You never know what is going on with James Franco. But it’s always fascinating to watch.

Last year, Franco played Alien in Harmony Korine’s medium-good film, Spring Breakers. Now, a year later, James Franco has written a review of Spring Breakers in Vice.

And according to James Franco, it’s the most important film of “this age.” Seriously. Here’s the first sentence:

“Here’s the end of it all, and I’ll tell you why: because there will never be a movie or a character that is more important for this age than Spring Breakers and its protagonist Alien.”

He doesn’t say at that point: by the way, I played Alien in Spring Breakers. But we’re getting there.

In the next sentence, which is the name-droppiest humble-brag/bragging-brag of all time:

“As Harmony Korine’s friend Werner Herzog said to me on the phone call of all phone calls—I was out in North Carolina, sitting in a little Mexican restaurant called Cocula that I frequent on my lunch breaks from the low-residency writing MFA program at Warren Wilson College, just staring out the window that’s frosted over with a map of Mexico, at the dirty field across the roadway—when he told me that my performance in the film made De Niro in Taxi Driver look like a kindergartener, and that the film was the most important film of the decade. Imagine in a distinct German accent: “Three hundred years from now, when people want to look back at dis time, dey won’t go to the Obama inauguration speech, dey will go to Spring Breakers.”

So you know what’s going on here: Werner Herzog told James Franco while James Franco was working on his MFA that James Franco’s performance made De Niro in Taxi Drive look like a child, and that the future will remember Spring Breakers as a greater historical marker than the first black President.

Also, Spring Breakers is the most important film of the decade. Werner Herzog said that.

Herzog.

That’s just the first paragraph. Enjoy the rest. It’s a mind-blowing affair.