Also, if I were at the screening, i would have told Andy that judging by the two hours of your live that you just suffered through, its pretty obvious he's not taking any healthy criticism...

For you to act as though Merchant of Venice is some universally reguarded film for Pacino is nothing short of extraordinary.

As for my friends being dumb and ignorant of Pacino's sad attempt at a yiddish accent, well, all I have to say is that seeing as how 9/10 of them were from NY in the first place, I can't say as I blame them.

Also, I never said that ten friends had seen the show. Counting friends and aquaintences, I'd say it was closer to thirty or so; roughly the size of the english/literature dept. that I hang with.

The fact is, if you truly are someone that regularly reads AICN, then you would know there is something of a track record here. The moment a film, typically a film that performs less than ideally, will, of course, get bad reviews by AICN. It is usually then that someone, whome we've never seen in other threads, starts posting about how we're all a bunch of lying SOB's. "Just give the film a chance," they say. And in every case, every single one, the moment that movie is released, they're never seen again.

So, you'll have to forgive us if most of us are a bit skeptical. And your attitude isn't helping much, either.

In hindsight, I recall a lot of people saying that this film was a bad shakespeare flick, and since I didn't like Al's performance (neither did very many people that I knew), I guess I remembered his role as being panned by critic. I guess I was wrong.

Still, all debating over the merits of this film v. that, the fact remains that our two leads in this film have been putting out some pretty spotty performances for nearly a decade. To top it off, judging by the reviews, yours included, this film is a relatively mediocre, "enjoyable popcorn film" at best, and a mysoginistic, and idiotic, paint-by-the-numbers flick at worst.

Considering how long people waited/desired to see Pacino and Deniro in the same film, even after Heat, that is just plain insulting. I am forced to agree with the consensus on this one: they deserved better. It is BECAUSE of this film's banality that I will not enjoy it, and should the film prove to be as tawdry as it seems, I would hate it with an absolute passion. I see no reason why the jeering should cease, and, frankly, those that are okay with this film on the grounds of its banality, are part of the problem in Hollywood.

Gotta love his "Star Wars" and "The Matrix" references as well as the lame "go kiss a girl" thing.

As plants go, jjgittes is one of the worst.

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"Hand over that boy!"

And TerryMalloy, nice Men in Tights reference.

Seriously, that was totally uncool and not my intention at all. I would say that it was predictable so it shouldn't be even worthy of a spoiler warning, but that's totally inconsiderate of individual opinions. Again, I cannot apologize enough: Douchebag = I

2) By front row-center, I meant the front and center row of the stadium seating section. Not the front looking upwards at a 87.8 degree angle.

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down the fucking side of the box (well, sometimes 'poile'). How shit of a monitor do you need to have to be unable to read it? If you cant see that text, how the fuck can you read the main body text containing the spoiler?

Honestly, the stupidity around here is starting to piss me off - STOP READING THE SENTENCE IF IT SEEMS SPOILER-Y. "Hmm, this sounds vaguely like detailed description of the plot, think I'll keep reading..........FUCK, you spoiled it!!!"

Dipshits!

Attention talkbackers: let's all keep a lookout for mistreatment of test audiences - and the movies these turkeys represent. And let's particularly post updates on the behaviour of one "Andy" working for Nielson Media Research - automatically boycott any movie this prick is associated with.

Aarrrrghhhhh, FUCK OFF WANKER.

And on filmgenius- he's imitating the gone and unlamented M-O-M (he did this last year) and laces his posts with deliberate mistakes such as INGRID BERGMAN director of the 7th seal. It isn't that funny.

but look at the errors, he's stylistically very similar and hits the condescending attitude to a T

I'm very tired, that could be it.