My apologies for the rant...

...but do we really need another movie about a teacher with a heart of gold and a go get 'em attitude who teaches a class of urban ne'er do wells all about respect, tolerance, and understanding by urging them to speak their minds?
If you gave out journals to the majority of inner-city high school students and asked them to write down what their feelings were, most of them would be unfit to repeat in any classroom, if they were even halfway intelligible. And some goofy looking white lady who stands up to authority but is really scared and vulnerable on the inside is the last thing that is going to straighten them out.
C'mon, Ms. Swank, you already have two Oscars, do you really need another one? If you were going to pander to the Academy this shamelessly you might as well have played a loveable retard in some sticky sweet bit of fluff. After all, it worked for Sean Penn right? Wait, no, scratch that.
This shouldn't really offend me because I could care less about Hilary Swank and there's obviously no way in hell I'm ever going to see this movie. But I am bombarded with the inane tv commercial every night, so I will shake my fist and shake it hard. *shake shake shake*

End of rant.

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