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The Fallacy of Composition: Five Disappointing Films with Great Casts - Film Junk ABOUT PODCAST REVIEWS TRAILERS FEATURES SUBSCRIBE The Fallacy of Composition: Five Disappointing Films with Great Casts Posted by Matt on May 21st, 2010 Filed under: Features The Fallacy of Composition refers to a fallacy, a mistake in reasoning. The mistake in reasoning is as follows: people tend to think that if you take the best individual parts and put them together, than your product will turn out to be the best. This fallacy is seen all the time in Hollywood. How many times have you seen a movie with an amazing cast, and thought it would be a great movie? A lot of times this will happen, and for the most part you may be correct. A great cast may lead to a great movie. This is not always the case though. Many films have been made with a phenomenal cast yet turned out to be complete trash. This article is going to run down five films that fall under the fallacy of composition. Valentines Day Dont ask me why I saw this movie but I did and now I wish I hadnt. It was easily one of the worst movies Ive seen all year. Despite it being a chick flick it did have potential; the cast featured such big names as Bradley Cooper, coming off the very successful film The Hangover, Jaime Foxx, an Oscar winner and usually a very solid actor, Ashton Kutcher, who I personally always find very entertaining, Julia Roberts, an Oscar winner and overall fantastic actress, and many more big name stars. So where did this film go wrong? Seeing as the Metacritic score is only 34/100, it went wrong in more than one place. The first place where the movie falls is in the script. The movie has us following ten different love stories, and not only can this be a bit boggling or jarring for the viewer but it also never really lets the viewer become involved in any one story. Add on the fact that the stories themselves are superficial and fluffy, it makes it very hard to really care for any of it. Like the movie Crash, the characters are connected to s! ome degr ee a...

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