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While I gave this a rating of 1, that does not even begin to describe how simply awful this film is. I was looking for a chance to rate it zero ( 0 ) or negative.

This is absolutely the WORST film ever made. Bar none. I have seen some real stinkers, and this doesn't even come close to how good stinkers those were.

It is hard to list all the things wrong with this film. The setting is all wrong, and insulting to the Bard. The language is a poor mixture of American modern day and olde English. The acting is totally flat and boring, with actors and actresses miscast. The sound quality is very poor.

Normally, I would enjoy Whedon's work. But not this one which so totally misses the mark. For me, I require that a film must be entertaining. This is totally not.

One writer wrote that Sedgwick and Bacon "show both heart and tenacity, and as a result this misguided person rated the film a 10. But a 10 means SUPERB, Outstanding, out of this world, a one in a million, no, in 10 million. But this film isn't any good at all, it barely rates a 2. It fails to entertain, it fails to make sense, it fails to even interest us. Less than 60% of the viewers could even stand the movie or the review of it. A score of 10 is worse than ridiculous.

There were several writers who liked the movie, in varying degrees. I didn't. It was missing on a number of points. The writing was terrible, the story didn't speak to me. What person could possibly treat their son, their own flesh and blood that way? I suppose that I should treat the woman Emily as th pitiful character she plays. But the huge disconnect is too great. I cannot make the jump because NO human could possibly be as bad off as Sedgwick. The boy child has 100 times more maturity than the Sedgwick character. How could anyone believe any part of this story.

In summary, the movie left me worse than flat, worse than before I began watching it, sorry that I wasted my time on this. THAT is why this movie is NOT a 10. I was generous in giving it a rating 2, but I felt that as 1 would not be fair, because 1 needs to be reserved for a really horrendous movie. This was just bad, not horrendous.

It is incredible that this film, Goodbye Baby, has received a rating of (at this writing) a 7.9. I have no doubt that this is the result of ONLY 84 votes (probably with a number of duplicates from the performers and their friends).

This film is SO BAD that film goers cannot possible rate this as anything other than below average.

To start with, there is practically NO story. It is more like a stream of consciousness. For those who tune in expecting a story, you will be disappointed. And if you were so naive as to expect to be entertained, well, you are definitely in the wrong place. There is NO entertainment in Goodbye Baby. It starts out terribly boring, and then descends to worse. In a few sports it was possible to climb out of the morass, but the film makers choose to NOT go the positive route, but again descent further into a muddling swamp.

A rating of 1 is the lowest that IMDb allows. There are some that deserve a rating of Zero, or lower, in the negatives. But I would not say that Goodbye Baby is one of those. It truly has earned and deserves its rating of 1. I would not give it lower than a 1.

In summary, do not bother with Goodbye Baby. There are tens of thousands of new films every year which are better and deserve your time and attention.

Another reviewed indiephile2 thinks this movie is a 10, while I rate it a 1 because I am not permitted to go any lower. Just look at how this other person rated Fight Club, "THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE" and you will know the quality of their judgment.

He / she says it is Richly layered and textured. I think it is junk. It is boring, a struggle to get through each chapter, not enjoyable. Even sickening. From a very sick mind.

I should not have to say more because by now you have reached the conclusion the I do not think highly of it. I do suggest that you not waste your time.

I would not want anyone to think that I recommend this movie for any reason, even to watch then throw away. Because to do so, you would be wasting your time first to watch even some of it.

It is unbelievably bad. Few movies ever made have been worse.

While Lucy Liu is worth watching, always, and the rest of the cast (excluding that stupid choice for Sherlock), are tolerable, the creator, producer, director, and casting person all should be held accountable for the absolutely miserable choice of a Sherlock. Unlike the last nearly 100 years of choices of British actors who could pronounce words understandable in the United States of America, these boobs have managed to find practically the ONLY "actor" who is at least 50 per cent unintelligible in the United States.

This series desperately needs subtitles to make it. Maybe one day it will come out on DVD and we will get subtitles. Until then, there are huge gaps whenever this nincompoop Jonny Lee Miller is speaking. Unfortunately it appears that sometimes what he is saying is perhaps germane to the story line. And so we are lost.

The sooner they dump him and bring in an appropriate actor, the sooner this series will finally get on track. Until then, forget it. Tune in anything else, or turn off your TV.

It has been 11 years since bksand wrote: "If there is someone out there who could help, I would greatly appreciate it. I was an extra in this TV movie as a child. I would like to get a copy of this if there is one available. Or I would like to know when it will be airing again.

Thank you!"

I also would like to see a copy but cannot find it on DVD or even VHS, so I am looking for a copy. Kay Lenz in particular is a favorite of mine. I want to see all of her movies.

Has anyone received any positive feedback in all these years? It seems enough time has passed for this film to be re-issued.

How can we get the holders of the film rights to release the old shows once again. Another great old old movie is "Heaven Only Knows" also known as "Montana Mike" with Robert Cummings starring as the angel who came to earth to help the gambling saloon keeper, Brian Donlevy, save his soul. The opening scene is coming into the Montana town with its name over the main street - the name of the town is "Paradise."

The Last Song is a nice movie which could have been much better if they found someone else, anyone else, but not Miley Cyrus, to play the part of the teenage girl. Miley certainly has passionate fans. But movie producers pandering to that narrow audience is not the way to build an audience for a movie. Having seen how extremely badly the plump, chubby out of shape Miley "acted" without any acting skills - well,this one movie has so turned me off from her, that I will NEVER watch any movie ever again in which she has even a small bit, non-speaking part.

Greg Kinnear does a very credible job of carrying the movie as far as it can get carried. The plot and writing are acceptable. But who can stand listening to the gravelly male voice of Miley, let alone having to look at her disgusting face and body. It is little wonder that the costumers of the movie did their best to hide every part of her that they could, despite the fact that the movie is set in the south in the summertime, with other young ladies wearing skimpy bikinis.

Even if you like her singing, you have to admit that Miley Cyrus has absolutely no acting skills. In fact they are so bad as to be non-existent, or at least indiscernible.

If producers want to make a decent movie, with any respectability at all, and have a chance of making a few dollars profit for their trouble, this movie, The Last Song, says clearly that they need to stay away from Miley Cyrus. Just look at the vote distribution for the movie, practically all 1's or 10's, with very little in between. With more 1's than 10's. All those 1's are votes against the polarizing Miley and how disgusting her performance was in this otherwise decent movie.

You can tell simply by the negative summaries what this trash of a film is all about, how it is viewed by the public. We hate it. We want to take away the right to make any film from this writer / director, so he can never again punish us with his drivel.

Look what people write about this movie: Numbing, stultifying, deadly dull. Like an overdose of L-Tryptophan. This film was so boring it made me fall asleep. Over indulgent piece of crap. Pretentious claptrap...misses by a country mile. Self-indulgent and stale.

There is NO entertainment in this film. IF you want to be entertained, go to a real movie, almost any other movie. Do yourself a favor, save time and save money and avoid this like the plague it is.

I am truly sorry that I am forced to give this a big 1 (awful) rating, because at most it deserves a ZERO. Unfortunately for us, IMDb doesn't allow zeros or negative numbers.

Anyone who tries to tell you that you should spend your precious time, let alone your precious money on this piece of trash - well, you need to ignore everything that person ever says to you.

There is no value, no redemption for this so called-film. Worthless is one word which does come to mind. With every scene it insults your intelligence, shoves noise at you in the guise of "music" and just generally does its best to really anger you.

This garbage is all done in the name of critiquing the New York art scene. Well, if NY is even one tenth as bad as this movie portrays, then it would have fallen long before now.

Summary: don't waste your time. If you want to categorize this movie, put it into the same category as "Titus" as one of the worst movies ever.

Some other reviewers comment positively about this film. I will not mince words. I can't stoop so low. I have to tell the truth about it. This film was a total waste of my time from beginning until the end.

Others write that this film is Surreal. Yes it is. They accurately report about the actors and the sadness of much of the story, the drunken writer, his continuing battles with his ex-wife, his deadbeat best friend.

Where these other writers fall short is their failure to mention that the story line and the director develop no connection between the audience and the characters. No sympathy. All these characters are just pitiful people, failures on different levels but all failures. Just bums. Gritty, yes. Believable, no. They say it is painful, yes. But then they falsely claim there are rewards. There are none. One writer admits that it is uneven. Understatement. There are creative "dreams" or day dreams, but they do more to interrupt the flow of the movie, than promote it. The day dreams are the best part, so it may be more accurate to say the movie interrupts the flow of the dream sequences.

There is nothing wonderful about this movie. Don't waste your time. If it comes in your TV guide, turn on a different channel, any channel. Or turn the set off.

One reviewer wrote: At a certain point, after all the partying, and boozing and drugging, the film takes a turn for the worse and climaxes into a gut wrenching, horrible tragedy that left me (and the audience) stunned.

He also wrote that this film sucks you in. In my view, it just sucks.

I watch movies to enjoy, to be entertained, to be happy. This film is depressing, dark, foreboding. There are so many Good films, why waste your time getting so depressed you want to commit suicide?

Read the other reviews and you will get wildly differing opinions. There is no right opinion. You just need to be fore-warned that this film is one that is controversial, and not in a good way.

Do not make the mistake thinking that, because Nick Casavetes wrote the Notebook, that this film might be in the same class. It isn't, and it isn't even close. Your time is valuable to you, spend it elsewhere.

Normally I watch a movie to the end before deciding how to evaluate it. But not for August Rush. It was too painful to go more than halfway. Each minute which went by, I kept telling myself to hang in there, no matter how boring and meaningless the movie is. Finally, I threw in the towel at the half way mark.

I gave this movie a rating of 2 only because of Keri Russell, the only salvaging element in the first half. And there is a nice but short piece with Terrence Howard. Without these two, this movie is a 1, especially Freddie Highmore. His agent should be more careful in placing him into films or his career will be destroyed at practically its beginning.

The story hops around aimlessly and never develops any empathy for any of the characters. It left me with: who cares? over and over until I gave up. Writers take notice. It is your job to get the audience to care. You missed badly, wasting precious time with boring and meaningless filling of the screen time with nothing.

There is a reason that Todd Haynes has never directed anything any good. Start with his bad screenplay of I'm Not There. Then he directed its production. His mind is blown on drugs; the proof is in the product. No sane person could produce such total confusion. It is actually painful to try to watch, and probably injurious to your health.

Those who perhaps like Dylan make excuses to try to pretend there is any substance to this picture at all. No amount of explaining can explain how Dylan's name changes throughout the movie, change race, etc. That isn't creative, it is the product of a very sick man. To take such great acting talent and waste it like this, is a crying shame. All enjoyable brief moments in the film are overwhelmed by Todd Haynes drug induced stupor which dominates the film.

Avoid like the plague anything in the future you see the name Todd Haynes attached to. There are many good films for you to spend your time and money on; go see one of them instead.

This movie is totally worthless. A rating of "One" is 'way too high but IMDb does not allow a lower rating. This movie makes the best argument yet for allowing the scale to go lower. It is incoherent, hopping so much from one scene to another, from one brief beginnings of a boring, meaningless story line to another, from one group of people to another, that it is maddening. All to ultimately no purpose. Do not believe those who, in their written reviews, raise it to the level of total crap. It isn't that good. Awful doesn't quite describe it. The career of Steven Soderbergh is very checkered. This film represents his nadir (so far). The movie public can only hope that he doesn't try to go lower in stealing your money. But, beware, he might, so STAY AWAY from any future film directed by or in any way connected to Steven Soderbergh, because the people connected with that future film cannot appreciate your viewing pleasure if they hire someone who put on Full Frontal. Only by staying away from Steven Soderbergh can we win back our respectability as the movie viewing public. Speak out with your dollars and prevent Steven Soderbergh from putting out any more trash like Full Frontal.

I cannot believe that anyone voted a "7" for this movie. It clearly is among the worst movies ever. How could anyone put a beautiful cast together, so badly misdirect them, take ancient Rome as a pretense to trick viewers into watching this hodge-podge, then put motorcycles, 1930's autos, and 20th century war-making equipment, into the mix? Yes, I "get" it - the reference to Hitler. That is no excuse for making a farce of serious material. It is an insult to history, to the actors, and, ultimately, to the viewer.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from this trash. If only I could have given this a -0- instead of a one --- now THAT would have been an improvement.

A review from mattymatt4ever from Jersey City isn't helpful in reviewing Lucky Numbers. Matty gives it a 7 while the average voter gives it a 4.9.

It isn't a bad film, but shallow. Definitely below average. So the average around 4.9 is maybe more appropriate than a higher number; certainly 7 is 'way beyond the range.

What can you expect of a film that has Michael Moore in it. That alone knocks it down at least two full points.

You get what you pay for, so don't pay any money for this one. See it free, and even then you are spending your precious time, more than enough payment. Better yet, avoid ALL movies associated with Michael Moore.

As all of the other commentators say, this is a really great one. It is Really sad that it isn't available on DVD or even VHS. Suffice it to say I too still remember it fondly more than 50 years later, and pine for it still. Why oh why cannot we find out who owns it, and is keeping it off the market. We fans need to blanket that firm (person) until they do release it. It is at least unfair, if not immoral, to keep it from us adoring public. We need to once again visit Pair-O-Dice before we go to our eternal reward.

Robert Cummings does an admirable job of entertaining us and at the same time making us believe that he really is an angel from heaven sent to get back into balance the Book of Life and the Book of Destiny which got "out of balance" when the saloon keeper Brian Donlevy was left out of the Book of Life ( a clerical error). Bet you didn't realize that, before computers, the angels up in heaven had to do their bookkeeping by hand, and keep their books, accounting-wise, in balance. Well, Robert Cummings comes to earth to correct the mistake, and thus in the end he saves not only Donlevy but the poor souls of this old western town. But us viewers forget all about the premise of the Book of Life and just sit back and enjoy the movie. You will too, once we get it released to the public where it belongs.