Be Kind Rewind

I think this will be the last film that any studio outside of France will let Michel Gondry write and direct. Why? Because all the films he writes are just excuses for him to do his weird (but always fun) hand made shit and then strong a movie around them.

Oh wait didn't he co-write Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind?!?! And that was brilliant. Um yeah but he was riding shotgun to Charlie Kaufman who actually knows that a movie must entertain the audience. Not pay for the directors on screen masturbation.

Why else would someone drop Michel. Well maybe the fact Be Kind rewind bombed at the box office. Doing a sad 7M in the USA with a reported 20M budget. Ouch! I don't think DVD rentals will save this puppy.

Will Farrel is getting his ass handed to him over Semi Pro's poorer than usual BO performance. And it still brought in 14m in the opening week!

So the actual movie itself was really flat. Jack Black was a cliche of himself and Mos Def doesn't really have much of a persona. It's as if he's playing a idiot savant but badly when the role isn't an idiot savant.

The best part about the film is the synopsis. I found myself not laughing in the film and was even a bit bored. The "oh cool it's a cardboard car" or "haha funny it's a hand made tin foil gun" aren't exactly hilarious moments. You don't even get to see the sweded films. Just the makings of. Check the official site for snippets of the sweded films.

Here Gondry swedes his own trailer for the film. hahahah how does he do it?

Michel should stick to making film clips, visual effects and short films. That way his energy can go into something <10 minutes and you don't mind it doesn't make sense. Or at least start with someone else's good script and go from there. He seems to only think in one dimension and that's through the smear of his own ego and talent.

If I had of downloaded Be Kind Rewind I would have been bummed I wasted the bandwidth.