White Noise

Noah Baumbach disappoints me. He could be putting his time and energy into a new, more worthwhile story, instead of filming a book that is already greater than anything he could do with it. On principle, I despise the concept of taking a book that is ostensibly about consumerism and how we are desensitized to life by things such as tabloids and supermarkets, and to turn it into a big screen spectacle, and the film doesn't help me like it by being terrible. It's so clear that this was an ego project for the director, thinking that he was the only one able to film this supposedly unfilmable book. Newsflash, it's not unfilmable, it just completely misses the point of the book to film it and make it a big budget product.

Don't watch this movie, both because it's terrible and amateurish, and because it completely misses the point of the source material so that it can exist.