not even worth the price of admission

As I reported yesterday, I went to see Lucky You today for free. It was unbelievably bad. With writing and directing talent behind the screen and recently pretty decent talent in front of it, you just have to wonder what the hell went wrong. It was the most boring shit you can't even imagine. Every damn cliche in the book. Thank god I watched a few episodes of Celebrity Poker Showdown back when it was all the rage or I wouldn't have had a clue what was happening in the movie. And to top it off, there's even a sequence of Eric Bana playing (speed) golf--for a bet, of course! The acting was atrocious, especially Drew Barrymore's performance. And Bana was perhaps a notch above Hulk days, but his hockey hair was too distracting.

Oh and one of the themes was some sort of pathetic attempt to historicize the momentary popularity of professional poker in 2003. Seriously.

The most exciting part of the movie was when some creepy, middle-aged man entered the theater near the end, stood at the door directly behind my seat, and burped a couple of times.