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Thanks to Val for getting me addicted to yet another web quiz. Now that scrabulous is gone (and the new Scrabble beta application is garbage), I've been wasting my time on Text Twirl and Filmwise's Invisibles quiz. Every week, the people at filmwise airbrush the actors out of scenes from films and you have to guess the film. If you want to waste away your life, click here.
I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. 
Hancock is not a quality movie. The story structure is terrible. There's nothing really going on. But you know what? It was a pretty entertaining 90 minutes. Yes, it plays more like a collection of funny scenes, most of the good parts of which were in the trailer but I still enjoyed watching Will Smith play a drunk, assholish superhero and many lulls in the film were glossed over by Charlize Theron looking her best since 2 Days in the Valley.
The film is basically an hour of character study and half our of plot. It's like watching the pilot of a TV series and then having the rest of the series condensed into a half hour at the end. So while I wouldn't recommend the film to everyone (especially those who already know they don't like Peter Berg's films), I had a good time and would tell anyone who's looking to kill 90 minutes this weekend that it's a nice trifle/diversion.
