Alrighty, Let’s begin.
Running With Scissors. A Dark Comedy. Released in 2006. Based on a memoir by Augusten Burroughs. After Augusten’s unstable mom breaks up with his alcoholic father, he goes to live with his mother’s shrink and his crazy family. Hilarity, as well as drama, ensues.
My review, in short? Just go read the book instead. It’s a million times better. The movie is still decent, but a bunch of stuff in the book was cut out for the movie. A lot of character development is missing, as well as some really good stories. The movie just seemed very rushed overall, and mediocre because of that. The best part? Some of the clothes and shoes worn by Evan Rachel Wood‘s character. I love those 70s platforms! 
Accepted. Teen Comedy. Released in 2006. A recent high school grad doesn’t get into any colleges that he applied to. With the help of some friends in similar predicaments, he creates a fake college to get parents off their backs.
I actually really enjoyed this movie. I thought that it was really good for what it was. Definately a teen comedy, but I liked that they put out the message that your typical college experience isn’t a good fit for everyone. The actors are pretty funny and the story line doesn’t seem like something that’s been done, and re-done 8 million times. I give it a check +.
Absolute Zero. Natural Disaster/Action/Sci-Fi? Released in 2006, TV. A shift in the Earth’s polarity is about to shift the tropical regions towards Absoluter Zero!!! (or -459 degrees F.) In Miami, a climatologist leads other survivors towards a special chamber at a scientific research company that can protect them against that chill.
Holy crappy movie, batman. So many things went wrong with this movie, that it’s hard to pick the worst part. Horrible, just horrible special effects. The snow looked like smooshed up styrofoam, The “wintery mountain landscape” backgrounds look painted, etc….. Terrible acting.. Really, really terrible. The male lead looked like he was trying way too hard to channel David Hasslehoff… (Interestingly enough, the female lead, Erika Elaniak was on Baywatch.) The editing was awful. The same shots were used multiple times… Although I may have to forgive that as this was a made-for-TV movie. But still! The writing was uninspired and boring.
It was as if someone had started with the movie: The Day After Tomorrow, and then consciously decided to make the worst knock off of it, ever. There aren’t many movies that I keep wanting to hit eject in the middle of, repeatedly, but this was one of them.
Hey…I saw Running with Scissors recently too. (Gotta love Netflix!) I thought it was interesting. Definitely piqued my interest in the book – you have read it? Good stuff?
Books are always better than the movie!!! I usually can enjoy both though.
I am pretty sure that Accepted is in my queue. “Ask me about my weiner!!”
Yuppers, I read the book about 6 months ago. Way better, I thought. They left out a bunch of build up about why Augusten was into doing hair, and some crazy family adventures. I really enjoyed the book.