oh and i also saw secret window and hidalgo, both about 2 star poor excuses for movies, unless you are uncommonly attracted to johnny depp and have within you a genuine love of all things equine, which made both movies bearable for me personally but not at all recommendable. well. secret window is maybe 2 1/2 stars. see it was going really well and more funny than scary in a good way and johnny is just fantastic and weird and you just think to yourself "look at him go" while you're watching him and it wasn't looking like your typical stephen king movie so i was diggin it, and then it had a horrrrrrrrribly obvious overdone movie plot twist and surprise ending that was like spending all day making a great cake and then shitting all over it. doesn't leave a good taste in your mouth. why johnny, why? hidalgo looked a hell of a lot better in the trailor than it was, it looked funny and exciting and good natured, a la maybe the mummy, but the action was actually cheesy and unexciting, surprisingly little time was spent on the magnificence of horses, considering it's a movie named after a horse, except a heavy wallop of we-love-horses footage at the end which seemed a little sentimental-bullshit-y. and the acting is soooo bad. there's all these obviously american actors doing horrible arab accents, it's hilarious. even viggo is crap, and i can't understand how good actors do crap turns in crap movies. it's like benicio in the hunted. why can't they all be like johnny and put effort and personality into every role? if secret window had any other actor playing mort rainey, there ain't a damn person who'd want to see it. i understand the need for an occassional big pay check or the desire to make a film your kids could see, but to leave your character so dead on the screen like that.. i don't understand how artistic integrity allows them to do that. they must be drunk.