Today, we watched a movie in class. Afterwards, the professor asked us what we thought. I raised my hand and said it was pretentious, dull and a really poor example of filmmaking. It was the movie HE spent five years writing and directing. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, in my film class, we were watching Schindler's List. At least, we tried. The moron next to me kept interrupting the most intense scenes with a very loud, "I don't get it." Not only did she break the focus of the class, but we had to keep stopping the movie to explain it to her. FML
Today, we watched a movie in French class. I went on a French exchange last year, so I wanted to sound all impressive and cultured for my crush who is in the same class. I said that it was my favorite movie and I couldn't wait to watch it with everyone. The movie turned out to be about incest. FML
Today, I was entertaining my date by suggesting a movie on Netflix. I confidently picked one that I thought was new and amazing. After the first 10 minutes, I realized it was a terrible sequel to a movie I'd completely forgotten about. I spent the rest of the movie in silence, pretending I was into it. FML
Today, I watched a movie my old teacher recommended me. She was one of my favourite teachers. I saw the title, opened it, and found out that the premise is racist towards my ethnic group. She marked me harshly. FML
Today, my date dumped me after he took me to see a French language film and I was completely unable to follow the plot, or discuss the underlying philosophical and sociological themes and nuances afterwards. Apparently I’m not smart enough for him, which is just insulting. FML
Today, at the cinema, I sat next to a guy who couldn’t stand a minute without laughing or making comments about the film. FML
Today, I took my girlfriend to see the new Avatar movie I’ve waited over 10 years to see. After it was over, she just said, "That was utter shite, why did you bring me here?" Entire experience ruined. FML
Today, I was involved in a 5-way conversation about the movie Inception. I nodded and agreed with things that were said, but couldn't admit that despite having seen it 4 times, I still haven't the foggiest idea of how to explain what it's about. FML
Today, in my architecture class, my professor's lecture consisted of a list of movies and books which feature characters who are architects. I couldn't leave because I needed the attendance points, and it lasted 45 minutes. I paid out of state tuition for this. FML
Today, I went to the movies with my boyfriend. The movie was in 3D, and he couldn't help but notice it would be much cooler if you could feel what the characters did. He spent the next two hours slapping me every time the person in the movie did, claiming the movie would be "better". FML
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yikesO_O 0
Hey, you spoke the truth. People can't be babied all their lives anyways.
DrConstantine 0
Exactly. If the professor is opening the movie to critique, he better suck it up and deal with it.
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Zic_fml 7
You could really have it put in a nicer way.
daniellap 0
hahaha that is why I HATE when teachers show their own work or assign books THEY wrote for the class...that's happened in a lot of my classes and I feel you can't really debate because you know he wrote it and people are scared to speak up !! damn teachers lol :)
buymeagoat 0
You said what you had to.
useless06 0
its his fault, he asked for opinions. don't ask unless you can take negative reviews.
lolcakes 0
hahah... granted i don't know the professor and it can vary a lot on an individual basis, but... as for saying FHL, i think it's fair to say he doesn't give a damn. he might still try to make your grades suffer if he can, if he's a particularly bitchy professor, but... they're professors. even when they ask for your opinion, they're usually fairly arrogant about things and if they don't like what you have to say, chances are good they will brush it off as another naive, idiot student's opinion, and continue strutting around the university like they think they are gods. if you got lucky, this one will be mature and even if they don't like how you phrased your critique, they won't hold it against you that you have an opinion. but i seriously doubt that the poor professor is going to run crying home to mommy because some student dissed their film.
Cassy_fml 0
Why is it supposed to be YDI for many users, because you were sincere and critical instead of patting his back? That has to suck for him too, having spend five years on it etc. Then again, he asked for your opinion and if he's confident about his movie, that shouldn't affect him very much.
hellothere_k 0
The movie didn't have the credits rolling in which the teacher's name was shown? Anyways, at least you were being honest.
apastry 6
I bet you're learning a lot of great techniques from him!
blinkingstarlet 15
not everyone is going to love his work. i think all the "your grades are skrewed!!" comments are wrong. i think he will respect you for telling ur honest opinion to him. unless u backed down when he said "by the way this is my work"... because if u backed down he probably wont have much respect.
Melanie_fml 0
I think it's a YDI because of the lack of diplomacy. It's one thing to speak your mind, but he could have said the same thing with diplomacy. I think there's probably another good lesson there, you're in a film class. You may have no idea of the blood, sweat and tears that go into a production (even shitty ones). That guy is a professor and spent FIVE YEARS of his life (and probably a lot of his personal money) making something you cavalierly dismissed. If you're a film critic with chops, you MAY have earned the right to have that opinion. Otherwise it can sound very ignorant. FWIW, I'm not trying to bust his balls. The prof. will prolly do that ALL year. LOL
raithex 0
Hey. You want to get a classier picture? Not everyone wants to see you in your underwear.
missymay993 11
Everyone has the right to have an opinion, you don't earn that, you just have it. Also, put some clothes on, sweetie.