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If it’s >>that<< bad, I wouldn’t watch it anymore than the other garbage you listed.

$69 bucks ? Olga’s derriere ? Talk about your bum movie.

You never know until you see it. There are films that have gotten absolutely awful reviews (Judge Dredd, Spider-Man 3, Epic Movie, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Muppets from Space, etc.) but I thoroughly enjoyed them. I remember numerous friends "warned" me to "skip" Men in Black 3 and said it was absolutely terrible, but I found it fun and miles ahead of MIB 2.

Then there's the reverse -- films get overwhelmingly glowing praise from critics and audiences alike, but I try to sit through it and can't understand what the heck they see in this crappy movie (As Good As It Gets, Children of Men, Lost In Translation, How to Train Your Dragon, Birdman, etc.) One of the reasons I refuse to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in theaters is I remember the Star Wars fanboys hailing The Phantom Menace as the greatest event EVER when it was being released back in 1999, and then INSISTING the movie was amazing and blew them away once it was finally released. Check out the deranged fan here claiming Jack Lloyd's kiddie Anakin "stole the show" and "made the perfect future Jedi".

Of course, its much more common that the harsh feedback against a movie is justified in the end. I'm still wondering what the heck I was thinking when I rented the remake of House of Wax with Paris Hilton when I knew it would be terrible.