I am so cheap (well, "thrifty") and usually so busy that I don't go see movies in theaters much anymore - I wait for the video to come out and I rent it. That way I can pause, rewind, and watch it more than once. One movie that stands out that I was forced to watch in the theater was Titanic and it STUNK BIG TIME! I know everyone in the world raved about that movie and the special effects, but the WRITING! It was god-awful! I kept wondering if James Cameron was really a 15-year old girl in disguise, because the storyline was like something a giddy schoolgirl would have written. You have the "icky" boyfriend, who doesn't like art or appreciate anything else that she likes, who was made to look so sinister he should have been twirling a mustache throughout the film, for crying out loud. Then you have the "good" boyfriend, played by the conveniently teen-poster material Leo DeCaprio, who is - what? - an unemployed artist (?) who can draw her naked without becoming a total horndog, so that proves he's sensitive and stuff. Add the scenes of them chasing each other like idiots down the halls, hiding from her "parents" (i.e. handlers), making out in a "car", and that "Terminator", Linda Hamilton-type scene of Rose plowing through waist high water with an ax in her hands and sporting biceps that would put Madonna to shame, and it just got so painful to watch that I actually left the theater with a headache. The most putrid moment was probably when that dried-apple of a woman asked "you mean did we 'do it'?" when recalling her youthful adventures on the Titanic. Nobody over the age of 16 would say that. The one thing I enjoyed about Titanic is that it spawned one of our inside family jokes - my daughter and I will sometimes flop full-length on the couch with one arm over our heads, and say "Paint me, Jack"

I would also have to add to the Gwyneth Paltrow-bashing going on - my nephew refers to her as "the stick insect" because he thinks she looks like a praying mantis I guess he likes girls with actual flesh on their skeletons. I agree that South Park: The Movie was definitely not meant to bash Canadians, but to point out the stupidity of sterotyping in general. I am such a fan of the TV show that I spent theater money to go see it when it first came out. The movie was kind of funny, but very painful to watch because I'm an over-40 kind of conservative Midwesterner, so the non-stop swearing and disgusting sexual references made me a little uncomfortable. I've actually laughed harder at some of the TV episodes. And I actually LIKED Fargo - I guess maybe you have to be from around Minnesota to find it funny or compelling.