I realize this is like three pages late, but I had something to say about Honey I Shrunk the Kids too. I've always loved the shrinking episodes of cartoons and all the wacky antics the tiny characters get into, but when it's put into a realistic light like in that movie, it just completely flips it for me. It's no longer cute and silly, it's this neverending fight for your life and no one is there to help you. It's especially haunting for me because I dabble in shrinking themes with my own writing, and damn, it gives me this weird "Oh my God what have I done" feeling.

Now that that's out of the way, the one movie that I actually almost-resented is the French movie Breathless. It was part of the French New Wave movement and I had to watch it for film class. (As a side note, I whine a lot about having English versions of games or anime, yet I really don't mind reading subtitles. Maybe I'm just more open to the Romantic and Germanic languages rather than the Asian ones or something. Huh.) The French New Wave, if I remember correctly, had to do with these directors who were tired of European art film pretension, yet... they ended up making films even more pretentious. Breathless is basically just stuff that happens, since there's not really any coherent plot progression. I'm sure if I watched it again without taking it seriously, it'd be a lot better (there are some totally random parts, like when Michel gets pulled over for speeding, but since he's already on the run from the law, he just shoots the cop instead)... but... I dunno. Just really frustrated me the first time around.