Career Movies

Sometimes I wish I could take Sarah Michelle Gellar to one side and explain why it is that TV is better than the movies. But it's too late; she already quit as Buffy, and she's destined to make awful movies like Harvard Man. Probably the amount of money you get for the amount of work you do is better, but christ this is awful.

The Rotten Tomatoes reviews say it all. Bad script, bad casting, pointless, interminable dialogues about the meaning of life, TOO MANY JUMPCUTS, and, really, not enough SMG. There should be a sticker on the box that says, "No, she doesn't take her clothes off, you dirty old man."

Also finally got around to watching Signs at the weekend. This was a bit better than I thought it was going to be, but not worth anywhere near the 78% of the RT review. It was good in parts; the kids were good, the script was fairly witty, and I liked the thing about his daughter leaving glasses of water everywhere.

But it was candy floss, only slightly less substantial. And the Big Theme it tries to bring across, like the crap about philosophers in Harvard Man, seemed more like a bolt-on than an integral part of the film.

You read about Hollywood philistines taking the blue pencil to movies, and shattering their integrity, but when you see rubbish like Harvard Man, something that, somehow, slipped under the radar, you wish a philistine had got involved at some point and insisted on making it less wordy, pacier, funnier, more violent, sexier, or something.

I hope SMG is beginning to appreciate the genius she's been working for for 7 years as Buffy.