29 Jan 2012

James Franco’s Newest Project Is Not That Impressive

For as long as I have known, I have always sort of put James Franco on this non-existent pedestal. It’s probably because for the longest time, he hasn’t put out anything that has sucked. It all started with Freaks and Geeks, but his career has only gone up since then. In addition to his acting career, Franco is also a genius and can’t get enough of school. The guy keeps going back!

On Wednesday, I read a post from Flavorwire about his new documentary series called Undergrads. Even before watching the trailer, I started psyching myself out.

“Oh man, no one knows college better than James Franco! He’s been there so many times, I bet he highlights the best stories!”

“Re-live the best four years of my life (almost) with Franco’s new documentary? Yes please!”

“Dorm-Life 2.0?!”

I got a little bit ahead of myself because instead of getting my favorite web-series, “Dorm Life,” the trailer resembled more of MTV’s “College Life.” In case any of you get confused, those two are NOT the same thing or even remotely similar to each other. Unfortunately, there were even some parts of the trailer that made me cringe. I’m not saying that his new series had to be like my own college experience, but I felt like there were highlights of things you may have expected from college, but never happened. When it came down to it, those experiences were just too corny.

Anyways, maybe I’m wrong. Check out the trailer here and let me know what you think.