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Pretty Persuasion (2005)
The only "shock" is how bad it is
Truly, film executives should decide to spend a lot less time on hyping bad films and more on finding good projects.
Here is another film that will make you hate the "indie" genre (yes it is a genre now, characterized mainly by how bad it is and how much it tries and fails to be edgy).
Evan Rachel Wood is slowly killing her promising career by piling up really bad films.
Word to the wise, actors can only really shine when they are in good projects so next time you may want to actually read the script instead of listening to your hipster agent, Evan.
Veronica Mars (2004)
Completely fails to deliver on the hype
Maybe it's because Joel Silver is producing it, but UPN has thrown away a great deal of money trying to revive Veronica Mars this summer. What a colossal waste of money. VM had anemic ratings the first season not because it was an undiscovered masterpiece, but because it was a bad show.
Getting it sampled again is not going to make the show any better.
Now if they had fired the writers and producers and replaced them with a more talented team, maybe it would have been worth saving, but barring that all UPN is going to get is another case of Arrested Development: an unwatchable show that is hyped to a frenzy in Hollywood, but that just won't get ratings as it completely lacks in the basics of good film making.
Update: it's still as bad, still as low-rated, and CW would be well inspired to cancel it. Maybe they can use the slot to introduce a show that will actually appeal to a wdie audience, something it failed to do in its first season (by programming a bunch of unappealing shows that included Veronica Mars).