AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

firma_ment Meh. Pretentious as hell. Only interesting bit for me was the drummer's recitation, which was taken from Maldoror. Pathetic attempts to shock with bits taken from Bataille's Story of the Eye. As for the "longest traveling shot in the history of the cinema" and its "bravura technical mastery", as the shot moves along the various cars, you can see the reflection of the film crew moving along on the dolly, in the windows of various cars. I'm sure someone will say Godard did this on purpose. Yeah, sure.

Buzz (DaytonaBob) Goddard is a genius? SERIOUSLY? This waste of time is violent, disgusting and any political message he is trying to portray as some sort end of the world scenario is total B******T.As I read reviews going on and on about what brilliant movie making I thought these people sound like the idiots I went to college with who would go on and on and on about a 40 minute movie showing a wall they stared at and had the supreme gall to call it incredibly thoughtful and a statement on...well stupidity in my opinion.The nonstop murders, rape that borders on bestiality, eating people is without a doubt some of the most pointless nonsense I've ever seen. The worst is Goddard seems to think killing animals live on screen is great entertainment. His "characters" slaughter a live pig on screen, rabbit and various other disgusting killings. Basically this is a snuff film that sophomoric people sit around drinking and getting high while calling it brilliant is probably the best sense of the demise of civilization that people would call Goddard a great film maker.Nope just a pretentious bit of garbage that was a waste of money and time. A better film would be showing Goddard a victim of his own entertainment and being slaughtered live on screen as punishment for making such drivel.Just goes to show that if you buy into this kind of hype you'll buy into anything without thinking.

Jackson Booth-Millard From director Jean-Luc Godard (À Bout De Soufflé (Breathless), Alphaville, Pierrot Le Fou), this French film from the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die was rated the full five out of five stars by critics, so I hoped it would deserve that when I watched it. Basically French middle class married couple the Durands, Corinne (Mireille Darc) and Roland (Jean Yanne) seem to be on an idyllic weekend trip, but in fact each have a secret lover, and each is planning to murder the other, but until then they are on a road trip heading for Corinne's parents' house in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, they are prepared to murder him if necessary. The journey is riddled with nightmare occurrences as they travel through the French countryside, including meeting various bizarre characters, a never ending traffic jam caused by a violent road accident, their own car is destroyed, there is a revolution going on, they kill a few people that get in their way, and generally it feels that consumer preoccupations are causing the French bourgeois society is collapsing around them. Eventually though Corrine and Roland arrive at her parents' house, only to find the father has died and the mother is refusing to share any inheritance, so they kill her and go back on the road, only to be taken by a group of hippie revolutionaries, who fend for themselves stealing, and with cannibalism, in their camp is where the film ends. The two leads are pretty much responsible for carrying the film, there are no other supporting characters that stay on screen for long but certainly make enough of a impression, I admit I found it a little hard to follow in places, but I got the gist of it, the most memorable sequence is the long and uncut tracking traffic jam scene as various vehicles and people are stuck, I can see reasons the critics praise it, so it is certainly a watchable drama. Good!

Boba_Fett1138 Me and French comedies will probably never become friendly with each other. On top of that, I have still yet to see a Jean-Luc Godard movie that I actually do like.This movie is typical of French comedies of its era, with featuring many long, stretched out scene's, in which it always remains the question of actually something good or funny will be happening at the end of it. Too often the answer to this is no.But it's also no an usual comedy or movie really. It's still more artistic than anything else really and it doesn't really necessarily follow a real plot. As a matter of fact, it features an extremely simplistic written story, in which things just seem to happen at random, without making a clear point about anything.Movies of this sort often get called a social satires or commentaries but I got absolutely nothing out of this movie. If there was a message in this all I surely missed it but somehow I also don't think Jean-Luc Godard was really trying to tell anything. It seems like he more wanted to test its audience by how they would be responding to certain sequences and themes that raise up in this movie. It's a movie that mostly attempts to shock, by becoming an odd sort of anarchistic comedy.And I can surely still appreciate the whole way this movie is being made. Despite coming across as utterly pointless I still couldn't really hate it, since its a skillfully directed movie, that often is also a real pleasure to look at. Visually this movie does has some great moments in it, which mostly come from the movie its technical aspects. There is some great camera-work in this movie, which is really about the only thing that stands out about this movie.No, guess I'm just not really a Jean-Luc Godard fan.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/