I don't believe in negative criticism, not when we are talking about
aesthetics.
Everybody here would agree that there might be infinite ways of
making good
films so it's always possible that I miss something very beautiful in
a film I don't
like. Moreover, I don't believe that films are bad because of any
simple
reasons such as "the acting is bad" or "it doesn't make me involved"
any
combinations of reasons like that. They are usually bad because
there is
nothing expressive in them, because there is no profound vision
behind it.

That's why I won't try to defend why I really HATE godard. I haven't
seen that
many of his films, and I will definitely give him another chance
(breathless and
contempt or going to be screened in Block cinema in the next month or
so).

He is pretentious and the worst thing about him is that he is a
pseudo-
intellectual.
My favorite Godard story is the following: (i'm sure there are people
here who
know the dialogue word by word, I'm not claiming to be exact, but the
main
idea is there).

An interviewer asks Godard: "You said ten years ago that 'cinema is
dead'
and there are still films you like and you still make films, what did
you mean?"
and the answer of the most profound person in the history of cinema
is: "What
I meant is that the cinema, the way we know it, is dead" (Doesn't
the cinema,
the way we know it, die with every single great filmmaker we
discover?)

He also said that Spielberg became guiltier than Nazis when he made
Schindler's List. I agree that Schindler's List is a bad film, and I
see his point,
but to say that he is worse than Nazis?

To me, Godard is a 'provocateur'.

And the statement that proves his shallowness is the following: "The
most
honest image you can have is a camera directed towards a mirror" I
don't
know if he has seen anything by Ernie Gehr but I am glad I have and
know
what honesty really can be in cinema.

I know that his statements above do not prove he is a bad filmmaker.
It just
proves that his thinking is flawed and that he is a
pseudo-intellectual.

The fact that he projects this attitude to his films is the reason
why I think his
films are almost worthless. (He has his moments here and there, but
as a
whole?)

Sorry if anybody here genuinely loves Godard and is offended by my
comments!

Yoel