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Semi-Pro, All Bad

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Posted in Movies | Posted on 02-29-2008 | 4,800 views

Ugh. I'll keep it short and sweet. You would be better off seeing Brittany Spears recite Shakespeare than see Semi-Pro. It was so bad - I kid you not - my wife and I turned to each other and we walked out 40 minutes in. I've never walked out of a film, but this was just so amazingly bad we figured we had no other choice. Semi-Pro has now surpassed Highlander 2 as my worst cinema experience.

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cfSearching said on 02-29-2008 at 10:17 PM #
"Brittany Spears recite Shakespeare"

Umm.. I would rather see Semi-Pro ;-)
Eric Hoffman said on 02-29-2008 at 11:03 PM #
See, programming on a Friday night is way better. :)
cfSearching said on 02-29-2008 at 11:11 PM #
.. especially true if those two are your only other options ;)
Roger Benningfield said on 03-01-2008 at 1:25 AM #
I've walked out of a few movies in my time. The first one was Beverly Hills Cop 3... I made it most of the way through, but reached my limit. The second was Junior, which I only endured for around 20 minutes. The third was due to projection problems, and I don't even remember the specific film.

I *wanted* to walk out of either Delta Force II or Missing in Action III (can't remember), which my friend the Chuck Norris fan just *had* to see. I counted a lot of ceiling tiles in the theater that night.

One movie I wanted to walk out on but happily didn't was Van Damme's Cyborg... which was so marvelously awful that my life would be slightly worse for having missed it. I hadn't seen MST3K at that point, but we basically sat there in an almost empty theater and gave it the Crow & Servo treatment. We subsequently spent the rest of the year pausing dramatically in the middle of sentences to intone, "You know, I think *he's* the cure."
Joshua Cyr said on 03-01-2008 at 7:53 AM #
Ah, thats too bad. I was considering seeing that. Did they show trailers for step brothers?

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=stepbrot...
Raymond Camden said on 03-01-2008 at 7:55 AM #
Nope, they had Get Smsrt, something else I can't remember, and the new Mike Meyers film, the Love Guru, which looks horrid. I'm a bit sad about that. I was looking forward to Meyers returning to non-animation films.
Brian Swartzfager said on 03-01-2008 at 8:11 AM #
Worse than Highlander 2: that is bad.
Ben Nadel said on 03-01-2008 at 11:12 AM #
I didn't see any of the early highlander movies, but I did see Highlander: End Game, which may be one of the worst movies ever made.

That's no good to hear about Semi-Pro. I certainly was not jazzed about the previews, but would have went to see it since I am such a huge will ferrel fan. Too bad this was no good. I guess I will wait for the movie on tv.
pan69 said on 03-01-2008 at 4:18 PM #
Haven't seen to movie yet. Did build the website though:

www.semipromovie.com
Raymond Camden said on 03-01-2008 at 4:23 PM #
Really? That's cool. I've always wanted to do Hollywood work.
David Betz said on 03-01-2008 at 10:20 PM #
Highlander 2 was bad, but my vote is still in for Showgirls as the worst movie ever.
cfSearching said on 03-01-2008 at 11:02 PM #
@Raymond,

You have? I can just see it now:
"All Pro - A new comedy starring Raymond Camden" ;-)
pan69 said on 03-02-2008 at 1:21 AM #
@ray
"Really? That's cool. I've always wanted to do Hollywood work."

I work for Tequila (Sydney, Australia). We do on a regular basis work for Newline Cinema's. We also did; http://www.goldencompassmovie.com, http://www.tequila.com.au/newline/tenaciousD, etc. I believe there is some chick flick site on the way we have to build in the next couple of weeks... :)

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