Just watched this, and it was pretty much unanimous amongst my pile of friends -- it sucked. So how come I don't remember it getting the same hoopla that Gigli got? I mean, there were some entertaining bits, but at about the 1:00 mark, we seriously contemplated shutting it off. I'm kind of glad we didn't, because at that point we had gotten through the hard part, with nothing having happened yet. It still got worse before it got better, and the better was only relative -- it didn't make up for the worse. I think we all pretty much knew from the opening bad accent. ("What kind of accent was that?" "Fake.")

We actually re-wrote the ending (Ruby and Ada become lesbian lovers, Inman comes back, Ada dumps Ruby sort of [it's never spoken about, she just goes back to him], the hetero lovers start slacking off, Ruby gets mad and puts them to work...) which I thought would have been much more entertaining, but about as realistic as aliens.

Don't get me wrong, though: I still think Cruise is an idiot for dumping Nicole. I still wanna do her myself.