rants of the cinematic kind

how is it that ghostrider is #1 in the box office right now? i'm truly sorry (which means, not really), but i admit it...i'm a film snob, through + through. i don't understand how people can sit through such films as ghostrider, because i said so, norbit, night at the museum, etc. i suppose i should try to be more proletariat-minded, but i can't quite help it. i fall into the 'ol arnold school, as much as i'm inspired to resist.

saw va savoir tonight, thanks to netflix. jacques rivette is a demigod!!! i heard of him before when i once took a class in the nouvelle vague, but it wasn't until a friend recommended la histoire de marie et julien that i understood why rivette was even worth a breath. i'm beginning to discern a pattern. love, destruction, it's all intertwined and i quite like it. happy endings don't ever happen, do they? it's just all part of that plug-and-chug hollywood formula. or perhaps it's just my personality. love, destruction, it's all intertwined.
this is completely a diversion from above, but i also learned that every second, a star somewhere in our universe explodes. hm. isn't the rumor that every second, another person is born? i wonder if there's any legitimate correlation.