Even when they say, it's not helpful.

I'm looking at a two day film course. Every review is either "THIS CHANGED MY LIFE" or "I KNEW ALL THIS CRAP ALREADY FROM READING LOTS OF BOOKS."

Neither of those is helpful, neither of those speak to my needs, and neither of those make me hate the film business less.

I have a set of shit I need to learn, I'd rather not learn it by cluttering up my house with books I know I won't read systematically, and I'm totally okay with saying "I know nothing outside of the actor's view of these things right now."

But there's so much posturing in film. I'm already getting the heebie jeebies, less about the class and more about -- ugh, filmmaker boy culture.