[Rushmore]

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Neither Seven or American History X do that much for me, but they both have incredibly lame scenes involving characters coming together by having a good, uncontrollable belly laugh at something just not very funny. The dinner scene in Seven and the scene in the laundry with Ed Norton and the black guy in AHX.

So trite.

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Oh yeah--that dinner scene is hard to watch. Morgan Freeman's laugh in that scene is really bad.

And American History X, while not a "great" film, is a good example. Again, that laundry scene is just embarrassing. The voiceover at the end of the movie is pretty bad, too. Furlong sounds awful, there's this hokey montage of the ocean, and what he's saying is just dreck, quoting Lincoln, etc.

Blecch.