More movies, yo

La Vie En Rose (2007)
Teh movie about the life of Edith Piaf. More specifically, teh french movie about Edith Piaf. Even worse, I had great expectations for the movie. Should'a known better, like Jim Diamond says. The actors are good, and the music is what it is (i.e. dependent on whether or not you like the voice and style of Edith Piaf). For all I know, Miou-Miou has a role in this flick. The scary thing is that among all the french characters portrayed in the movie, the only even closely resembling sympathetic is one of the hookers Edith grew up with - Titine. Bunch of french people, and not one for whom I'd even brake if he or she crossed the street. Amazing. I sincerely hope that this movie does not portray Edith Piaf as she actually was, 'cause I'd hate to think she was the path-of-least-resistance taking loser addict shown here. I could write a novel about how all the french people in this movie start to cry bloody murder every time something doesn't go their way, but I'll just say that the phrase "Hissy-fit" originated in france, and leave it at that. Or Le Fit de la Hissy, as they call it there.

Flyboys (2006)
In the name of everything sacred - I really thought this'd be cool. It's about WWI fighter pilots, or rather, American pilots who travel to france in order to get training as fighter pilots and help out during the war effort prior to America's official entering the war. The planes (bi- and triplanes) are awesome, the fighting scenes are excellent, Jean Reno is cool, and there's even a Zeppelin. Yet they manage to screw everything up by adding a half-assed romance with James Franco and some unknown french chick that carries on for more than 45 minutes. The result: A cool 90 minute flick turns into a 2 hours and 20 minutes snoozefest. Oh, and Pigeon - Monsiour Le Rain Man Director - it's made by the dude who directed "Independence Day" and "Godzilla", according to imdb.com.

Next (2007)
N to da C in an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel. I'm starting to lose hope in Nick Cage, even though I'm a big fan. Still, I choose to blame this load of crap on the presence of Julianne Moore. Apart from The Fugitive, everything in which she appears has turned to crap - she's the inverse King Midas. If she got a job in Disneyworld, I bet it would turn belly-up in less than two months. They say that Microsoft is pretty much a fail-safe company at this point, but if they hired Julianne Moore as a spokesperson, Bill Gates would be sleeping in a cardboard box or jump off a 30-story building in less than half a year.