Bruno, it sucks

man i just watched "the god who wasn't there" which is about a whiny kid who was raised christian but didn't like it

also watched no time for sergeants, which was like several episodes of the beverly hillbillies back to back

i haven't done this yet but i'm watching reign over me for my psychology class. i've already seen it once but it was pretty good from what i remember. i'll post my thoughts on it again once i actually get around to watching it the second time so that I can do my assignment on it.

i watched kings and queen (rois et reine) which was a movie released about 5 years ago and it is about this woman who's dad is dying and her estranged husband who is in a mental hospital. it was entertaining but there were flashes of mainstream humour crap which gave it away a bit. plus, i'm getting a bit bored with watching rich french people having mental problems. i think about 80% of the french films i have seen involve a rich person going to a mental hospital at some point because they can't handle the issue of existence any longer.

here's the trailer:

oh, sugar. i posted the wrong video. what a blooper.


actually this trailer is kind of terrible. i mean the film is sentimental and a bit cheesey but it's nowhere near as bad as this trailer makes it out to be. it is directed by Arnaud Desplechin and i have no idea who he is apart from the director of this film, and it's got people like matthieu amalric and catherine deneuve in it so...it's a heavyweight, understand? it's a fucking heavyweight.

as far as i can tell, french cinema is overrated as being particularly artistic or insightful. i mean maybe this is an obvious thing to say, but it's just as dumb as anywhere else. it's just dumb in different ways from hollywood. there is racism and sexism everywhere in these films, not blatant but just untreated (although kings and queen isn't really an example of that), and so much of the classics are just really fucking middle class dramas. that doesn't make them bad movies but i can't help but laugh at the gravity of these stories a little when really all they are dealing with is an affair or whatever.

anyone else seen rois et reine? what did you think?

I'm a film dunce and don't watch anything but from what you were saying about HEAVYWEIGHT and also from the trailer it looks like the french equivalent of oscar-bait or something, right down to the Randy Newman soundtrack and pictures of people hugging. I have no idea what its reputation is but maybe it's just that generic middlebrow stuff gets a better reception if it comes from that context of cinemaphile french people etc? aaaa i feel like jojoface. I think if you're looking for acclaimed stuff you're always gonna have to wade through a lot of uh worthy shit anyway.

I watched some of 'Predator' last night and Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice kept reminding me of Tommy Wiseau, this increased my enjoyment tenfold and also really highlighted how ridiculous a lot of things about it were (that handshake holy shit). Weah a wescue team, naht assahssins! This could be a new way to watch this stuff.

I watched two movie`s yesterday , and the day before , just one .

didn´t watch any movie to day

me 2

Just watched Dances with Wolves...one of my favorite movies.  Saw it (or at least some of it) when I was pretty young and didn't remember any of it...like that it was 4 hours long lol.

I'm going to see that tomorrow, I'll let you know.

I watched Towelhead last night. It had a very strong approach to a unique idea and had its moments. Watch it if you don't have anything to do. Don't expect an understandable noncliché ending though.