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    Posted: November 03 2010 at 2:45pm
I gave this 7/10.
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Originally posted by saturnwatcher

The only problem being that I don't think you can go down to PetsMart and get one of those jellyfish. On this point I am knitpicking, admittedly, but it is hard to accurately express how much I hated this movie.
Well, he was going to give most of his money away, so I might accept that he could have hired someone to fish them out of the sea. Hey, maybe we could overlook that part if they explained it in the DVD extras!
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Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn

Well, he dies via jellyfish. That's kinda original, I guess.
The only problem being that I don't think you can go down to PetsMart and get one of those jellyfish. On this point I am knitpicking, admittedly, but it is hard to accurately express how much I hated this movie.
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Well, he dies via jellyfish. That's kinda original, I guess.
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Spoiler alert!


The problem with this movie was that they didn't realize that just because BEN is the lead character,doesn't mean we shouldn't care about the others.

Did BEN cared'bout what EMILY would feel if he dies?We didn't see how any of the characters felt'bout his mission.It all made BEN look selfish.We also didn't see if BEN got the redemption he wanted,or even if he deserved it in the 1st. place.

Nevertheless,this is still the most underrated movie of 2008.

I usually don't like slow movies.Specially if the climax they add up to isn't that shockin'.This is the exception.
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7#'s does NOT meet up to Will Smith's best standards. Hopefully it'll be a while before we can count his failures on two hands. First Wild Wild West, then Hancock, then this. While many people defend this movie (I don't get why), others suggest this as worse than The Spirit!
 
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Originally posted by Michaels

Whether you hate his movies are not, Will Smith is loved by most movie-goers.

Yes, proving there's no accounting for taste of the mass public.

So long as he doesn't use his money on hookers and drugs, I don't have any problem with it.

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Will Smith's worst movies are better than many actor's best movies.   Well, except for Wild, Wild West. 

Wild, Wild West was terrible.

 
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Whether you hate his movies are not, Will Smith is loved by most movie-goers.

So long as he doesn't use his money on hookers and drugs, I don't have any problem with it.

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A recent survey of theatre owners voted "7 Pounds and "Hancock" star Will Smith as the top most money making movie star.  
What are your views on this???
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Originally posted by cvcjr13

Eighth, the commercials for Seven Pounds are appalling.  The perfect gift for the holidays?  I can do without those type of gifts (and I'm still trying not to reveal too much). 

That may be the single most relevant point. People are being lured into this movie on false pretenses and then being subjected to some really gut-wrenching subject matter. Admittedly it would be difficult to market this movie without giving away some signficant plot points, but a more intellectually honest approach probably could have been offered.
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Good points, saturnwatcher.

Seventh, not only does the movie not deal with how an audience would feel about suicide, not only does the movie not deal with how an audience would feel about "the method of his atonement", but also the movie does not deal with him being a stalker.  He was violating people's privacy to the extreme. 

People have very negative emotions about these things, and just throwing them up there with the barest acknowledgement about these strong emotions begs for a very strong backlash.

About the stalker issue, I'm reminded of the one scene in Brian Singer's Superman Returns where Superman becomes Super Stalker.  Even those of us who enjoyed the movie (and, as the Razzies revealed, this movie polarized the audience) cringed as our hero used his x-ray vision to spy on Lois Lane and her family.  If Superman isn't cut any slack for being a stalker, why did Will Smith think he could be a stalker and little more needs to be said about it?

Eighth, the commercials for Seven Pounds are appalling.  The perfect gift for the holidays?  I can do without those type of gifts (and I'm still trying not to reveal too much).  A love story?  Well, there is a love story within the movie, but that's not what audiences are going to take away from this -- not by a longshot.

Soon to come, Seven Pounds 2 (Fourteen Pounds? Forty-nine Pounds?), where a not-so-ethical bioethicist clones Ben Thomas several times so he can open his own business providing products people desperately want (I'm still trying not to reveal too much), justifying the whole thing because Thomas suffers from recurring nightmares, there's a demand that needs to be met and he has plenty of jellyfish, too. . . .

 
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I didn't like Seven Pounds at all, but I don't think it is a major omission Given the competition this year, I really doubt that it would have broken through to the final ballot in any category.

As to the problems presented by sending out Razzie ballots, I think it should be noted that very few truly Razzable movies are ever released in the final two weeks of the year. We may miss one or two now and then, but I don't really think it is a problem that screams for any sort of reordering of the schedule that has been in place for several years.
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RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: Proximity to the Little Gold Naked Man Awards® is now part-and-parcel of the RAZZIES®, doing it right before their ceremony being a major part of our joke. But it has become a decidedly mixed blessing ever since Oscar® moved his ceremony to Sunday from Monday about a decade ago, then jumped it forward into February from March/April.

Maybe the answer to this particular dilemma would be to convince studios to pre-screen their RAZZIE® Contenders for our members like they pre-screen their Oscar® and Globe® contenders for the other gize...

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This might not be any of my business, but perhaps the Razzies need to make their own time instead of working around the Oscars, that way, deserving Christmas-released released movies will be able to get razzed. Like, instead of announcing the nods and having the award show the day before the Oscars annouce their nods and have their award show, what about announcing the nods and having the award show the WEEK AFTER the Oscars have their nod announcement and award show? 

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This is another example of why I hate the Oscars moving from March to February -- To have our Nominating Ballots ready to go out by Christmas, we had to take them to the printers' nearly a week ahead of time. So the list of potential contenders in each category couldn't include anything released after about Dec. 18. Along with SEVEN POUNDS, in compiling the Nominating Ballot, we also had to determine the eligibility of BEDTIME STORIES, YES MAN, VALKYRIE and THE SPIRIT without the chance to have actually seen any of them.

 
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This deserved to be on the ballot in the "Worst Screenplay" category...

RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: This is another example of why I hate the Oscars moving from March to February -- To have our Nominating Ballots ready to go out by Christmas, we had to take them to the printers' nearly a week ahead of time. So the list of potential contenders in each category couldn't include anything released after about Dec. 18. Along with SEVEN POUNDS, in compiling the Nominating Ballot, we also had to determine the eligibility of BEDTIME STORIES, YES MAN, VALKYRIE and THE SPIRIT without the chance to have actually seen any of them.

Of course, our Voting Members alwaze have the right to write-in anything they think deserving that they feel we overlooked... 

 
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