God, Secondhand Lions was bad. I rented it to watch with the mother-in-law. Knew she'd like it. And I thought, how bad can a Michael Caine/Robert Duvall vehicle be? I sure got my answer.
Another movie I once rented for the sake of the in-laws: Joe Somebody. That got a lukewarm "thumbs up."
Bottom five movies I have selected for my in-laws, in terms of how much they hated them:
5. Owning Mahoney
4. Orange County
3. Get Shorty
2. Mystery Men
1. Northfork
They at least had a grip on numbers 5 and 4. They talked through a quarter of number 3 and then complained that they didn't get it. They walked away from number 2 after about 5 minutes, my father-in-law critiquing it in one word: "Garbage!" Number 1 eluded them so thoroughly that I could hear them yelling about it over the next day's breakfast. I was hiding in the basement.
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