"I did something really bad once and I'm never gonna be the same! "

This statement made by Ben Thomas (Will Smith), or was his name Tim.  Whoever he was, he read a text while driving (really bad).  That will soon be against the law here in LA -- January 1, so HAPPY NEW YEAR but don't text while driving, or you might get finished off! 

Yes, it's Wednesday, Gregorysm's Day.  For today, in honor of Gregory who co-starred in an episode of the Fresh Prince (a Christmas episode with Boys II Men -- check it out), I have decided to be a finisher and write about 7 POUNDS.

OK, here it goes, my critique of a movie Will Smith stars in.  

If you go to the movie theater, sit in the center and munch some pretty decent popcorn, with a chaser of fruit punch, you would pretty much be taken in by the depth of this movie.  Comments from the mostly 40+ crowd that day, were audible at the end of this film.  "WOW"was the consensus.  They gave it a WOW.  I think that's a thumbs up?  

What I give it is a bit more detailed.  I liked the movie, would probably give it 3 stars if I had to.  It was good.  The premise was good, viable, the casting was great, the 8 x 10's were all wonderful in their own element, but then --

On your way home you start to thinking, and it hits you, as beautiful as Rosario Dawson is and as sexy as Will Smith is, the intimacy between the two threw the whole thing off.  That point was where I was no longer buying it - as my old writing instructor used to say to me when something in one of my screenplays was unclear or throwing her for too much of a loop.  "I'm not buying it".  And then --

You think a bit more and that's when it hits you -- the back story is insufficient.  Things start to be told vice shown on the screen to fill in the missing back story.  Then --

You understand the reviews from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Variety.  Go see it, it's not bad, but take some tissues because the person sitting next to you might need them and if you don't have any they might just snot all over your shirt.  This happened to the man sitting beside me -- but I think the women was his significant other.

Ciao Y'all!  Merry Christmas Eve.

Photo courtesy of IMDB.com 7 Pounds 12/2008