Will Smith movies based on the two opposing blurbs from the critics Quiz

Blurb One	Film	Blurb Two
‘Crowd-pleasing, energetic action comedy.’ _{(The Movie Report)}		‘Relentless formulaic fodder for the explosion-starved; it's loud, shallow, sexist and a complete waste of time.’ _{(Washington Post)}
‘It has uncommon depth and honesty. And the thing it's honest about is the embarrassment and humiliation of being poor.’ _{(LA Weekly)}		‘[This film] can't imagine anything worse than being poor. Except maybe being surrounded by poor people.’ _{(Toronto Star)}
‘[Smith's] graceful presence helps turn what often feels like 18 holes of Touched By an Angel into an ultimately engaging sweet conceit.’ _{(Milwaukee Journal Sentin}		‘Supernatural is not much better than subhuman: Hollywood is still, in the year 2000, disinclined to let black actors play human beings.’ _{(New York Times)}
‘An unapologetic, unreconstructed actioner that's as entertaining as it is politically retrograde.’ _(BBC)		‘Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service.’ _{(Roger Ebert)}
‘Tauter, sharper, and more blithely hilarious than the original.’ _{(Boston Phoenix)}		‘...the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning.’ _{(Philadelphia Weekly)}
‘The film, while slow moving, is worth the wait for the emotional payoff.’ _{(Atlantic City Weekly)}		‘The outcome will make you want to throw a shoe at the screen.’ _(Premiere)
‘A smart romantic comedy and a fabulous showcase for its leads and New York City setting.’ _{(Boston Herald)}		‘Wastes both Will Smith and Kevin James with yet another convoluted romantic fable.’ _{(Washington Times)}
‘[Its] spirited action is balanced by an almost contemplative attitude toward surveillance phobias and the movie cliches they've spawned.’ _{(Chicago Reader)}		‘Watching this movie is like being wired to a TV set on permanent channel-surf mode!’ _{(Chicago Tribune)}

Blurb One	Film	Blurb Two
‘Terrific effects and loads of action. But the filmmakers have also carefully crafted appealing characters and several good relationships.’ _{(Houston Chronicle)}		‘A gasping, bloated roller-coaster ride that veers from scenes of truly awesome destruction to stretches of numbingly bad melodrama and back again.’ _{(Austin Chronicle)}
‘[This film] is actually about the last man on earth played by one of the last real movie stars on earth.’ _{(Boston Globe)}		‘I wouldn't want to watch [this film] again even if it were the last movie on Earth.’ _{(Arizona Daily Star)}
‘A triumphant labor of love for its star, Will Smith. Credit director Mann, above all, for recognizing the performance for what it is: A knockout.’ _{(Detroit News)<}		‘With all due respect to Will Smith, you don't send a Fresh Prince to play a king.’ _{(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)}
‘An engaging and thoroughly innovative spin on the superhero genre.’ _{(Reel Film Reviews)}		‘This misguided attempt to wring a novel twist on the superhero genre has a certain whiff of The Last Action Hero about it.’ _(Variety)
‘A sparkling addition to the modern animation canon.’ _{(Detroit News)}		‘One soggy, charmless heap of chum.’ _{(TV Guide)}
‘The ace in the hole in [the film] is Shakespearean Kenneth Branagh as the villain, Loveless.’ _{(San Francisco Chronicle)}		‘Extremely stupid and incompetent.’ _{(Village Voice)}
‘Surprisingly smart, cool-looking, nicely paced and well-acted.’ _{(New York Post)}		‘Performances, plot and pacing are as mechanical as the hard-wired cast.’ _{(USA Today)}

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	kcostell:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 16:21 GMT		2 points
	elawson: Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly) said about Men in Black "For all its oddball felicities, Men in Black is as hollow as Styrofoam. Every time the film makes you chuckle, you may also feel it's zapped you with a neuralizer." I guess it would be sort of silly to have both Men in Black and Men in Black II on the same quiz though.

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	Tony_A:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 16:44 GMT		20 points
	Forgot that somehow Kenneth Branagh was lured into filming a monumental piece of crap like "Wild Wild West"

	fraac:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 17:16 GMT		11 points
	Should've had 'Six Degrees of Separation'. Actual good film.

	Caedus:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 18:01 GMT		9 points
	I was wondering if Men in Black II was on here, but then I remembered that it would mean it actually achieved a good review.

	JohnJF:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 18:44 GMT		16 points
	At some point, unless you're Leonardo DiCaprio, every actor in the last twenty years has had to make a decision--do I want to make good movies, or do I want to make a lot of money? You can take a guess as to which Will Smith decided.

	eab21:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 19:35 GMT		6 points
	No, wait. It was horrible. Never mind.

	pete32782:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 21:12 GMT		11 points
	@JohnJF: Will Smith and his manager sat down in the early 90s and looked at the 10 highest grossing movies in history to that point. The following is Smith quoted directly: "We looked at (the list) and said, O.K., what are the patterns? We realized that 10 out of 10 had special effects. Nine out of 10 had special effects with creatures. Eight out of 10 had special effects with creatures and a love story." Nuff said.

	dollymix:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 21:53 GMT		12 points
	"You ain't seen Bad Boys II???"

	swills13:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 22:23 GMT		3 points
	Tremendous reference, dollymix.

	monstro:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 23:42 GMT		27 points
	Saying that "Hitch" was a waste of Kevin James may be the most brutal thing I've ever heard said about a movie.

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	druhutch:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 03:59 GMT		20 points
	^LOOK!^ In the spirit of the quiz, two completely contrasting comments (ChicagoRed and candyman81cb) right above this one.

	ChicagoRed:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 04:42 GMT		-2 points
	Yes, and once again, even our two comments don't contradict what I said within my comment about the contrasting comments.

	addicted1:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 06:52 GMT		4 points
	To paraphrase South Park, a good movie doesn't have to be about gay cowboys eating pudding. Smith has had some bad movies, some of which were his fault, some of which were bad writing. I also think he has had some good ones. For me, Enemy of the State was great, and Will was quite good in it.

	freaky69az:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 22:36 GMT		14 points
	At LEAST his acting career keeps him OUT of the recording studio. Glass half full, people.

	Photar:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 19:19 GMT		6 points
	Parents just don't understand our love of Will Smith.

	MattCortese:	Jul 14th, 2011 at 00:41 GMT		0 points
	Smith has made plenty of good movies. However some people only want to like independent movies and not blockbuster type movies, so therefore they will hate on every blockbuster type of movie, no matter what. Smith has made his share of bad movies as well, but so has everyone. pete32782- You probably shouldn't use a bad Bill Simmons argument as your own.

	pete32782:	Jul 14th, 2011 at 22:57 GMT		4 points
	Um, first of all, I quoted Will Smith. Not Bill Simmons. That quote is accurate; Bill didn't make it up. Secondly, I didn't use that quote for anything other than backing up what JohnJF said about Will's conscious decision to use his movie career as a way to make lots and lots of money. Please enlighten me as to how that's using someone else's argument as my own. It's not like that quote was common knowledge and Bill Simmons was the first to think "Wait a minute! Maybe instead of looking for movies to avoid making, Will and his manager were trying to figure out how to make money!!!" So yeah, I read a Bill Simmons column which included a previously-unknown-to-me Will Smith quote that I happened to think was appropriate when this quiz was published the following week or so. Sue me.

	America52:	Jul 18th, 2011 at 15:01 GMT		-2 points
	more ****ing time!

	leonidas_300:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 16:33 GMT		0 points
	Maybe Will should make a Fresh Prince of Bel Air movie. Some of his other choices aren't so great.

	SiusToBlame:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 17:48 GMT		1 point
	This is a really interesting concept and some of the reviews are fantastic. Fantastically written, I mean, hilarious and/or insightful -- not necessarily favorable.

	SiusToBlame:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 17:52 GMT		2 points
	@monstro Speaking of a waste of Kevin James: Just based on the commercials, I'm pretty unhappy about this whole "Zookeeper" project.