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    X-Men Origins: Wolverine; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    It's been a while since I've seen anything as unpleasant as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but one sequence sticks out... Does anyone love to watch Matthew McConnaughey act?... If his self-pleasure seems unearned, it's at least appropriate to the character he plays in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a bizarre conflation of chick flick and A Christmas Carol...

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    By Joe Morgenstern • May 2, 2009 • 4m Listen

    It's been a while since I've seen anything as unpleasant as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but one sequence sticks out...

    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a bizarre conflation of chick flick and A Christmas Carol...

    Banner image: Ron Batzdorff/New Line Cinema

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