Wordiezett So much average

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

KineticSeoul Documentaries like this shows how important empathy and trying to understand things from the other side's point of view is. Sure, when people hear something ridiculous we are quick to jump the gun and come to an accusation. When I was in high school and heard of the hot coffee incident, I found the whole story to be dumb, and judged the victim as well. Now, getting more information on what really went down I actually feel for the old lady and wonder why she didn't get compensated more for the damages. Yeah, she dropped hot coffee on herself by accident, but it was the companies negligence that really did damages to the victim. The hot coffee incident is just the front and it delves into other incidents where victims stories got mislead and overblown by the media. Some of these stories made me upset and ticked off, especially when it came to the story about a woman that got raped, humiliated, physically damaged and locked in a cargo box. This documentary gives a in-depth view on how people with money and power can control and manipulate the message when given to the public. Sure, people can just try to sue people for some easy money. However even the tort reform can be taken advantage of by the people with power to take advantage of the poor or be used to run from their mistakes in a lot of cases. Even the people that know the system can try to get away, instead of paying for their crimes. I wouldn't be surprise if there is more people taking advantage of the tort reform over suing people in order to win some easy money. I give this movie an 8/10 because at few points it did seem to be biased. Besides that I think this is a informative documentary on perception and the court system.8/10

valis1949 HOT COFFEE (dir. Susan Saladoff) This is a documentary about the woman who spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on her lap, filed a crazy lawsuit and made millions. "Jackpot Justice", "Frivolous Lawsuits", "Disappearing Doctors", we all know about this one, but have we been given the true facts? This brilliant documentary carefully and methodically shows how Big Business and the Republican Party manipulated this story, and others like it, in an attempt to block citizens from seeking redress in the courts. In order to have any impact in the legislative and executive branches of government you must have access to millions of dollars, and this gives the Super Rich an unbeatable edge. In the judicial branch of government, money is not a factor. A jury of twelve ordinary citizens make the decisions, and 'the job creators' and 'the one percenters' are legally prevented from using their unfair advantage of cash to orchestrate the results. By the way, here's the facts on The McDonald's Case. In 1994 Stella Liebeck accidentally spilled hot coffee in her lap after purchasing it from a McDonald's restaurant and suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region. Liebeck was hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. Although McDonald's had over 700 other complaints concerning injuries due to coffee heated to over 190 degrees Fahrenheit, the company only offered Liebeck eight hundred dollars in compensation for her injury. In the end, both parties settled out of court for an undisclosed amount under $600,000. 'Greedy Victim' and 'Bleeding Heart Jury' are terms that certainly Do Not apply, but you wouldn't think so after listening to how Republicans were able to use this case to invent a bogus issue called, 'Tort Reform'. ABSOLUTE MUST SEE

Janet Varnell This film asks really great questions about motivations and gives us a frightening glimpse of the road ahead if we don't act now. In her film-making debut, Saladoff did a masterful job of unveiling the literal plot by the largest corporations in America to absolve themselves of liability by wrestling control over our justice system. By using four in depth "exhibits" to reveal the campaign, she provided the type of memorable (if not unforgettable) and persuasive stories that you can easily recall when you engage in debate on these truly important issues. Seeing this film gives you the kind of perspective that one typically only gains by looking back at events historically with one really important difference....you get to see what is really happening while there is still time to do something about it.

the_woodwose Let's get a couple of facts out of the way that this "documentary" never bothered with. From a taste standpoint, coffee has to be brewed just off the boil, which means at 195 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and you can not find anyone serious about good coffee who will disagree with that. Secondly, when someone hands you a cup of hot coffee, it's your responsibility to deal with it, to avoid injuring yourself with it. If someone hands you a loaded gun, and you shot yourself in the face, who's fault is that?Yes, this woman screwed up, she dumped a cup of very hot coffee in her lap. How the hell is that McDonald's fault? Because they sold coffee that is hot? Hells, bells, their customers EXPECT hot coffee.My brother when he was two years old, pulled a freshly brewed cup of hot coffee my dad had just set down for a second onto to himself and was hospitalized with burns all over his body. Gosh I wish we could have thought of someone to sue, because we'd be rich forever. This stupid woman poured hot coffee all over herself and sued the pants off McDonalds. And won.And this STUPID PIECE OF PROPAGANDA tries to make us believe that's justice. It's not justice. It's a set of tragedies. This woman was burned beyond belief and spent months in pain for a mistake SHE made. That's the first tragedy, but there's only one person who could have prevented it. The second tragedy is that a court of law inexplicably gave this woman millions of dollars of OTHER people's money for making a mistake that none of those other people could have prevented.And yet this film tries to convince us that's justice.It's not justice. It's extortion.