The greatest movie ever made..!

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The first must-see film of the year.

This show is great. It is emotional, funny, dramatic, corney and hooking. There is a lot of struggle, love and life happening the whole time and you grow to love all the characters. However I honestly feel like the 4th season ruined the show. It turned really weird and different than the other seasons and I am really disappointed with how it ended. It didn't even seem like the same show by the end.

First off, to state something quite clearly, I disagree with the legions out there who criticize Mischa Barton as Marissa Cooper. Look, I have studied this show, especially her performance. I have scrutinized her every move. The girl is poetry in motion. I think "the actress has a difficult streak" but that is her personal life, I am talking Marissa Cooper here, and she did great! It is grossly unfair to discriminate against her because or your own petty jealousies, people. I think she gave Marissa more than just a dash of Mischa and it worked. Marissa comes across as "not exactly thrilled with this world", somewhat aloof, and that's the Mischa Barton trademark and that's what many of you can't take. Look at her performance again and you'll see how much she gave the character.I would not have bought this series had it not been for my considerable interest in anything MISCHA. I had seen lots of photos of her and she was my driving force for obtaining the DVDs. Believe me, the style of the show is a long way off from being my kind of thing, especially with the first half of the pilot episode. I am now halfway through the third season (incidentally, with all my reading about the show I know the drastic outcome, the fate of Marissa, although thankfully not the exact details) and I've become a fan of the Captain Oats/Princess Sparkle bit as well, and I think highly of Peter Gallagher and Kelly Rowan so I am a true O.C. fan BUT BUT BUT it would never have happened were it not for Mischa. So I will leave it up to the other fans to enthuse about the rest of the show. It is just so damn fashionable to kick sand at Mischa that I find it my solemn duty to defend her performance. Everybody who knows The Raven knows she is my muse for the female lead in my own novel, so lay off!Prior to writing this, I saw ep. 15 of #3 and just allow me to mention that if Willa Holland as Kaitlin Cooper was merely a story arc, ooh big mistake. I can check out on Wikipedia now to see if she's coming back, but I won't add yet another season spoiler. Obviously, the producers would have seen she is the added injection the show needs (debatable, actually, I find Mischa to induce an overload of just-sit-there-in- amazement) and especially as Ms. Barton is scheduled to not be part of the final season, Willa should become main cast. I know it is past history. But please don't e-mail me the outcome.

Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) is a young man from the bad side of town who got arrested for his brother's mistake. Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher) is his lawyer and he decides to take him into his own home. His wife Kirsten (Kelly Rowan) isn't sure, but their kid Seth (Adam Brody) just love the fact that he has a friend. Ryan falls for the girl next door Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton). It's love at first sight.This is the biggest teen soap of its time. It's popularity is still shocking. I'm surprised that teen soaps aren't being churned out all the time by the networks other than CW. This show burn bright and burn fast. It lasted only 4 seasons, and was quickened by the death of Marissa Cooper at the end of season 3. I still don't know who's brilliant idea that was. Maybe Mischa Barton was tired of the show. Who knows? But it ended the show prematurely. Not to say that the show had long legs. Creator Josh Schwartz had design the show to burn through all the teen clichés real quick. By the 3rd season, it had run short of the easy story lines. I was waiting for the evil twins to turn up.

and Peter Gallagher always deliver. While TV sinks lower and lower with reality trash, shows like this which are reminiscent of "90210" do provide an escape, have some talented actors, interesting story line s (by actual writers) and some plot twists.I agree with another reviewer in that he stated TV soaps provide a needed escape. Not sure what is going on with producers of dreg TV shows like Fox reality, etc., but ever since "The Apprentice" caught on (That was 2001 ...NINE years ago) that does not mean American audiences want to watch garbage. Shows about bad hair days, Paris Hiltons latest drug charges and sex toys, realtor's having to deal with pet urine...PLEASE give audiences the benefit the doubt. While the economy in this country is tanking people need a fun escape, we do NOT want to see the excruciating negative minutiae that is offered up to the American public by the likes of Jerry Springer, Bravo TV... ad infinitum.Watch the O.C. for positive entertainment. 8/10.