SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'd seen this movie for sale when we visited the Coppola Winery. I'd never heard of it, but my interest was piqued. I am so glad that I saw it and can't believe that it took so long.This is a great movie. There are so many subtle details, but nothing that happens on the screen in unnecessary.I'm not a world class movie critic, but I know what I like. This is a good movie for movie lovers. This is a good movie for people who like mysteries (it's not a mystery, but there is a lot of foreshadowing that could be easy to miss or dismiss.) This is a movie for people who love the visually interesting (note that when Jeremy Davies character is talking to his dad, you see his dad's reflection in the mirror behind Davies' - amazing cinematography.)

I have just read the comment posted on IMDb site and I was really sorry to see that such an excellent movie was appreciated in such a wrong way. The plot description is correct, as the movie deals with the making of a B-Science fiction movie, but the message is to continue the fight against tyranny and this is it. The rest, including the movie itself is just the cover-up to say a thing, that is the most important in life, but has transformed itself into a cliché due its very importance. Roman has chosen excellent setting to enhance the very essence of the film. Jeremy Davies personifies the word "cool" and Ajgela Lindvall leaves Jacqueline Bisset eating her heart out. Gerard Depardieu, one of the greatest french actors, appears in quite a cameo-ish role but packs it with excellent emotions and symbolism. Hope Roman will someday give us another good one, as CQ remains, to this date, his solo directorial adventure.

It wasn't as bad as i was expecting, after reading all those negative reviews. It reminded me somewhat of Woody Allen's Stardust Memories which came out in 1980, but this is nowhere as good as that movie. This movie stars Jeremy Davies as a film editor who is promoted to director after the first two directors are fired. In one scene you can see Sophia Coppola, who must be related to the director. I've liked everything I've seen Jeremy Davies in and Billy Zane is good as a gay leading man. You can also see Dean Stockwell in a cameo as Jeremy Davies father.

Watching the trailer for this movie, I couldn't help but feel excited.Look at all the swank 60's spy movie references!Well ... this wasn't the movie I'd hoped for. I believe that "CQ" is Roman Coppola's (son of famous Francis Ford Coppola) first feature-length movie. And I suppose that all first-time directors flail and hick-up in their first (hell, even second and third) films.But Coppola very blatantly tries to conceal all his director and writer disabilities by shrouding the film with 60's pop-culture trivia ... something that I'm sure his "hipster" handbook directed him to do.The premise involves an American attempting to edit a ridiculously avant-gard sci-fi/spy Modesty Blaise-esque movie in Paris ... while in his personal time he whines and moans about how he isn't adept enough to sustain a meaningful relationship ... all this through the eyes of a camera. And whilst he records his day-to-day life on film ... he neglects his stunning french girlfriend.So ... our young American in Paris ends up taking the reigns of the spy movie and plenty of hijinx ensue.It isn't hard to predict how the movie will end. And if you wait around long enough and can somehow see past Coppola's bloated, pretentious and pedestrian writing and direction ... then you'll have earned a shining ticket to complain about how great this movie COULD have been.And people wonder why nobody remembers (or wants to remember) this movie. Chalk it all up to the futile attempts of a son of a great director to become more than his father.Remember ... even old Francis Ford had to LEARN filmmaking. Anyone ever see "Dementia 13?" It wasn't a HORRIBLE movie ... but then again ... it wasn't "Apocalypse Now," either.Roman's sister, Sophia Coppola has done so interesting work. If anyone inherited Francis Ford's filmmaking genes ... my guess is that it's her. "The Virgin Suicides" is a really excellent movie. "Lost in Translation" wasn't bad either.So ... Roman ... keep on making those music videos. Your video for "The Strokes" was painfully dull ... but it was a little easier for me to switch channels.