Nobody watches Canadian movies. You need some kind of intergalactic wonder to fill a theatre with a Canadian production. The reason is simple - most of them are bad. They are bad not because of a lack of talent. Canadian talent is good enough (and Canadian dollar bad enough) to attract dozens of US productions to be shot in Canada. They are bad because of the government funding. Another simple truth - once it's government funded, it's usually bad, no matter what it is - movies, health care, immigration policy, whatever.
The main feature of Canadian film production is an overwhelming political correctness. It is a very justifiable and appropriate feature, but the problem is that no one wants to pay $ 12 to see it. Currently the government decided to deal with problems that our society is facing by making movies about them. There are also strict rules about depicting minorities. As a result, if somebody decides to make an opinion about Canada accordingly to the movies we make, they would have to think that Canada consists mostly of Canadian Africans or First Nation people, and if there are any white people, they are on drugs, unemployed, mentally disabled, criminals and they only do anal sex.
Together with some other industry professionals I had the chance to watch 15 Canadian movies in 3 days and I'd like to share this devastating experience with my fellow taxpayers. The people I watched this movies with were at least as upset as I was and in many cases most of them left the theatre long before the movie ended, (even though they were supposed to sit there till the end...) uttering some foul language about life in general and government funding and our taxes in particular.
I'll be short, because these movies don't deserve too much space anyway:
Another Planet made by a bunch of total amateurs. It's a Canadian African or African Canadian movie, the story is blatantly stupid, the acting is unbelievably poor and there is no sign of a professional filmmaking whatsoever.
Full Blast - unemployed people, drugs, anal sex
Johnny - unemployed people, drugs, anal sex
La Moitié Gauche du Frigo - unemployed people, drugs, sex - not anal. The movie was made in Quebec, where the heterosexual sex is still legal Maelstrom - unemployed people, drugs, sex not anal, of course, mad in Quebec
Rollercoaster- unemployed people, drugs, suicide, anal sex in the public restroom - welcome back to Ontario
Saint Jude - unemployed people, drugs, anal sex. I'm not making this up.
There were also somewhat watchable movies, amazingly enough, all of them with US private money involvement.
So...let's go ahead and pay all those taxes. Our politicians know how to spend them wisely so we all would get good things out of it...unemployment, drugs and anal sex.
