“ooogh…did I really start a Wizard Battle Royale and kill Voldemort last night?”
That 500 Days of Summer is ranked at 88%, but doesn’t look like anything I’d ever want to sit through.
Oh darn. Why did I come back to this thread? I guess part of me wanted it spoiled.
Well naturally I think mine is the better way and if people were more like me the world would be a better place. 
Seriously, if people didn’t support Hollywood making so many crappy movies, they’d be forced to make better movies. How is that not a good thing? Except, I admit, for lovers of crappy movies?
You don’t have to go see everything that is highly rated to have plenty of choices of highly regarded films over known garbage. But what’s not to like about Zooey Deschannel?
Old movies: Directors and actors I like, recommendations from friends, subject matter I’m interested in, etc.
New Movies: Same as above but in addition I have a sixth sense for telling whether or not a movie is good from the trailer. I can get a feel for it by the aesthetic, the marketing campaign, etc. I can’t remember the last time I went to the theatre and saw a non-comedy that I didn’t like. Comedies are the hardest to judge before you see them, but if it’s rated PG-13 it’s almost definitely going to be awful. In fact, with very very very few exceptions, PG-13 movies of any genre are awful.
Of course, these days I’m far more interested in documentary than narrative film, so if I like the subject matter I’m almost certainly going to like the movie. There are exceptions, of course, but they’re rarer in non-fiction cinema.
Not usually a stunningly accomplished actress. But she does have an adorable head tilt ;). In fact she’s adorable period - if properly cast, I think she works fine. This looks like the sort of film she’d be fine in and Jason Gordon-Levitt has proven unusually reliable when it comes to picking projects.
I find her way too cutesy and affected and annoying. Plus, I’m just not into chick flicks.
I went to see The Happening and was so bored that I ended up, as I work in ophthalmology, fixating on why on earth she had pinpoint pupils when no one else did. So I fear that any movie I see her in, I’ll spend half the film checking her pupil size.
… You asked. 
You went to see “The Happening”? See, right there, you fucked up. That movie was universally reviled by critics and audiences and a quick peek at Rotten Tomatoes (18% is extra-rotten) before heading out to the theater would have saved you the torture. I do like Zooey, but not that much.
Hey, we were bored and saw it around opening weekend. My husband and I like bad SF movies as much as anyone else, we figured how bad could it be? (There’s the problem: boring-bad, not funny-bad.)
Marky Mark pleading with a houseplant not to kill humanity was pretty funny.
“Great talking to you, Leafy. Say Hi to your mother for me, K?”
I wonder if the working title was “Jon and Kate + (Not quite) 8.”
Isn’t he in G.I. Joe?
Unusually reliable doesn’t equal totally reliable :D.
Thanks for the answer, IMDB upsets my work computer on a physical and spiritual level so I can’t access it.
Wouldn’t you see that movie in a heartbeat though? How often is the reveal at the end “The puppy did it!” or “I’ve been a puppy this whole time!”? I think most movies could be improved by a ‘puppy reveal’. Vader is Luke’s father? Shocking the first time but missing something. Vader reveals he is Luke’s father and pulls off his helmet to show a puppy underneath, brilliant. 
Isn’t his face covered all or at least most of the time…
I didn’t think it was all that bad either. It wasn’t great, but it was a lot of fun. And there are way worse horror movies out there, too.
I’m not going to bother to spoiler anything because of the request in the thread title, but I read that in the original script she worked as a prostitute for wealthy pedophiles. Also her father molested her but then gave her up when he got another lover and then told her that she’d never be a normal woman. So then she killed her father and his lover, or something. I can kind of see why they cut the backstory.