Sam & Janet

An unexplained and poorly edited title sequence made me question my choice of watching this movie, but decided to stick it out long enough to fairly judge it. After a literally painful first 30 min., I wanted to turn it off, but couldn't. I thought that I had already invested days in watching it. The plot is unrealistic, the script is awful. I have no idea how it won any awards. I keep wondering if people saw the same movie I did. The two (and only) redeeming parts of the movie were the bartender and the chocolate lab, Brady. That's it. Save yourself an hour and a half and knit a scarf. Honestly, this one's not worth your time.

This is the first time I have ever written a response to a movie. Sam and Janet in my opinion was not worth the time I invested in watching. It dragged on. To me it felt like a B movie and I did not understand how lifetime gave it a 3 star rating. I have watched movies that have had no stars that have been more entertaining and worth my time.

I had to see it through to the end just like a book that you've been reading just to finish it. I felt that the actors seemed insincere and definitely like they were reading a script. I guessed the ending. Even though I am a sucker for a happy ending this movie didn't make me happy or even restore my faith in true love as much as I was just happy it ended. I had hoped to find more in Sam and Janet but was left at a loss.

I was flipping through the channels and came across this movie. After 10 minutes I was ready to fall asleep, and I had only been up for an hour. I found it choppy at times with the way the conversations flowed, as if, well it was scripted. I did not find the characters believable. I guess for a first movie its OK. But to me it looks like a movie someone would make using a hand held video camera and there friends, on a bored Sunday afternoon. There is no emotion in it, the characters bored me to tears. I barely made it through this movie and would not tell anyone they should watch it. OK well if your having a hard time falling asleep at night, watch this movie, it will put you to sleep in no time. This is my first review, so its probably not that great and choppy itself. But I just could not, not comment on this movie

Recently I had a chance to view this film in its entirety. It made me speechless for a while. There's nothing cinematic about this film. Every aspect of filmmaking in this film is evil. The story could be told in 20mins max. It drags with hideous dialog and terrible editing. I don't blame the actors for not giving good performances because they had nothing good to work with. It is amazing that there is a film out there that is worse than Spiceworld. Special appearance by Gary Busey...well, he has no point being in this film. It would be the same film without him. Could be better because it's less time for the audience to be tortured. And at one point, the film takes a completely different tone, it feels like you are watching a Wes Craven film. I enjoy bad films personally. I think there are two kinds of bad film. One is so bad it instantly becomes a legendary film, and the other is so bad it needs to be vanished. This film absolutely falls into the latter.

This is, by far, the stupidest movie I have ever seen. I can't imagine how this film won a Best Screenplay award. As a matter of fact, I can't even imagine how this film was ever made. Everything about it - especially the dialogue, plot, and acting - was hokey and juvenile and embarrassing. Nothing about the movie was believable. How many times was it necessary to show Sam shirtless in bed? How many times was it necessary to show Janet staring out at the ocean? Why was Gary Busey in the movie? On the plus side, there were some lovely visuals (those 10 seconds of colored leaves were beautiful) and Oklahoma City looks like a very nice place to visit.