Granted this movie isnt exactly a groundbreaker and is filled with every chick flick/rom com cliche in the book...but i think it deserves a little more than a 2.9 rating..i mean there are plenty of worse movies out there and at least this one is cute...watch it for Britneys performance and her music and lower your expectations
sharedrewfp,
My guess. It is more bashing Britney than bashing the movie. Some people just don't want to admit it was a cute movie because they "hate" Britney, or maybe they just want to "hate" her because she is who she is. Wonder if the movie would be bashed if some popular big name played the lead.
I really liked the movie and I loved Britney's musical performances.
"Take a chance, flip a coin, everything in life is 50/50"
I've seen both this and Burlesque and feel both are bashed too much; they are not great movies but have decent stories and average acting.
shareIf Emma Stone had been cast in the lead role, the movie would have been called "harmless" and "innocent".. It's more about Britney.
shareI'm no Britney fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it's always been a bit of a guilty pleasure. The massive hate for it does seem sort of unjust. It's not hurting anybody.
shareI was really surprised when I saw the low rating for this movie. I would give it a 7 out of 10, I think. I loved it as soon as I saw it for the first time in 2005 (Gosh, is it really THAT long ago?). In places, the movie is cheesy and predictable. From the beginning, you know that Lucy and Ben are going to get together. To me, this is a feel-good movie that demonstrates the importance of friends, family, making the most of life, chasing your dreams and having no regrets.
When I often watch this movie, it's for a treat or guilty pleasure. An aspect of 'Crossroads' I adore is how the three girls - Mimi, Kit and Lucy - had been the best of friends as kids. After that, they had grown apart - one had become a bit of an outcast, one had got engaged and the other one had been successful academically by studying hard throughout school. Embarking on the road trip was about the three of them rediscovering their friendship. And they did. They all connected again - Mimi had been raped by Dylan (Kit's fiancé; Kit hadn't been aware of this and Mimi later lost the baby), Kit's fiancé was a love-rat (she later broke up with him) and Lucy realised that her mother never wanted her because she was apparently a 'mistake.' They shared their stories and discovered that they couldn't lose each other again.
It's just a bit of harmless fun! I really don't understand the hate! I think this was one of the best movies in that particular era.
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the TV channel Bravo plays this movie at least once a month, sometimes more.
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this movie is definitely underrated. a 3.2 is way too low.
people just hate this movie because Britney is in it. they don't even watch it, which i think is unfair. Brit may not be the best actress but she certainly wasn't horrible. considering the heavy subject matter (losing virginity, being disowned by your mother, abuse, and a miscarriage), i think this is one of the better 'teen' movies of the early 2000's.
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The writer of the script is none other than Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy/Scandal creator and writer and Executive producer of How to get away with murder) .
Dark Willow
The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the powershare
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