhole cover-sized penny on the tracks" (got bad, if you will).
"I told Brad Renfro that, if I put his name on my arm, he'd get me into one of his movies. I haven't heard back, but this added competition can't be a good sign."
-Stephen Baldwin
#jokesfromayearago
I too came here through a similar method, although it was through the article on the Tucker Max movie that was tagged "Fast track for WMOAT." I spent a long time googling Tucker Max because I couldn't reconcile its accolades with a God-fearing universe.
I really hate the trope in bad movies where someone storms out of a bar/party and someone runs after that person to just "make sure she's OK." It is the falsest because if someone every did storm out of a bar, people would laugh and think "How did a 15-year old get in this bar?"
Also, the "just making sure she's OK" bit is a cheap, lazy way for a screenwriter to make a character seem nice.
I too thought Easy-A was pretty bad: it was like the writer and/or director wasn't sure if they wanted to play it as a straight comedy movie, or as a drama.
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