Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel

Directed by: Jake Kasdan

Today I decided to see a movie. Was gonna go see “Super 8” but the movie changed the time schedules and “Super 8” was at a later time. So I ended up seeing “Bad Teacher” instead. For shopping, I did pick up a few things. I did pick up the new “Duke Nukem: Forever” game and picked up the “Feast for Crows” (the fourth novel of “Game of Thrones” series).

Here is my review for “Bad Teacher”…

Plot/synopsis: Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a poor Chicago area teacher who curses at her students, drinks heavily, and takes copious amounts of drugs. She plans to marry her wealthy fiance, but when he dumps her, she tries to win over substitute teacher Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), who is also wealthy. Their colleague Amy Squirrell (Lucy Punch) is also pursuing Scott, while the school’s gym teacher Russell Gettis (Jason Segel) is making advances on Elizabeth.^[3]

Halsey minimizes work and maximizes financial gain by filling her lessons with showing videos, cheating to win a prize, and for that purpose drugging the man in charge of the state test to steal the test questions, having sex with him and taking photographs of that, and through blackmail getting away with it all.

Well, I guess you can say that this is the first bad movie I’ve seen of 2011. Yes, it was bad. It was a piece of shit. I didn’t even sit through the whole movie. I walked out of it toward the end. Yes, the movie was that boring. Was trying to stay awake throughout most of it, and I didn’t burst out laughing once. The writing was bad, the acting was bad as well. It’s just not a good movie.

Cameron Diaz is 38, almost in her 40’s now. She’s too old for the hot girl thing, in my opinion. She was hot in her younger years, I admired her back then, but she is pretty unflattering in this movie. I don’t know why everyone is praising this movie. Even Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel couldn’t save it. Justin Timberlake needs to go back to music and golfing where he belongs. He’s not a good actor even though he is trying. He belongs in the music business that he’s known for, he’s not an actor.

Just don’t see this one and wait for DVD. I wish I had my 7 dollars back after seeing this piece of shit.

Score for “Bad Teacher” = * (1 star as in “poor’)

Kev

I’ve been seeing the new trailers for the comedy “Bad Teacher”, which stars Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, and Justin Timberlake. It actually looks pretty decent. It’s a realistic comedy that everyone can relate to, because I’m sure everyone have had a bad teacher when they were in school at the time. Even I had my share of bad teachers during my school years.

I’ve had some teachers who taught really bad or they were just assholes. I could tell some bad teacher stories, but I have so many stories to tell.

If I had to tell one bad teacher story, I had a social studies teacher, I think in 10th grade in high school. He was an older teacher but he had a really bad temper. Seriously this one was an asshole. I remember there was this kid in the class, he stood real short. He’s not a midget, but a short guy. This short kid would pick on this teacher all the time. This teacher would throw a tantrum, I think he even threatened to kill the kid in front of everyone. Me and my best friend at the time were in that class, we used to laugh so hard because it was funny the way this social studies teacher got mad. My best friend at the time, he brought in a hidden mini tape recorder and taped the whole thing. Seriously, this is a true story. The social studies teacher screamed at the top of his lungs, “I’m so mad that I can just kill you”. It’s all on tape. This social studies teacher was easy to pick on. Everyone picked on him, even me and my best friend picked on him all the time.

I don’t see my best friend from school anymore since we’re out of school and he got married & stuff like that, but we used to listen to that tape and laugh our asses off all the time. I think he still has the tape. I’ve had many bad teacher moments, but I think this one tops them all.

I’ll try to catch “Bad Teacher” in theater soon.

Kev