I have a confession...

I'm about to say something that will forever mame me in uppity film circles around the world.

I HATED 'BEING JOHN MALKOVICH.'

Man, for me that was equivalent to being a first timer at an AA meeting.

"My name is Sujata, and I can't stand Charlie Kaufman movies."

Don't get me wrong... great premise. Great, great cast.
As the Youth from Auschwitz said "Quite a movie. Weird and idiotic sense of humour! But does make one think."

Yes, yes, young Petr, it does make one think. It makes one think about the time when weirdness was not a theme in mainstream movies. I remember back in the day when movie critics would stick to their trade..
Forrest Gump, two enthusiastic thumbs up!!
Terminator 2, double the energy! double the fun!

What killed it for me? People. More importantly, psuedo-intellectual privileged asshole college students who decided it was their mission to usher in the 'new' direction of filmmaking..

Where weird became interesting, unmotivated characters became a commentary on the mediocrity of today's American youth, and ugly became misunderstood or sometimes, genius.

I liked being weird, unmotivated and ugly... now I'm classified as an interesting, misunderstood genius who has issues with defining herself within the confines of her own generation.

Kaufman.. you told on us.. we used to be able to be geeky and tragic in the privacy of our own homes.. now it's..

Mainstream.

Ugh.

it's not limited to Kaufman though..

without this constituent, Owen Wilson would have never been 'good-looking.' He would have remained the ugly brother of Luke Wilson with the shmank shnoz.

And it's not like Luke Wilson is friggin' Adonis.
Okay, I admit it. I liked the Tenenbaums. I liked Rushmore.
Wes Anderson movies will make me laugh... but it's not the writing, it's the absurdity of the language.. it's not the acting, it's the lack of consistent timing/beats, it's not the outfits..well, no..it is the outfits..kudos kids.

But I stand by my initial assessment.

I won't even start on Paul Thomas Anderson.. did anyone like Punchdrunk Love? oooh, Adam Sandler!! He's sooo dreamy!

Please.

For those filmmakers of future generations who have posters of the original release of Bottlerocket and have sad dogeared copies of the Magnolia script, I beg of you to stop your worship of these so-called "pinnacle" films of your generation.. don't warp your ideas of great filmmaking on a trend of the strange.. remember.. there will always be cool kids, and there will always be the pee-ons.. Stories are always better when the pee-ons get back at the cool kids..
When the pee-ons become the cool kids.. you kill the us and them construct..you kill the underdog component... you kill all the geeky kids in the world that were fine with being the geeky kids in the world.

For my sake and for the sake of future pee-ons, geeks and losers.. stop making us mainstream.. and Kaufman..stop being such a goddamn genius, and go back to being ugly... we'll still love you.