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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2830841" data-attributes="member: 4779">With a film like this, I am usually in the "loved it" crowd.  But in this case I simply couldn't understand why people liked it.  The laughs were few and far in between.  And there was no reason to keep me watching.  I felt that Napolean was an unlikable jerk with little to know redeeming values.  I couldn't stand watching any longer so I didn't see it through to the end, which is INCREDIBLY rare for me.  The bottom line was that it wasn't entertaining me in any way.If someone wants to spoil his "special gift" or why the movie was good in the last 15 minutes for me, please do.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The only fun part for me was seeing the computer geek, Mac, from Veronica Mars in a different role.  I liked her awkward teenager character, a far cry from her genius character from VM.  And, oh yeah, I laughed when Napolean got the steak whipped at him.  That's about it.  I'm glad I didn't buy or even rent the DVD.  Saw it on HBO.</blockquote>