total *beep*

Rating: 1/10 (13 October 2005)

Why should I even bother writing anything about that? Because I'm extremely annoyed of having waisted 1 hour of my time !(I could not make it through the entire thing) And also because I'm extremely worried of the direction Cinema is taking...I remember a time when we valued:
-actors' craft (I mean, real actors like Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Max Von Sydow, Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Ganz, and more recently people like Jeremy Irons, Geoffrey Rush, Robert De Niro etc...),
-directors' artistry (real directors like Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaud, David Lean, Cohen brothers, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorff, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Luc Besson, Robert Benton, Roland Joffe, Terence Malick etc...)
-Screenwriters or great authors (from Charles Dickens and Jane Austen to Paul Auster, Virginia Woolf or Philip Roth...)
-cinematography (Nestor Almendros, Sven Nykvist...), soundtrack (ennio Morriconne, Rachel Portman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Nini Rota...)
But maybe all of that is not important, and maybe we can make movies without it: with terrible actors instead, terrible cinematography, terrible directors, terrible stories as long as we put sex and violence in it. And it will become a blockbuster (it is SO important to make money that we tend to forget about making art) and thousands of people will come on IMDb and give the ludicrous vote of 8 out of 10! (they must be kidding; I looked for 0 but the lowest is unfortunately 1! It's already way too much for that s...)
If you like cinema as an art, like theatre or classical music and painting, don't watch this. If you prefer entertainment blockbusters, if you hate Shakespeare, if you love techno, rap and other *beep*, if you prefer the painting on your wallpaper rather than any painting by Vermeer or by Monet, you will certainly love it!