I've never seen Lion King II, but this is a nice appraisal. This forum should offer script doctoring services.

Gato
Burt Reynolds plays an ex-con who gets reincarnated as a talking cat in Mexico and helps a Federali (David Tennant) catch—and win the heart of—a corrupt politician (Jessica Alba).

Tick
Reknowned entomologist Burt Reynolds must help a young man (Haley Joel Osment) discover the lair of the giant Bwana tick (Andy Serkis mo-cap) while steering clear of an albino hit man (Andy Serkis).

City Eat
Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood are rival restaurateurs on the verge of retirement who conspire to merge their restaurants by getting their grandchildren (Zac Efron and Blake Lively) to fall in love.*

The Man Who Loved WMEN
Burt Reynolds is a wealthy sports enthusiast and sculptor who tries to buy Florida sports talk radio station WMEN, 640 AM, in hopes of ending his artistic block, but he's opposed by the station's mutually-lovelorn-yet-strictly-platonic programming director (Mila Kunis) and top DJ (Chris Pine).

That's cool. I go to a lot of different offices with cubicle farms, and it amazes me how often people seem to think nothing of working for decades in spaces that utterly dull and bland. I mean, you don't have to have a bunch of wasted space and chandeliers and art installations to make a place interesting. Just some different colors, textures, and/or shapes here an there.

(500) Days of Sumer
King Shulgi (Ben Kingsly) presides over the last Sumerian renaissance as the influx of Semitic tribes and loss of workable land due to salt buildup in the soil shift his kingdom toward what would soon become the Babylonian Empire.

Mob Dick
Somebody finally put "Legs" Diamond on ice, and the Mob wants to know if it was Dutch Schultz, the Oley Brothers, or the cops. Sam "Whitey" Wale (John Goodman) might be able to find out... if Police Captain James Ahab (Nick Nolte) doesn't pin it on him first.

Shark Opus
Larry (voice of Richard Dreyfus) is a great white shark, but he doesn't want to hunt harp seals like the other sharks. He wants to write a symphony. If only he could find a bunch of harp players to perform it....

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Lost Michael Apted documentary in which he interviews fourteen babies—some from wealthy families, some from the streets of London—to learn about their hopes, their dreams, and their disappointments.

According to my IMDb ratings, the films I felt were the worst I've seen (1 star ratings):

• The Mangler (1995) Tobe Hooper

• Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)

• Almighty Thor (2011) The Asylum

• Bad Girls Do Cry (1965) Grindhouse schlock and the most inept film I've seen

• Fearless Frank (1967) Philip Kaufman, stars Jon Voight and the second most inept film I've seen

• Bowanga Bowanga (1951) Dumb and dull cave girl exploitation with no skin

I've never seen Birdemic or The Room. I HAVE seen Plan 9 From Outer Space, and it gets 2 stars, as do Battlefield Earth and Troll 2.

As for major motion pictures, Don't Mess With the Zohan made me hate movies for a while, but I seem to have given it 3 stars.

Ooh, nice. Do I detect a hint of Elfman? I think I do.

Network is another that always gets a nod. To me, the magic of BTTF is more the casting than the screenplay per se. But the film itself is certainly one of the great films of all time. I rank it well above oft-cited Some Like It Hot, which feels formulaic to me even compared to The Lady Eve or 1, 2, 3. But comedies get so little respect anyway, it's a crime. BTTF isn't even on the AFI 100 list.

Oh man, totally forgot to use this....!

Dammit! I KNEW there was somebody else in the area we should have been contacting!

This was a terrific! I liked this pretty well when I saw it and was surprised when others didn't, but I could accept it. The reboot with Norton didn't do much more for me, so I was surprised when it got much better reviews.

I really liked the observation that the film's main conflict is internal with only a secondary external conflict, which is just backwards for a genre film. And the Nick Nolte jokes were fun.